MAGAThread XIX: Hambergers, Noble Prizes, & Disinfectant

[Gormwood]

What the actual fuck is going on?

I'm not getting this.

Economist shills for Trump saying it'll magically disappear in the next couple of months.

[-Astoria]

I'm not getting this.

Economist shills for Trump saying it'll magically disappear in the next couple of months.

The latest projection just looks like a gradually decreasing curve - how's that "magical"?

maybe i'm missing something here

[Nakena]

Coronavirus: White House plans to disband virus task force

US President Donald Trump has confirmed the White House coronavirus task force will be winding down, with Vice-President Mike Pence suggesting it could be disbanded within weeks.

"We are bringing our country back," Mr Trump said during a visit to a mask-manufacturing factory in Arizona.

New confirmed infections per day in the US currently top 20,000, and daily deaths exceed 1,000.

US health officials warn the virus may spread as businesses begin to reopen.

The US currently has 1.2 million confirmed coronavirus infections and more than 70,000 related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, which is tracking the pandemic.

[Albrenia]

Coronavirus: White House plans to disband virus task force

US President Donald Trump has confirmed the White House coronavirus task force will be winding down, with Vice-President Mike Pence suggesting it could be disbanded within weeks.

"We are bringing our country back," Mr Trump said during a visit to a mask-manufacturing factory in Arizona.

New confirmed infections per day in the US currently top 20,000, and daily deaths exceed 1,000.

US health officials warn the virus may spread as businesses begin to reopen.

The US currently has 1.2 million confirmed coronavirus infections and more than 70,000 related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, which is tracking the pandemic.

Wouldn't it be cool if this was a sign of things getting better, and not a move almost certain to cause an increase in the death rate.

[Rojava Free State]

Coronavirus: White House plans to disband virus task force

Wouldn't it be cool if this was a sign of things getting better, and not a move almost certain to cause an increase in the death rate.

Get ready for a very hellish, black summer. Thanks president Trump, you're the best at being the worst president ever.

[Zurkerx]

Trump gives up on the virus fight to focus on an economic recovery – and re-election, critics say.

Trump better hope an even worse crisis doesn’t occur under his watch or he’s doomed. I don’t understand how anyone can see this as effective leadership.

Because those that support him don't care: never have, never will. It's the same as Trump not taking the situation seriously, as case in point here: Trump does not wear coronavirus mask at Honeywell factory that makes masks.

One person put it nicely, Just a historic failure of leadership.

What the actual fuck is going on?

My eyes, and brain!

Coronavirus: White House plans to disband virus task force

US President Donald Trump has confirmed the White House coronavirus task force will be winding down, with Vice-President Mike Pence suggesting it could be disbanded within weeks.

"We are bringing our country back," Mr Trump said during a visit to a mask-manufacturing factory in Arizona.

New confirmed infections per day in the US currently top 20,000, and daily deaths exceed 1,000.

US health officials warn the virus may spread as businesses begin to reopen.

The US currently has 1.2 million confirmed coronavirus infections and more than 70,000 related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, which is tracking the pandemic.

Yep, they're not taking this seriously enough...

[Ifreann]

I said in the Before Times that America under Trump was almost uniquely ill-suited to fight the then emerging pandemic. I'd like to thank the President for his on-going and Herculean efforts to prove me more right than I could ever have imagined, but please Mr Trump, please stop. I am sick of winning.

[Rojava Free State]

I said in the Before Times that America under Trump was almost uniquely ill-suited to fight the then emerging pandemic. I'd like to thank the President for his on-going and Herculean efforts to prove me more right than I could ever have imagined, but please Mr Trump, please stop. I am sick of winning.

Three months ago I was worried about what would happen when this disease struck America.

It's May now, and my fears were proven right.

[Cannot think of a name]

I said in the Before Times that America under Trump was almost uniquely ill-suited to fight the then emerging pandemic. I'd like to thank the President for his on-going and Herculean efforts to prove me more right than I could ever have imagined, but please Mr Trump, please stop. I am sick of winning.

Three months ago I was worried about what would happen when this disease struck America.

It's May now, and my fears were proven right.

A lot of states have really stepped up and despite handicaps from the federal government done well all things considered, but it really has put a big hole in that whole 'states as autonomous entities versus federal government' thing. Turns out when the federal government essentially sits it out, the states can't just pick up the slack.

And with fifty of them, a few are going to make just awful decisions.

[Rojava Free State]

Trump conceded that "there'll be more death" as the country opened.

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

[Rojava Free State]

Three months ago I was worried about what would happen when this disease struck America.

It's May now, and my fears were proven right.

A lot of states have really stepped up and despite handicaps from the federal government done well all things considered, but it really has put a big hole in that whole 'states as autonomous entities versus federal government' thing. Turns out when the federal government essentially sits it out, the states can't just pick up the slack.

And with fifty of them, a few are going to make just awful decisions.

The federal government not only didn't help, but they actively stole shit from us like masks. Thanks to Trump robbing us, people died in droves here.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

And with fifty of them, a few are going to make just awful decisions.

"Round up the usual suspects"

[Gormwood]

And with fifty of them, a few are going to make just awful decisions.

"Round up the usual suspects"

[Ifreann]

Three months ago I was worried about what would happen when this disease struck America.

It's May now, and my fears were proven right.

A lot of states have really stepped up and despite handicaps from the federal government done well all things considered, but it really has put a big hole in that whole 'states as autonomous entities versus federal government' thing. Turns out when the federal government essentially sits it out, the states can't just pick up the slack.

And with fifty of them, a few are going to make just awful decisions.

Laboratories of democracy. Or maybe "Petri dishes" would be a better term.

[Zurkerx]

Listen live as the Supreme Court listens to oral arguments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKX7P-uhKDw

Today they'll hear Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania and Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants; it's the former right now.

[Rojava Free State]

"Round up the usual suspects"

"A few of them."

[Zurkerx]

Trump again pushing to paint border wall black in move that could cost $500M.

[Ifreann]

Trump again pushing to paint border wall black in move that could cost $500M.

Trump has reportedly insisted that the design would deter unauthorized immigrants from climbing it.

what

[Vassenor]

Trump again pushing to paint border wall black in move that could cost $500M.

Trump has reportedly insisted that the design would deter unauthorized immigrants from climbing it.

what

Especially since they're not climbing it. They're sawing holes in it.

[Ifreann]

what

Especially since they're not climbing it. They're sawing holes in it.

I really want to know why Trump thinks that people would be more afraid to climb a black fence than one of any other colour, but I'm afraid of the damage that knowledge might do to my psyche.

[Proctopeo]

Especially since they're not climbing it. They're sawing holes in it.

I really want to know why Trump thinks that people would be more afraid to climb a black fence than one of any other colour, but I'm afraid of the damage that knowledge might do to my psyche.

One cannot climb THE VOID

[Ifreann]

I really want to know why Trump thinks that people would be more afraid to climb a black fence than one of any other colour, but I'm afraid of the damage that knowledge might do to my psyche.

One cannot climb THE VOID

As you climb the abyss, the abyss also climbs you.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

During the day, the sunlight would heat the fence as to make it unclimbable.

At night, it would provide decent camouflage for those wearing black.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

During the day, the sunlight would heat the fence as to make it unclimbable.

I suppose that will work until the Mexicans invent gloves.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

During the day, the sunlight would heat the fence as to make it unclimbable.

I suppose that will work until the Mexicans invent gloves.

We’ll get there when we get there.