Political fall out from Covid-19 pandemic

And cruise ships, ffs.

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He only cared because he finally realized that it could be him next.

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Get your rage on…

See, really it’s your fault for daring to try to apply laws to your betters.

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Cancel your subscriptions:

The NY Times takes hands-off journalism to a laughable new level with Trump’s testing headline

Despite Pushback, Trump Suggests Testing Is No Longer an Issue

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Trump is now saying he should be lavished with praise for doing a “very good job” if the Federal government manages to limit our nation’s death toll to somewhere between 2-4 times the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War.

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I disagree with this statement.

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Governors Fight Back Against Coronavirus Chaos: ‘It’s Like Being on eBay With 50 Other States’

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They have to bid against Trump, too.

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#Trump, comparing sex to Vietnam, said in 1998 he should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor

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Must…follow…the…script…

Blech:

Nevertheless, New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker saw what he wanted to see:

The grim-faced president who appeared in the White House briefing room for more than two hours on Tuesday evening beside charts showing death projections of hellacious proportions was coming to grips with a reality he had long refused to accept….

A crisis that Mr. Trump had repeatedly asserted was “under control” and hoped would “miraculously” disappear has come to consume his presidency, presenting him with a challenge that he seems only now to be seeing more clearly.

None of this is true! None of this is remotely true! He pulled a script out of the filing cabinet and filled in Trump’s name and then called it a day and went of to get a cocktail. God damn these people.

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/where-things-stand-april-1-2020-trump-mcconnell-political-out

Hardly matters, McConnell will keep saying it, and the press will keep repeating it, and the Trumpies will happily believe that the Trumpvirus failure was because of the Democrats and the Trumpvirus response was perfect because Trump is perfect. Take that libturds!

Bonus
Here is how you write a headline, NYT:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-response-coronavirus-not-better-without-impeachment-mcconnell

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Thread.

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This is from March 20 but I just saw it.

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New Cat and Girl is up… seems relevant to this thread…

Probably a good time to throw money to some artists you like, too.

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A “burst of light”? Is that the nuclear option?

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“We”

When minority reporters and others from nontraditional-for-elite-newspapers backgrounds (no school near Boston!) argue that their personal experience gives them a necessary and useful perspective on the subjects they are or should be covering, elite editors scream BIAS at them, but when “our” friends and relatives are getting sick and dying…


Michael Calderone :heavy_check_mark: @mlcalderone

“We are all actually living the story we are covering,” says NYT editor @deanbaquet. “We all have relatives and friends whose lives have been upended. Our own lives have been profoundly altered.” https://bit.ly/2wWifks

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The nation’s top newspaper editors on the key to covering the coronavirus story - Poynter

Some of the nation’s top newspaper editors talk about how their organizations are covering the story of COVID-19 when newsrooms are nearly empty.
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No self-awareness.

Atrios

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I’m hoping for more of a Tunguska flavour, myself. Can’t go all spasm war with a ‘no-one’s fault’ Tunguska grade object.

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A reminder that Trump is not the problem. Trump is not the disease, merely a symptom, a particularly painful syphilitic boil on the sphincter perhaps, but just a symptom of Republican rule.

But don’t worry, Joe Biden is going to have a phone call with Trump and then they’ll sort everything out.

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