Reading your post, i had visions of life inside the WH being much the same as in Lord of the Flies.
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No.
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And from the other TPM front page piece, after you are born you are totally responsible for feeding yourself.
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“What’s Next?”
Fuck - that’s an easy call.
Fourth of July VICTORY over CV PARADES!!!
Floats, and speeches, and rallies. Heck - they’ll dedicate a CV memorial on Bolling Green.
And then 'back to work - oh sacrificial…er ‘essential’ workers!
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Slightly OT, but not really since it’s about Texas re-opening for business:
Short version:
MAGA lady re-opens her salon in defiance of state and county closure orders still in effect at the time. She gets cited and sent a cease-and-desist. She refuses. Dallas County goes to court and obtains a temporary restraining order from Judge Eric Moye.
(Pro tip: Do not fuck with Judge Eric Moye.)
MAGA lady goes to MAGA rally up in Collin County, says a bunch of MAGA-martyrdom bullshit, vows to go to jail if that’s what it takes, and opens her salon again. So Judge Moye just held her in contempt of the restraining order and tossed her in jail for a week. Where, come to think of it, her chances of getting COVID-19 are probably statistically meaningful.
This amuses me no end.
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We’ll, not if they’re Democrats, no…
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See- here’s that Karma delivery service we were talking about earlier!
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Exsfuckinzactly!
And even if there were some sort of miracle drug (there aint) that hit the streets tomorrow, it still wouldn’t make a difference.
When the dust settles, I’m going to get one haircut, not 2/3/6 whatever months worth. I’m going to buy one cup of coffee, not a bulk purchase for the past months. I’m not taking the kids to months worth of ice cream at the homemade purveyor down the street.
Well, maybe the last one if they have salted caramel pretzel.
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And Ted Cruz started tweeting in her defense—behaving in a totally predictably dickish way.
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Why stop at half? They are most certainly abandoning us. And at this point, even if a prominent one of their own goes, well, he was a good warrior.
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Half-serious because I’m making a joke about a deadly serious thing, about wanting to be persuaded otherwise when I know what the truth is.
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From what I hear, everybody understands that. The businesses that are opening up again are mostly hoping to start resembling normal sooner rather than later, so that whatever the new normal is will get here ASAP. They know they’re likely to get shut down again in a month or two, but they’re willing to risk the casualties if it turns out to be sustainable.
Yeah, it’s gross. But that’s what they’re thinking.
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Oh, I know. Black humor is about all we’ve got left. Okay, so this conversation has plunged me into the depths and it’s only 11:00.
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Indeed it is a horrible thing to contemplate because it is so very true. My only question is, do they believe more strongly in Darwin’s Law, or Dilbert’s?
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Virgins? Where?
This is a big state. And we have two of the most miserable examples of Texans in charge.
I really cannot think of anything strong enough at the moment to convey my disgust with Abbot and Patrick.
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Not to mention ‘the talks’ about protecting businesses from liability in this interim-- is just that.
It’ll be inferred these discussions will culminate in protections. But as with everything Trumpian-- if he can’t get it done via EO-- there’s never a follow-up effort.
A fashion of motivating others to do his bidding-- without paying his bill. The DonnieCon.
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This thing is going to dog Trump for the rest of his presidency. Trump can’t hold a rally in a city where there is a hot spot. He’s too big of a coward. If he had thought he had this under control, he would have been out there like Boris Johnson the past six weeks bragging about the size of his crowds.
After he saw what happened to Johnson, you betcha Donald is going to be super cautious no matter all the bluster coming from White House. Without Trump at the top of the ticket, the GOP goes down in ashes in November. But with him there, it goes down in ashes, too. It’s a cure worse than the plague for the GOP.
So the full focus of Moscow Mitch’s GOP Senate in the coming months will be packing the courts with conservatives. Republicans might throw a few pennies to working poor minorities in essential jobs but it’s clear that conservatives hope they die off faster not slower.
Voters know Trump is not taking this seriously. Republicans pretending won’t make it go away. Which means there will be *ell to pay if this virus shifts to killing off children rather than the elderly when they go back to school in the fall. It could very well usher in that dreaded second wave. Medical experts say we haven’t seen the worst yet and it’s frightening to think what that might end up looking like.
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The big fear to Abbott, Trump, etc. ought to be riots in the streets. Not by gun toting Neonazis, but by the poor who are bearing the brunt of the health and economic crises, and are fed up with others being bailed out while they are fed crumbs and their healthcare is being taken away.
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