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You tell me, boss. 🤷‍♂️

Weird! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/while-trump-minimizes-toll-government-orders-100-000-new-body-n1197316

Homeland Security Orders 100,000 Body Bags

Yes, probably also bad but i don't subscribe to the wall street journal. So it's not a catastrophe in your eyes that 20+ million are out of work and many of them can't get unemployment benefits? I thought that was your whole reasoning for wanting to open the economy back up?

Make no mistake, the only reason Republican governors want to open back up is that it exposed just how awful the social safety nets are for this kind of catastrophe. Try calling into Texas unemployment right now and let me know how successful you are. There's people who applied 6 weeks ago who still haven't seen any money and rent is due in a few days. Opening back up simply provides the loophole for their employers and the state to say they don't qualify, and making people choose between exposing themselves to something highly contagious with a 20% chance of ending up in a hospital bed, or just trying to eat and pay rent. An added bonus is that it creates more tension and anger for the working class & directs their hate towards the small businesses who feel they have no choice after hemorrhaging money for the last month.

Waco is a 6 part miniseries on Netflix, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Taylor Kitsch is Koresh and did pretty well, though his Texas accent is rusty since his Tim Riggins days.

Narcos Mexico The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (amazon) Chernobyl (HBO) 11/22/63 Broad City Wild Wild Country Derry Girls

Contracting the Plague to Own the Libs

50k deaths with no vaccine in sight and uncertainty riddling the country - "I was just trolling reporters".

I hope one of Trump's aides is showing him that magic school bus episode where they fly inside the sick kid.

"Warned us about China" Literally had every item with his or his daughter's name on it manufactured in China for the last 20 years. And the whole "he shut down flights to China" is a silly defense considering that clearly didn't stop the U.S. from having almost 25% of worldwide deaths at the moment.

28,000 missing deaths

He removed the IG in charge of oversight of the money. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/07/coronavirus-relief-trump-removes-inspector-general-overseeing-2-trillion-package.html

Probably the same dude that just said he was gonna shoot down Iranian gunboats.

I'm beginning to think this guy honestly has a death wish.

Yes, I am a human with a moral character who doesn't like a sociopath being the most powerful person in the world. Crazy, I know. No, I don't like the current system of policing. I think it should be scrapped entirely and replaced with something else. What that is I don't know, but the current state of policing is abysmal. They are not above criticism the same way any organization is. Dude, there thread is there, and I'm not interested in parsing through 13 pages of it, but I can give a few examples since you're so eager to defend his honor. Here's Rick sharing a Daily Caller link of all things to try and pinpoint the blame on Obama for letting the Ebola victim into the country. Rick, any thoughts on Trump not closing off travel to Europe soon enough, because it's more likely that's where the outbreak in the Northeast US came from. Here's Rick saying that removing the restrictions was a bad decision by Obama. Again, any critiques on the current administration for 40k+ deaths? fEdErAL gOvErNmEnT nOt pRePaReD "Pussy President to Blame for Benghazi" There's Ebola elsewhere in the US per the Washington Examiner Rick, aren't you still a firefighter? CDC are a bunch of liars because they're just following Obama's orders and don't want a panic "obama cancelled fundraisers so it must be serious"....Rick your thoughts on Trump holding rallies and fundraisers until mid-March?

Cool, what happened between January 21st and March?

Part of it was South Korea's ability to invade their citizens privacy even more than google or apple does ours. If you tested positive they immediately went through bank and phone data to determine where you had been, and then immediately quarantined anyone you had close contact with. They had all 31 cases completely contained when patient #31 took his dumb ass to a mega church and infected hundreds more.

Per capita? Try Germany, Japan or South Korea on for size. All examples of denser countries that show what actual leadership and prevention does before allowing thousands to be infected. Speaking of comparisons between Rhode Island and Texas, we're 49th per capita in testing per our awesome governor that wants to open hair salons back up. Even with China lying about their numbers, we're still going to probably end up with more deaths, and the virus had a 6 week head start on China before anyone was even entirely aware of it. It's weird that the same camp of people screaming to open up the economy also cry that China's numbers are fake. So which is it, a harmless bug that only affects the most vulnerable and we can all go about our daily lives with little restriction, or is it a deadly contagion that wiped out a million people over a few months time?

Can't argue with that, allowing the U.S. to lead the world in infections and deaths is "doing something" by definition.

Damn, that's like 7 Benghazis.

It's way worse than the flu in the harder hit states. The first death in the U.S. occurred on February 29th, and in 50 days there's 39,000 deaths even with a good bit of the country shutting down or practicing social distancing. New Jersey is reporting 10% of cases require hospitalization, 10 times worse than the flu.

I'm old enough to remember when Rick absolutely lost his ish at Obama when literally one guy died from Ebola a few years back. I guess 30,000 people when the president has a R next to his name doesn't quite incite the same disappointment in his leaders.

Covid Spreads in Rural Areas Without Stay at Home Orders

I can't read for you man, you're on your own there.