Someone should try to convince him that it owuld be great for his approval ratings and a boon to public health if he would go first on this one. I bet he could convince that cooky old doctor who let him write his own doctor’s note for the 2016 election to develop a course of treatment involving shots of lysol.

‘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.

The concept of paying people to take your upside down contracts is entirely the result of wacky market speculation.

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

I mean, yeah sure the oil producers aren’t taking a bath as it relates to these particular contracts, but that’s sort of like saying the oil producers are like beach vendors who aren’t getting sucked out to sea when an approaching 500 foot tidal wave pulls water out of a bay.

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!