southsider2k5

This is the most amazing thing about the Presidency of all. For a TRUE Christian, the bible is littered with verses which talk about how you can recognize a Christian for their actions. W ith this President, besides his flop from paying for abortions to being against them, what exactly does he do that is reflected in the bible? Is it his kindness to others? Is it his generosity? I don't get this at all. If anything he is the epitome of a "false profit".

This is exactly the point. He is a nobody, with a small fraction of the following that the President has. It is a non sequitor to distract from the irresponsible actions of the President.

It isn't about being far apart. FDR and the appeasers were far apart. Bush and the Democrats were far apart. But when Pearl Harbor and 9/11 happened, they reached across the aisle as Americans, and looking to unite and reassure the country in the aftermath. That is the big difference here.

If we had a leader who out country ahead of self, the country would pick up that vibe. The W Bush election was about as ugly as they come, but when 9/11 happened, W was smart enough to strike an inclusive tone for all Americans. He understood that he was the American President and not one party's President. That's why he saw a 90% approval rating coming out of 9/11. But if you don't embrace that style of leadership, you don't set that tone. Welcome to 2020.

No, thanks for proving mine.

Yes, blame people for taking the leader of the free world at his world. That really is a dumb idea, isn't it?

My point was this is another failed "what about"ism effort to try to excuse the President's irresponsible actions by falsely attributing them to someone else.

This is all about him and his businesses.

You can't actually be putting this guy on the same level of influence as the President. I mean Mitt Romney proposed giving everyone $1000, two days later the President picks it up, and ever since then the Cult of Trump thinks it is the President's idea and is passing around "not your President" memes about the check like Romney didn't give him the idea. The simple fact is there is a vulnerable part of the population who hangs on his every word.

Graham occasionally takes shots at Trump, but then as soon as it is time to do something that requires some real fortitude, he folds. He will never vote against him or take a real stance at a time that isn't just for show. It has been that way for years now. Trump humiliated him during the campaign, and occasionally he would hit back, but when it was time to do something about it he folded. This kind of stuff is all for show. Get back to me when Lindsey Graham gets permission from Trump to carry his own testicles again.

If we aren't ready to play baseball in a year, that means we have WAY bigger problems than baseball. Mankind is screwed if this lasts that long.

I think this is truth and not much of a conspiracy. The President has a personal stake in trying to down play this, and he has acted in this frame all along.

Lindsey will piss himself and appease Trump as soon as he turns his twitter at him.

The number is obviously MUCH higher than has been indicated simply from looking at the NBA players and Senators who have gotten tests without being symptomatic, and how many of them them have tested possible. 1 in the Senate, 2 in the House, and at least 13 members of the NBA. Keep in mind there are 100 Senators, 435 in the House, and somewhere around 500 NBA players. Those ratios aren't a perfect way to project samples on to population, but interesting none the less that they are in the 1:100 ish range.

The fed is signalling for unlimited QE. Damn.

Indiana is putting in a shelter in place order which starts the 25th.

Now things get interesting. Rand Paul has Covid. He sat next to Mitt Romney who is now self isolating and won't vote in the Senate until at least until he gets his test back. We are now down 2 GOP Senators, and still don't have a bailout done. I wonder how much attrition will have to do with the bill that gets done.

Greg, are you paying attention? Asymptomatic, out running around potentially infecting other people for no good reason.

About as good as can be expected. Being in the lake effect snow belt they put together e-learning a couple of years ago so that if we couldn't get to school, they could still do a school day from home. It has come in handy so far.

We got an SSD for Black Friday. I am blown away by how much faster these things are. Windows updates are done in seconds.

Of course it is Kansas. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-deniers-and-hoaxers-persist-despite-dire-warnings-claiming-its-mass-hysteria/ar-BB11qnrT?ocid=sf2

I mean what damage could one guy do? https://www.wsj.com/articles/karaoke-customer-who-spread-virus-dies-two-weeks-after-final-song-11584607335?mod=e2fb

I would like to see this answer too.

And this is with massive undercounting.

Unless Mitch lived through 1918, no we haven't see anything like this.