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    The Trump Death

    By jollyroger on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 8:34am |

    Nancy Pelosi got hella shit for calling Covid19 

     

     "The Trump Virus".

     

    Historians disagree.

     

    The correct name for this disease, as far as the United States is concerned:

     

    THE TRUMP DEATH

     

    That's how plague nomenclature works...

     

    Research Reveals More Complete Picture of the Devastation Wrought ...

     

    Comments

    The Boston Globe agrees.


    by moat on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 10:12am

    Is Trump the rat or the flea?  Inquiring minds...


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 10:21am

    You should be used to pestilence and filthy disease living in your peoples paradise.

    Did you go dancing with Nancy in Chinatown weeks after Trump banned the plague flights from China?


    by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 5:43pm

    Huh?  Is that a Batman reference, or what?

     

     

     


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 5:48pm

    Not sure, but do we call the Russian "aid" planes "Raisin Bomber 2.0"?


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 5:59pm

    Put a wig on that joker and itwould be a great characuture of Nan. 


    by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 6:11pm

    I retain my SF voting privileges so that I can vote against Pelosi in the primaries and  so that if you sue me your ass gets removed to Federal Court, (surprise, sucka').

     

    That said, she looks pretty good for 80


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 7:06pm

    I'm not surprised you would protest vote against a sloe commie like Nan preferring a full blown Maoist like AOC or someone of her ilk.

    Nan's looks are on the edge of the  uncanny valley artificial enough to frighten children and adults.


    by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 8:16pm

     AOC or someone of her ilk.

     

    Mi Reina!

     

    I actually MET AOC when on a video shoot for Zephyr Teachout, and, of course, you are spot on.  I am sprung like a wagon that took the quick way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon!

     

    That said, and while I will walk precincts in the upcoming primary till my feet bleed, I won't surrender my Cali citizenship (reference the diversity jurisdiction previously cited...)

     

    ETA I said "for 80"!  I never contemplated that "looks" would be a metric applicable to an 80 yr old, but that was before the dread number began to loom in my own near future....we adapt....

     

     


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 9:32pm

    JR, you know the rule - it's not what you got, it's how you use it.
    "Every little thing she does is magic..."

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    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 2:45pm

    I gonna say it straight up, she's fuckable.

     

     

     


    by jollyroger on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 3:01pm

    Is that one of those reality series, "80 and Up"?
    So are we talking "GILF" or "SILF"? (ok, "MSILF" to be more respectful)
    And JR, where'd you get the baby lamb?

    PS - video link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPpsI8mWKmg


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 6:22pm

    One of those classic questions like 

     

    "... by the way, which one's Pink?"

     

     

     

    ETA SILF...How did you know she's a "Screamer"...wait, WHAT?

     


    by jollyroger on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 8:01pm

    Title, not reputation.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 9:52pm

    Yeah, kinda knew...


    by jollyroger on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 11:01pm

    his reference is a favorite meme of Trumpies on social media because it's something that actually happened and it's all they've got so they're running with it. Our doofus mayor as well as some in our city govt. encouraged people to go to the Chinese New Year parade, without fear, including on social media, in order to counter prejudice against Asians about the virus. I'll remind that Mayor Doofus also waited until the last minute to cancel the St. Paddy's Day parade (as well as going to his own gym in Brooklyn.) He's a panderer to the protest of the moment, and identity politics in a deficient manner and very scattered about it to boot. All the better our Gov. is constantly yellin' at him, eyes-on-the-prize style.  De Blasio is not exactly the crowing glory of the Empire State, managerially speaking. He's a pander bear but without skill or forethought. In the past he's been clueless fodder for the right. So far what he's been good at is shaking down pay-for-play political donations. Of the coronavirus press conferences I've seen by him, they have not been not reassuring, he sounds like the proverbial chicken with his head cut off. Hopefully someone more competent is actually running this show and one does get this impression if one follows what's up.

    All that said, he's a stable genius compared to Trump.


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 12:17am

    I love Sandinista Bill...Mayor Bill, disappointed.

