Comments on: “It’s a joke”

By: Christopher Foxx

Christopher Foxx — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 02:20:00 +0000

“American conservatives have ‘owned the libs’ directly into a worse disaster that will come for them, too.”

That sentence applies to 99% of what “conservatives” have done for the last 25+ years.

By: Tony Lavely

Tony Lavely — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 12:50:00 +0000

In reply to muselet. "And Trump’s unofficial business model has always been to overpromise and ~~under~~Never deliver." FIFY

By: muselet

muselet — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 23:45:00 +0000

I understand the Navy’s caution—a hospital ship is a cramped environment, so a communicable disease would spread like wildfire—but hospitals have run out of space and hospital staff are dangerously overworked. Surely there’s a way to reduce the bottleneck without compromising safety (I have no doubt civilian health authorities and the Navy can and will hash out a solution).

At the same time, this positively reeks of Donald Trump seeking revenge on New York for not groveling enough.

And Trump’s unofficial business model has always been to overpromise and underdeliver.

–alopecia

By: Aynwrong

Aynwrong — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 22:10:00 +0000

“And I don’t think anyone is under any illusion at all that things wouldn’t be different if New York were a red state with a Republican governor.”

It isn’t just Trump.

When hurricane Sandy slammed New Jersey and the state needed federal emergency funding congressional Republicans once again suddenly discovered the value in their alleged fiscal conservatism, including the late Senator Tom Coburn who was nicknamed “Dr No” within Congress due to how often he voted downed federal spending bills. Yet later on when it was his home state of Oklahoma slammed by tornado damage he was Jonny On The Spot with publicly calling for federal disaster relief. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul pulled the same shit when it was the state of Texas in need of assistance but got their fiscal hand wringing on for Puerto Rico.

They’re not patriots. They’re Republicans. The two should never be confused.