Weighing in here. The virus is a bad virus. Certainly not the flu. Tends to kill old fucks like Race.
That said, social distancing seemed like a reasonable and effective measure. 6', wash your hands, etc. I could even get on board with closing schools for a while.
Crashing the entire economy and shuttering virtually all businesses probably, in my opinion, was not needed. That's where the went too far. When the bodies don't stack up like cordwood in countries who didn't go as far as we did, that will be an interesting data point.
For all you fuckers who say, no price is too high to pay to save a human life, go fuck yourselves. That's simply not true.
Could we make cars more safe? Sure...but they'd be too damn expensive. People die. How about freeways? Sure could. Costs too much. People die. Could we make the buildings in Seattle safer for the big one? Yep. Do we? Nope - there's a practical limit? How about our water supply? Do people die from lead or get illnesses? Yep. Why, because it costs too much to fix it? Are space heaters the safest way to heat your house? Nope. Do they cause fires and people die? Yup. Why? Because it's a cheap way to heat.
We make tradeoffs all the time.
I’ve seen you and Damone argue repeatedly that someone is saying no sacrifice is too great if it saves one life. Who the Hell is actually saying that?
I showed you earlier today
Cuomo for one. Biden for another
Send them an invite then.
They don’t really believe that, nor do they behave as if they really believe that. No one does.
Fuck off. When Trump said let's get back by Easter the Democrats freaked out
But they didn't mean it
For fucks sake
Well, to be even handed with the criticism, Trump walked that back today quite biggly. He said, and emphasized, many times, that Easter was "aspirational". Said he didn't mean Easter or bust. Just that it would be beautiful. And that he doesn't understand why anyone thought he meant "By Easter, we're back in bidness." He was unambiguous about that today.
I don't really have a team I'm rooting for here other than the vaccine team. But at this point blaming the Dems for this shit seems like an empty critique. Fine, they're dumbfucks. It's what they do. But, but, but ... they're not in charge.
Who's in charge now? This is all executive branch shit and it's all Trump's show. If he does well managing this, he gets to be the hero. But if he bungles, he gets the horns.
If the government is fucking us, then Trump is fucking us, because he's the government. I can't see the rationalization that this is all big brother shit at play and somehow the Tug's favorite President doesn't have to wear that tag. He does.
The Throbber is on Team Fuck China in the Ass With a COVID Infested Cheese Grater.
And Team Invacion Venezeula. That's important for a new supply of healthy lungs - just in case COVID returns. Lungs like this:
Oh, me too. I'm just talking domestic teams right now. My patience with China was wearing thin before, even for selfish reasons related to our business and our dealing with the numerous goons who had their hands in our pockets before we could get out goods to market. But in this kind of situation, where science and transparency mean so much, they fucked everyone ... again ... because it's what they do, apparently.
Bring some of your liberal lawyer friends with you back to the sweetness and goodness of the middle right....it is glorious.
If the government is fucking us, then Trump is fucking us, because he's the government. I can't see the rationalization that this is all big brother shit at play and somehow the Tug's favorite President doesn't have to wear that tag. He does
well we do have varying levels of government that can screw us in different ways. The state level has shutdown everything with local gov support. The feds are trying to make us all dependent on our? own $$$ for payments back to us and the debt.
I never thought Trump would fall for all the 'save the country' acts at a cost of $6T.
I be old, so I will go out in good shape and pissed. Sorry for my kids and other youngsters.
well, with all due respect, that read like a rationalization. of course we have varying levels of government. but if there were a giant liberal in the WH handling this right now, I'm pretty sure this thread would sing a different tune.
again, if the government is fucking us, then, at the very least, the Fed is complicit, and for things like this, where you're essentially invoking police power/emergency red light authority, it has executive branch written all over it.
but forget all that. all you have to do is watch TV. there he is. Donnie even said the west coast governors done good, and you know how he feels about Inslee. he's on board brother. like it or not.
he absofuckinglootly walked Easter the fuck back today and said he didn't mean what everyone says he meant. I invoke tim-tested Tug logic here and say here, unequivocally, who da fuck in charge? Trump in charge. He sets the tone and delivers the ventilators and puts the docs and scientists behind the podium to tell us to stay home.
you simply cannot, no matter how big a fan, lay blame on government and somehow exonerate Trump. unless you think the POTUS is a figurehead job.
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again, if the government is fucking us, then, at the very least, the Fed is complicit, and for things like this, where you're essentially invoking police power/emergency red light authority, it has executive branch written all over it.
but forget all that. all you have to do is watch TV. there he is. Donnie even said the west coast governors done good, and you know how he feels about Inslee. he's on board brother. like it or not.
he absofuckinglootly walked Easter the fuck back today and said he didn't mean what everyone says he meant. I invoke tim-tested Tug logic here and say here, unequivocally, who da fuck in charge? Trump in charge. He sets the tone and delivers the ventilators and puts the docs and scientists behind the podium to tell us to stay home.
you simply cannot, no matter how big a fan, lay blame on government and somehow exonerate Trump. unless you think the POTUS is a figurehead job.