Lt. Governor of Texas: Come and take us, coronavirus!
Vote Republican: There are more important things than living. https://t.co/7MymEoO36z
— Will Truman (@trumwill) April 21, 2020
He got an entry on Snopes.com, which I guess is its own kind of immortality…
Las Vegas mayor doubles down:
Las Vegas Mayor: " I'd love everything open because I think we've had viruses for years that have been here." (The financial duress is profound. It's so real. And yet this interview is totally insane.) pic.twitter.com/qSN6atlFiL
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 22, 2020
Who does she think is going to come and sit in a casino or show? Besides the killer contagious virus, most Americans in other states are out of work too and don’t have disposable money to waste in Vegas. #Crazy
— Rainey Wonkers (@raineygal) April 22, 2020
My husband designs sets/exhibits for tradeshows and they're cancelled thru the end of the year at least. Home Depot took their set and threw it into the dumpster. In Vegas last month.
— Shawna (@ShawnaGrafton) April 22, 2020
Three Las Vegas City Council members signed an op-ed after the mayor went on CNN and said all manner of nonsense: "Reopening the City of Las Vegas (or Southern Nevada) too soon could put our local economy in peril, and make the situation even worse."https://t.co/Gei4W1qMuW pic.twitter.com/VyLWdqmDnL
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) April 23, 2020
But Dear Leader…
Wow Trump just suggested getting rid of coronavirus by bringing "light inside the body" … "either through the skin or in some other way" or using disinfectant: "is there a way you can do something like that by injection or some other way."
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) April 23, 2020
Disturbing hostage-like situation unfolds as science guy tries to get off stage while President speculates about irradiating people's or injecting them with bleach. pic.twitter.com/qBhb8VVVxu
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 23, 2020
After hearing presentation President Trump suggests irradiating people's bodies with UV light or injecting them with bleach or alcohol to deal with COVID19. pic.twitter.com/cohkLyyl9G
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 23, 2020
Here is Dr. Birx's reaction when President Trump asks his science advisor to study using UV light on the human body and injecting disinfectant to fight the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/MVno5X7JMA
— Daniel Lewis (@Daniel_Lewis3) April 24, 2020
Asked why he's stopped promoting hydroxychloroquine, he says we'll see what happens; he's read some good things but also just read one not-good thing, "I don't know." He adds, after mentioning the negative study: "I also read many times good."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 23, 2020
Many times, good! A slogan for the modern GOP.
lol tomorrow he’ll tweet out hell yes we should try injecting people with clorox and you’ll say hey gotta try everything https://t.co/kePbr6VL9T
— kilgore trout, compulsory consumer (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 24, 2020
Major Major Major Major
Oh, my god. I’ve been tuning them out since forever but this one was just… wow.
HumboldtBlue
Remember when Sean Spicer was the main attraction?
Brachiator
Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick and other conservatives love to talk about risk as an ideological concept. A real he-man conservative is willing to take risks, certain that he will always prevail. But they are weak on reality and rarely know how to actually assess risk empirically.
I have an idea for a movie. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Anyone who wants can live and work in Vegas. Then the city is locked down and no one is allowed to leave for six months. The mayor has to walk the floors of a different casino every evening. Food and supplies are dropped off. No extensive medical care is provided. A special team is sent in after six months and we will see how things look.
NotMax
Whaddaya expect from a locale developed by a guy named Bugsy?
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Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
SARS-CoV-2: “Challenge accepted”
sdhays
That’s the asterisk, isn’t it? Ok, Danny-boy and friends, you want to take all these big risks, we can’t stop you. But if you’re going to be reckless in a situation like this, you should have the decency to deal with the illness at home, and die there, if you contract it. Don’t overburden the medical system, and don’t force all the medical professionals risking their lives to risk their life for yours since you’ve made the determination that it’s worth sacrificing to Mammon. And don’t call if your family gets it bad too. You decided they were also worth the sacrifice.
