Doesn’t New Orleans have like, an empty football stadium where we can shove all the olds and infirms? So we don’t have to worry our beautiful minds with thinking about them anymore?
/despairing sarcasm
*actual hug redeemable at a later date.
They’re just five days ahead of us.
We did it once, we can do it again… so long as we save the stocks!!! /s
Remember way back when some idiots were saying how this was good because of the upcoming election or stock crash or whatever the fuck?
Good times.
I wake up each morning, clicking my heels together, hoping it was all a bad dream and we were swept away in a tornado… but it was just my restless leg syndrome; time to take my pill.
It’s worth pointing out that the party in power in Ireland is the equivalent of the English Tories or the US republicans - right wing free market lovers who enact austerity and fail their citizens to the benefit of corporations and the wealthy.
They just look reasonable because the tories and republicans have been captured by far right nutters and white nationalists.
Maybe of interest
I predict Mitch McConnell doing absolutely nothing to stop this because “destroying the Postal Service” has been a Republican wet dream for at least as long as I’ve been alive.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/covid-19-sacrifice-old-people-for-the-economy
I’m writing in because I fear we are treating this as a more fringe idea than it actually is. I don’t think this is Trump reacting to his properties being forced to close or to a Fox News segment he saw. I think this has serious legs. …
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/absorb-these-words
“Usually we’ll have 50 governors that will call it the same time. I think we are doing very well. But it’s a two-way street. They have to treat us well, also."
In his Fox News town hall this afternoon President Trump said he needs good treatment or favors in return if states want the federal governments assistance as hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
Not linking to it.
Somewhat interesting analysis I’ve seen. ~Our worst case scenarios so far are probably much worse than we’re being told:
Take with pinch of salt, as I haven’t seen the numbers behind the top graph.
EDIT- Related article:
Oh good, it’ll finally be easy to draw in vector.
