As the city of Baltimore notches it’s fifth COVID-19 case, it’s mayor, Jack Young, has issued a plea to some of his most notable constituents; the city needs hospital beds for victims of the public health crisis, so please stop shooting each other.
No, seriously.
He really, really means it:
“I want to reiterate how completely unacceptable the level of violence is that we have seen recently,” Young said. “We will not stand for mass shootings and an increase in crime.”
“For those of you who want to continue to shoot and kill people of this city, we’re not going to tolerate it,” Young implored. “We’re going to come after you and we’re going to get you.”
I am no expert – like, the mayor of a city that’s been controlled by the Democrats for three generations – but something tells me that this should’ve been a priority before the city had a public health emergency, and if the city wasn’t “coming after and getting, criminals when times are relatively easy, the job is going to be just a little…
… well, Captain Obvious is going to skip straight over Major and jump straight to Lieutenant Colonel if he finishes that sentence, isn’t he?
Now there’s an interesting question. Who deserves the beds?
Traditional triage theory says people who are likely to die anyway, get treated last, after all the save-able people. We don’t waste resources on hopeless cases. Who are the hopeless cases in this situation – the geezers or the bangers?
Geezers had their chance at a full life. Now, in retirement, they contribute little but they suck up medical resources for their pre-existing problems.
Bangers are throwing away their chance at a full life. As gangsters, they contribute little but the suck up medical resources for their on-going turf wars.
Who is more deserving of a bed in an intensive care unit: the geezer or the banger?
And after we make that decision – what do we do with the less deserving who are still sick (or shot)? Line up cots in an aircraft hangar where they lay until they die?
Since neither geezers nor bangers pay any significant taxes compared to the public sending they consume, I could imagine Gen Xers raising an eyebrow and saying, “You know, this Kung Flu might not be such a bad thing after all.”
My prediction wasn’t really anything special. Lagos-by-the-Patomic, Nariobi-by-the-lake, New Mogadishu, all of America’s most diverse cities are held together only as long as the rump, un-diverse population shows up to work and there are fallback authorities to count on.
You thought the Great TP panic was ridiculous? Pffft. Just wait until someone suggests a shortage of weaves.
Trump Oversells Breakthroughs in Boasts of U.S. Virus Response
“A hospital ship that can’t yet sail, a drug that’s not approved for coronavirus, a windfall of masks that’s not due until next year. Donald Trump has repeatedly overstated his government’s accomplishments as he tries to calm Americans and fight the spread of coronavirus.
In news conferences intended to explain the government’s actions to a public that’s practically stopped engaging in social interactions or large swathes of the economy out of fear of the virus, the president has sold incremental steps as major breakthroughs, tentative moves as final and long-term measures as immediate relief.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/trump-oversells-breakthroughs-in-boasts-of-u-s-virus-response
Forget the rhetoric. Just the facts:
1. People still can’t get tests.
2. Hospital beds still not being added.
3. Doctors and nurses don’t have protective gear
When that changes, then, the response will be moving.
bloomberg.com
lmao. Low IQ Emery has tapped into a pool of liquid shit he can sip from all day.
Here’s a fun game, LoIQEm. Everytime some good news pops up, you take a big gulp from bloomberg.
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Emery the Ignorant;
Trump doesn’t manufacture the tests. You can thank your buddy Obama and his corrupt cabal for surrendering and encouraging sending manufacturing jobs to China.
NY’s degenerate Governor is on air right now, saying 70-80% of the population may get China flu. DJIA immediately dropped the entire gain from this morning, and is eating into yesterday’s win.
These garbage people are a scourge on humanity.
Trump needs to issue an Executive order to every stinking, degenerate leftist to report to a federal quarantine station for the duration.
It’s a distraction tactic.
Yes, it’s RACIST…
buts he’s doing it
so people are talking
about THAT instead of
his LIES and INCOMPETENCE
Sound familiar? A new comment from the Little Weasel? No, a Chinese News Service.
… grr, I hate transcribing
Well if it’s not Mr > “hoping to recover my 25% losses in the S&P 500 any day now” 😂
‘Burr and Loeffler’s Corona Cash Out’
The only reason we know about Burr and Loeffler is they have to report their trades.
