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“This country was founded by geniuses but it’s being run by a bunch of idiots. You know what the American people are thinking right now? They’re thinking that the brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in a mother’s womb and it doesn’t stop working til you get elected to Congress.” ~Senator John Neely Kennedy

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“This country was founded by geniuses but it’s being run by a bunch of idiots. You know what the American people are thinking right now? They’re thinking that the brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in a mother’s womb and it doesn’t stop working til you get elected to Congress.” ~Senator John Neely Kennedy

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“This country was founded by geniuses but it’s being run by a bunch of idiots. You know what the American people are thinking right now? They’re thinking that the brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in a mother’s womb and it doesn’t stop working til you get elected to Congress.” ~Senator John Neely Kennedy

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“This country was founded by geniuses but it’s being run by a bunch of idiots. You know what the American people are thinking right now? They’re thinking that the brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in a mother’s womb and it doesn’t stop working til you get elected to Congress.” ~Senator John Neely Kennedy

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That quote needs a little background.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) argues in favor of the Republican-backed financial rescue bill on the Senate floor and denounced Democrats for blocking the coronavirus stimulus package.

Democrats are blocking because the GOP "rescue" bill has a $500 billion slush fund, with no strings attached, that Trump can give to whoever he pleases to promote his reelection. It is a very whimsical bill. No Democrat trusts Trump.

Why doesn't the GOP just force the bill through the Senate? Since five GOP senators are now in isolation because they’ve either been diagnosed with Covid-19 or exposed to someone who did, the party margins in the upper chamber has shifted to 48-47.

The change matters because it means that Republicans are in even greater need of Democratic support in order to pass what is shaping up to be a massive $1.8 trillion bill. To get through the Senate, the stimulus needs 60 votes. Previously, that meant convincing at least seven Democrats to back the legislation. Now, it means winning over at least 12.

Right now, Republicans don’t even have more conservative Democrats on board. Democrats were unified in their opposition to the bill on Sunday.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Keep that check out of the hands of people who need it long enough, and we'll see how quickly opinions shift.

Somebody asked me if I thought that Trump could just make an executive order if Democrats blocked it for long enough. I imagine that he probably could.

But there's no point in doing that right now. The optics for this look terrible for Democrats, and are only going to get worse if that money isn't in bank accounts on the 6th of next month. You and I know what's going on Second, because we know how to read. But that hardly matters.

Do you imagine that millions of Democrats who are counting on that money are going to give two shits about "good intentions" when they don't have a check in their hands that Republicans are trying to get to them?



All I've got to say to Nancy right now is good luck with that PR nightmare.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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you should also remind voters of this fact: Democrats wanted guarantees that corporations who got money from a $500 billion pot would retain their workers, and objected to the fact that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin would have broad discretion to parcel out $425 billion of the funds with little oversight. The CEOs could simply give themselves $500 billion in bonuses. Maybe the voters should know that?

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Let's say that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin parcels out $425 billion of the funds to CEOs. The CEOs kick back 10% to Trump for his reelection. In 2021 Trump can sign another bill parceling out even more money to CEOs as their reward for supporting him in 2020. No Democratic Senator is stupid enough to let Trump get away with that. If the voters cannot understand what Trump is doing, well, too bad for them, but Democratic Senators still aren't gonna fund Trump's reelection.

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If you're really so rich that you can't empathize with people enough to TRULY understand what Trump is doing, well too bad for you.

He's about one step away from saying Checkmate right now.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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If you're really so rich that you can't empathize with people enough to TRULY understand what Trump is doing, well too bad for you.

He's about one step away from saying Checkmate right now.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Give it a few weeks. Then we will know who is smarter. If Trump wins this one, and gets silly Democratic Senators to provide funding for Trump's reelection in the Coronavirus bill, then we know in April 2020 that Trump will win in November with a certainty of 100%.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Like I always say dude... I'm a patient man.

And I'm usually right too. ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Like I always say dude... I'm a patient man.