If you balk at that condition, then get some toilet paper, go home, and STFU.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Major Major Major Major:
What’s the matter, don’t you think injecting people with bleach is evidence-based medicine? Why do you hate America, commie?
But seriously, how the fuck do these people willingly work for this fuck? Even the fundies like Birx and Pence have to know that Trump is responsible for the deaths of thousands and that encouraging people to intravenously inject bleach into patients to fight COVID-19 is insane.
I’ve always thought that if Trump ever caused WW3 and the missiles were flying, somebody in the bunker with him would kill him before the week was out
FlyingToaster
@Brachiator:
It’ll look an awful lot like Racoon City…
rk
At work I heard that Trump was saying to inject disinfectant into the lungs and UV light under the skin to treat COVID. Just what hospitals need right now. To deal with morons who poison themselves with this treatment!
Major Major Major Major
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I don’t think there’s a single person in his inner circle who likes him and isn’t his child or son-in-law.
Major Major Major Major
@Brachiator: then the president is kidnapped and Kurt Russell saves the day?
prostratedragon
A little heart’s ease:
A set of short pieces inspired by works of Shakespeare.
HumboldtBlue
Seeing as though Duke Ellington is mentioned above, let’s take some time for geography and knowing where countries are.
LongHairedWeirdo
Times like this, I want to ask people like, say, Sen. Cruz, “do you realize other nations see our one-and-only foreign policy head, and laugh their fool head off if they don’t like us, and feel deep sympathy for us if they do? Do you realize, if he wins reelection, there will be *another* challenge, like this, and he’s just as likely to screw that up too? Do you really love the Republican Party so much that you’d serve it, even when it’s 100%, and objectively, clear that its Presidential candidate will damage the US?”
Except, if they can’t speak up honestly now, asking them that would result in an answer that would disgust me, and fill me with complete contempt. (It’s a toss-up whether it would be worse to have someone say “yes, I get that, and I’ll still support him in the Presidential election” or “what? He seems perfectly sensible to me!” Both are maximally Just Plain Wrong. )
Steeplejack (phone)
@prostratedragon:
Good stuff.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
Do we have any proof his children and son-in-law like him? Or are they just playing nice until the will is read?
artem1s
There’s a joke here somewhere about Obama coming out and telling people that no, it’s not a good idea to drink Clorox but it’s too late because the MAGAs are all already dead from drinking the Clorox
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Steeplejack (phone):
Hey, just wanted to say sorry about your cat passing away
@Major Major Major Major:
True. They don’t like him personally, but they are willing to debase themselves to advances the Right-Wing Cause
Yutsano
@HumboldtBlue: It’s out of date but Yakko still got dis.
HumboldtBlue
@Yutsano:
Nothing is ever out of date.
Jews and Cuban food.
How can you not love Queen Latifa?
MomSense
I also read many times good.
We’re never leaving our houses.
Brachiator
@Major Major Major Major:
Snake Plissken leaves the president in Vegas with a bottle of disinfectant and a UV flashlight.
Emma
Oh. My. God. The YouTube algorithm has blessed me with BEN SHAPIRO playing Ave Maria on the violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUoi-JCkG5Y&ab_channel=BenShapiro It’s not particularly good, but maybe someone who actually plays the violin can explain how it’s not good. The phrasing just doesn’t sound well-done, and sometimes he puts so much vibrato that it actually mutes the note for a split-second.
TS (the original)
Australia’s top doctor advises against injecting disinfectant to treat coronavirus, as suggested by Donald Trump
and then, of course – he had to appease the fool
Captain C
@Major Major Major Major: Yes, by intercepting the ransom money, thereby making sure Trump is never returned.
Duane
Comb-over failure on the left side of Trumpov’s head. Maybe the pressure is causing increased hair loss.
mrmoshpotato
JFC!
JFC!
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!
mrmoshpotato
@TS (the original): We all know damn well Australia’s Surgeon General-equivalent was like, “Look at this stupid fucking orange wanker!”
