The Swamp

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:42 pm Quite sure the words slush fund are nowhere to be found in the proposed legislation.

Washington Post wrote:...because the Treasury Department would have broad discretion over where the money would go. President Trump already has said he wants the money to be used to rescue the cruise ship and hotel industries, making his preferences clear, but at a press conference on Sunday refused to say whether his own hotel properties would apply for the funding.
Asked if he'll take bailout money for his own properties, Trump says 'let's just see what happens'
“There’s too much money with no oversight,” Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) told reporters Sunday.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:20 am I hope not, for Giff and TT’s sakes.

"No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?' And if that is the exchange, I'm all in," Patrick told Fox News.
He added, "My messages is that let's get back to work, let's get back to living. Let's be smart about it and those of us who are 70+, we'll take care of ourselves. But don't sacrifice the country."

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:21 pm Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: 'I'm all in' on risking my health to lift social distancing guidelines for economic boost

"No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?' And if that is the exchange, I'm all in," Patrick told Fox News.
He added, "My messages is that let's get back to work, let's get back to living. Let's be smart about it and those of us who are 70+, we'll take care of ourselves. But don't sacrifice the country."

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:53 pm Ontario ordering all non-essential businesses to close (unless staff is working from home).

Essential businesses include grocery stores, drug stores, liquor and beer stores. And obviously the government's weed delivery is still running.

Phew!

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:25 am

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:53 pm Ontario ordering all non-essential businesses to close (unless staff is working from home).

Essential businesses include grocery stores, drug stores, liquor and beer stores. And obviously the government's weed delivery is still running.

Phew!

I've seen some things on twitter that liquor stores stay open for a number of reasons. One of which is so they don't have a bunch of alkies going into wtihdrawal so bad they go to the hospital and strangely, that it somehow keeps domestic violence lower, when generally speaking it's also a big cause of that, too.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:41 pm

phxgators wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:37 pm Denver issuing stay at home order at 5:00 pm tomorrow. Closings include liquor stores and recreational pot dispensaries, deemed non-essential.

liquor, hookers and blow should be essential

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:21 pm

"No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?' And if that is the exchange, I'm all in," Patrick told Fox News.
He added, "My messages is that let's get back to work, let's get back to living. Let's be smart about it and those of us who are 70+, we'll take care of ourselves. But don't sacrifice the country."

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:21 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:20 am I hope not, for Giff and TT’s sakes.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: 'I'm all in' on risking my health to lift social distancing guidelines for economic boost

"No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?' And if that is the exchange, I'm all in," Patrick told Fox News.
He added, "My messages is that let's get back to work, let's get back to living. Let's be smart about it and those of us who are 70+, we'll take care of ourselves. But don't sacrifice the country."

brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:30 am Even for Republicans, we reached “some old people are just going to have to die” in record speed.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:29 am Since Fox News is going all in, how long before the hosts ask for the station or themselves personally to be added to wills?

Johnnie wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:44 pm My fiance, who is holding down the house until I get back, had plans this weekend to drive to see friends of ours in Arizona.

(I know, I know... I'm not thrilled either. But other than pumping gas on the trip she'd be going from one quarantine location to another. Still though. I'm not thrilled.)

The Governor of NM has declared a stay at home order this morning unless it's for essential things. So instead of my fiance going "Well, shit. Going out of state is probably not the best idea right now." she is instead mad by this development and literally texted "Well it’s because people are dumb and haven’t been doing that. So they had to issue an order to make people do that."

And I'm holding back, from half a world away, from saying exactly what you'd expect me to say right now.

brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:34 pm I've somehow been mostly on the money with a lot of my predictions, so I'm just going to go on record and say shit gets BAD in the United States by next week. I mean, bad. Like calling in the National Guard to NYC and possibly some other cities bad.

Usually we’ll have 50 governors that will call it the same time. I think we are doing very well. But it’s a two-way street. They have to treat us well, also. They can’t say, “Oh, gee, we should get this, we should get that.” We’re doing a great job. Like in New York where we’re building, as I said, four hospitals, four medical centers. We’re literally building hospitals and medical centers. And then I hear that there’s a problem with ventilators. Well we sent them ventilators. And they could have had 15,000 or 16,000 – all they had to do was order them two years ago. But they decided not to do it. They can’t blame us for that.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:26 pm I've heard the idea that Trump won't do anything as long as hot spots are in blue states so he can make them the fall guys when it eventually starts to devastate red areas as well. ("THEY failed at containing it.'") And then today

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:33 pm I mean, ok, except for what is happening in Texas, and florida, and Louisiana...

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:25 pm National guard already here in baltimore. Has been for a few days now. Setting up a field hospital downtown I think and otherwise being here to assist with whatever. So I assume worry over social order is in place among the powers that be.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:59 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:25 pm National guard already here in baltimore. Has been for a few days now. Setting up a field hospital downtown I think and otherwise being here to assist with whatever. So I assume worry over social order is in place among the powers that be.

A field hospital in the middle of an American city in the 21st century... that is horrifying.

brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:39 pm I'm taking some solace that most GOP governors seem to be saying there's no way that anything's going to be lifted by Easter.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:06 pm

brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:39 pm I'm taking some solace that most GOP governors seem to be saying there's no way that anything's going to be lifted by Easter.

The Texas lieutenant governor sure seems to be on board.

brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:08 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:06 pm

brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:39 pm I'm taking some solace that most GOP governors seem to be saying there's no way that anything's going to be lifted by Easter.

The Texas lieutenant governor sure seems to be on board.

The death toll coming in Texas will easily put the screws to the theory that opening the country back up is a good idea. If my parents lived in Texas I would no joke consider trying to get them to go somewhere else for awhile.