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Late Night Open: This Is the Weirdest Timeline

by Anne Laurie|  March 29, 20202:07 am| 34 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Open Threads, Sports, Trumpery

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Multiple sources tell @ABC Pres. Trump turned to former Yankee Alex Rodriguez for advice this week. A source close to Rodriguez described the call as “pleasant” adding that Trump was seeking thoughts from ARod about the coronavirus response.

— CeFaan Kim (@CeFaanKim) March 28, 2020

Trump called ARod but said there was no point in calling former Presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton & Carter because there was nothing he could learn from them. https://t.co/uzrKhhK0qb

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 28, 2020

he asked biogenesis to make a vaccine didn't he https://t.co/hkW5iBeFq4

— local jack please ban the nazis person (@pleizar) March 28, 2020

My god. There really is a Tweet for everything. https://t.co/MVuzIXc73O

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 28, 2020

Who would’ve guessed when this picture was taken that in twenty-something years one of these men would be the most powerful person on earth and the other would be President Trump pic.twitter.com/7Hg0Z6Xva6

— Richard Staff (@Staff7998) March 28, 2020

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  1. 1.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    March 29, 2020 at 2:21 am

    Dump later called Meatloaf and Latoya Jackson for their views on quantitative easing.

  2. 2.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 2:24 am

    PSA

    Our frontline health care heroes need proper masks & we have a source that will ship up to 1.5M/day!A $6 donation gets 3 FDA certified masks (N95 equivalent) to a hospital, urgent care or other medical facility! #AmericaAssemble #MasksForAmericahttps://t.co/dHKDS5p3AO— Masks For America (@Masks4America) March 28, 2020

  3. 3.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 2:26 am

    A landlord in Philadelphia is maintaining an empty 500 bed hospital because no one can pay the $1 million dollar per month rent. https://t.co/XRF8GazXDQ— CPD Action (@CPDAction) March 28, 2020

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 29, 2020 at 2:26 am

    these numbers blew my mind, I had no idea there were so many Bible-thumpers

    John Harwood @JohnJHarwood
    why has Trump held out Easter as target date for easing coronavirus restrictions?
    here’s general election ballot test in new Fox News poll:
    white evangelical Christians
    Trump 68%, Biden 27%
    everybody else
    Biden 57%, Trump 31%

    for perspective, white evangelicals make up roughly one-fourth of the electorate
    2016 exit polls showed that, among white evangelicals, Trump beat Clinton by 64 percentage points
    so his 41-point lead over Biden indicates erosion among that group

  5. 5.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 2:31 am

    Sadly, under the cover of Covid19, the “world” keeps ticking, grinding us down,

    The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has inhabited present day MA & RI for 12,000+ years. They have 2,600 citizens (some below).Yesterday, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs announced they would be disestablished & would take their land out of trust.This cannot stand. #StandWithMashpee pic.twitter.com/YpALzldpOx— James Ray (@MakeItRayn_) March 28, 2020

  6. 6.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    March 29, 2020 at 2:32 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: 

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (GALLUP) As Christian and Jewish Americans prepare to celebrate Easter and Passover, respectively, Gallup finds the percentage of Americans who report belonging to a church, synagogue or mosque at an all-time low, averaging 50% in 2018.

    U.S. church membership was 70% or higher from 1937 through 1976, falling modestly to an average of 68% in the 1970s through the 1990s. The past 20 years have seen an acceleration in the drop-off, with a 20-percentage-point decline since 1999 and more than half of that change occurring since the start of the current decade.
    Line graph. The percentage of U.S. adults who are members of churches fell from 70% in 1999 to 50% in 2018.

    The decline in church membership is consistent with larger societal trends in declining church attendance and an increasing proportion of Americans with no religious preference.

  7. 7.

    Kent

    March 29, 2020 at 2:37 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: these numbers blew my mind, I had no idea there were so many Bible-thumpers

    I expect they are stretching the definition of “evangelical” There are a shitload of white conservative Christian Republicans who are not evangelicals. Half my extended family falls into that category. There seems to be a blending of the terms “evangelical” and “conservative Christian” They are not one in the same. A bunch of my family are conservative Mennonites which makes them fundamentalists but not evangelical.

    There are lots of white conservative Republicans who attend mainstream churches who would not consider themselves evangelicals but who are big time GOP Trump supporters.

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies

    March 29, 2020 at 2:38 am

    Fuck Evil-gelicals. Ain’t nothing angelic about those assholes.

  9. 9.

    hitchhiker

    March 29, 2020 at 2:45 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: 

    The hold that nominal christians have enjoyed over our polity since Reagan first started recruiting them can’t be loosened fast enough.

    trump will turn out to be their final act of self-sabotage.

  10. 10.

    Eolirin

    March 29, 2020 at 2:51 am

    What the actual fuck. I can’t even.

  11. 11.

    lumpkin

    March 29, 2020 at 2:51 am

    Gotta figure that at least part of the reason for the drop off is just the deeply repellant nature of so many conservative “christians”. Decent people don’t want to be around them. Their out in the open full embrace of corruption, racism, misogyny and hatred is going to accelerate the process.

  12. 12.

    Redshift

    March 29, 2020 at 2:54 am

    @Jay: So there are masks being produced, but because our federal adminstration is an incompetent shitshow we have to have a GoFundMe instead?

  13. 13.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 2:55 am

    @Redshift:

    yurp.

  14. 14.

    TS (the original)

    March 29, 2020 at 2:55 am

    If they all go to church as Easter, there should be less of them to vote for trump.

