[It’s remarkable how well these C19 utility functions perform in their ability to predict the statements – ranging from policies to pabulum – of the three cohorts today exhorting us to do this vs that.
For those comfortable with such models of the realworld, they compress a whole lot of explanatory power about the debate to loosen the lockdown. (more here). gjr]
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659 responses to “Sandbox – 10may20”
Posted by: Slappy Emery | 15 May 2020 at 07:48 AM
Yo Slap…..you can bet that we won’t be paying off 30 Trill either!
What a phony and a liar Trump is.
Oh yeah….with all the crap flowing from DC these days you’d think the president was a Green Libertarian™ or something similarly stupid!
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Fish: here you go, get a clue,
https://www.thedailybeast.com/crossword-puzzles?via=tdb_medium=article&tdb_source=crosswords_tracy_announcement&utm_source=web_push
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Posted by: Crappy Wanna | 15 May 2020 at 07:58 AM
Fish: proud to be associated with Paul others bringing light to the clueless.
I’m quite sure……! What message will you be bringing to Vice President Wax Dummy?
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“I hereby nominate dugsKKKi Wanna to be the other half of the geriatric “less than dynamic” duo with Punchy.”
I was considering their superpowers.
Wannaman has a motorized, somewhat damp, EZ chair and waves his little tyrannosaur arms while chanting headlines from progressive ‘news’ sites. The Green Emery has a little old man Ponytail of Power that sends out mysterious question rays.
They are helped in their eternal quest for justice against the forces of Orange Hitler by the 420th Volunteers who, marching down Broad Street, always end up out of breath in a tumble at the bottom in a rather confused state.
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Posted by: Crappy Wanna | 15 May 2020 at 08:02 AM
Fish: here you go, get a clue,
Crappy: here you go, get
a clue…..3 FOODS THAT FIGHT MEMORY LOSS.“Number 4 will shock you….!
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Major Typo.
BIDEN pulling away in battleground states. Up by 6 in Florida in latest poll.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/fl/florida_trump_vs_biden-6841.html
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Posted by: scenes | 15 May 2020 at 08:04 AM
I was considering their superpowers.
Wannaman has a motorized, somewhat damp, EZ chair and waves his little tyrannosaur arms while chanting headlines from progressive ‘news’ sites. The Green Emery has a little old man Ponytail of Power that sends out mysterious question rays.
They are helped in their eternal quest for justice against the forces of Orange Hitler by the 420th Volunteers who, marching down Broad Street, always end up out of breath in a tumble at the bottom in a rather confused state.
….and in a mere two paragraphs I am bested!
I gotta up my game!
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 15 May 2020 at 08:05 AM
Crappy: here you go, get a clue…..3 FOODS THAT FIGHT MEMORY LOSS.
Slappy: here you go, get a clue…..3 FOODS THAT FIGHT MEMORY LOSS.
Help with those “typos”…..yeah…typos….we’ll go with that!
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Slappy porn…….
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/023/699/Screen_Shot_2017-08-17_at_3.57.59_PM.jpg
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Trump up by by nine in battleground polls by CNN. Biden still in basement.
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Todd: you poor old pollwatcher
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Latest idiot quote from our Stupid in Chief President:
“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world,” Trump said. “But why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”
Unbelievable, George is this an example of “dumbst ” or whatever you call it?
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/uttering-complete-stupidity-msnbcs-mika-baffled-by-trumps-latest-remarks-on-coronavirus-testing/
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 15 May 2020 at 08:40 AM
Slappy using “rawstory.com” to address the condition of bafflement by the only person on the planet dumber than himself!
#sad
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Paul: typical dumbeth Trumpism. All about crowd size, whether is it inauguration crowd size on one small hand, or virus case numbers on the other tiny hand.
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Dung states that there have been SOOOO many “unmaskings”..
OK, wise ass,, how many names have been leaked to the outside world. and to the press for political gain? That the real crime Depends® man.
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 15 May 2020 at 08:51 AM
Paul: typical dumbeth Trumpism. All about crowd size, whether is it inauguration crowd size on one small hand, or virus case numbers on the other tiny hand.
…or tiny little T-Rex arms waved furiously while sitting in your sodden EZ chair.
How do you ever get your Greek fishermans cap on with those stubby little arms dugsKKKi!
