So he’s going to self quarantine. I can only hope he self deports.
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I never understood the appeal of Pink Flamingos or Waters’ other stuff. Even though I was a hippie film student at the time, who loved later Fellini and things like Jodorowsky’s El Topo. It just seemed a parade of stupid, rather than artistically offensive.
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OT: The Speaker and Minority Leader Schumer have spoken. Looking out for all of us, as usual. This is what leadership looks like.
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200 Motels was genius.
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Haha. I knew I wouldn’t have to say anything with all the wits we have on these boards.
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What did Al Franken memorably say about Cruz? Something like, “I like Ted Cruz more than anyone else in the Senate, and I hate Ted Cruz.”
I’ve got to figure more than a few of his colleagues are thanking the Coronavirus right now.
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And they didn’t want to hear her say she could have stayed at home, baked cookies and had teas, but she didn’t. She put her career on hold when she met him at Yale. You wonder what would have happened in an alternative universe if she hadn’t met him. Wait I know. It would mean she was a lesbian, also disqualifying.
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Lemme help you. He spoke at CPAC the day before Trump did. I can only hope at the same podium.
And due to bag bans at the event, appears opportunities to keep things like hand sanitizer around were limited.
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Well, they certainly tried that angle.
Did you read the Daily Beast thing I posted above? They hate her because they couldn’t make her surrender.
As I said, she is one strong mutha.
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I’m willing to bet he won’t be the last of our political elite needing to self-quantine, and most will be Republican. Not just because of CPAC, but mainly due to their general attitude of distrust and condescension towards facts and science, even when they should know better.
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Naw. They make sure that they have the best healthcare available to them, even while they deny it to others.
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President Trump continues to manufacture needless chaos within his administration and it is hampering the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. In light of reports that the Trump administration is considering new tax cuts for major corporations impacted by the coronavirus we are demanding that the administration prioritize the health and safety of American workers and their families over corporate interests.
Corporations don’t get sick even if rMoney said they were people. But people are in fact getting sick and this admin means to gut ACA.
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True enough. Not everyone gets to consult with the Houston Health Department, the Harris County Public Health Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, their personal physician, then call VP Pence, Majority Leader McConnell, and CoS Meadows…as Cruz apparently did.
No sir, he’s most definitely not an “elite” member of our society.
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So proud of Pelosi and Schumer for keeping our priorities straight. It’s unconscionable not to look out for the working classes.
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She’s been unleashed but I did read this elsewhere.
“Honestly, Bernie drove me crazy,” she says. “He was in the Senate for years. Years! He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him. Nobody wants to work with him. He got nothing done. He was a career politician. He did not work until he was like 41, and then he got elected to something. It was all just baloney, and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
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Jesse Jackson endorses Sanders. Will that be enough to pull some AA voters from Biden in Michigan? I have no idea how younger voters feel about Jackson’s legacy.
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Just breathe. Millionaires and billionaires. Millionaires and billionaires. I can do this. Okay, let’s go!
I get a constituent’s news letter, and this was the recent one.
Americans urgently need a coordinated, fully-funded, whole-of-government response to keep us safe from the widening coronavirus epidemic. That is why this week, the House and Senate passed a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on an emergency coronavirus response funding package of $8.3 billion of entirely new funds.
This bill commits more than $3 billion to the development of treatments and a coronavirus vaccine and includes an additional $300 million to ensure Americans will have access to the vaccine regardless of their ability to pay. It protects against price-gouging of these medicines developed with taxpayer dollars by ensuring that the federal government will only pay a fair and reasonable price for coronavirus vaccines and drugs and providing HHS the authority to ensure that they are affordable in the commercial market.
House Democrats will continue to listen to the experts and work to ensure every community is receiving what it needs to combat this urgent public health crisis.
This legislation provides $2.2 billion in public health funding for prevention, preparedness and response, including nearly a billion dollars specifically to alleviate the immense financial strain on state, local, tribal and territorial hospitals and health systems. To protect public health, the bill will allow Medicare providers to extend telemedicine services to seniors regardless of where they live, at an estimated cost of $500 million. It also allows an estimated $7 billion in low-interest SBA loans to small businesses impacted by this epidemic.
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OT: Gottlieb specifically says it’s past the point of containment. Sorry, Mr. Kudlow. Not only that, he expects a rapid increase in number of cases over the next two weeks, and probably two months before the worst is behind us.
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Not particularly surprising, yes?
And like you, I don’t know if it makes a difference, either.
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