The all-new "US Politics and coronavirus" thread

[Silly Green Monkey]

Yes, we know it doesn't show weakness. Tell that to Republicans and especially Donald Trump who evade/deflect/deny any mistake and never admit *anything*.

 

[The Atheist]

Trumpanzees are still crowing about how Sweden is doing fine by doing nothing..........

Yeah, the ploy is to trumpet every low day's total and completely ignore the high ones.

I just whacked someone with that this morning.

Sweden - April 26, only 240 new cases!! 111!!

I responded with:

Sweden - April 28, 680 new cases. April 29, 690 new cases...

 

[Emily's Cat]

Uh? I mean, excuse me, but it shows weakness? We seem to have different dictionaries or something.

Pretty sure his comment was intended as sarcasm. Personally, I find [/sarcasm] to be very helpful in on-line discussions.

 

[Dr.Sid]

Yeah, the ploy is to trumpet every low day's total and completely ignore the high ones.

I just whacked someone with that this morning.

Sweden - April 26, only 240 new cases!! 111!!

I responded with:

Sweden - April 28, 680 new cases. April 29, 690 new cases...

Yeah, Sweden has funky graphs .. but the general trend so far is quite clear.

 

[wasapi]

Pretty sure his comment was intended as sarcasm. Personally, I find [/sarcasm] to be very helpful in on-line discussions.

I am a fan of good sarcasm! Sorry if that is what it was, and zipped right over my head.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump says
"I don't know that we should be working with states that have been suffering through bad leadership or bad management for 25 years."

What does he think his job is?

 

[thaiboxerken]

He's doing a quid-pro-quo with individual states. If they want help, they have to give him something, like deporting all brown people.

 

[Stacyhs]

Pretty sure his comment was intended as sarcasm. Personally, I find [/sarcasm] to be very helpful in on-line discussions.

That's how I read it, too. I've started using whenever I'm being sarcastic as I've been misread a few times myself.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump says

"The wall is up to 175 miles built now, and the numbers are incredibly good because all of that 175 miles, nobody comes through. Nobody even comes close to coming through. Unless you have a climber of Mt. Everest, but it's not even easy for them."

 

[TragicMonkey]

Trump says

"The wall is up to 175 miles built now, and the numbers are incredibly good because all of that 175 miles, nobody comes through. Nobody even comes close to coming through. Unless you have a climber of Mt. Everest, but it's not even easy for them."

I get the terrible notion that Trump thinks Everest is 175 miles high, and so is his wall.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump says

"The wall is up to 175 miles built now, and the numbers are incredibly good because all of that 175 miles, nobody comes through. Nobody even comes close to coming through. Unless you have a climber of Mt. Everest, but it's not even easy for them."

Or a $100 saw from Home Depot.

He's building a wall - and they're cutting holes right through it.

Migrants and smugglers have succeeded in cutting through US President Donald Trump's "virtually impenetrable" border wall using cordless saws that cost as little as $US100 ($A145) apiece at hardware stores, border agents and officials told The Washington Post.

 

[Meadmaker]

Classic sleazy marketing trick. Overprice them to begin with, then convince the rubes that the "sale" price is a really good deal. "At that price we should buy two!"

Is anyone surprised that Trump's Whitehouse is following the Sleazy Marketing Playbook? Anyone?

Please tell me this is not actually the real White House.

 

[Trebuchet]

Elon Musk has gone all in for Freedumb! A classic example of smart people believing stupid stuff.

 

[Armitage72]

I dunno whether this has been posted, but it is pure gold, and not even fake: Covid Medallions with Trump and Pence's names on them!

Buy now!

https://www.whitehousegiftshop.com/product-p/covid-heroes.htm

What I find interesting is that everything on the medals is in the past tense. With a listed release date of June 15th, I guess everything will be back to normal by then.

Together We FOUGHT The UNSEEN Enemy.
Everyday HEROES Suited Up.
Everyday CITIZENS Did Their Part.

They have Trump's characteristic random and inappropriate capitalization. I wonder if he was involved in the design. Probably not. They aren't gaudy enough.

 

[Babbylonian]

Elon Musk has gone all in for Freedumb! A classic example of smart people believing stupid stuff.

Elon is coming up on what I read could be a $675 million payday based on Tesla maintaining its market cap. That is most likely what is fueling his attitude.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

With all the talk about lockdown protests, I thought you might like to be reminded of what some of the protestors are actually saying - this is from a lockdown protest in Sacramento, California a week ago

Well that stupid certainly burns.

 

[thaiboxerken]

What I find interesting is that everything on the medals is in the past tense. With a listed release date of June 15th, I guess everything will be back to normal by then.

Together We FOUGHT The UNSEEN Enemy.
Everyday HEROES Suited Up.
Everyday CITIZENS Did Their Part.

They have Trump's characteristic random and inappropriate capitalization. I wonder if he was involved in the design. Probably not. They aren't gaudy enough.

I wonder if he's just now watching the Marvel movies since he can't go out golfing.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Please tell me this is not actually the real White House.

I don't believe it is. It's a marketing scam to use that name/own that domain. It doesn't end in .gov.

 

[Craig4]

Classic sleazy marketing trick. Overprice them to begin with, then convince the rubes that the "sale" price is a really good deal. "At that price we should buy two!"

Is anyone surprised that Trump's Whitehouse is following the Sleazy Marketing Playbook? Anyone?

So, there is a gift-shop in the White House Visitor Center. The Park Service leases the space to the White House Historical Association which runs it. These coins are not for sale in the gift shop and appear to have no connection to the Historical Association.

It seems someone figured out the obvious. No one ever lost money taking advantage of stupid, filthy Trumptrash.

 

[Armitage72]

I don't believe it is. It's a marketing scam to use that name/own that domain. It doesn't end in .gov.

According to this link, it was originally created in 1946 and run by the Secret Service Uniformed Division Benefit Fund. The Fund was shut down in 2013 and ownership of the shop was transferred to a private company.