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I like being the playground moniter and children sitting on my lap.
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Daily Quotes
Tongue-in-cheek: “Looking back, it’s a good thing we closed everything but Planned Parenthood to save lives.” —Seth Dillon
Perspective: “We have 36.5 million unemployment claims since March. To understand the monstrosity of that number, consider: the worst week of all times before this was 695k. If you had that worst week of all times every week for an entire year — 52 in a row — that would be 36.1m.” —Austan Goolsbee
Wandering minds want to know: “What does marijuana have to do with the coronavirus? Cannabis is mentioned 68 times in Pelosi’s [stimulus] bill! She must have been high on something when she wrote it.” —Gary Bauer
For the record: “We are bailing out out liberal politicians who cannot live within their means and now we are asking Floridians to pay for the incompetence of governors like Andrew Cuomo.” —Sen. Rick Scott
The bottom line: “Vice President Biden is guilty of using government to go after a political opponent.” —Sen. Rand Paul
Observations: “I see the drip-drip crowd stressing that Flynn was supposedly involved in other crimes. It’s a bad defense. If true, the Obama admin [should] have prosecuted him on FARA charges. They didn’t. Instead they railroaded him to keep a rickety Russia investigation going.” —David Harsanyi
Demo-gogues: “These ridiculous conspiracy theories, on Obama — [Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron] Johnson wants to go after Biden and this Hunter Biden conspiracy theory, which came from the Russians, of all people. This is amazing to me. What alternative universe do they live in? Spending their time on discredited conspiracy theories, against Obama, against Biden.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Non compos mentis: “The unconfirmed, acting DNI using his position to criminalize routine intelligence work to help re-elect the president and obscure Russian intervention in our democracy would normally be the scandal here…” —Ben Rhodes
Braying jenny: “I can’t believe I have to write this sentence, but the president’s son-in-law doesn’t get to decide when the election is.” —Hillary Clinton spreading a ridiculous conspiracy theory
Frogs in boiling water: “Every time you go to school, you don’t go to class once and then graduate with a degree. You go for many days at a time, slowly adding layers and layers upon layers. And we use public events … to help contribute evidence to the analysis of power, which will help people realize how power is concentrated in the United States — which gives us a better foundation to challenge it and then paint and begin to establish alternative structures for a better world.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Village idiot: “[Trump] wants to be reelected. He doesn’t even care how many people die. … The people he pretends to care about are the people he has the most disdain for. He could [sic] care less about them. They might like to tell themselves that or delude themselves, but he doesn’t care about them.” —Robert De Niro
And last… “The curve has LONG since been ‘flattened.’ It’s time to let people live a life of purpose.” —Steven Crowder
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California Sheriff: I’m Not Enforcing Lockdown, We’re Too Busy ‘Re-Arresting’ Criminals
https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-sheriff-im-not-enforcing-lockdown-were-too-busy-re-arresting-criminals?
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My my. We used to count recidivism rates in months. Now it’s minutes.
California man, 32, carjacks motorist 40 MINUTES after being released from prison early due to COVID-19.
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These are non violent offenders, they told us. No rapists, no robbers, no violence on record they told us.
‘Sex offenders among those released from New York jail to stop coronavirus spread’
“We weren’t told by anyone. I think good practice would be if you’re going to release convicted felons,” he said. “Some of them very violent, some of those level 3 sex offenders, you might want to give law enforcement the heads-up.”
The department told the station it made decisions on whom to release based on a “review of the underlying technical violation, not the original crime.”
“This significant action is being taken in response to a growing number of COVID-19 cases in local jails over the past few days and weeks,” DOCCS said.
“Our top priority remains the public health and safety of New Yorkers during this global public health emergency and this measure will further protect a vulnerable population from contracting and transmitting this infectious disease.”
https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/sex-offenders-among-those-released-from-new-york-jail-to-stop-coronavirus-spread/
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Dozens of Rikers inmates arrested again after coronavirus release
“More than 100 inmates cut loose from incarceration on Rikers Island over coronavirus concerns in late March have had run-ins with the law since being released, The Post has learned.
The roughly 110 inmates have accounted for 190 arrests since the pandemic took hold of the Big Apple, according to police.
Of those arrests, 45 — or roughly one-quarter — were for burglaries, helping drive the 43-percent spike in break-ins over the last month, according to NYPD data.”….