And I'm usually right too. ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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There are two Coronavirus bills circulating. You can read both the D bill and the R bill here:
www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/nancy-pelosi-just-rele
ased-her-own-coronavirus-bill-it-is-much-bigger-than-trumps/

6ix, you only win this contest if the R bill passes, which can't happen unless 12 Democratic Senators vote for it, but any Democrat would be stupid to vote for it.

The D bill is $2.5 trillion versus $1.8 trillion for the R bill, which spends $0.5 trillion for Trump's reelection. If voters are smart, they will prefer the $2.5 trillion bill because there is more money and all of it goes to voters, none to Trump or CEOs.

Which is a better deal: the D bill gives you a $2,500 check? Or the R bill gives you a $1,300 check and Trump gets $500?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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When millions of dumb people don't have any money at all in their bank accounts out of this because Democrats keep blocking it, well...

I'll guess I'll just wait and say I told you so when we see what the results of that are.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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It is new day, so new quote of the day from the article:

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says grandparents are willing to die to save economy for their grandkids

In response to Dan Patrick:

"I feel like people not spending money because they’re inside their homes for 1-2 months is less bad than people not spending money because they’re buried in a mass grave"

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By all means though, hold that money up for another two weeks, Stretch. Maybe you can keep it from being passed long enough that nobody is left to vote on it before you're all quarantined. See how quickly you become the most hated person in America. I'll bet isolation is going to feel extremely isolation-ey when they hate you so much that Democrats start voting for Trump in November.

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By all means though, hold that money up for another two weeks, Stretch. Maybe you can keep it from being passed long enough that nobody is left to vote on it before you're all quarantined. See how quickly you become the most hated person in America. I'll bet isolation is going to feel extremely isolation-ey when they hate you so much that Democrats start voting for Trump in November.

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You realize you have just summed up the Trump strategy, right? Put out a bill that favors Corporations and Trump/Republicans and dare the Dems to oppose it. If they do Trump/Fox will say they are the villians and if they don't they will help Trump/The Rich/Republicans.

So not about helping people who are pretty close to being out of money right about now.

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They'll be begging Trump to sign an executive order in two weeks if they haven't gotten it.

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Why ever go back to work again!

Seriously. Why should I be happy about a bill being passed that would pay everyone nearly double the money not to work than I made busting my ass?

You'll end up with millions of poor schmucks forced to continue working "essential jobs" on the lowest rungs at places like Walmart, risking daily exposure to a virus that everyone else is being told that they can't even leave their homes because of by law to sit the fuck around and do nothing while they get paid more than most of those essential workers do? Maybe a few of them end up shooting up the place.

Fuck Democrats. Fucking dummies.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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You truly are a simple mind.

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It's easy to care when you're loaded.

Case in point:

"Gag me with a spoon", I believe would have been the response to this insane level of cringe if you lived in California and this was the mid-80's.


"Look at me! Look at me! Why won't you look at me!!!!!!!!" ~Every pathetic person in this video

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It's easy to care when you're loaded.

Case in point:

"Gag me with a spoon", I believe would have been the response to this insane level of cringe if you lived in California and this was the mid-80's.


"Look at me! Look at me! Why won't you look at me!!!!!!!!" ~Every pathetic person in this video

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I think you're losing it. Seriously, of all the things to care about this video sure as f*ck ain't it.

How about digging out one of your favorite sci fi books, maybe one you haven't read yet but have always been meaning to, and start reading it....?

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Two more quotes of the day:

“People get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. Probably and — I mean, definitely — would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about with regard to the virus. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands," President Trump said this week. The president has said he would like to put people back to work by Easter.

“There really is no middle ground, and it’s very tough to say to people, ‘Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, and ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner. We want you to keep spending because there’s maybe a politician who thinks GDP growth is all that counts.” - Bill Gates.

www.marketwatch.com/story/how-do-you-choose-between-economic-deaths-of
-despair-and-coronavirus-victims-economists-lawmakers-grapple-with-a-moral-conundrum-2020-03-26

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Two more quotes of the day:

“People get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. Probably and — I mean, definitely — would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about with regard to the virus. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands," President Trump said this week.

