Kill them all

March 25, 2020March 24, 2020 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

American conservatives faced with addressing the COVID-19 pandemic are grappling with the Trolley problem before our very eyes. Forget saving pedestrians. They'd save the trolley company. https://t.co/6PoD4yqaWF @digby56 pic.twitter.com/Gqn5UOCvhS
— @TomSullivan@mstdn.social (@BloggersRUs) March 24, 2020

An offer you can’t refuse

March 25, 2020March 24, 2020 ~ susie ~ 3 Comments

He wants to kill everyone who lives in a blue state:

Trump says if states want the federal government to be a good partner to them in fighting coronavirus, "they have to treat us well." pic.twitter.com/ixao0a1UdN
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) March 24, 2020

Short answer: No

March 25, 2020March 24, 2020 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Can the Federal Government Override State Government Rules on Social Distancing to Promote the Economy? https://t.co/R3sUI48414
— Suburban Guerrilla 💙 (@SusieMadrak) March 24, 2020

Personally, I think he’s trying to kill us

March 24, 2020March 23, 2020 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

“Trump is like an 11-year-old boy waiting for the fairy godmother to bring him a magic pill.”

People are dying because it turns out a failed businessman/reality show star is somehow not good in a crisis. https://t.co/sGZYISSMmE via @VanityFair
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) March 23, 2020

Dr. Trump is Doctor Deathhttps://t.co/9H6ICehq2H
— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) March 22, 2020

The GOP is a snake pit

March 20, 2020March 19, 2020 ~ susie ~ 3 Comments

SCOOP: NC's GOP Senator Richard Burr told the public he was confident the govt can fight off COVID-19 the same time he & his wife sold up to ~$1.5 million stock in major corporations that ended up losing most of their value during the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/JsXkaxb2Pw pic.twitter.com/lMnnbBfoNZ
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) March 19, 2020

Tucker Carlson calls for Senator Burr to resign and await prosecution for insider trading if he cannot provide a reasonable explanation for his actions. He goes on to say it appears that Senator Burr betrayed his country in a time of crisis pic.twitter.com/q7yJa5wjuA
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1240802700171849731

Republican Jim Inhofe dumped up to $450,000 in stock — the fourth GOP senator implicated in scandal: report https://t.co/r02EVirC7N
— Connie P (@Conniepae) March 20, 2020

Incompetent asshole in chief

March 20, 2020March 19, 2020 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Close up of President @realDonaldTrump notes is seen where he crossed out "Corona" and replaced it with "Chinese" Virus as he speaks with his coronavirus task force today at the White House. #trump #trumpnotes pic.twitter.com/kVw9yrPPeJ
— Jabin Botsford (@jabinbotsford) March 19, 2020

Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded. First US detection in Chicago, 47 days later, WHO declared a pandemic. By then it was too late: 110 million Americans were expected to become ill, 7.7 million hospitalized, 586,000 dead.https://t.co/Qh4xB8S0o9
— Mia Farrow 🏳️‍🌈 🌻🇺🇸💙 (@MiaFarrow) March 19, 2020

Fuckhead Rand

March 18, 2020March 17, 2020 ~ susie ~ 3 Comments

Did Claire McCaskill just
cut off Rand Paul and
Mitch McConnell’s balls? pic.twitter.com/dZBaCsvPen
— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/BuddJenn/status/1240103605882867714

Congratulations to Rand Paul for holding up a bill that would expand testing for another day because 1)he's a huge self-aggrandizing jagoff and 2)there is literally no other reason https://t.co/DH8EpqWo5l
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) March 18, 2020

His puppeteers told him to cut pandemic spending

March 16, 2020March 15, 2020 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Because after all, that money belongs in their pockets:

Americans for Prosperity, the Koch dark money pressure group that has spent several hundred million electing Republicans, compiled a list of programs they wanted Congress to cut, which includes CDC funding for global pandemic response & disease prevention https://t.co/jKx6VBCKXB
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 14, 2020

In 2018, after increasing the Pentagon's budget that year by $82 billion and just after passing a $1.5 tril tax cut, the Congressional GOP pushed a $15 billion "rescission bill" cutting spending on health programs, including international aid for responding to infectious disease. pic.twitter.com/OPzeCf6pOu
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 14, 2020

President Trump's budget requests repeatedly call for cuts to the CDC & the State Dept's infectious disease response funds. Why? The same cuts were demanded by Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks and Heritage Action, influential right-wing billionaire-backed pressure groups. pic.twitter.com/8NL8sez14W
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 14, 2020

Here are some links to the demands by these outside groups: https://t.co/xCtBqohbjN https://t.co/INJAwYzxAm https://t.co/Tw4S4G0p4p
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 14, 2020

Of course he did

March 16, 2020March 15, 2020 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

He’s got to replace the revenue he’s losing from his hotels:

This is depraved. The German government confirms that Trump apparently tried to bribe German scientists into giving him exclusive rights to the Covid-19 vaccine they were working on developing. He wanted it “for the US only.” How many new lows will he set for the United States? https://t.co/Qm7vFoArQT
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 15, 2020

Summary of Trump’s address…

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 ~ Boohunney

we regret to inform you that none of the accurate things the president said were soothing and none of the soothing things were accurate
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) March 12, 2020