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    Six degrees of Donald Trump

    By jollyroger on Sat, 04/25/2020 - 6:30pm |

    Chris Hayes and Adam Schiff Friday night brought home the irrefutable  truth  that all appraisals of the present  situation include the casual acceptance that 50,000 are dead in two months.

     

     

     

     

    As if the losses of the entire Viet Nam war happened between Mardi Gras and Easter.

     

    So here are 50,000 dead..

     

    Arguendo, loved by 10 people (let's be conservative.)

     

    Those 10 had 50 people who were sufficiently  privy to (and caring of the impact of) the details of their loved one's life to attend to a death in the family.

     

    Not a stringent threshold.

     

    We have now, at two degrees of separation, reached  50,000    X   10   X   50= 25 Million people.

     

    As he is innocent of any inner life whatsoever, Trump stands before them and congratulates himself on being in charge while "only 50,000 people  died".

     

    This, for the benefit of his education, will  be Trump's introduction to the concept of exponential growth, as it's meaning seems to have eluded him so far. 

     

    And we had only arrived at the second degree of connection...

     

    The man is a stench in the nostrils of the Lord, and an abomination.

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    A plague that reaches a Superior Court Judge at work!!

     

     

    Judge Dear’s coronavirus-related passing comes amid accusations that the state failed to halt court operations early enough to prevent the spread of the novel virus. 

    In-person proceedings were still in full effect until weeks after the virus hit New York, and now several judges have been infected, and multiple have died — including Dear and fellow Brooklyn jurist Johnny Lee Baynes. 

     

    https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-judge-noach-dear-former-city-coun...


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/26/2020 - 11:08am

    Maybe the Supremes should take a field trip to witness 1st hand the trouble they've wrought, or at least the ones who think it's fun to vote under risk of life.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 04/26/2020 - 11:12am

    To accept without blinking this gargantuan quantum of incompetence and corruption caused carnage is mind boggling.


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/26/2020 - 2:12pm

    Oh my, yet another fan is distressed:


    by artappraiser on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 2:06pm

    There is nothing to be gained any longer by highlighting the man's many disabilities.

    He knows less about the world than my kid knew when my kid was seven years old. His privileged upbringing turned the world into a board game before he had sex. Sex is somehow mixed up in whatever happened with his development that must be central to his relationships with other people.

    But I don't care. Somebody so ordinary cannot be the source of so much calamity. Why would powerful people use Trump for their own ends?

    Nothing else matters.


    by moat on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 4:08pm

    Powerful people use Trump to increase their power and wealth because a lot of powerless, poor, and ignorant people vote and Trump seems to know how to get them to vote for him.


    by ocean-kat on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 6:03pm

    That explanation makes sense.

    It does assume that the agent can be managed by some set of boundary conditions rather than direct intervention. The magic doesn't work if you can see the sleight of hand.


    by moat on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 6:43pm

    We’ve reached a point where those who still support him literally have nothing in common with those of us who don’t. I don’t want to share a country with them. We’ve reached an impasse. Either you’re a decent human being who knows right from wrong, or you’re still supporting Trump. It’s really as simple as that.

    -saw this comment....absolutely true.


    by NCD on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 6:39pm

    I am not sure what is to be gained by assigning a value to people based upon their choices.

    To be clear, I do that  sort of thing all the time and will do that in the future.

    In the present crisis, for a variety of reasons, the great divide between us citizens directly involves a factor that does not care what we think.

    Either we get our shit together and find a way forward or we will be just like all those sad fucks in the past who did not do that and died.


    by moat on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 6:54pm

    Unfortunately for that commenter, the next president has plans to make him live with those people:

    I don't see anyone out there proposing doing an India/Pakistan or Israel/Palestine type partition for us, do you?

    And even when he's out of office, Trump's going to be out there until dies.

    We have to learn to live with them in the same country, especially working against a pandemic and global warming. Actually, everyone in the world has to learn to get together on those two fights. You can't lock em all up or send them to the moon. Even ISIS is practicing social distancing, I read, it's not impossible.


    by artappraiser on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 8:33pm