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“People get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. Probably and — I mean, definitely — would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about with regard to the virus. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands," President Trump said this week.

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He's such a comfort. Plant that seed Donnie!

Question: Do Trump fans realize he lies all the time? Like almost every sentence?

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Fun Fact: Even before COVID was a thing, 800,000 people per year die by their own hand. 4 times the amount of the worst-case COVID projections.

https://ourworldindata.org/suicide

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Fun Fact: Even before COVID was a thing, 800,000 people per year die by their own hand. 4 times the amount of the worst-case COVID projections.

https://ourworldindata.org/suicide

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That 800,000 is for the entire world, not the USA, which your link says is only 48,800.

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And don't forget the murders too. There will be a lot more of those if lockdown persists for an inordinate amount of time. Especially if they start pulling you over in your car asking you what your business away from home is.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Meanwhile...

Trump's approval rating is at the highest it's ever been, with many polling firms showing it higher than the disapproval rating for the first time since he was elected.

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Trump's approval rating is at the highest it's ever been, with many polling firms showing it higher than the disapproval rating for the first time since he was elected.

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Proving that if approving Americans have crappy lives it is because they can't recognize a crook and a conman. How will they be able to recognize a local and small potatoes conman that does not have such a well documented record as Trump? They can't and that is why they get conned locally, beside being conned nationally.

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Sunday, the president said that 100,000 deaths would be a great win. Only in the world of Trumpian dumbfuckery could anyone brighter than a toaster oven think 100,000 avoidable deaths is a win. That’s like saying, “Hey, honey, I went to the strip club, caught an STD, knocked up a stripper named Destynee, and got a second mortgage to bail her meth tweaker boyfriend out of jail… but at least I didn’t touch the kids’ college fund.”

Trump’s gone from saying that the pandemic was contained to arguing that 200,000 deaths would be a success.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/03/30/for-trump-a-successful-respon
se-to-covid-19-left-the-building-a-while-ago/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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He's gone second.

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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.

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Yanno what. I think I'm done here.

At least I'm going to take a break for a while.

This place is poison.

Anybody who isn't insane and wants to keep in touch. Feel free to PM me.

Be well.

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“People get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. Probably and — I mean, definitely — would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about with regard to the virus. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands," President Trump said this week.

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He's such a comfort. Plant that seed Donnie!

Question: Do Trump fans realize he lies all the time? Like almost every sentence?

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https://www.thecalmzone.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/AIMHS-suicide-p
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OPPS.


Fun Fact: Even before COVID was a thing, 800,000 people per year die by their own hand. 4 times the amount of the worst-case COVID projections.

https://ourworldindata.org/suicide



I'll get no enjoyment out of saying I Told You So on this one if the restrictions aren't lifted and people can't get back to work soon.



I also suspect that murders will be abnormally high in America this year as well. Most murders are somebody you know, and many of them family members. We've got a lot of family locked up together right now, and quite a few of them are acting fairly panicky... This has only just begun.

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Sullivan said Indiana's 211 hotline went from receiving roughly 1,000 calls a day regarding mental health -- including suicidal ideation -- to 25,000 calls a day. And calls to Indiana's addiction hotlines went from an average of 20 a week to 20 a day.

"For those with substance use disorder, this can be an especially scary time," Sullivan said. "They say that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but connection. And it's very easy to be disconnected right now."

Hirt noted the extra challenges people are facing, like unemployment and homeschooling, and being confined to one home with family members for long periods of time.

"So we know that that's going to get people irritated and aggravated," he said. "And one of the things we know alcohol does is it loosens inhibitions."

Hirt said his biggest fear, particularly in homes that have weapons, is people combining alcohol with those frustrations and harming others.

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