It’s a good thing Republican senators are keeping us safe from the corruption threat we face from Burisma.
Forget the rhetoric. Just the facts:
1. People still can’t get tests.
2. Hospital beds still not being added.
3. Doctors and nurses don’t have protective gear
Emery is right. It’s like 1941, when the US didn’t have enough soldiers, rifles, jeeps and airplanes to fight the war. What did we do?
We drafted young men to serve their country, threw up Quonset huts for training barracks, nationalized the patents on rifles and jeeps so we could license them on no-bid, triple-overtime, round-the-clock production.
We need hospital beds? Line up cots in an aircraft hangar. We need ventilators? Put every machine shop in America to work cranking them out with their CNC machines, cost-plus, bonus for early delivery. We need health care workers? Hey kids, remember when you signed up for the draft so you could get your student loan? You just got drafted. Report for duty Monday morning. You’re now a bed-pan emptier and butt-wiper. Lucky for you the schools are out. And you’re the right age – the virus won’t affect you – so that takes pressure off the doctors and nurses who now can focus on the truly sick.
As for test kits, ignore them. Treat the symptoms. Eventually, everybody in American will get the virus and that’s a Good Thing. That’s actually the Goal. That’s how you build herd immunity. It doesn’t matter how far along toward full immunity we are, how many people have it but are asymptomatic, how many are contagious. Treat the desperately sick, ignore the rest.
It’s either a crisis and we treat it like one. Or it’s a Democrat hoax, trying to destroy the economy so voters will switch to Biden this fall.
“It’s either a crisis and we treat it like one. Or it’s a Democrat hoax, trying to destroy the economy so voters will switch to Biden this fall.”
Joe, they’re not even trying to couch it. Read any degenerate pundit or media source. They’re actively doing everything they can to cause panic.
If people would turn the television and computer off, and go about their business we wouldn’t have noticed the passing of the chinkypox any more than a seasonal flu.
I do t know what’s going on up there, but in moving around the past coupke days people here are not even taking notice.
Leftist trash are domestic terrorists, determined to destroy America. We need to start treating them as enemy combatants.
I listen to WNTK out of Vermont for my morning financial news.
Today their local news reported the first two covid-19 deaths in Vermont.
Both were in care homes. Both were more than 80 years old.
And Feinstein traded on her inside info as well.
First she claimed that her money is in a blind trust & she didn’t even know about the trade.
Then she got called out on her lie — her money is in a trust, but not a blind trust. Her trust is managed by her husband.
Lol, dems look so silly when they insist that perfidy has a party label.
Three people have been hospitalized in Minnesota for Covid-19. The health care system is groaning under the strain!
MP,
Feinstein may have tipped off her Silicon Valley benefactors, too. Jeff Bezos sold $4 billion in Amazon stock in February.
golfdoc, has Walz requested a hospital ship dock in Duluth yet? If not, what the heck is he waiting for? People are DYING!!
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! Damn you ChinkyFlu!!!
^^ Mr > hoping to recover my 25% losses in the S&P 500 any day now” 😂
Woolly: I rolled my VFIAX into BND a month before (late January). It could hardly have been ‘insider’ trading a full month after I did it by connecting the dots by reading a few publicly available CDC reports.
Many of us saw the storm clouds and failed to sell. Many of us wish we had done more to prepare. These selling decisions do not qualify as insider trading. But the optics are awful.
Can’t believe it. Visited Cub. Out of milk. People stocking up.
Look, I grew up in farm country. Unless things have changed dramatically in the past few years, I can tell you this for sure: cows get milked every day.
Every. Single. Day.
They have to be. Their glands produce milk, their udders get full, swollen udders hurt. You have to milk them.
And then what? Dump it on the ground? No, send to the plant to be pasteurized and jugged for the trip to the grocery store.
Now, I concede it’s possible the Governor could order the milk processing plant closed on the grounds those are not “essential” workers. Farmers will dump the milk on the ground, babies will go thirsty, Democrats will blame Trump. But honestly, people, use your heads.
