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...there's 100 Senators. How on EARTH do they not have the capacity to test a hundred people?
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May 1, 2020 15:38
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evilweasel posted:that's great but i feel compelled to ask how certain are you that doesn't just mean bad news about an upcoming 5-4 supreme court decision or a state supreme court decision (i have no idea if your state supreme court is as hosed as Wisconsin's) It's already survived a couple court challenges, and yeah it covers state legislative districts as well. Michigan: Not always terrible! 
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May 1, 2020 15:39
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:...there's 100 Senators. How on EARTH do they not have the capacity to test a hundred people? Hey we’re in a deficit we got to save money somewhere.
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May 1, 2020 15:39
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I actually have some hope for Michigan, a guy I fought in Afghanistan with has been super involved with Detroit politics since he got out and his wife rode the 2018 wave to the secretary of state job. He's been making it sound like the state (and Detroit) is actually turning a corner.
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May 1, 2020 15:40
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:...there's 100 Senators. How on EARTH do they not have the capacity to test a hundred people? I assume it's the ability to test all senators, their key staffers, and get the results back quickly before a senator rand pauls everyone
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May 1, 2020 15:41
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Acebuckeye13 posted:It's already survived a couple court challenges, and yeah it covers state legislative districts as well. Michigan: Not always terrible! that's awesome, that should make it possible to significantly reform the state soon it's really awful how many states were perma-locked into republican legislatures after 2010 and it's great that's getting rolled back
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Jarmak posted:I actually have some hope for Michigan, a guy I fought in Afghanistan with has been super involved with Detroit politics since he got out and his wife rode the 2018 wave to the secretary of state job. He's been making it sound like the state (and Detroit) is actually turning a corner. The issue is what chaos the GOP will unleash before the gerrymandering is overturned and we vote in 2022. They have 2 more years to stonewall and cause trouble before we can vote with ungerrymandered districts. I hope we are turning the corner for sure but im very concerned they are going to try and scuttle the ship before we can actually get control.
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May 1, 2020 15:43
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evilweasel posted:I assume it's the ability to test all senators, their key staffers, and get the results back quickly before a senator rand pauls everyone That is what I thought too - but it turns out they actually mean they cannot do 100 tests for all senators to make sure no one is currently a carrier. From the article: quote:The Capitol’s attending physician said Thursday that coronavirus tests will be available for staffers and senators who are ill, but not enough to proactively test all 100 senators as the chamber comes back in session, according to two people familiar with the matter. God, everything is so dumb.
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May 1, 2020 15:44
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:...there's 100 Senators. How on EARTH do they not have the capacity to test a hundred people? and every time trunp meets someone he screams "TEST! DO I HAVE COVID? TEST? TEST? TEST?" until he gets frustrated and breaks it. that's easily 20-30 a day as well. and jared keeps fake coughing and demanding to be left alone with the test. after a few minutes doctors go back into the empty room and the test is gone and jared's wallet is fatter. the air smells thick.
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IBroughttheFunk posted:That is what I thought too - but it turns out they actually mean they cannot do 100 tests for all senators to make sure no one is currently a carrier. From the article: They need to figure it out before they come back
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This is a non-sequiter. Not voting is still participating in "the system." Hoping that if Trump wins again, the Democrats will elect AOC is trusting the system to work. You are the person standing there thinking "This system is garbage - I hope the high priest dies of natural causes soon." If your problem is with the system itself (i.e., the specific form of representative democracy in use in the US), the only way to fight that system from outside of it is to forcibly overthrow it. Show up at the Democratic convention with a bunch of people and try to force electors to vote Sanders - bribe them, blackmail them, prevent the ones who refuse from voting. Anything less is admitting that the system is, in fact, the system, and we have no choices beyond what group of innocent people gets sacrificed. Saying "I'm not going to participate in voting on which people get sacrificed" doesn't actually save anybody and doesn't change the system. You're the "And yet you participate in it. I am very smart." guy. Also, you're image-leaching from Reddit. Edit: didn't see the new general election thread sorry KillHour fucked around with this message at 16:36 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 15:49
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At this point I'm not sure Trump even understands what a test is, even if he's literally being tested every day. He's probably never signed whatever thing he was supposed to sign that said "ok make more tests now" and so nobody ever did
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May 1, 2020 16:00
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:...there's 100 Senators. How on EARTH do they not have the capacity to test a hundred people? This is loving hilarious. Early this week I started feeling pretty sick. Given I work at a hospital and a someone I was working with on a project recently tested positive for Covid, Occupational Health told me to go get tested at the in-house staff clinic. I had my (negative) results in less that 12 hours. And I caught a glimpse of the list of other people being tested and there was at least 40 names on that day. If a small clinic at one hospital can pump through results that fast there's no way in hell the loving United States Senate can't quickly find out their results in a city with several major hospitals like Washington.
