The all-new "US Politics and coronavirus" thread

[William Parcher]

Please tell me that's sarcasm.

I don't know why they didn't shoot. If they had started shooting then the state would have lifted lockdown immediately in order to get them to stop shooting and never to shoot again.

If their true goal and mission was to open up the state then their strategy was a complete failure and the reason why is that they didn't start shooting.

I won't call them brutish radical stupid cowardly pansy asses, but I will call them unprepared for their mission.

 

[Stacyhs]

I don't know why they didn't shoot. If they had started shooting then the state would have lifted lockdown immediately in order to get them to stop shooting and never to shoot again.

If their true goal and mission was to open up the state then their strategy was a complete failure and the reason why is that they didn't start shooting.

I won't call them brutish radical stupid cowardly pansy asses, but I will call them unprepared for their mission.

Please tell me you're channeling your inner Cain.

 

[William Parcher]

I shot the Governor
But I did not shoot her Deputy

Freedom came our way that day
And I shouted out spraying my virus
All of a sudden my bro walked right through that cloud
He said it was an honor to breathe my Covid air

I shot the Governor
But I did not shoot her Deputy

 

[William Parcher]

Please tell me you're channeling your inner Cain.

Cain channels me.

 

[Stacyhs]

Cain channels me.

You have much more yet to learn from the Master, Grasshopper.

 

[Minoosh]

It's like a virulent strain of looney is trying hard to infect the whole population, but can't quite manage because too many people have built up herd resistance to right-wing lunacy.

IMO, the GOP should be scared spitless right now. Please, let this be the wakeup call that alerts mainstream so-called "conservatives" to the fact that the Trump administration is in fact radical, and extremely dangerous.

Pence goes unmasked while the boss tries to muzzle government scientists. Tone deaf? I sure as hell hope so.

 

[a_unique_person]

Far as I have seen, the swastikas are used to suggest that Whitmer is behaving like a Nazi. Hyperbole, sure, but not the same as displaying a swastika in an approving manner.



Of course, the nooses (which I haven't seen) are unlikely to be anything but a threat. I can't come up with any other interpretation (look at me, I learned knots as a Boy Scout?).

You think the guns are meant to be threatening?

 

[a_unique_person]

It's not so much the phrasing as the Court's interpretation of that phrasing.



"A well regulated Militia" seems pretty clear to me. How are these yahoos "well regulated" in any way?

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They keep their finger on trigger guard of a loaded gun, not on the trigger itself.

 

[a_unique_person]

Please tell me that's sarcasm.

It's not.

 

[newyorkguy]

And while these idiots are protesting their state capitals, governors are using the national guard to guard tests they have imported from South Korea from federal government seizure.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis did not announce that the state recently received over 100,000 coronavirus test kits from South Korea over fears that federal authorities could seize them. Multiple instances of feds seizing state supplies of tests and personal protective equipment have been reported since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Polis said on Friday that Colorado kept their latest shipment hidden because the state did not want to lose the tests to "the competition." "We were worried that the federal government or somebody else would take them," the governor told Colorado Public Radio. "We kept it under wraps. We simply didn't know if anybody would swoop in... I mean, we didn't want another state or the feds or anybody."

Wow! Just wow!...

Hard to believe and yet, at the same time, not at all surprising. Governor Cuomo in New York complained weeks ago, that the federal government needed to coordinate the effort instead of encouraging states to compete with one another. This is life and death, no time to play politics. We have a total ******* running the country.

 

[eerok]

They keep their finger on trigger guard of a loaded gun, not on the trigger itself.

Or they can't find the safety. One or the other.

 

[William Parcher]

Reefer Madness is real.

Daily Mail: Cannabis-crazed lunatics break down the doors at Michigan Capitol and catapult into screaming tirades aiming to stop the lockdown.

 

[William Parcher]

Trump Tweets

I can't sleep. The stupid militias show up like I commanded them to and they don't even shoot. What the hell do they think their guns are for? The Constitution says militia. They know that. What do I have to do? Totally worthless. They might as well have left the guns at home. I can't believe this is happening. Not Patriots. Sad!

 

[newyorkguy]

The guys on the left are being refused entry to the Michigan state house because they refuse to wear face masks. The gents on the right were allowed in because they agreed to wear face masks. I believe that's the governor's offices they're standing in front of.

 

[Minoosh]

Screaming into someone's face during a pandemic is a really dick move. Can't tell if he's as close as he looks, but IMO this image will do a lot to convince people the protesters are just freakin' knuckleheads.

Rage. Such a useful emotion

 

[Stacyhs]

April has come and gone and the virus hasn't just "disappeared like a miracle". Is it possible God's anointed was....gulp....wrong?

 

[Minoosh]

And the guy(s) with an assault rifle wearing a balaclava. What could possibly go wrong? Michigan officials showed preternatural forbearance in dealing with these clowns. If I wanted to make a propaganda video depicting the opposition as complete *******, I couldn't have done better.

ETA: "Buncha idiots" is the absolutely most benign way I could describe these loons.

 

[Bob001]

Life for nannies among the upper one percent:

There’s lots of specific items that they have become accustomed to and that they can’t go without. Just like the people. We are like items to them; they can’t go without us.

https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/nannies-working-during-coronavirus.html

 

[William Parcher]

And the guy(s) with an assault rifle wearing a balaclava. What could possibly go wrong?

They don't start shooting - that's what went wrong. They are not even a militia. Militias shoot their guns. Trump is a fool if he thinks he's going to get a shooting militia in this country. The clowns won't do it.

 

[newyorkguy]

Florida, Georgia and Texas -- all states that have begun 'reopening' -- all saw spikes in new cases yesterday. Makes you wonder, in states where reopening is or has become a political issue, what do they do if new cases start increasing? Re-shutdown? Will they have the political willpower to reverse course? Google tracking link

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