Now he's blaming WHO for COVID.
Frankly, imo asking the question "is Trump a joke?" Is like asking "Is global warming real?"
It depends on how much you appreciate facts.
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President Trump removed the chairman of the federal panel that Congress created to oversee his administration’s management of the $2 trillion stimulus package.
Explain it away.
I think your perspective on the Democrats is only what is presented by the media, just like your perspective on Trump. And I'm not blaming you there. I didn't watch many Obama press conferences either. I should have watched more. I've seen more first hand raw, uncut footage of Trump than all other president's in my lifetime combined. Press conferences, state or the unions, rallies. And it's all trash. The man is a narcissistic bullshitter. So please don't try to tell me I don't have my own opinion of him.
In general, I think seeing people speak uninterrupted and unfiltered would be good for us all. For instance, you gained an appreciation for Cuomo by seeing him speak directly.
@DoubleDD I have watched it straight out his mouth. My opinion is unfiltered. What a gift to watch our supreme leader speak! The best!
@DoubleDD tell me this. When did you become aware of "Obama wanting to build a wall"? Was it at the time "Obama wanted to build a wall" or was it when Trump "wanted to build a wall" and your media sources started pumping the maligned parity angle?
@DoubleDD So you haven't watched the press conferences, but you "truly believe in your heart" that people are out to get Trump when they call his response a disaster. That's not rational. Your opinion isn't delusional, it's just not well informed. And millions of Americans are in the same boat.
@Crimsonorblue22 love it
7'3? Holy smokes. That's Rudy Gobert size. Hopefully Haarms is more of a Center FOR Disease Control!
(Definitely too soon. Tyty I'll be here all night... And tomorrow night... And the night after....)
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Currently some really nice musicians playing from their home.
Sounds like we just need to stay out of Haarms' way.
(Sorry. I'm weak and it was right there.)
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
You said Biden would be a great president. No worries have a good day and be safe.
No, I did not. Link?
@DoubleDD I never said Biden would be a great president. I said he would be able to delegate and would be a competent president. We live in an age where everything gravitates towards poles. You hear me say one thing about Biden being a competent president and so your mind files it away as that I said he will be great. I have decided Trump sucks, and you are right, I don't give him credit for much. I have a lot of data points and evaluate each of them individually, but yeah. If you want to play word association, if you say Trump I'll say "loser" without hesitation, sure. Conversely, Fox News never criticizes Trump for anything significant. I'm sure you could dredge up a couple examples of loosely admonishing him for something. Dont bother. I've watched enough to know criticism is absent or projected on someone else.
Ok you want to talk about Biden. I don't right now. So. :man_shrugging:
You need to realize my opinion of Trump has nothing to do with Joe Biden.
As for Biden and Trump talking, I give that about a 75% chance of having happened. Maybe a 50% chance of having happened in the last week.
I don't assume the truth of anything directly from Orange Jesus.
I said nothing about removing him. All you. I am not comparing him to Biden right now. All you. I am simply commenting on how bad his response to COVID-19 is.
@DoubleDD I have one standard. I'm judging our president. I'm not judging Hillary or Biden. This is standard Fox News playbook stuff... Deflecting Trump's shortcomings by making it about someone else.
I'm talking about Trump failing. This guy. Nobody else. Our president.
@DoubleDD you're right. My post above is me expressing my opinion. Each of those adjectives, a non-exhaustive list, has multiple stories tied to it that came to mind immediately as I wrote it. And they are all facts. If you choose to dispute those facts, then in my humble opinion, your version of Trump is more like an omniscient, omnipresent being who chooses to grace this mortal plane in the form of a large orange tufted blowhard, and not the lazy arrogant slimeball that I see on my screen. And seriously, I don't think we are going to close that gap.
@DoubleDD is that really interesting? He said nothing of substance. The call was really good? Oh that's good. Good. I'm, glad it was good. Am I supposed to take Trump's word on anything as fact or his opinion on anything as qualified?
We all want to talk about coronavirus? Actually no, nobody wants to talk about coronavirus. We want to talk about work. At work.
Addressing your post before the video. I do appreciate that the whole world is dealing with some state of the coronavirus, and the whole world doesn't have an idiot narcissist like Trump in office, so surely it's not all his fault that this disease is here. I get that. However, the overall grade he gets is a solid F for his response.
I will just throw out a list of adjectives to describe Trump's response to the outbreak, since I think we all know the stories or choose to ignore them.
Late, dismissive, uninformed, lying, disowning, deflecting, poorly delegating, not coordinating, distracting, miracle touting, mocking, witholding, self-praising.
Or if you prefer to sum it up... Bullshitting.
Bullshitting his way through the biggest crisis this country has faced since WWII.
And that video was more of the same.
@bskeet :hundred_points:
@Texas-Hawk-10 yup. I know Creighton returned everyone... But I'm skeptical. Marcus is going to have a season.
Hard to imagine a world where Creighton is a one seed in the Midwest and Kansas is a 2 seed in the South... But ESPN has quite the imagination.
@FarmerJayhawk good read.
@Crimsonorblue22 no. That idiot just needs some chloraquine. Duh. Common sense.