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May 1, 2020 16:00
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Maybe the executive is intercepting supplies meant for the legislative branch, too. 
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:This is loving hilarious. Those testing supplies are needed for the federal Strategic National Stockpile, comrade Doctor Butts posted:Maybe the executive is intercepting supplies meant for the legislative branch, too. efb Do you think Jared Kushner is competent enough to not hijack supplies meant for Congress?
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May 1, 2020 16:07
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Doctor Butts posted:Maybe the executive is intercepting supplies meant for the legislative branch, too. At this point I have to think Jared has pocketed every single test and ventilator and PPE he can to sell off to corporations It's the only explanation for this nonsense
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May 1, 2020 16:08
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:...there's 100 Senators. How on EARTH do they not have the capacity to test a hundred people? The feds haven't been able to locate a shipment to confiscate Jarmak posted:I actually have some hope for Michigan, a guy I fought in Afghanistan with has been super involved with Detroit politics since he got out and his wife rode the 2018 wave to the secretary of state job. He's been making it sound like the state (and Detroit) is actually turning a corner. That state, for the most part, wants to move forward. It's the more rural areas, which there are many, that want to keep electing douche bags and cock nozzles because "dems are satan". Most anywhere you find industry and education, the general position is "make things better". We're not totally a suck state, we have our moments. At least we aren't Florida SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 16:12 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 16:09
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TulliusCicero posted:At this point I have to think Jared has pocketed every single test and ventilator and PPE he can to sell off to corporations
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FlamingLiberal posted:Several governors have said as much. They are seizing orders and then giving them to middlemen to jack up the price. Plus his brother owns some medical company. the impression I get is that nobody is exactly sure what is going on, because most organizations currently don't dare go public with what happened to them for fear of trump administration retaliation through making sure they don't get any more PPE at all but that as soon as the crisis is over, there's an immense buried scandal there that much bigger than what has peeked out so far
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May 1, 2020 16:14
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Weird how several professional basketball teams got their entire organization tested within a matter of days but Congress somehow can't do the same.
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i'm legitimately surprised that after weeks of fox news and the chudosphere handing out their marching orders to their idiot base, the needle has barely budged in republicans' favor. polling has remained remarkably steady with high numbers of chuds thinking that we shouldn't end the lockdown too early. i figured after all this time, they'd fall in line, but surprisingly they haven't.
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May 1, 2020 16:19
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SocketWrench posted:At least we aren't Florida This should be every non-Florida state motto
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TulliusCicero posted:At this point I have to think Jared has pocketed every single test and ventilator and PPE he can to sell off to corporations FlamingLiberal posted:Several governors have said as much. They are seizing orders and then giving them to middlemen to jack up the price. Plus his brother owns some medical company. This seems like the actual no-poo poo Boy Wonder Strategic Plan. Seize every piece of equipment they possibly can. "Look at how many supplies we have in the stockpile! Wow! We were so well prepared!" "By the infinite mercy and wisdom of Dear Leader, here are some supplies from the national stockpile, peasant." Claim to be our benevelont saviors since they've hoarded a large portion of the supplies produced and purchased nationwide. Gotta get that grift money, so sell off some of the PPE at inflated prices. No one will notice  I expect in a year or two this will come out as a massive scandal.
