Daily deaths in Japan (pop. 126M) since 7/21: 3,1,1,2,1,3,0,2,3,3,2,5.
Deaths in US (pop. 330M) since 7/21: 1,185, 1,230, 1,192, 1,162, 926, 462, 597, 1,330, 1,465, 1,465, 1,462, 1,123

Trump said that TikTok would shut down on Sept. 15 unless Microsoft or another company purchased it. He added that the U.S. Treasury Department would need to receive a lot of money in return for the deal, without explaining how that would work.

Both parts of this are incredibly disturbing: The casual assertion that Trump can unilaterally “shut down” a media platform, and the implication that the government would somehow extort a payment as a condition on a business acquisition.

He’s just openly declaring that Microsoft should pay the government for driving down TikTok’s sale price by threatening sanctions. This is literally the Mafia’s business model. “We’ll threaten them until they’re forced to sell their business; then you give us a cut for the use of our muscle.”

Posted by Uofa2 on 8/3/2020 3:38:00 PM (view original):
Daily deaths in Japan (pop. 126M) since 7/21: 3,1,1,2,1,3,0,2,3,3,2,5.
Deaths in US (pop. 330M) since 7/21: 1,185, 1,230, 1,192, 1,162, 926, 462, 597, 1,330, 1,465, 1,465, 1,462, 1,123

I blame all of the Democrats who are partying without masks while also telling pollsters that they are wearing masks!

Posted by The Taint on 8/2/2020 9:57:00 PM (view original):
Excited to read about Trump's health care plan that should be ready any day. The one he told Chris Wallace, during an interview 2 weeks ago, would be ready in 2 weeks to be signed. Exciting news! Today is 2 weeks!







Just kidding!, we all know that was a lie.

Trump has now claimed his health care plan will be done by the end of the month.

Posted by Uofa2 on 8/2/2020 9:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Uofa2 on 8/2/2020 8:16:00 PM (view original):

The graph that all says is pointless and meaningless.

This is a little misleading; it's correct, but anybody trend-watching knows Germany is about to start shutting down again. Their cases are still low relative to the US, but they're up close to 100% in the past 2 weeks, and once the cat's out of the bag the exponential growth factor means that cat multiplies like a rabbit.

Posted by dahsdebater on 8/7/2020 1:40:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Uofa2 on 8/2/2020 9:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Uofa2 on 8/2/2020 8:16:00 PM (view original):

The graph that all says is pointless and meaningless.

This is a little misleading; it's correct, but anybody trend-watching knows Germany is about to start shutting down again. Their cases are still low relative to the US, but they're up close to 100% in the past 2 weeks, and once the cat's out of the bag the exponential growth factor means that cat multiplies like a rabbit.

That's not misleading though - the whole point of the graph is showing Germany's economic recovery and getting back to normal via restaurants and ours. Ok, so they're probably gonna shut down again? Oh well, at least they had some normalcy and aren't anywhere near where we are his cases and deaths and are planning how to respond to the second wave which everyone would come.

We....aren't like that.

23 postal executives were reassigned or displaced in today’s shakeup. The new structure centralizes power around a Trump megadonor and de-emphasizes decades’ worth of institutional postal knowledge.

America is in a dead sprint to authoritarianism. The man is pulling out all the stops to prevent the citizens of this country from holding a legitimate election in which he might face removal from office.

Posted by Uofa2 on 8/8/2020 9:37:00 AM (view original):
23 postal executives were reassigned or displaced in today’s shakeup. The new structure centralizes power around a Trump megadonor and de-emphasizes decades’ worth of institutional postal knowledge.

America is in a dead sprint to authoritarianism. The man is pulling out all the stops to prevent the citizens of this country from holding a legitimate election in which he might face removal from office.

You really need to get a life, or at the very least a new hobby.

All3 doesn't think that worrying about and fighting against authoritarianism is a legitimate thing to do.

Mask off

Posted by tangplay on 8/8/2020 11:27:00 AM (view original):
All3 doesn't think that worrying about and fighting against authoritarianism is a legitimate thing to do.

Mask off

His responses are getting worse and worse, I’m starting to worry about the big guy. More so.

Last week, aides and advisers began pondering possible executive actions Trump could take to curb mail-in voting — everything from directing the postal service to not deliver certain ballots to stopping local officials from counting them

Dems are so f'd up that they'll even cheat within their own Party. (Of course Sanders' supporters know that from 4 years ago.)
If I was as lifeless and desperate as a certain someone obvious is, I could post a negative about the Dems every day too. Below a semi-local one I'm familiar with.
BOTH Parties suck, and we are left choosing between the lesser of 2 evils. Right now, no way can I see that being the Dems, regardless of how "moderate" their candidate is. Do I wish the Repubs had a better candidate than Trump? Once again, I say yes, but he's what they've selected.

I'm sure you would have voted for Bernie had he won the 16 primaries *eyeroll*.

And again, it's not Republican vs Democrat. It's Biden vs Trump. We don't vote for parties who select politicians for us. We vote for the politicians themselves.

Trump's such a weak candidate that you can't even defend him directly. You've somehow manipulated the process to where you get to defend moderate Reps vs the far left, when in reality it should be the other way around. It's a centrist vs someone on the far-right.

Posted by tangplay on 8/8/2020 10:58:00 PM (view original):
I'm sure you would have voted for Bernie had he won the 16 primaries *eyeroll*.

And again, it's not Republican vs Democrat. It's Biden vs Trump. We don't vote for parties who select politicians for us. We vote for the politicians themselves.

Trump's such a weak candidate that you can't even defend him directly. You've somehow manipulated the process to where you get to defend moderate Reps vs the far left, when in reality it should be the other way around. It's a centrist vs someone on the far-right.

Brother, you've made some smart points and had some smart posts and said some evergreen #nailedit ****, but this here? This simple point encapsulating 4 years of nonsense? Well done.

This is it.

Thank you.