Girard442
Girard442's JournalWhat ever happened to Trump's authority over nukes?
Surely Cap’n Lysol doesn’t have a working button.......does he?
Yeah, Trump is crazy, but this medical thing is also straight-up cult leader behavior.
I can heal you.
Yes, Most Gracious Leader.
Do you believe I can heal you?
Yes, Dear Leader.
Do you want me to heal you?
Yes, Immaculate One.
If you have faith, I can heal you. Do you have faith?
Yes, Omnipotent One.
Will you show your faith by partaking of the healing potion rejected by the unbelievers?
...etc.....
What if the true power behind Trump is.....Trump?
What if Trump is actually really good at what he does -- but what he does is put himself into situations where he has the power to lay waste to everything good around him. What if Trump's true goal in life is to satisfy his sadistic urges by destroying shit and peoples' lives? That is to say, maybe he derived some sick pleasure from driving all his businesses into the ground and hurting the people involved. Maybe the real reason that he stiffed all those contractors is not that he's a 2-bit cheapskate who never paid a bill he could avoid, but that he got off on screwing them, even when treating them fairly would have been better for his businesses. It's a grown-up version of pulling the wings off flies.
What if he wants millions of people in this country to die to satisfy his sick appetite and his every decision is driven by that urge?
Come May 1 or May 15th, the pressure could be on to get back to work, but...
...there's not a snowball's chance that there will be enough tests available and probably not enough PPE. A lot of people (including me) are going to be forced into deciding whether to be broke or sick. I am not looking forward to May.
I wonder if the states could sell assets to foreign countries to get the emergency funds they need?
A revenue source independent of the Federal government could be really useful right now.
Do any of us look in the fridge, see a spot of mold on something, and say, it's OK? It's tiny.
Experience and common sense tells you it will grow. How can these pinheads in a state with a handful of cases where there were none at all the week before, say, "There's only a few cases. Not a problem."
The brutal calculus of going back to work.
As of last Wednesday evening, it's been two weeks since I've been away from my job. I contemplate going back to work at some point. I could, because the company is considered essential and last I heard, it's still going.
If it was just me, I'd weigh the pluses and minuses and maybe come down on the side of going back to work, even given that the availability of tests and PPE is iffy, and given the likelihood that the company will probably not be able to do enough reconfiguration to help out much with social distancing. I'm not young and I don't think I have that many good years left. Better to spend them doing something useful rather than vegging in the apartment in my PJ's. There is a certain appeal in being one of the guys riding to the rescue. Money is a thing too.
But -- it's not just me. I live with my GF in a small apartment. If I get it, she could too. Then either of us could pass it on to someone else. It'd be nice to think we'd get through that OK, but terrifying to think about what it would be like if not.
There's nothing special about me. We're all in this together. Everything each of us does affects everybody else. Wanna be the rugged individual who takes on the risks but accepts all the consequences? Well, forget it. That's no longer possible, if it ever was.
Want to be Ayn Rand? You'll have to find a desert island and go there.
What do you wanna bet that NYC inspectors could find a ton of code violations in Trump's properties.
Probably have to shut them down until the violations are fixed. Maybe even condemn them.
Sure you wanna fuck with New Yorkers, Donnie?
The regional groupings of states are our only hope now.
If each group presents a united front, they can make Trump back down. and if they all do together, even better.
WTF "Flu-like illness"???
On edit: Birx is using it in the presser.
Sorry, too quick on the trigger.
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