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March 22, 2020

This 4-year-old just made coronavirus panic-buyers look very very bad

https://twitter.com/eliistender10/status/1240910924128702464

She makes some pretty valid points:

There'll be no food left if they take all of it!

Indeed.

If you came to Tesco to buy some food for your supper, WHY would you take all this food?!

The girl then goes on to suggest they sack off Tesco and go to Morrison's instead, to find more food, at which point the woman patiently explains that it'll likely be a similar situation there. To which the girl responds:

You're joking. It's a joke!

Yes, this girl is all of us.

[link:https://www.indy100.com/article/coronavirus-panic-buying-stockpiling-supermarkets-food-video-9416196|]

When the four year old gets it but they are still descending like locusts on the loo roll I think we can safely say that they literally lack the common sense of a four year old. Not a great look!
March 22, 2020

This needs reposting from time 2 time. Based on the last week, now seems as good a time as any...



Heh. Sadly, at this point his point his gross incompetence has turned deadly...
March 21, 2020

Trump should be denied the oxygen of the media until he starts using facts...

As Rachel Maddow said on her show: "If it were up to me, and it's not, I would stop putting those briefings on live TV. Not out of spite, but because it's misinformation. If the president does end up say anything true, you can run it as tape. But if he keeps lying ... Honestly, it's going to cost lives."

She is not wrong. When Fauci - you know the actual expert in the room – the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic – does this while standing next to the President at a press conference, you know it has spun out of complete control…

Trump would not know how to hold a ‘briefing’ if it jumped up and bit him on the arse. The lies, misinformation and deep state bollocks will cost lives, turning these events into campaigning opportunities to talk bollocks to his base. And as the reaction of Fauci shows us, the sincere reaction from the actual experts, who could make a difference to the outcome of this pandemic if they had a President who was not a sociopathic moron, having stand by and endure the lies and propaganda uttered by such a fool is overwhelming mortification and incredulity.

Something needs to change and change fast, peoples lives depend on it.

March 20, 2020

On the back of the revelations of republicans stock dumping cause they are huge crooks...

...Frum makes an excellent point



You know that they will be up to the top of their grubby crooked necks in this. Rich republicans with insider knowledge helping to cause the market to fall over, by dumping stock when they knew the seriousness of covid-19 and where lying to the face of the American people about it, to save themselves some shot term economic pain - to hell with everyone else - that has Trump written all over it.

Insider trading at a time of national crisis, when people are going to die. I should be shocked but at this point nothing is shocking about these awful people... anyone who has done this, and the list is growing and I am sure will continue to grow, need arrested and locked up. They cannot be allowed to get away with such blatant crookery, especially at time of national emergency.

Republicans behind bars be like...

March 20, 2020

Without truth, what is left?



Even a pathological liar can't lie themselves out of a pandemic - but he is giving it a bloody good try.
March 19, 2020

USDA fights to purge food stamps recipients despite pandemic

The Agriculture Department said Wednesday that it would appeal a judge’s ruling that it would be “arbitrary and capricious” to move forward during a global health crisis with food stamp changes that could force hundreds of thousands from the program.

Federal Judge Beryl Howell, in a ruling late last week, stopped a set of changes that would have taken effect on April 1. On Wednesday, an Agriculture Department spokesperson responded to an Associated Press query with a terse email saying only that “USDA disagrees with the court’s reasoning and will appeal its decision.”

[link:https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/usda-fights-to-purge-food-stamps-recipients-despite-pandemic|]

How cruel. But then cruelty is the point. They are not going to let a pandemic stand in they way of their dystopian future...

March 19, 2020

Silly, silly, it's NOT socialism when they do it...



Remember when Yang suggested a basic universal income and the right wing went nuts? Crazy socialism, the horror!!! Trump suggests sending $1000 to every household and he is a hero to the right wing... nuff said, heh.
March 18, 2020

Is he having a laugh?

https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1240292862182424581
There’ll be plenty of time for voters to judge
@realDonaldTrump
& his handling of the Coronavirus crisis, including the first weeks when he sent dangerously misleading signals by downplaying the threat. But now doesn’t seem the moment for negative ads.


This fucking moron did nothing for weeks when America could have flatten the curve. People have and will die because of it. Today he is still blaming a 'Chinese' disease and 'fake news'. But we should give him a break? That is some kind of special.
March 18, 2020

These millions of abnormally normal people


Graphic mine

Yeah. Love me some Huxley and if MAGA'ts were normal people they would not have adjusted so comfortably to the abnormality that is a Trump Presidency... heh.
March 18, 2020

Stop the gaslighting bruh

https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1240230588868710402
nice try doofo, you went on Fox News last week and PROMISED to cut entitlements. it was recorded. we all saw it. stop the gaslighting bruh and maybe get some ventilators to hospitals and test kits to doctors. do try to be useful for once in your dainty pampered life


Gaslighting and incompetence is part of his DNA. A nasty and dangerous combination.

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About Soph0571

I am a Brit. I am a working class child of the troubles in Belfast who now lives a life of privilege. I am an anti-racist, progressive monster for truth. If I fail in being that monster, call me out....
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