‘s favorite world leader is Vladimir Putin.

End of the day he’ll still have enough money to carpet the airwaves and internet with ads, and even if you take the most cynical view of this move, it’s probably true that turning away C.K.’s $2,800 and having the press report about it is probably better for the bottom line than having it come out that C.K. donated…

Boy, it is fun to see sore losers disingenuously treat Reade and Blasey-Ford as if their accusations are of equal credibility.

The loans are secured by a mix of planes, parts & routes (routes being a salable asset, believe it or not), and they also feature equity, which when airlines do BK doesn’t get completely wiped. The government wouldn’t get everything back in a bankruptcy, but they’d get most of it.

Yeah uh, not saying that it’s a winning strategy. Just saying it’s the move Republicans will have to make.

Saints Row IV is the way to go. The important thing is to take the game totally seriously.

If I were a Republican strategist, I’d absolutely tell them not to go for a bill with vote-by-mail.

IIRC, the Airlines are getting a one time set of secured loans, all of which are likely to be paid back with interest, for $50 billion.

I don’t think they need praise or anything, but SBA loans do not have to be paid back “in a few months”. They are super cheap, guaranteed money, with amounts needed to make payroll up to a certain dollar threshold not being require to be paid back at all.

I think that all sounds great in theory, but in practice the problem is that there was no way to really predict how the demand would come in at that granular a level ahead of time. There was no time to do surveys or studies and using prior SBA lending programs as an example wouldn’t provide meaningful input for such…

I agree partisan politics is an issue, but the SBA also has plenty to do with it. Not necessarily in ways that are the SBA’s fault, but moreso because the program has never had to be utilized on anything approaching this scale before ever.

The banks process applications, but the program structure is from the SBA itself and it’s the program structure that didn’t scope out a business like Shake shack.

If you have the cash and it makes sense for you, now is probably a good time to be buying used because of the uncertainty but as ever no one seems to know anything about where things are headed.

When the SBA starts funding loans in the wake/midst of a disaster, there’s no requirement that a business be about to run out of money, shrug. You just have to be able to state that your business has been impacted by the disaster.

Are they worth $1900? I mean, the jackets always sell out instantly, so...yes?

I get it, there are not 15 peer reviewed studies that link vaping with being more likely to catch a severe case of coronavirus. But come the fuck on, that word “novel” that people sometimes put in front of the name is not referring to the coronavirus being a lengthy work of fiction.

And now you’ve gone and gotten yourself dismissed.  Well done!  

Your ballot would be your own business if you didn’t choose to announce it to the world in a foot stomping rant about the order of the primaries, which has absolutely nothing to do with why Bernie got his hide tanned.

I’m sure Professor Baradaran is a smart man, but I’ve got a front row seat to the SBA carnage and the issue is not with banks here.

LOL