  15. 15.

    hitchhiker

    March 29, 2020 at 2:56 am

    @lumpkin:

    that’s part of it.

    another part is that among people under 35, the interest is just not there.

    it used to be that young people would abandon church as teenagers and then come back when they started having families.

    that pattern is broken, partly because the evangelicals betrayed the faith they claim to hold when they made common cause with politicians who want nothing to do with mercy & justice … and partly because so many of them can’t “come back” to churches they were never much attached to in the first place.

    church used to be part of the fabric; you weren’t supposed to take it all that seriously, but it was generally seen as okay and useful, especially for young families.

    that’s gone.

  16. 16.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 3:03 am

    @hitchhiker:

    it used to be/still is a form of social networking.

    Social networking only works now for the rich and powerful now, in most cases.

    In Hong Kong, the protestors seamlessly transitioned to community support in a time of Covid19.

    Because who protects us?

    We do.

    They don’t.

    .@AOC is right. It’s shameful that even in a time of crisis, American families are getting crumbs compared to what corporations are getting.Americans deserve better.pic.twitter.com/FxDvJuMsVD— Patriotic Millionaires (@PatrioticMills) March 27, 2020

  17. 17.

    Repatriated

    March 29, 2020 at 3:08 am

    @TS (the original): Which means that the ones who attend Easter services will be decimated (ok, not literally even by the original meaning of “decimated,” but still…) while those who do not because they’re still isolating will be more likely to survive to vote.

    Ending the lockdown puts everyone out to be exposed, which negates the penalty of just allowing an exception for churches.

  18. 18.

    prostratedragon

    March 29, 2020 at 3:08 am

    @Jay:
    You mean these Mashpee Wampanoag?

    If there’s anyone on this earth that I truly hate, that’s the guy.

  19. 19.

    TS (the original)

    March 29, 2020 at 3:16 am

    @Repatriated:

    Science & many state governors are against ending the minimal social gathering (or lock down as used for this). If trump ends it, the majority of those who do as he says will be trump supporters. No way I would be going to mass gatherings on the so say of donald trump.

  20. 20.

    Sister Golden Bear

    March 29, 2020 at 3:21 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Also worth noting that with the Electoral College, distribution of voters matters. So while conservative Christians are a quarter of the electorate overall, they’re a much higher percentage in the red states that Trump needs to win.

  21. 21.

    terry chay

    March 29, 2020 at 3:40 am

    @Sister Golden Bear: There are an awful lot of those evangelicals in our state, California.

    In any case, evangelism since the mid 1970’s has grown by siphoning people from mainline Protestantism. Now those rolls are low because they’ve been decimated, they can’t grow and are shrinking. They destroyed their seed corn and are disappearing faster than they are aging out.

  22. 22.

    otmar

    March 29, 2020 at 3:40 am

    A coworker notified the company that he’s been tested positive on covid-19.

    He already has recovered, his wife is still sick, but getting better. The 3 small kids only had small bouts.

    I’m waiting for the blood tests to become available to check if my episode with slight fever and cough that stated at the same time also was covid.

  23. 23.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 3:49 am

    NOLA is dying, again.

    My heart breaks,

    https://www.wonkette.com/an-ode-to-new-orleans-as-a-new-storm-arrives

    Memories, bitter sweet,

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIhpkEkC4c&list=PLfBDGWG9wmtElfnkzTWmC6yPLK1rJieFi&index=3

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jupXcq_Ibew

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtywt38RnX4

  24. 24.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 3:51 am

    @prostratedragon:

    guess as a settler, you don’t know law.

  25. 25.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 3:53 am

    @otmar:

    take care of you and yours. Best wishes.

  26. 26.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    March 29, 2020 at 4:03 am

    @Jay:

    guess as a settler, you don’t know law

    The condescension is a little uncalled for, isn’t it?

  27. 27.

    Jay

    March 29, 2020 at 4:16 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    nope.

    My wife is Metis.

    Got no track for those invested in punching down,

    Got no track for thinly veiled racism.

  28. 28.

    opiejeanne

    March 29, 2020 at 4:18 am

    @prostratedragon: Which guy? There were several people named in the Wikipedia page you linked to.

  29. 29.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    March 29, 2020 at 4:31 am

    @Jay:

    Neither do I. But I’m not sure that’s what prostratedragon was doing?

  30. 30.

    p.a.

    March 29, 2020 at 6:21 am

    This Is the Weirdest Worstest Timeline

     

    fixt

  31. 31.

    Zinsky

    March 29, 2020 at 6:29 am

    You mean Trump hasn’t consulted Joe the Plumber or Dawg the Bounty Hunter yet about this crisis?  I would be intrigued  to learn their thoughts on viral load, comorbidity risk factor extrapolation and stochastic probit and logit regression modeling of viral transmission.

    When you live in a world like Trumps, where no one is an expert – then everyone is an expert.

  32. 32.

    ThresherK

    March 29, 2020 at 8:03 am

    Trump … said there was no point in calling former Presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton & Carter because there was nothing he could learn from them.

    Oh, Trump’s correct about that, just not the way he thinks he is.

  33. 33.

    J R in WV

    March 29, 2020 at 10:17 am

     

    Many of the  leading figures of the evangelical church movement are greedy power-hungry patriarchal men who lead through control, threats and manipulation. They are bullies who rule their flock with the same harsh hand Trump is trying to use with the states who didn’t vote for him.

    So it’s no wonder that the attendance of those churches is falling. They are cesspools of power politics run by cliques of power-hungry men who won’t allow a woman tom to teach Sunday school,  much less lead a choir. Rigid Calvinism seemed to be more acceptable when the other option was being burned at the stake…

    Today when the other option is either a real church or sleeping in and watching TV, no surprise that many turn their backs on hateful and rigid anti-science doctrine designed to raise money for the senior pastor’s new jet! Not to mention the pederasts in those pulpits!

  34. 34.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    March 29, 2020 at 6:47 pm

    @J R in WV:

    I love the way you think 🤔 😀

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