     

    The gym trip was collosssally tone deaf.


    by jollyroger on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 2:39am

    De Blasio is still at it, BTW!  Very Trump-like, maybe a bit more like the Gov. of Georgia. This is delusional to calm his cognitive dissonance about his stupid pandering decisions to promote things like going to Chinese New Year parade, having been forced to cancel St. Pat's parade and being forced to close schools too late by teachers and parents. NOT TO BE TRUSTED. Thank god Cuomo is supervising:

    Back when the problem was his refusal to close the schools, he was labeled “an intelligent over-processor. ‘He doesn’t trust experts in the field until he has processed it himself.’” I can’t believe he’s still being this muleheaded. https://t.co/oDt1vS4LmD

    — Jeffrey Zuckerman (@J_Zuckerman) April 5, 2020

    Bill de Blasio Rejects Claim U.S. Knew Asymptomatic People Could Spread the Virus: Only Learned That 'In the Last 48 Hours’ https://t.co/ohj74tr594 via @mediaite

    — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 4, 2020

    That he furnishes red meat to wingnuts like anonymous is of little concern to me (what don't they get about "but both sides have an idiot" is not a good sales pitch?). What is of concern: he's got too many similarities to Trump! Not just the cognitive dissonance but there's also a lot of the transactional personality thing as well.


    by artappraiser on Sun, 04/05/2020 - 12:36am

    OH......SHIT....!!!

     

    DoubleA, you are merciless....Now my fuckin' jaw is dislocated.

     

    Are you tryin' to tell me that DeB pulled off one of those fake faces and Brian fuckin' Kemp is Mayor of NY???

     

    Beause, of course, until all the t's are crosssed and the i's dotted, wearing a bandana would be a fashion offence

     

    What the actual  bleedin' FUCk??

     

    Yeah, let;s call the close ones against everyone doing what they can to protect other people, cuz, fuck'em if they can't take a joke!

     

    Thank (Deity of Choice) he's not running again, so I dont have to consider flushing my treasured SF registration to flush his, apparently, moronic ass!  

     

    ETA: Whatta PUTZ!

     

    I missed that part of Brian's program, which I usually follow without fail (disclaimer:  I tend to dip in and out of "ask the Mayor," but I love "speak to the Speaker"...)

     

    You and I have differed in the past about DeB.  I was officially wrong.


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/05/2020 - 1:54pm

    Well several here like you not seeing  the same as I was, that actually helped me figure him out more. He's a phony, there's nothing authentic or genuine, it's all playing characters to pander to constituencies. The special thing is, he does it poorly, often goofily, like with that example of using exactly the wrong Spanish slogan in Florida. It's all about approval from others, so that's very like Trump, what differs is that he doesn't want to look like he's a boss, he wants to appear to be your friend. So he's not mean, and what goes along with that is that he has less confidence than Trump. 

    What I suspect is not phony is his facility in pay-to-play, he's probably quite tough within machine politics. Because being a pol is his chosen career and he wants to climb that ladder, hence the run for president, feeds both ego and his experience at manipulating the party machine.


    by artappraiser on Sun, 04/05/2020 - 2:29pm

    he wants to climb that ladder

     

    I will cherish his memory for Universal Pre-K, but he has gone as far as his tiny talent entitles.


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/05/2020 - 5:20pm

    Just some more De Blasio grist for my mill. Of course I will support any good management he executes now, but I nonetheless don't want anyone to forgit what a doofus he can really be:

    These tweets, from New York's mayor and San Francisco's mayor, were posted on the same day. pic.twitter.com/jvdiLrknD8

    — German Lopez (@germanrlopez) April 6, 2020

    Trust now BUT VERIFY VERIFY VERIFY!

    Again, he just really wants adoration, as movie critic, whatevah...very dangerous problem.


    by artappraiser on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 1:26am

    More De Blahs: ever clearer he just really hates Manhattan:


    by artappraiser on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 2:56am

    Help is on the way

    (maybe Joe should worry about "dump Biden"?)


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 3:44am

    Unfortunately Chris Cuomo is the metrosexual of the family, have more than a couple times seen him say on the air that his brother Andrew dresses like crap, has no taste, needs a complete wardrobe redo...just sayin


    by artappraiser on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 4:22am

    Story has it that when they went to recruit Eisenhower, they meant Ike's brother who was head of Princeton(?) at the time? [Penn State] But the mistake held and we got the general and the military-industrial complex instead in those lax Batista Cold War days - with Nixon as understudy!


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 8:44am

    Nice story....Snopes says no..  Also, the presidency at issue was of Columbia (which, to be fair, was almost the name of America, so maybe there is some drift...)

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ikes-peak/

     

    OTOH, Milton apparently was John Anderson's VP running mate in 1980, so go figure...

