My how times have changed.

He could easily invoke emergency powers.

That do what?

The only thing he could do is to activate the National Guard which would work if he wanted people to stay *inside* their homes but won't do shit to get them out.

People are climbing up the walls all needs to do is say go.

(04-15-2020, 04:31 PM)BigMark Wrote: People are climbing up the walls all needs to do is say go.

I think you underestimate the intelligence and character of most Americans, Biggie.

What you're claiming is  only true of the people who place their own short-term desires or their loyalty/worship of Trump over their own health and the health of others (which would be much less than 50% of the population).  

A large majority of the people of the United States would continue to prioritize preserving lives and health ahead of relieving temporary boredom and wouldn't defy their governors' and the top medical experts' directives/orders, in my opinion.

Based on his history, I don't expect that President Trump will say 'go' to everyone in the U.S. anyway.  He will try to influence others to do it and then push the blame on them if the results are disastrous (or take the credit if it works out okay).

Governors that start to re-open their economy's will be the ones to reap the benefits of being able to help their neighbor states. People from there will come to participate in the opening of certain businesses that retain social distancing and protocols and allow them to safely open. After the tax revenues start coming back in other states will follow suit but will be behind the ball. 

States that abuse their budgetary financial income by taxing their citizens with overburdened taxes will be the last to get back on their feet as their citizenry just cannot pay them. Of course they will demand the Feds bail them out for not sticking to their budgets or even having one.

It's no surprise that President Bigly Yuuuge Brain can't do secondary order thinking. This is a guy who has barely mastered object permanence and thinks you can cure coronavirus by swallowing bleach. But did no one on the campaign think that Trump's own financial entanglements with China might come out when they built their strategy around Biden'n'China Sittin' In a Tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

Politico reports this morning that Trump owes tens of millions of dollars to the Bank of China in a note that comes due in November of 2022, which would be smack in the middle of his second term. (God forbid!) Because OF COURSE Trump's going to go out and scream lunatic nonsense about how "China will own the United States" if Biden is elected, when actually China owns Trump's own flabby ass.

The 10-year note originated in 2012, when Trump's partner Vornado Realty Trust borrowed $950 million from the Bank of China to refinance the debt on 1290 Avenue of the Americas in New York, one of the jewels in the Trump Organization's portfolio. Trump owns a 30 percent stake in the building, which its website describes as "one of the New York City's most distinguished office buildings in midtown." That 30 percent means that he's been paying down a $285,000,000 note to the Chinese state-owned bank for the past eight years. No wonder he always walks back criticism of Xi Jinping immediately after promising to get tough on China!


If anyone wants to spend their Friday running an amortization table to calculate the outstanding debt at 3.34 percent interest, knock yourself out! But whatever the exact figure, we're talking about tens of millions of dollars Trump owes to his good buddy Xi, at a moment when The Trump Organization is begging for debt abatement from private lenders at Deutsche Bank, rent abatement from the US government, and bagpipe subsidies from the governments of Ireland and Scotland. So what are the odds that he plans to continue paying China as the world's economy goes into a pandemic-induced tailspin?

This is a guy who tried to get out of paying back a $40 million loan in 2008 by suing Deutsche Bank for $3 billion, on the theory that the housing crisis was both an act of God and Deutsche Bank's own fault. He's stiffed everyone he ever did business with, why should China be different? Particularly now that Donald Trump is desperate to blame someone — anyone — for his own miserable failure to take steps to prevent the coronavirus killing 50,000 Americans (as of today).

More at wonkette, who if you're not reading, you should because they're funny AND accurate.
https://www.wonkette.com/turns-out-trump...nter-biden

You owe tens of millions to China, so do I.

(04-24-2020, 01:10 PM)Rootilda Wrote:

It's no surprise that President Bigly Yuuuge Brain can't do secondary order thinking. This is a guy who has barely mastered object permanence and thinks you can cure coronavirus by swallowing bleach. But did no one on the campaign think that Trump's own financial entanglements with China might come out when they built their strategy around Biden'n'China Sittin' In a Tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

I really shouldn't try to read before coffee.     Now I can't get the image of trump masterbating while kissing Biden out of my head.

trump was on state TV last night and said he's being treated worse than Abe Lincoln. Yeah, because being called out for his thousands of lies is so much worse than a bullet in his brain. Stupid fucker. 

(06-15-2018, 12:35 PM)Duchess Wrote:

Paul Manafort is on his way to the slammer until his trial. This comes within hours of trump saying "Manafort had nothing to do with our campaign. ... Paul Manafort worked with me for a very short period of time."  Manafort was trump's campaign chairman for fucks sake.

Manafort has been released and will serve out his sentence in the comfort of his home. His release was done under the guise of concern over the coronavirus but he did not meet any of the criteria that had been set for inmates to qualify for home confinement. Our DoJ is corrupt and they aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

Sharyl Attkisson (a real reporter, not a politically biased world view) has published a piece on all the lies the media has told about Trump. They are documented frpm the record, and show how the various outlets have been colluding to smear the man. This is why the folks no longer trust the media.

132 documented lies the media has told

check your bias at the door before reading; many of you are not going to like what you read.

Does it address any of the over 18,000 lies trump has told Americans the past few years? If not, I'm not interested. 

How is Georgia doing? Or even Florida?

(05-13-2020, 06:49 PM)Duchess Wrote: Does it address any of the over 18,000 lies trump has told Americans the past few years? If not, I'm not interested. 

seriously, seek professional help.

What a limp dick response.

(05-13-2020, 07:43 PM)Maggot Wrote: How is Georgia doing? Or even Florida?

My news from Georgia is that they have enough ventilators to put my stupid ass cousin on one for a week and a half.   And the Florida airports are now a breeze to get through.

Florida doctors are reporting that they have plenty of supplies and beds and all deaths have been the elderly and those with major underlying health conditions. No one under 70 has even been hospitalized in my county according to Advent Health.

(05-13-2020, 08:53 PM)Rootilda Wrote: What a limp dick response.

That's the only type of response he ever has.