I think her problem is that you can see she relishes dropping the line. Like a punchline. That gets Donnie’s goat, but devotes too much attention to him.

This is giving me that South Park episode with Cesar Milan vibes, and I love it.

Exactly. This could have easily been avoided had the ownership class and their GOP minions actually given a shit about people over profits.
Wall Street needs a massive bailout... you got it!
Giant corporations that had record breaking year over year profits now need a huge bailout... take it, it’s yours!
Fossil fuel…

Yeah, this whole pandemic is laying bare the way a certain portion of America—particularly the American right—looks at people. It’s nothing new, it’s just more explicit, more jarring. For decades we’ve put profits ahead of quality of life, now we’re just explicitly putting profits ahead of actual lives.

Unrelated to the subject, It’s great to see that guy In the greys having a nervous breakdown trying to whatabout the hell out of this story, cut and pasting like Its his fucking JOB. Won’t say the name, but you can easily tell who It Is. Go on, little cut-and-paste dude, you do your thang. LOL

Trump’s inability to grasp that other people actually have thoughts, feelings, and worth beyond how they relate to him is pathological. That is really the core of Trump—every other person who exists, in any particular moment in time, either furthers Trump’s personal desires, and is an ally, or frustrates Trump’s…

I think you’re so close here.

It’s kind of comforting knowing that the incompetency extends to all facets of the Executive branch.  Even the most malicious attacks are somewhat blunted by the inability to execute anything in a competent way.

This is one of those moments where the phrase “class war” becomes as literal as it can get. It’s also the moment where the governing class’ typical strategy to deflect from class warfare (namely, divide and conquer) becomes as transparently obvious as it can be.

So, ya know...explicit fascism.  

Trust me...when he says ‘human capital stock’ its all cattle to him and his fucking ghouls whether you walk on 2 or 4 legs.

Yeah, I’m going to have to say that, on his own terms, Kernan is simply incorrect. The stock market is doing well not so much because COVID-19 isn’t a crisis (it very much is), but because there’s no other good places for investors to sink their money into at the moment. Interest rates on bonds are near zero, nobody’s…

Imagine being so completely without conscience or empathy that you would fucking lecture someone for caring about 100,000 deaths. Jesus.

Capitalism is a prison.

You seem like the type who coughs on people and claims that your 1A is being violated when someone complains.

A certain segment of the population cannot deal with non-physical threats.

A virus isn’t a person they can sue, shoot, vote out of office, or otherwise torture and humiliate. They can’t speak to it’s manager. They can’t call the cops either. A virus, something that is essentially mindless and invisible, is too scary…

I think that has to be part of the cognitive dissonance here: these people truly cannot fathom that something or someone just doesn’t give a fuck about their white privileged arses! (The systemic privilege aside, since we know who gets the treatment even after denouncing corona on Twitter versus who... doesn’t get…

This is what happens when a group of people fear that the only thing that defines their value is being taken away from them.

“We don’t want to kill anybody. But are we willing to kill people? Are we willing to lay our lives down? We have to say yes,” Smith continued.