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- colin_s1
Current political worry is that the democrats are being exposed as completely hypocritical, self-interested hacks who abandon the people (so basically turning into neoconservatives) while the republicans are nearing full-on fascism.
Obviously the left needs to break from the democrats and create a third party, but when all this public panic is over, everyone is going to be blaming someone else. And if there happens to be a major recession / depression going on, that's a breeding ground for both a nationalist / violent political movement and/or civil war.
This corona virus stuff sucks but I'm far more concerned about what happens once the curve gets leveled out and begins to drop.
- wordssssss2
Tulsi Gabbard dropped out of US Presidential election. If it matters...
- allthethings1
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/8…
While Trump & Co were reassuring the public, Sen Richard Burr (R-NC) told wealthy donors that all hell was about to break loose, and then he committed massive felonies, dumping $1.5 million in stocks that a week or two later would zero out.
- Capitalism at Work!utopian
- Sigh. U clearly do not understand what capitalism is.********
- You don’t eithermonospaced
- I quite do mono. In no way is this story related. But if u know better explain how it is********
- I wait your insult type of excuse or blantant ignoring it so u never have to answer it. formula is so tiredsome********
- You're literally making shit up to argue about. Did I say I "know better?" No, I didn't, you utter asshat.monospaced
- Additionally, your poor writing, inability to stay on topic, atrocious grammar, inexistent logic, and use of fake words makes you look stupid AF.monospaced
- Your inability to write even a single sentence without at least 3 errors makes just about everyone deem everything you say as absolute idiotic rubbish.monospaced
- And just to wrap things up. This is, quite literally, "capitalism at work," if you had half the mind to actually comprehend what he meant when he wrote this.monospaced
- Wait did u just admit you have no idea what capitalism is? And as much discredit your opinion upon mine by lack of authority on subject********
- Haha I'm not sure why even fuck with u. Like a car accident u can't turn away from. The human condition I guess. Try to be less pathetic********
- And u will fade into the background********
- FNP140
https://twitter.com/kenolin1/sta…
I feel....safe???
- whatthefunk7
- Ask HayoMookutopian
- bobo will donate his cheque.renderedred
- *somewhere Andrew Yang is screaming into a pillow.robotron3k
- okay bobomonospaced
- just a tax refund********
- No it isn’t.monospaced
- allthethings6
Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing
https://www.thedailybeast.com/se…
Imhofe too. Get out the fucking guillotines, I'm sick of this shit.
Any Senator, of any party, who did this, deserves to be jailed immediately.
- Insider trading laws do not apply to Republican's, don't be silly.utopian
- Nope. I don't think you understand what insider trading is. The key word is 'confidential'. The fact that after the briefing a public statement was made...Morning_star
- ...summarising the meeting means the information was available for everyone to act on.Morning_star
- And Feinstein, allegedly.wordssssss
- Feinstein's assets are in a blind trust, she's by the book on this one. It's fox news et al. spreading misinformation to balance out the issue.zarkonite
- Between Jan. 24 and Feb. 14, lots of people learned whats going to happen stockbrokers are the worst ones.sted
- R_Kercz4
Interesting proposal from Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
- Direct payments via preloaded $2,000 cash cards to everyone.
- Recharging with $1,000/month until a year after the economy recovers.
- zaq6
Good points, so copy & paste here from Reddit
Republicans, and most lay political observers, assume that everything that happens is unavoidable. That one just drives the car fast and hard as they can and when it breaks it breaks. Things like putting oil, coolant, new filters, etc in the car don't occur to them because they have no idea have the car runs in the first place.
Bush presided over calamity after calamity. We had the Tech bubble, 9/11, Katrina, Housing market collapse, etc. It was never Bush's fault. Everything was always some magically unavoidable disaster that Bush was just unlucky enough to get burdened with. Meaning it created 2 recessions and increased deficits by records.
Obama on the other hand dealt with a collapse economy (inherited), Hurricane Sandy, Boston Marathon Bombing, deepwater horizon, refugees crisis, Benghazi, etc and the economy never dipped and deficits continued to go down. On the pandemic front Obama managed Swine Flu, Avian Bird Flu, and Zika virus. Obama better managed those unavoidable disasters that overtook Bush's administration.
Now Trump is President and we are back to being told every terrible thing in the world is unavoidable. Trump fumbled the response to Hurricane Irma and Maria, was on Twitter insulting the west coast during wild fires instead of helping, and after being briefed back in JANUARY about COVID19 spent 2 months ignoring his own agencies and claiming it would just blow over.
Leadership matters. These calamities aren't unavoidable. Republicans simply do not take the precautions required to avert them.
- Good leadership is hard to find in these troubled times. Stupidity wins more and more.grafician
- https://www.zerohedg…********
- grafician3
My dudes from this country named US of America, this can't be possible:
https://twitter.com/matthewstoll…
A twitter thread with lots of info about how everybody wants a piece of the bailout pie :))
Disgusting...
- sted0
Looks like Hungary will be a monarchy again in 8 days.
Hungary’s parliament will consider an emergency bill this week that would give prime minister sweeping powers to rule by decree, Viktor Orbán without a clear cut-off date.
https://www.theguardian.com/worl…
(yes it's a guardian link but all of its words are true)
- Hungarian government are exploiting this crisislowimpakt
- ********-15
I'm an independent, centrist libertarian. If no Bernie, not sure I can motivate myself to vote for Biden or Trump.