The majority of burglaries accounting for the spike in break-ins over the last month have occurred in Manhattan, according to NYPD records.
Patrol area Manhattan South has recorded the largest jump in burglaries with a 70-percent hike from 100 to 171 over the last four weeks, according to the figures.
The northern section of the borough also recorded a 60-percent jump in burglaries over the last month, with 141 recorded, the numbers show.“
https://nypost.com/2020/05/12/over-100-inmates-rearrested-after-their-coronavirus-release/
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Cracks me up. People like Paul Emery call the President a failure and an idiot yet they are the true idiots and failures. In Paul Emery’s case, a small-town radio jock on FM and a failed musician. You cannot make this stuff up. Called liberal hubris.
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punchy 748am
“Defect(sic) probably lower Gregory with Pelosi because she wouldn’t have proposed the tax cut for the wealthy that Trump did.”
Delusional thinking by Punch. Queen Nan now wants $3T conjured out of thin air to spend and to keep people locked up at home unless they’re essential legislators with a gov’ment bizjet to travel from coast to coast to visit her freezers with the nice choco ice cream.
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Poor Trump, all of his publicity photos showing everyone around Trump wearing masks and Bumblebrain Trump with his mouth open as usual ends up looking like what’s actually happening is Trump is the virus and everyone’s trying to protect themselves from him.
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 15 May 2020 at 10:12 AM
Yes Crappy you should continue to “Shelter in Place”!
….no you can’t go out and fight Orange Hitler with Slappy!
Remember…….your continued existence is vital to the very survival of elderly men everywhere who are very nearly grafted to their urine soaked recliners!
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PaulE 840am – I think your TDS is making you miss the obvious truth that without a confirmational testing program the cohort of the asymptomatic C19 carriers will be totally missed in the case count; only those with confirmed symptoms are included. As you start testing, you start picking up members from both the asymptomatic and the pre-symptomatic cohorts which then swell the reported case count numbers. Hence what President Trump said in your quote is absolutely true, and here the dumbth burdens only those who don’t/can’t understand this very simple aspect of wholesale testing.
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Mary Guano brings up “unmasking”. yet won’t say who got unmasked. Your as bad as Emery.
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FYI re McConnell’s claim that Obama left no pandemic response plan. When the Obama plan, such as it is, was revealed to him, McConnell immediately admitted on national TV that he had made a mistake.
In contrast, the evil Dems who for years have been issuing a chorus of lies about the ‘Russia collusion’ continue doing so to this day, even after a tsunami of confirmed reports that overwhelms us about there never having been evidence to support the allegations, and that there is no evidence of such to date. Do you ever see any contrition from the Left? – the Alinsky response is simply to double down on the lies.
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Trump says the same thing about Biden AND his boy Hunter.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/15/joe-biden-says-he-wont-pardon-trump-if-elected/
Trump hasn’t even come close to being convicted of anything.]
Biden won’t ever have to worry about pardoning anyone.. He will never be President.
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A read perhaps Scenes would enjoy.
‘The danger of safetyism‘
“Safetyism is a disposition that has been gaining strength for decades and is having a triumphal moment just now because of the virus. Public health, one of many institutions that speak on behalf of safety, has claimed authority to sweep aside whole domains of human activity as reckless, and therefore illegitimate.
I suspect the ease with which we have lately accepted the authority of health experts to reshape the contours of our common life is due to the fact that safetyism has largely displaced other moral sensibilities that might offer some resistance. At the level of sentiment, there appears to be a feedback loop wherein the safer we become, the more intolerable any remaining risk appears. At the level of bureaucratic grasping, we can note that emergency powers are seldom relinquished once the emergency has passed. Together, these dynamics make up a kind of ratchet mechanism that moves in only one direction, tightening against the human spirit.”
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“To recommend restrictions on travel from China in the early stages of the pandemic would have been ideologically impossible for the WHO, regardless of what epidemiology might dictate. Utopian ideals are not only compatible with callousness about actual human lives, they sometimes demand it — the main thing is to maintain one’s own moral purity. This presents an easy opportunity for a Chinese regime that neither believes in Kant nor listens to John Lennon, but understands perfectly well how a rival society based on abstractions and taboos can be manipulated: accuse various EU functionaries of racism and, voilà, they suppress their own report that details the Chinese Communist Party’s misinformation campaign about the virus.