     

    ETA talk about sibling rivalry...


    by jollyroger on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 2:00pm

    Makes a bit more sense than my version... I was kinda in the ballpark, maybe behind the cheap seats.


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 2:07pm

    The WIFI must be back up at Liberty University.

    Trump Death continues to spread.


    by moat on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 7:23pm

    I didn't realize you had become a spox for the CCP.


    by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 8:18pm

    Yes, I am a Russian agent.
    I thought you were one too.
    I wish management was better at sorting out the assignments.


    by moat on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 9:09pm

    I'd heard that snowflakes were having trouble understanding simple facts but was unaware of how seriously TDS had reduced their mental abilities until your last statement.

    The Wuhan virus and the CCP propaganda you parrot are from CHINA .


    by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 10:24pm

    That's my fault - with global warming it's hard to keep the snowflakes frozen long enough for a quorum - a summer's day doesn't make a thaw. Does Deep State = Stasi? When KGB just GRU, is it Mary Poppins or a real societal threat? Even our Anon must have trouble keeping up.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 2:50am

    I read the CCR as a Cyrillic acronym. That is how Soros uses it in his instructions to our cell.
    Mary Poppins is a danger to bankers everywhere.
    I am glad to get the memo that TDS refers to Trump Death Symptoms. I really had that one ass backwards.


    by moat on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 7:55am

    I think that Anon has confused The P(eople's) R(epublic) of C(hina) with something that I suppose pencils out to the Chinese Communist Party (an entity which I do not believe actually exists, at least by that name)

     

    If he/she were educated, or even resourceful, he/she could;a gone all fancy and used google to wow, dazzle and  confuse us by transporting actual Chinese ideographs, thus

     

    中华人民共和国;

     

    More high concept, Chicoms conveys at once the racist origins of his/her screed, and the fountainhead (see what I did there?) of his/her "thinking", viz, the Dead Man Walkiing (you know who I mean...)


    by jollyroger on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 8:52am

    You are quite right about the origin of the acronym. I went to Briebart and they are using it like a rolled Benjamin at a frat kegger. You are also correct that it does not exist outside of their dorm. You got your CPC and there is a PRC but no CCP.

    I also saw some of the Chicoms stuff while on campus. I do see what you did there. Somehow, the Manchurian Candidate was swapped for a Randian Robot at a crucial moment and the demise of the International State is assured. The death part of the demise is coming into better focus.


    by moat on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 2:39pm

    You need to slow down and use your finger to read CCP, Chinese Communist Party.

    The Russian collusion hoax... [Bullshit deleted - PP]


    by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 1:38pm

    You need to STFU, you lying shit disturber.

    Here's some background reading for your Trump- and -Rusaia-assisted pandemic time. I'm in no mood to let you keep blathering your disinfo - Trump collusion is well-documented, even as you continue to back your treasonous allies. And yes, the President used his office and brought in hatchet men to look for dirt on his opponents. So suck it.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 1:56pm

    May we not find consolation in the coming "Rapture" that is in store for the lucky congregants availing themselves of the religious gathering exception to "sit your fool ass down and stay home?"


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 9:44pm

    This thread might be the place to collect the various attempts to deflect from the spread of Trump Death by those working in his cult.

    This is almost as good as our College Student's entry:

    We were caught unprepared by a pandemic 9/11. The failures began long before Trump.

    The College Student does a better job of deflection than Thiessen by not referring to things like "Trump Administration." If you are capable of remembering stuff that happened last week, that sort of rhetoric will be really off-putting.


    by moat on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 8:09pm

    Dispatches from the psychic front:

     

    It will not be 100-240,000 ("best case") deaths.

     

    It will be 3-4 million.

     

    Bet on it.

     

    To my chagrin, Predictit is not yet taking bets on the total...how parochial of them.


    by jollyroger on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 7:17am

    People magazine is being very unhelpful in our crisis, and making me even more wistful at the chance to make a little money off The Trump Death.'

     

    The problem:  They have a thing called "world's sexiest man"....trial balloons went up  yesterday suggesting Tony Fauci.