There is another drug (anti-parasitic) that is claimed to kill coronavirus and needs trials.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in Failures in Social Distancing:
@approxinfinity said in Failures in Social Distancing:
This article has an excellent map showing early stay at home orders overlayed on amount of travel. A very clear indicator how important stay at home orders are.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html ↗
The Times still whiffing here. The map’s travel distances are highly correlated with both population density and poverty. Most working poor don’t have the luxury of living within a mile of their job or grocery store, and are more likely to take care of relatives. The first version of this piece was way worse in a “lol look at these dumb hicks” kind of way. But it’s easy to say when you work for the Times, went to an Ivy, and the only time you’ve lived outside the urban northeast is a study abroad junket to Paris.
ah great point. thanks for calling that out.
that makes me a lot more optimistic about all this cell data. :thumbs_up:
This Google data is depressing. March 29th we were only at +12% time at home.
On January 29th, China had reported 7700 global cases of COVID-19. That's a hell of a lot of masks being worn for 7700 total cases. Oh, to be young and have access to N95 masks via unbroken supply chains and undepleted caches... To have the luxury of covering up an epidemic that isn't even a pandemic yet...
Our house is predicting Kansas victory. 75-68
The state DOH sites arents showing historical data, only cumulative. This site appears to have done a great job retainining historical data state by state.
I can see the rock @BShark is overturning as worthy of it's own topic.
Check out Shi Zhengli's Wikipedia. I would like to know much more about Wuhan Institute of Virology's Gain of Function studies.
This article has an excellent map showing early stay at home orders overlayed on amount of travel. A very clear indicator how important stay at home orders are.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html ↗
Rural Tennesseans not staying at home, disregarding governor's "strong suggestion":
Adding this thread to track instances where people are failing to observe social distancing
Florida Spring Break Cell Phone Data
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These companies can show via cell phone data where many of the people who were on spring break in Florida probably took the virus back home.
I hope Doke has as successful an NBA career as Nick Collison.
@mayjay yeah. But bags have air in them. and he doesn't demonstrate how to disinfect fresh stuff. Letting it sit imo alleviates a lot of the risk
@kjayhawks I disinfected groceries right after they arrived today. I had been putting them in the garage including garage fridge prior to disinfecting before this delivery. I thought having everything clean in the house would feel better, but I think now that I felt better just letting it sit with as little interaction as possible and then disinfecting later. not too hard to do with extra fridge. Next time, going back to that.
@jayballer73 You did a horrible thing. You know it. You're sorry. There should be a place you can move on and be a better person. People should be allowed to change.
@jayballer73 we will get through this and see eye-to-eye in the end. Just a bump in the road.
@nwhawkfan sorry to hear about your loss.
:hundred_points: about the early information. I think the American public was done a disservice when people were saying "don't go buy the masks because health professionals need them" because while this criticism was absolutely valid, it was often justified with an accompanying lie "the n95 masks aren't necessary unless you are a health professional". That disinformation is very hard to walk back.
@FarmerJayhawk I get that the president doesn't have the authority technically to issue a stay at home order, but he could certainly call for it with precise guidelines, creating a uniform response. No governor would have stayed "open for business" and tried to be "rarin' to go by Easter" if the president has dictated the need for a nationwide stay at home effort.
My neighbors mother passed away because of coronavirus, I learned today. We continued to talk across the yard, and they mentioned that they went to the grocery store yesterday without a mask, repeatedly saying how frustrating it is that people don't do the right thing, i.e. socially distance. I told them that the CDC posted guidelines on how to make masks and that the biggest threat is not hand Sanitation but airborn droplets that can be suspended indoors for hours. I also suggested that they should go to all delivery If they can.
The lack of information is costing lives. Even people who want to do the right thing can't because they don't know what the right thing is.
Governor of Colorado is reporting that after Trump told him that he had to find his own ventillators (see " I'm not a shipping clerk" etc) FEMA swooped in and cancelled Colorado's order of 500 ventillators so that they could add the ventillators to the federal stockpile. Shit show.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/04/coronavirus-colorado-polis-ventilators-fema/ ↗
@jayballer73 you're right, it's a joke.
@jayballer73 politics have played and continue to play a huge role in the response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Look at the states that still don't have stay at home orders. All Republican governors. Lives continue to be lost because of Trumps stupidity. The fact that he has refused to declare a national stay at home directive and has relegated the handling of the issue to individual governors while continue to undermine the CDC (his latest declaration stating that he himself would not wear a mask) has created chaos. Leaders lead. This loser says it's not his problem ("I'm not a shipping clerk") and has his unqualified son in law running a shadow coronavirus reponse operation declaring that the states can't access the federal reserve of medical supplies.
So.... Much.... Bad....
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-stay-at-home-order.html ↗
@jayballer73 This thread is about politics. See post #1. Specifically, it was a video discrediting Biden as a candidate via a montage of his verbal stumbles. Therefore I think a hatchet job video enumerating the countless slurring of words of our current president belongs on this thread.
I think we have been talking pretty meaningfully about not political stuff on other non political threads.
@jayballer73 saying "this is not the time to be political" is a political statement.
In fact, your whole post is political rhetoric.
Just another political attack vector. "Look at the other guy all angry about politics!"
Wow Marcus! His 6 steals were a game changer. Those steal-sparked fastbreak runs remind me so much of 2008. Can't say enough about how good this kid is on defense. Both on ball and off ball. I hope we don't lose him to the draft this year, but there's no time to think about that now. We've got a trophy to win!