There would seem some affinity between safetyism and political correctness. Recall the mountain bikers with their jumps. Does putting one’s body at risk in confrontations with the material world strengthen the reality principle in a person’s psyche? There is a certain rude immediacy to physical pain that has a revelatory effect; a broken bone chastises any conceit you may have had that you had a complete grasp of the situation. Political correctness, on the other hand, seems to be an effort to avoid the pollution that comes from noticing reality. This is certainly the safer course, for anyone whose professional life takes place in an institution. It is easiest to maintain this diligence against reality if one remains insulated from those ugly causal chains that unfold in the real world — perhaps as a result of one’s own diktats, if one is highly placed.”
https://unherd.com/2020/05/the-hypocrisy-of-safetyism/
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It’s over……
…And so it went, the blackouts, the indecipherable monologues, the speakers staring silently, endlessly, waiting for a prompt. I kept my eye on the viewer counter in the corner of the screen. From what I could tell, viewership peaked at 2,637 and then fell off a cliff as the technical troubles continued. The numbers rose a bit when, nearing the program’s end, the announcer spoke Biden’s name. The screen filled with a sunlit suburban room, and we saw a man in aviators approaching the camera from the glow of a patio. “Did they introduce me?” he asked, looking around. “Huh?”
Biden gave a version of his stump speech from the campaign trail, with unfortunate improvisations: “This country is really all about the American people,” he said. It felt like a mercy when, after he bade us goodbye, his image faded and a card came up advertising the Virtual Rally in Tampa, Florida, that had just ended.
The whole rally was, in short, a disaster—not a lasting or sizable one, but easily, in its comprehensiveness, the equal of any in my political experience, and I covered the 2016 Jeb Bush campaign. The fundamental problem was conceptual. Biden’s handlers approached the challenge of bringing a rally online too literally. They tried simply to list the elements of a typical rally and tick off the boxes—music, check; Pledge of Allegiance, check; speeches, check; candidate remarks, check; Ray-Bans, check—and then throw them up on the web, in serial fashion. For Zoom-campaign operatives, the trick in the future will be to somehow re-create the essence of a real-life rally, its excitement and spontaneity, without straining after a precise simulation.
When a democrat loses The Atlantic it’s over…..
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/bidens-virtual-campaign-disaster/611698/
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Gotta love Sabo.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/05/15/sabo-street-art-calls-out-california-l-a-coronavirus-lockdown-overreach/
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Good one Walt @ 11:00. I enjoyed the Invasion of the Snitchers.
In other not so happy news….
Report: NYC Health Commissioner Rebuffed Call For 500,000 Police Masks: ‘I Don’t Give Two Rats’ A**** About Your Cops’
The Post added, “In the wake of Barbot’s crass rebuff of Monahan, NYPD officials learned that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had a large stash of masks, ventilators and other equipment stored in a New Jersey warehouse, sources said. The department appealed to City Hall, which arranged for the NYPD to get 250,000 surgical masks, sources said.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-nyc-health-commissioner-rebuffed-call-for-500000-police-masks-i-dont-give-two-rats-a-about-your-cops?
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157097714721615&set=gm.941231726331938&type=3&theater
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Devin Nunes Says Criminal Referrals Are Coming for Mueller Team
https://bongino.com/devin-nunes-says-criminal-referrals-are-coming-for-mueller-team
And when has Nunes been wrong? Not often and 100% correct on Obama-Bidengate and Spygate and the Russia Hoaxgate, and…Rachel Maddcowgate and…..
‘MSNBC’s Ruhle: Unmasking Scandal ‘Completely Made Up,’ ‘Nonsense’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/05/15/msnbcs-ruhle-unmasking-scandal-completely-made-nonsense
“The only problem with that analysis was that none of the examples Dilanian cited to justify unmasking an American citizen in a surveilled phone call actually applied to the Flynn case.”
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George: did any Trumpanzees apologize for Birtherism, or any other of the myriad BS conspiracies they dreamed up?
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 15 May 2020 at 12:16 PM
George: did any Trumpanzees apologize for Birtherism, or any other of the myriad BS conspiracies they dreamed up?
Crappy: did any of you proglodyte halfwits apologize for any of your endless Reagan Conspiracies or that Christic Institute nonsense?