And don’t even get me started on laying hens.
Woolly: I rolled my VFIAX into BND a month before (late January). It could hardly have been ‘insider’ trading a full month after I did it by connecting the dots by reading a few publicly available CDC reports.
Like expecting the sound of the breeze blowing through the treetops to make sense.
: I rolled my VFIAX into BND a month before (late January). It could hardly have been ‘insider’ trading a full month after I did it by connecting the dots by reading a few publicly available CDC reports.
“I smelled smoke. Thinking quickly, I grabbed the kids and ran outside. Then, suddenly I realized I had forgotten Moll and her puppies.
Without thinking of the danger, I ran back in through the flames, grabbed the helpless creatures (who were almost expired) and dashed outside, choking.
The entire fire department erupted in applause.”
In times of trial and turmoil, the lowest, most unworthy creatures among us bark the loudest.
“It’s either a crisis and we treat it like one. Or it’s a Democrat hoax, trying to destroy the economy so voters will switch to Biden this fall.”
At today’s press conference…
Reporter: What would you say to Americans who are scared?
Trump: I’d tell them that you’re a bad reporter.
See? That right there is the problem with Trump. He was handed a softball
question and he couldn’t get out of his own way to look presidential. All he
had to say was, “I’m telling the people that the professionals behind me on this stage, my entire administration, and the full power of the Federal government are working each day to defeat this virus and save lives. We
are with you. We’re in this together and we will succeed together.”
Re-read that, that’s a simple, effective sentence to gain solid brownie points. It’s not that heavy a lift, but he simply can’t do it. He’s the worse person to be president at this time.
Shiftee wrote:
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Stocks drop 900 points (4%) close at 3-year low in worst week since 2008; Trump era gains obliterated
Mr > “hoping to recover just a small % of my losses in the S&P 500 any day now” 😂
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Can’t believe it. Visited Cub. Out of milk. People stocking up
JD, may I ask where this Cub Foods is located? I continue, from a couple of weeks ago, to see most of this hoarding behavior as being in urban environments. I mean, geez, we just this evening got flyers for the local supermarkets, and the Cub Foods one is advertising a whole bunch of 2-for-1 sale items. That doesn’t sound like a company that is having problems keeping its stores supplied.
That said, I am seeing stores now limiting purchase amounts.
Next step, the Central Banks will allow us to just print money bills from our printers (with our picture on them)!!
Say, Mr Low IQ Emery? You’ve poasted that 3, count ’em 3 times now. We got it, this isn’t Vox, or Bloomberg.
The joke is, LoIQEm and his trash ilk know they are losing.
If they were convinced they have succeeded in destroying the country, we’d have to dig them out from their spiderholes by the ears to get a smarmy response from them.
tbh, I look forward to that day. We will have succulents and refreshments on hand.
Trump’s presidency looks more and more like a one-term failed administration with every passing day. The Republican predecessor he most resembles is Herbert Hoover, who will be forever remembered for the disastrously mismanaged aftermath of the Wall St crash which ushered in 20 years of Democrat rule.
When the unemployment rate is as high as 20% and many people have suffered for months they will vote how they feel.
Ronald Reagan: Are you better of than you were four years ago?
We need a President like Roosevelt, but we’re stuck with one worse than Hoover.
“As of July, 2019 — 107.8 million people (71% of all non-farm payroll employees) worked in private service-providing industries, according to the BLS’s most recent employment report. Aug 29, 2019”
NYT just reported nearly 630k claims from 15 states alone. That’s higher than the peak in 2008.
Looks like a lot of people out of work by the end of April.
Winning?
Uh . . . how would you know what “winning” looks like, Emery? You predicted a Hillary landslide in 2016, and predicted that Mueller report would prove that Trump colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 election. You have not won at anything.
^^ I’m pretty sure this is an objective observation — and I’m sure you’ll tell me if you disagree.
It lays bare the reality that they truly don’t know what they’re doing on a daily basis. This is a crisis that Trump can’t bluff his way out of, and it’s the only crisis big enough that might affect his voters personally in a very visceral way.
