Prediction.
People’s attitudes to the state will be fundamentally changed by this.
Exactly how will depend on competence and effectiveness levels of your specific state.
So is there anyone out there who still wants to try to credibly argue that the Presidency of GWB was worse than DJT?
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There are. Head on over to the Biden thread. Lots of people there gleefully doing so. A few still saying Biden would be worse than trump.
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My comments about means testing a few days ago seem so quant and misguided in hindsight. This is a time to rain money down on the system from everywhere. It’s not the time to quibble about billions here and billions there.
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Came to post this. The daily covid briefings have replaced Trump rallies. He and Pence just get up there and tell one lie after another, painting rosy pictures about how there’s no shortage of masks and ventilators and almost all of it goes unchallenged.
55% is pretty low and I suspect it will go lower over time, but the fact that it’s over 50% is just straight ridiculous and a terrible electoral sign.
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My company (Fortune 500 multinational) just had a call to talk about the “drastic” measures being taken in these unprecedented times. I was sort of flabbergasted - it was a tiered “temporary” salary reduction. Higher up people get more of a salary reduction, the plebes get a lower salary reduction. I expected much, much deeper cuts/layoffs/furloughs, and still feel they are coming in the next 2-3 weeks, if not sooner. The company’s revenue is basically headed to near-zero for the next couple of months at least.
This is the one time I would support castle doctrine style stand your ground laws. For any tenants with landlords crazy enough to try and evict them now.
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I think even relatively progressive organizations aren’t grasping how economically devastating this is going to be. There is a general feeling that the government won’t let apocalyptic outcomes come to pass, but I for one do not have any faith at all in their ability to get this right.
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Yeah that 55% approval rating is pre hospitals being overwhelmed and the economic fallout really slamming into people. It still doesn’t feel real to many people absolutely including me.
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True, there is a bit of a lag in those polls. Still it’s troubling that those numbers were essentially flipped a week ago before the crackdowns/shutdowns had fully kicked in.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1240977560529444864?s=19
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1240977926830657536?s=19
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1240978789347340290?s=19
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Honestly, hard to blame anyone other than the voters here
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The media and the multinational conglomerates who own them can be blamed for who the voters ultimately elected.
OK so a lot of peoples’ responses made me wary of this article. Will I learn information from it that will reduce my risk of infection and that of my family? If so, I will read it. If it will mostly make me poop myself and not really help, I won’t. So if you’ve read it, please vote.
- Read it
- Don’t read it
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We Got It (covid) Boys!
Will learn information from it that will reduce your risk of infection and will mostly make you poop yourself, so I voted read.