…I was going to go off on one a little about how fucked up this business with the post office is
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/04/24/trump-postal-service-loan-treasury/
…but then there was the whole ripping-off-the-taxpayer thing
…& that made me think – how are all those case going, anyway?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Donald_Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/true-danger-trump-campaigns-libel-lawsuits/607753/
…but somehow I got distracted & now this is late & I haven’t actually written it
…I say distracted…distractingly furious might be closer to the truth…turns out a bunch of those rulings – including the emoluments stuff – won’t be getting to the verdict stage until the other side of the election in November
…& while that might make things easier if he’s a civilian there’s a non-zero chance it translates to him skating on a bunch of shit that by rights should have ended him in government terms
…but it’s Saturday…so I’ll shut up…for now?
I can’t believe that the news is somehow moving more quickly than it was before but here we are. I get the impression you are just as overwhelmed as me drinking from that fire hose.
In case anyone was wondering where Trump got the idea, apparently a fake religious leader from Florida who peddles bleach as a miracle cure for everything (including COVID) has been talking to Trump in recent days. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR2dRt9Ye7qjd92C1GZj3vMqOmjAGPv24ZPNmjrKQ8VDnkOLaRKxBzlykwM
I maintain that anyone who listens to Trump should indeed inject or ingest bleach.
…what are you gonna do…to keep track of just the shit the man says & does that he unquestionably shouldn’t would be like a full-time course of study no one pays you to take & which doesn’t come with any kind of recognized qualification at the end
…how many of us can really say we have time for that?
…& yet, here we are…so I figured maybe not railing at the nice people on the weekend might be for the best?
honestly… when rona came along i was almost grateful for the news being not trump….cept not trump never happened…that fucker still makes the news every day…only now im also sick of hearing about rona….
can we start ww3?… maybe that’ll do the trick
It’s the same news though. From Salon
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/25/psychologist-john-gartner-trump-is-a-sexual-sadist-who-is-actively-engaging-in-sabotage/
“Trump is both denying responsibility by saying things such as, “I take no responsibility. We’ve done everything right.” But at the same time, Trump is also sabotaging the efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic. This is a very important aspect of Trump’s behavior. Trump is not just deflecting blame onto the governors, he is actively interfering with the governors’ ability to do their job. Trump is not just incompetent. He is actively engaging in sabotage.”
This is why I say the trump administration and his supporters are actively trying to kill us. If it weren’t for his deliberate mismanagement things would have gone much differently with fewer lives lost globally. trump = Covid 19
What did I say? There’s a spike in people ingesting cleaning products following the Orange Imbecile’s statements:
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-new-yorkers-household-cleaners-trump-20200425-rnaqio5dyfeaxmthxx2vktqa5m-story.html
We have a friend who’s an EMT and he mentioned that this morning. SMDH
re: post office loan
how many other loan recipients are forced to hike prices as a condition of getting the loan? if none, ianal but, isn’t it illegal to impose different conditions on the recipients of a government benefit? I’m not really sure but I kinda remember hearing something like that happening and the recipient suing and winning…
…I forget if it was a radio show or a podcast but I heard an explanation I won’t do the injustice of misquoting but iirc it came down pretty hard on it being a suggestion without merit & with some considerable obstacles in terms of the kinds of precedents it would need to ignore &/or set for him to get his way
…but then brett-likes-beer did ring up that whole list of precursor pump-primers for ignoring precedent in favor of presidential fiat in his “no it is too relevant to this case & not someone else’s homework I said I’d let them crib from” contribution or concordance or whatever the fuck they call the appended bits of those judgements just the other day…it’s the weekend & I don’t plan on looking up the right word
…so it doesn’t have to stick…it just has to help him shave those points & beat the electoral college spread one last time for all the marbles…the whole enterprise collapsing while you pocket the proceeds of the firesale & gtfo so you can start hiding that shit from the creditors is literally his only practice in business so if he can keep the wheels on for a 2nd inauguration I don’t like to imagine how he thinks he comes out of this ahead
…when you boil down the findings thus far that are public record stuff citizen dotard is hypothetically in the kind of legal trouble they most probably ought to writing text books about any semester now…the only way it seems like that can end happily for him is if the judiciary is so comprehensively fucked by the time he leaves office that he can claim a literal get out jail free card on the basis of not further tarnishing the office he would by then no longer hold
The Definitive Malcolm Tucker Rant Anthology | The Thick Of It – BBC
🙂
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying from strokes
Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/
…yeah…between that, the blood clot thing (which is plausibly related) & the twin delights of asymptomatic carriers & a low level of certainty in terms of the modelling given that it’s working with data necessarily as incomplete &/or inconsistent as the testing regimen being applied…&…well…that’d be about why I figured I’d lay off & just be grateful it’s the weekend, I think
I know that “terrifying” is the adjective du jour, but this is actually terrifying.
it really is. in the beginning it didn’t seem so bad. now, I’m scared shitless to go out.
it really is. in the beginning it didn’t seem so bad. now, I’m scared as I never was before.
What did I say? There’s a spike in people ingesting cleaning products following the Orange Imbecile’s statements:
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-new-yorkers-household-cleaners-trump-20200425-rnaqio5dyfeaxmthxx2vktqa5m-story.html
…because of course there is…those people may be idiots but they’re also a product so distinct they ought to call it a brand
…the product of an extremely lucrative & wide-ranging set of deliberately engineered environmental variables that produce in large quantities people of voting age yet entirely absent the common sense you’d hope to see in an elementary school kid