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re: BillT@10:41 https://unherd.com/2020/05/the-hypocrisy-of-safetyism/
That’s a good article and worth considering.
I’ll posit another factor in public policy for risk intolerance in The Plague Years (aside from the boringly obvious one of ageing populations). That is the Prime Directive of Fairness.
It’s the same sort of thing that makes two people with five cents better than one with a dime and one with a dollar ..plus you get to add in the magic of the hierarchy of groups.
Shortly put, it’s not fair to allow surfers to surf while you keep urban POC (who tend towards the hypersocial) locked up. There’s a double whammy in that due to the geography of the thing, everyone isn’t exactly equal, plus the fact that some groups have special friends in the policy-making class. Fairness, or more correctly the correction of historical unfairness (real or otherwise) matters more than logic.
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They just can not help themselves –
The governors of Georgia and Colorado have at least one thing in common. They both took steps to reopen their states’ economies in late April amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But for some reason, the media’s coverage of Gov. Brian Kemp (R., Ga.) has been slightly different from the media’s coverage of Gov. Jared Polis (D., Colo.).
Kemp, for example, has been accused of experimenting with “human sacrifice.” So reads the headline of an April 29 article published in the Atlantic, which accuses Kemp of turning Georgia residents into “unwilling canaries in an invisible coal mine, sent to find out just how many individuals need to lose their job or their life for a state to work through a plague.”
In a brief aside, the article acknowledges that some other states, including Colorado, “have already put similar plans in motion.” Polis, for some reason, is not identified as an accomplice in Kemp’s murder scheme.
When Kemp announced his plan to gradually reopen some Georgia businesses, former National Journal editor Ron Fournier echoed the sentiment of many media pundits when he wrote on Twitter: “Mark this day. Because two and three weeks from now, the Georgia death toll is blood on his hands. And as Georgians move around the country, they’ll spread more death and economic destruction.” Fournier hasn’t tweeted about Colorado in years.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/spot-the-difference-two-governors-reopened-their-states-but-only-one-was-accused-of-human-sacrifice
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And no apology from Berkeley for firing your ass and sending you our way, Dung, and making you our problem.
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First it was state issued DNRs,, now protection from litigation because of state allowed “death centers”.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/15/andrew-cuomo-scrambles-to-change-nursing-home-virus-policies-as-democrats-call-for-independent-investigation/
“March 25 directive prohibiting nursing homes from testing recovering hospital patients prior to intake. This while Cuomo’s aides reportedly quietly worked to shield nursing homes from lawsuits due to coronavirus following lobbying by industry representatives.
The March 25 executive order in question stated, “[nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
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GaffeMaster Flash strikes………
You know…..millions…”We hold these truths to be”…..you know, the thing….!
How many dead was that Joey Fingers?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-gaffes-pile-during-joe-biden-virtual-roundtable
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George
You’re support for our Idiot in Cheif is astounding. This is his exact quote. “If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.” He’s implying the cases wouldn’t exist because they weren’t counted and recognized. that’s why he was so resistant to tests all along. Here’s a golden moment in the Trump legacy way back in March 6. From Fox news no less. He’s talking about adding the number of cases from a Cruise ship.
“I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault,” Trump said in a Fox News interview.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-keep-passengers-on-grand-princess-cruise-ship-coronavirus-2020-3
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LOL!! Some LIB lunitic just called 911 claiming Trump raped her. Gotta love police radio traffic.
Any bets she’s a LIB?
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Was that you Mary?
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Fish: exactly my point. Thanks for sharing. Sharing is caring.
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Good pic of Trump “Mary”,, looks like he’s giving it to ya’ hard and dry.
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The Lancet thinks Trump sucks.
“The Trump administration’s further erosion of the CDC will harm global cooperation in science and public health, as it is trying to do by defunding WHO. A strong CDC is needed to respond to public health threats, both domestic and international, and to help prevent the next inevitable pandemic. Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31140-5/fulltext
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Nunes and his cow admits Trumpanzees need ballot harvesting to win.
https://twitter.com/NunesDrag/status/1260772430907310080?s=09
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Tru dat –
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/adriana-cohen-apparent-seditious-anti-trump-conspiracy-by-obama-officials-must-be-investigated
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Marty in FULL TROLL mode.
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