CNBC-host proposes killing 11,000,000 people to save US-economy. (Not The Onion.)

[DetlefK]

Link to tweet

"You know, this coronavirus is really bad for the economy. How about we infect everyone with the virus and all this will be over in a month!!!"

At the current mortality-rate, if all of the US were infected, the coronavirus would kill about 11 million people.

11 million people.

That's more than the Holocaust.

But at least this capitalist would have his economy back!!!






You know what's a sign of living in crazy times? If you have to regularly start adding "Not The Onion" to headlines.

[lapfog_1]

1. 250 Million

7 billion x .032 = 250M give or take

[arthritisR_US]

2. What's also crazy is thinking money for

the rich matters more than humanity. I want to vomit on his mouth.

[dewsgirl]

3. Yep, I have seen not the Onion several times this week.

[pat_k]

4. Hey. An added benefit. It would wipe out about 15% of those expensive old people.

New plan to save social security.

[sarge43]

15. Don't forget the poor. They can't buy a lot of stuff.

[pat_k]

39. Would reduce the homeless population too!

Elephant is the wrong icon for the current Republican Party. It should be Scrooge, with the tagline "get on with dying and reduce the surplus population."

[arthritisR_US]

5. He's advocating money matters more than

lives, fecking ahole pig! Gdamn I’m sick of these amoral assholes.

[Hortensis]

6. Just looked. CNBC's apology isn't issued yet.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. Santelli is a piece of shit!

[DarthDem]

8. I'm no longer easily surprised by these folks

But THAT comment surprises me. How about an apology immediately? Sweet stars.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

31. Nope

Republicans/right-wingers can say whatever they want but if you're a Democratic Senator, Mitch McConnell is gonna "admonish" you.

[area51]

9. If he's worried about his precious stock market,

he can always try pressuring Dementia Donnie to fire Pence from the leadership of the Covid-19 task force, and put an actual doctor in his place.

[safeinOhio]

10. May that invisible hand

smack him and his family first.

[woodsprite]

11. Since we're in this situation because much of the media

And republican swine didn’t do their jobs, I suggest they go first and show us how easy it is.

[rainin]

12. The comment was offensive, but the economic threat is real

We are all going to suffer from a prolonged threat. We all will suffer if supply lines dry up and we can't get medicines (India has already halted all exports of antibiotics) or food shortages occur because exports slow from wherever we're getting food

We're all going to suffer when jobs are lost. Our family of 4 is supported by the travel industry. Losing a job means losing a house, going bankrupt, being homeless, as we live paycheck to paycheck

In China, they shut down everything. No one could work. Who here can afford to not work for a month or two or three?

The struggle is already real financially for millions and millions of people. An economic slowdown doesn't hurt the very rich in any real way, it hurts working people!

We can disagree with what he said, and how he said it, obviously, but anyone who dismisses the real consequences of an economic crisis that will occur if this virus affects 11 million people and goes on for months and months, is foolish.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. A sudden pandemic would also be economically catastrophic

It would overload the health systems, throughout the world. That would kill more people, since people in need of intensive care would die. That would be worse for the economy, overall. It would also shut down more companies, especially travel ones.

The man is not only a moral idiot, he also knows shit about diseases and their effect on the economy. He only thinks about "how many months will I be commenting on this?"

[rainin]

18. The comments here seem to imply that only the rich care about the economy

I don't know which is worse, a sudden or a prolonged. But, the economic downturn will lead to more people dying as well. If our income is lost, we lose our health insurance, so we don't have access to healthcare. My point is simply that the economy doesn't matter only to the rich.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. I do know which is worse - a sudden pandemic

That's why governments are working to delay the spread.

I think the comments here are that Santelli, a known arsehole who only cares about his money (remember, he was the first publicist for the "Tea Party", when he objected to mortgage holders being bailed out) doesn't care about other people.

[NickB79]

20. The simple answer is that you can never have a "good" pandemic

There are no good choices, only bad ones. All of them will hurt. It's just a matter of deciding which hurt less.

[Squinch]

13. This is the same asshole whose rant started the Tea Party.

[mtngirl47]

16. You beat me to it! n/t

[gab13by13]

14. These are the people that Bernie is talking about.

[pwb]

21. He has been an asshole for a long time.

Cable sucks canal water.

[BidenBacker]

22. What do you expect from the man who started the Tea Party???

This asshole is a world-class scumbag. The same MFer who was screaming for the federal government to bail out Wall Street during the 2008 junk mortgage financial crisis who then was screaming even louder the next year when Obama and Biden helped bail out the automotive industry thus saving the jobs of millions of Americans and provided help with low cost emergency mortgage loans to help them save their homes.

If this guy doesn't epitomize socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us I don't know what does.

A bullet is too good for this hypocritical assclown...I would dearly love to personally strangle him with my bare hands and then sleep like a baby that same night.

[blm]

23. Republican run Death Panels.

[BidenBacker]

24. Speaking of the 2008 financial crisis...

here's a little tidbit from the man who predicted it...

“We are going to have a collapse of the bond market and the financial crisis that’s coming will be much worse than the one we had in 2008,” he said.

The scariest part is that at least Dubya & Obama had some pretty sharp financial guys in their administrations back in 2008 and 2009 who helped us avert total economic disaster. Trump has idiots like Munchkin and Krudlow who have zero clue what to do in a similar crisis.