Will probably sit this one out.
- No one cares.nb
- true.********
- https://images-na.ss…robotron3k
- Watching the dems trying to prevent the cons from turning the bailout into a free money for all our friends affair isn't enough for you?zarkonite
- I really don't have the details to research. Dems are not saints********
- Ok, you need someone to be a saint to vote for them? are you a saint? There are no excuses not to vote, it's not a feel good contest.zarkonite
- nb5
If it were the other way around: if the Democrats were trying to pass an emergency stimulus package and the Republicans were blocking it to negotiate part of their platform... we would all be screaming that the Republicans are letting people die for political reasons.
I'm not trying to defend Republicans, just thought I would point out this excellent example of how these political parties are just two sides of the same coin.
- Of course they are.PhanLo
- shrug********
- interesting perspectiveutopian
- they are trying to sneak in that the fund to help businesses can be allocated by the Treasury department without disclosing the recipients for 6 monthszaq
- true, but also prudent that checks & balances are in place to ensure money doesn’t line millionaires’ pockets again, it’ll be politicized no matter what, thoughben_
- And the chances of it being distributed correctly are about none to none. This will rip small biz owners apart.ben_
- probably one of the more accurate, honest and "holy fuck, let's live in reality" posts I've seen in the QBN politics thread in some time, nb ♥PonyBoy
- there's far FAR more going on here than just 'checks and balances' so evil rich people don't take all the money, ben_PonyBoy
- I agree pb, which is why I phrased it the way I did. If republicans got their way 100% though, people would be fucked, again. Cheers bud.ben_
- ********0
https://m.washingtontimes.com/ne…
The Don Dada must be so jelly
- Man, I feel for the russian people!inv
- Wow Russia late to the party, Chinese started suppressing news in late Dec and Iranians in early Feb, when the WHO was still in denial********
- is some totalitarianism going on there? what are these low numbers? in russia, human infect virus?********
- BusterBoy0
Republicans love themselves a bit of corporate socialism when things get a bit rough.
But healthcare and education for all..."liberal socialist plot".
- hehe—right—so the Dems aren't plugging up the fucking bill w/loads of non-virus related al pastor now are they? (green initiatives & identity politics ftw) :PPonyBoy
- Fuck off robo...I mean Pony.BusterBoy
- oh noes green initiatives! think of the children!inteliboy
- Yes... think of the BILL you're leaving your children when it's shit-stuff w/BS-unrelated pork! Also... Corpos aren't getting handouts—they're loans, dolts.PonyBoy
- And comparing me to robo as your only response shows you probably should stick to Australia's fucked politics, Busty—or you could 'fuck off' too—your call <3PonyBoy
- There are no requirements for the handouts. It would be stock buybacks and exec bonuses, just like last time. Forget jobs or the economy.formed
- Ha u think it's Corp socialism. U ignore how many ppl are employed by those businesses. Why Obama bailed auto if u remember********
- This is the aoc type and Bernie Sanders plans. If u think inequality run up from 08 to now was easy...imagine far worse********
- But really dependent on Petro dollar and our status in the world. We also could blow ability to inflate bubbles and suffer hyperlink inflation********
- Or hell what if fed Cuts money and calls out all the insolvent banks with fractional reserves and let's individuals take the deposit losses in the teeth********
- Considering the fdic can only find a fraction of depositors********
- Regardless all this socialism is not going to pan out well. Need to stop looking at your ideal type and focus on the big picture********
- You can't co trols socialism . It's political and they say what industry gets what and how they should function********
- U just hope your flavor is Voted in. And If wrong , well not the socialism I had in mind let's try again********
- colin_s9
the stimulus debate is just a bunch of spineless assholes in expensive suits figuring out the math on how much they can give to corporations and how little they can give to the poor without people rioting in the street
- "flatten that curve"renderedred
- Just fuck the poor, old and the weak. It's the American way. ""But perhaps that's been the story of life." - Trumputopian
- No it's good looking to what will work with their reelection while coinciding with lobbyist dollars.********
- Trust me they don't give a shit about either the rich or poor********
- What are you doing with your government socialism check, deathboy?monospaced
- Also. Please explain which lobby is behind this.monospaced
- STILL WAITING: 6 days later, dumbfuck boymonospaced
- robotron3k-3
- I'm not sure if Biden has early stages of Dementia like Trump....but what the fuck, Biden can't seem to keep his dumb mouth shut either.utopian
- He’s going to be a weird president for sure. Lightyears ahead of what’s currently propped up with a broom in the oval office, but hey, this is where we are nowFNP14
- who would believe an early stage dementia president? Oh yeah you Reagan lovers! at this point Joe Rogan would be a better president that the dick stain that isfooler
- our president nowfooler
- He's a mess.instrmntl
- https://www.qbn.com/…nbq
- 4 more yearsmoldero
- Bahahaha moldrobotron3k
- utopian1
Joe Biden Faces Sexual Assault Allegations From A Former Staffer
- 'digital rape'tank02
- https://youtu.be/F36…instrmntl
- https://theintercept…instrmntl
- where the hell has he been the last few weeks anyway?jaylarson
