heyeaglefn wrote:

traderdave wrote:Let's assume that the lunatic fringe is correct and this is all a plot against Trump. It still does not explain the utter failure of this administration to (a) recognize the threat; (b) develop a coordinated response to that threat; (c) communicate that response to those on the front lines; and (d) ease public concern.

I think it speaks volumes that the DOW 30 was down over 2,000 pts yesterday, the day after Trump gave his prime-time speech.

I just don't know what country did a good job. People will say South Korea but some of the things South Korea did would not fly in the US.

Uncle Milty wrote:I get confused if it's Obama's, China's or Europe's fault

PhillieMooDo wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

traderdave wrote:Let's assume that the lunatic fringe is correct and this is all a plot against Trump. It still does not explain the utter failure of this administration to (a) recognize the threat; (b) develop a coordinated response to that threat; (c) communicate that response to those on the front lines; and (d) ease public concern.

I think it speaks volumes that the DOW 30 was down over 2,000 pts yesterday, the day after Trump gave his prime-time speech.

I just don't know what country did a good job. People will say South Korea but some of the things South Korea did would not fly in the US.

Not sure it's good v bad. It's better v worse. The US has done worse than just about every other nation dealing with this thing.

momadance wrote:Didn't see this one coming.

@MiamiHerald
BREAKING: Andrew Gillum was discovered by police at a South Beach hotel early Friday in a room with bags of possible methamphetamine and in the company of a man who appeared to have overdosed on drugs, according to a police report.

Some 63 million Americans voted for a man who wanted to smash the system to smithereens, either because they felt it wasn’t doing enough for them or because breaking glass just feels so primitively satisfying. Or maybe it's because the Republican Party has been peddling a dystopian anarchistic anti-government pipe dream to them for the last four decades.

Now, it turns out, a functioning government is a good thing to have when a global pandemic arrives on your shores. It turns out that maybe reforming an imperfect system is wiser than just taking a sledgehammer to it, better to trust people who have dedicated their lives to being public servants than trashing them in favor of a one-man, megalomaniacal savior, better to have a functioning system than dancing on its rubble while crowing about the death of the “deep state”—or “the political establishment.”

Kelly opens up double-digit lead against McSally in Arizona Senate race

thephan wrote:

Kelly opens up double-digit lead against McSally in Arizona Senate race

I don’t like sending money to non-local races, but I might just send funds to Kelly.

TomatoPie wrote:Silver lining of our system of united states:

Functioning state and local gummints can fill a lot of gaps when the POTUS is an imbecile

The deceptive editing led Twitter to apply its new “manipulated media” label to a tweet for the first time.

Sean Hannity of Fox News highlighted a speech Biden gave in 1973 to the City Club of Cleveland. Hannity claimed that Biden referred to African Americans with “a horrible, degrading word” in the speech, and the network bleeped it out. The implication was that Biden used the “n-word.”

But the word Biden used was “Negro.” The word may seem archaic or obsolete now, but is it really so offensive that it needs to be bleeped out? Some organizations, such as the United Negro College Fund and the National Council of Negro Women, still use it as part of their names. Negro was commonly used in the 1960s by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other early civil rights era leaders.