How many data points do we need to know that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior? I’m sure his first wife could attest to this.
How many data points do we need to know that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior?
Says the guy who has been wrong about everything from Trump’s election to the Mueller report.
^^ Couple of points:
1. The reason Sanders did so well in 2016 was Hillary. That was also the same reason that Trump did so well.
Bernie tried to take over the Democratic Party and meld it to his vision, much like Trump did the Republicans. Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats were able to stop the outsider before he turned them into a sycophant cult of personality.
2. Just as FDR was immortalized by “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” and Truman by “The buck stops here” and by JFK, “Think not of what your country can do for you, but of what you can do for your country”, and by Ronald Reagan “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, and GWB “I can hear you, the whole world hears you, and the people who knocked down these buildings will soon hear from all of us!”.
But Trump will always be known as “I take no responsibility at all.”
Emery, how can you not know that your record is to be wrong about Trump on virtually everything?
John O. Brennan
@JohnBrennan
donald trump’s rant against @PeterAlexander
reveals the extent of trump’s incompetence, insecurity, & juvenile petulance. He is not & never has been a leader. He is a national disgrace.
So Brennan, the ex-CIA chief, who voted for commie stooge & Swindler Gus Hall in the 1976 presidential election, who was completely blindsided by the fall of the USSR, and was completely blindsided by the 9/11 attacks (when was head of the US National Counter terrorism Center), who was prime proponent & likely the guy behind the “Russia Collusion” hoax, thinks that the covid-19 pandemic shows that Trump is a “disgrace,” just as he thought everything Trump did before the pandemic showed that Trump is a disgrace.
Commies never change.
It’s pretty clear that passing an IQ test is not required to make it to the top of our intelligence organizations!
I think Republicans were praying that Trump’s White House would be able to squeak through to November 2020 without a major crisis, which they knew would cruelly expose the threadbare and hollowed-out lack of competence at the heart of this administration. Now that fateful day has arrived and it’s too late.
Futures fall 5%, hitting ‘limit down’ ~ CNBC
We need a President like Roosevelt, but we’re stuck with one worse than Hoover.
On the plus side, that 5% drop is a lot less money than a month ago.
You are not responding to my factual assertions that you have been wrong, again and again, about Trump. Why not, Emery? Prefer to live in the bubble you’ve created?
This should be obvious but it seems it has to be said: we need a government that knows how to handle a crisis and is honest with us about it. We don’t have that right now
It has to be whiplash for people who were told this was a democrat and media hoax to now be informed they can’t go anywhere.
Woolly: Can you trust Trump’s statements on coronavirus?
Unlike basically everyone else I have ever met, Trump does not rely on truth when contemplating what to say. His only interest is to state what he thinks will benefit him.
There is no better example of this than his stating last week that he has known all along that the coronavirus would turn out to be a pandemic while completely denying this in his prior statements. The truth of a statement does not enter into his thought process.
I don’t have to judge Trump. History will.
Anyone notice that the TDS rhetoric of every version of Emery has really ramped up in the last week or so?
I have to question which power broker is yanking his strings, and/or what benefits he is receiving from the increase in his attempted propaganda output.
Low ROI, if you ask me.
I was out in the countryside of Iowa over the weekend. They’ve just about got the stink out since the Dem horde paraded through there like Sherman heading for the sea.
After perusing this thread, I have a simple formula:
Em/dr
I still say treating Covid-19 as if it was the Andromeda Strain is a Democrat hoax, hoping to terrify the public so they can stampede Congress into adopting “emergency” measures they’d never support in normal times; and endlessly demanding ever-greater quarantines and closures to damage the economy so Biden can run against Trump’s Terrible Economy this Fall.
The proof is the same as proof as for the Global Warming hoax. The numbers that supposedly justify the extreme measures are completely unreliable. The methods demanded are ridiculously disproportionate to the risk. The people screaming the loudest are exempting themselves and their buddies from the effects of their measures.
It’s a desperate attempt by Democrats and their media cousins to boost Biden’s failing campaign by knowingly lying to the American public.