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evilweasel posted:the impression I get is that nobody is exactly sure what is going on, because most organizations currently don't dare go public with what happened to them for fear of trump administration retaliation through making sure they don't get any more PPE at all My guess is that someone somewhere for a major newspaper is muckraking and going to get a Pulitzer That or John Oliver will one day just blow the lid off it I imagine a massive racket with Jared and the Trump Org directly profiting, as well as preferential treatment for red states (we already have the senators of Red states thanking Trump for "fast action"; what if it comes out shipments meant for New York were sold at cut rate prices to Wyoming or Florida?) TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 16:24 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 16:21
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TulliusCicero posted:My guess is that someone somewhere for a major newspaper is muckraking and going to get a Pulitzer I know Talking Points Memo has been repeatedly trying to get to the bottom of it but has pretty explicitly said that people are terrified of retaliation. The best case scenario appears to be that the feds are just massively incompetent and are desperate to have more PPE to distribute, and are just using states as essentially purchasing agents and then stealing their supplies to redistribute as Gifts From Dear Leader. So far they haven't found a clear red state/blue state preference, but it does appear a significant amount gets distributed as personal largesse by Kushner and the like to people who want to be locally important by personally asking for supplies for their local hospital (and getting them).
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May 1, 2020 16:24
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:This should be every non-Florida state motto Florida's can be "At least we aren't Alabama."
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May 1, 2020 16:25
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:How likely is it that they’re selling the stuff to other countries Certainly possible and totally up the Kush "Master of Foreign Policy"'s alley I could see Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Russia all getting some preferential treatment
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May 1, 2020 16:28
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1256243856166850560 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1256202305680158720 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1256193615724007425
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May 1, 2020 16:29
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Just FYI there is a pretty big strike organized for today: https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1255502649513959428?s=19 https://twitter.com/notallbhas/status/1256069122913419264?s=19 Don't cross the line.
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the house is apparently less than pleased about amazon's habit of lying to it:quote:House lawmakers investigating Amazon for antitrust violations demanded on Friday that Jeff Bezos, the company’s chief executive, agree to testify at an upcoming hearing or face a potential subpoena that would force him to appear. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/01/amazon-jeff-bezos-testify/ Mat Cauthon posted:Don't cross the line. that darn house, crossing the picket line by ordering a jeff bozos from amazon today 
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evilweasel posted:the impression I get is that nobody is exactly sure what is going on, because most organizations currently don't dare go public with what happened to them for fear of trump administration retaliation through making sure they don't get any more PPE at all Yeah this is my thinking too. Jared is stealing supplies to make it look like the administration is semi-competently organizing a response. Meanwhile he's sending a disproportionate amount to red states to make blue states look bad. Boy Wonder represents the fail-son apotheosis. He's a huge idiot that has never faced any consequences for his massive fuckups, and that unearned confidence has been boosted to the stratosphere by him being Daddy Trump's golden boy for 3+ years. Kushner is so convinced he's untouchable he's also reselling some of the supplies. He deserves a little grift, as a treat.
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I mean look at how the Republican Governor of Maryland has had to use the state national guard to guard the PPE/supplies they have been buying. It also happened in Miami and Massachusetts where blue states/localities had their purchases seized
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Fritz the Horse posted:I expect in a year or two this will come out as a massive scandal. If you didn't I'd have to ask you what rock you've lived under
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May 1, 2020 16:38
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So, uh, what the gently caress is going on with Elon Musk today https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239554148724737 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239815256797184 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256240766600409088
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DaveWoo posted:So, uh, what the gently caress is going on with Elon Musk today he's high as a loving kite on some real bad drugs op
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evilweasel posted:he's high as a loving kite on some real bad drugs op He's overleveraged to gently caress and his empire is about to collapse because coronavirus kicked out the last strut from underneath it. It's why he's been begging for bailout money, then for America to reopen. There's a fairly good chance that in 10 years' time we look back on Tesla like we look back on Enron today.
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Mat Cauthon posted:Just FYI there is a pretty big strike organized for today: These people should get better pay and benefits. They're declared essential and yet they get thrown under the bus
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DaveWoo posted:So, uh, what the gently caress is going on with Elon Musk today He’ll be caught naked jacking off on a street corner soon enough.
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