I predict that after the coming bond and stock market crashes that will occur sometime this year it will be harder finding someone who admits to being a Trump supporter than it was to find a Hitler-loving Nazi after the fall of Berlin in 1945.

We got us a buffoonish imbecile sitting in the cockpit who has no idea how to pilot a plane. Have a pleasant flight, people! Now if you all will excuse me, I got some gold I gotta go buy.

[superpatriotman]

25. Isn't this the phony who sparked the tea party?

He is dangerous and should be locked up.

[BidenBacker]

27. The one and only

https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-cnbc-created-the-tea-party

Market futures down about 700-800 points...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/investing/dow-stock-market-today/index.html

Time for Santelli to start squawking for a government bailout. Socialism for the rich...coronavirus for the masses!

[padah513]

26. I think he should volunteer

To go first

[doc03]

28. He is the a--hole that went on a rant about the Federal debt that started the Tea Party

movement.

[LonePirate]

29. Why hasn't CNBC issued a statement about this? He is calling for the death of millions of people.

[FBaggins]

30. His comments were nuts... but also not "killing 11 million"

People need to realize that new substantial viruses almost always have MUCH higher statistical death rates at first because nobody is counting all the mild cases in the denominator and there are lots of false positives in the numerator. You simply can’t take the population of the U.S. and multiply it by 3%.

[BidenBacker]

32. Would it be any more acceptable...

if the mortality rate was an order of magnitude less (say 0.3%) and the resulting death toll of his suggestion resulted in "only" 1.1 million American deaths???

That SOB's comment was not only crazy but cruel. The man has shit for brains and a piggy bank for a heart. And I bet his pecker is the size of a rolled up dollar bill and his balls are the size of pennies.

[FBaggins]

34. Possibly... but only making the same worst-case assumptions

If you bought into the expectation (premature at best - irresponsible at worst) that 70% of the country is going to catch this... then that wouldn’t change the total number deaths much... just get them out of the way quickly.

Where this is really irresponsible is that we don’t really know what will happen next. Some serious viruses have faded away for months before resurgence to a much higher level. If that were the path for this bug AND a vaccine is developed between now and then... it would be stupid as well as uncaring.

[BidenBacker]

35. Fair enough

but let me remind you what that Shithead Santelli actually said...

maybe we’d be just better off if we gave it to everybody

Now pick a mortality rate and apply it to the entire US population.

Bottomline is when he spoke his mouth wasn't attached to his brain...not that I'm fully convinced he has one of the latter.

[dalton99a]

33. Santelli is a Koch whore. His "rant" was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign

Let’s go back to February 19th: Rick Santelli, live on CNBC, standing in the middle of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, launches into an attack on the just-announced $300 billion slated to stem rate of home foreclosures: “The government is promoting bad behavior! Do we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages?! This is America! We’re thinking of having a Chicago tea party in July, all you capitalists who want to come down to Lake Michigan, I’m gonna start organizing.”

Almost immediately, the clip and the unlikely “Chicago tea party” quote buried in the middle of the segment, zoomed across a well-worn path to headline fame in the Republican echo chamber, including red-alert headlines on Drudge.

Within hours of Santelli’s rant, a website called ChicagoTeaParty.com sprang to life. Essentially inactive until that day, it now featured a YouTube video of Santelli’s “tea party” rant and billed itself as the official home of the Chicago Tea Party. The domain was registered in August, 2008 by Zack Christenson, a dweeby Twitter Republican and producer for a popular Chicago rightwing radio host Milt Rosenberg—a familiar name to Obama campaign people. Last August, Rosenberg, who looks like Martin Short’s Irving Cohen character, caused an outcry when he interviewed Stanley Kurtz, the conservative writer who first “exposed” a personal link between Obama and former Weather Undergound leader Bill Ayers. As a result of Rosenberg’s radio interview, the Ayers story was given a major push through the Republican media echo chamber, culminating in Sarah Palin’s accusation that Obama was “palling around with terrorists.” That Rosenberg’s producer owns the “chicagoteaparty.com” site is already weird—but what’s even stranger is that he first bought the domain last August, right around the time of Rosenburg’s launch of the “Obama is a terrorist” campaign. It’s as if they held this “Chicago tea party” campaign in reserve, like a sleeper-site. Which is exactly what it was.

ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.

http://exiledonline.com/exposing-the-familiar-rightwing-pr-machine-is-cnbcs-rick-santelli-sucking-koch/

[dansolo]

36. Of course that would crater the economy

Doesn't this idiot realize that all productivity would grind to a halt if everyone was infected? Heck, if everybody in the country had a cold at the same time, our economy would take a huge hit.

[BidenBacker]

37. It will crater even faster once Trump hears what he said

Trump: "Now there's a sharp guy. Think I'll make him my Acting Surgeon General!"

[zackymilly]

38. He should go first. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

40. Wouldn't it be karmic justice if he came down w/ the coronavirus and it took him out?

Just saying.

[rockfordfile]

41. He should be fired. The pos supports killing Americans

[DFW]

42. If they are all registered Republicans of voting age in swing states,

And they have to kill their own people (I'm sure as hell not killing anybody), I suppose I might ask for more details...............