Amir Khalid
@Emma:
Yeah, that’s deeply mediocre violin playing. I’ve heard some amazing amateur players on YouTube, but he’s so not one of them. I think I remember Shapiro was at POLITICO. Is he still there?
In other news, I tried to go to the bank today. Unfortunately Public Bank hadn’t updated their online presence to reflect their pandemic operating hours, so I arrived a few minutes after the new closing time. ? I shall have to go again on Monday.
Mnemosyne
@sdhays:
It’s kind of amazing to see how many Americans’ political beliefs are organized around howling You’re not the boss of me, Mommy!
Emma
@Amir Khalid: I don’t know if he writes for anyone now, but he still spews his crap on every social media platform out there. Now including Youtube, I find.
Bummer about having to go back to the bank. Surprised it’s not something you can do online, though, seems like I can do pretty much anything I want on banking apps nowadays.
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue:
Happy Birthday to John Oliver, too (April 23). And I see also Roy Orbison.
A heavyweight jazz birthday month finishes its last week with a bang. April 24: Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson, and closely related Barbara Streisand; April 25: Ella Fitzgerald and Albert King (and Al Pacino); April 28: Blossom Dearie and Willie Colon; April 29, Duke Ellington and Toots Thielemans (and Willie Nelson and Otis Rush). Earlier in the month were such as Alberta Hunter, Carmen McRae, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, and a bunch of others. It’s fitting that April is jazz appreciation month.
Amir Khalid
@Emma:
My lazy self never felt the need for online banking before.
Emma
@Amir Khalid: lol, being a fellow laze-about, I feel that online banking allows me into indulge even more in my laziness. (I’m also wary of turning into my grandmother, who insists on talking to a bank-teller for every single little thing…)
TriassicSands
I’m confused. Why hasn’t Texas Lieutenant Governor Patrick sacrificed himself yet? What’s he waiting for?
Chetan Murthy
@TriassicSands: One presumes he means “sacrifice” as in the sense of “let’s you and him have a fight”.
mrmoshpotato
@Chetan Murthy: No doubt. “Let’s sacrifice other people’s grandmas!”
Cameron
So when is FEMA going to start hijacking shipments of Clorox?
TriassicSands
@Chetan Murthy:
Gee, and here I thought he meant he’d be willing to sacrifice the elderly by letting everyone else die. After all, we need some heroic person to be left to make sure things go well* after the rest of us are gone.
*That means continue to gut the social safety net, prevent minorities and poor people from voting, get more tax cuts for the wealthy, control women’s reproductive lives, etc. You know, make sure America continues to be great. Oh, and lavish praise on the Emperor.
bjacques
@Amir Khalid: Ben Shapiro is 5’4” tall. Meanwhile, TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk has a head that continues to grow in size while his face remains the same size. There is heavy discussion ongoing in the scientific community as to what will happen when Kirk’s head reaches the Shapiro Radius.
Also, a Blessed Ramadan to you!
mrmoshpotato
LOL
satby
@Amir Khalid: well, Ramadan is a good time to be a bit lazy isn’t it? At least so my exchange daughters told me ?. A blessed Ramadan to you, Amir.
JAFD
@Amir Khalid: I’m perfectly happy to take cash from a machine, but if I’m giving money to the big financial corporation, I want actual person to hand me receipt ;-)
PS – Have a blessed Ramadan
PPS – Hope all you jackals stay healthy, happy, and hydrated !
SFAW
@TriassicSands:
I vaguely remember — and quite likely mis-remember — a scene from (I think) “I, Claudius,” where one of the Senate (or some other politician/hanger-on) tells Claudius that he told the gods he would sacrifice himself if it would save Claudius’s life (who I guess was extremely sick at the time). Claudius, now recovered, looks at him and says something like “OK, looks like it worked, go do your sacrifice-thingy.” [Not that Graves wrote “sacrifice-thingy,” of course.]
All those “well-meaning” Rethug politicians should be asked to do the same.
NotMax
@SFAW
“Don’t eat the figs!”
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@SFAW: Caligula is the one you meant. Lovely scene, especially the look on the senator’s face.