     

    Of course, that sent Trump into orbit, and the result: Today's briefing, no Tony.


    by jollyroger on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 5:50pm

    I had the briefing on in the background but did not listen much, reading news during it.  So I go to Rick Wilson who listens and interprets for me:


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 6:37pm

    One very important thing about Trump that I am trying to continually remind myself about: he really hardly ever has a clue about what his administration actually supports or is doing:

    we're so fucked pic.twitter.com/GYEj169Fjs

    — Valentina (@leftistthot420) April 3, 2020

    Almost all his trolling and similar is basically sound and fury signifying nothing, all distracting noise. Yes, they run it by him, whatever it is, and humor him and kowtow.  But it rarely has anything to do with the actual policy and action being supported. Some rare times he may understand or even at the moment demand something. But in those cases, he usually quickly forgets what that was. It's all only about playing a character, for which he wants praise and applause for each performance.


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 5:38pm

    Nice example of how he makes up stories/narratives, then babbles them out to share his stable genius dealing with new input:

     


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 5:41pm

    Now you've gone and done it...here I go, scraping my brains off the walls and ladling them back into the shattered pieces of skull (super glue, since you ask...)

     

    There is nothing more dangerous to the structural integrity of one's head than reading a transcript of Trump's logorrhea.

     

    I defy anyone to get five lines in without a cranial explosion.

     

    Jesus, what a monumental putz!

     

    ETA, the most dangerous rhetoric, his verbal tic "think of it".  Somehow, the word "think" coming out of that anal scar in his orange imitation of a face is blasphemy.


    by jollyroger on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 5:58pm

    It is difficult to come to any other conclusion.
    People have tried.


    by moat on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 6:04pm

    Cuomo understands the whole thing and is trying: “He’s Walking the Line”: Inside Andrew Cuomo’s Psychological Game With Trump

    It’s a life-or-death struggle—and playing out in dueling press conferences. “One-on-one, it’s perfectly cordial with Trump,” says a person who knows both men. “Because the show isn’t on.”

    @ VanityFair.com, April 2

    (NO PAYWALL RULES ON THIS ONE.)

    I would like to add that I think Fauci does similar.


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 7:37pm

    I appreciate the artistry on all sides.
    But I am coming pretty close to saying fuck all this.
    Everyday the party continues is an invitation for Death.
    This is all we can do as a Republic?


    by moat on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 7:49pm

    Fauci is finished...See above::

     

    Worse than Time Man of the Year, he's up for People  "Sexiest Man Alive"(On FOX no less!!) and he's six years older than Trump.  

     

    Some things cannot be forgiven...

     

    https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/coronavirus-dr-anthony-fauci-sexiest-m...


    by jollyroger on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 10:27pm

    yes well but I note that he and his fellow hotties are being promoted to be on CBS Face The Nation on Sunday. Nobody going to church, maybe yuge ratings....


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 10:43pm

    Here ya go, more heroic health providers trying to do what may be impossible:


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 7:17pm

    Check out the nice photoshop artwork:


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 8:05pm

    more subtle messaging:


    by artappraiser on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 9:43pm

    Note we basically have the NHS model operating in our state right now.

    As in: forget Medicare for All, silly to go back? I'd venture those providers not participating in this project are the ones who may still be craving that golf club membership and yacht, along with the plastic surgeons, innovative cancer treatment providers, and periodontists. The rest who make it out alive will either realize salary is the way to go, or quit the field all together? Interesting side effect: crash course in pulmonology and immunology for all involved.


    by artappraiser on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 7:17am


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 7:34am

    I figured this from Jim White belongs in the Death thread:

    Trump And Southern Governors Team Up To Kill Republican Voters


    by moat on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 1:41pm

    Germany, otoh...

     

    A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low

     

    “Maybe our biggest strength in Germany,” said Professor Kräusslich, “is the rational decision-making at the highest level of government combined with the trust the government enjoys in the population.” (emphasis added)

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-deat...?


    by jollyroger on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 1:49pm

    A Trump Death announcement from Susan Rice:

    “He has demonstrated utter lack of leadership, utter incompetence. And he’s been profoundly dishonest about the nature of the threat to the American people by downplaying it, by dismissing it, by comparing it to the flu. … He has misled the American people to such an extent that lives have been lost in the process,” responded Rice. “Whether that’s because he didn’t care or he was trying to downplay the problem and buoy his electoral prospects mistakenly, or whether it was to buck up the markets, or because he doesn’t care, I don’t know what it was. I just know that he has cost tens of thousands of American lives.”


    by moat on Mon, 04/06/2020 - 11:49am

    BENGHAZI!!!!


    by jollyroger on Mon, 04/06/2020 - 1:04pm