I couldn’t find the good chocolate bunnies, Peeps or jelly beans at the store today.
Maybe I should try CVS.
I couldn’t find the good chocolate bunnies, Peeps or jelly beans at the store today.
Maybe I should try CVS.
At first I thought this virus and economic shutdown was going to destroy Trumps chance at reelection. However now what it is doing is exposing how evil the Chinese communist government is. Along with how they have dictated the US economy since the 70s. This is an opportune time for Trump to promote his American manufacturing production gospel. Now he has the excuse to do it quickly with this crazy economic shutdown. Trump will use this to not only win the election but make the American economy a production rather than service economy again. Which has been his endgame all along.
Rigged for Hillary wrote:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVNf7LsUcAILubC?format=jpg&name=largeUnhinged nutjob from the WaPo.
Had she reworded that as willingness to let people die it would be accurate
Nike ain’t gonna like this wrote:
At first I thought this virus and economic shutdown was going to destroy Trumps chance at reelection. However now what it is doing is exposing how evil the Chinese communist government is. Along with how they have dictated the US economy since the 70s. This is an opportune time for Trump to promote his American manufacturing production gospel. Now he has the excuse to do it quickly with this crazy economic shutdown. Trump will use this to not only win the election but make the American economy a production rather than service economy again. Which has been his endgame all along.
Lol a tzee’s wet dream
You think Trump can turn waiters and hotel staff into manufacturer workers sewing clothes and assembling electronics in six months?
The thing Trump has played this virus thing very well. He’s put it on the governors to make the decisions. Which is how a republic is suppose to work. People will rather praise or condemn their states governor and accuse them of blood on their hands. While trump can say “that’s the constitution” which smartly limits the power of a president. I’m not a fan of Trump. I don’t like his personality. However he is very calculated and if he plays this out right will roll into a reelection.
I'm not always sure how Trump's mind works. Is he blatantly lying while knowing his lie can easily be fact-checked, or does he not understand the findings of the Judicial Watch in California?
L L wrote:
You think Trump can turn waiters and hotel staff into manufacturer workers sewing clothes and assembling electronics in six months?
Not six months but he will move it in that direction. Modern manufacturing is very technological now anyway. It may appeal to millennials more that we think.
Ana Theist wrote:
L L wrote:
It’s Easter weekend and Trump had said he wanted to see full churches this Sunday.
That’s not happening.
Sad to say, it *is* happening in a number of places.
Florida Man--surprise, surprise--is one of several governors who consider church an "essential" service. It's simple pandering: Preachers lose income when they can't pass a collection plate, true; but more to the point, he's counting on a "The governor let us have Easter!" response from the electorate.
Of course, if people *really* believed that "G-d" is everywhere, they could simply worship at home; but that's not enough for some.
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On a different but related note: The drugstores that I've been in recently have *loads* of unsold Easter candy. I do expect that kids will still get their Easter baskets, but the stuff is selling slowly right now. In NYC, Duane Reade stores are already discounting their Easter stuff and starting next week there should be very steep discounts--reaching on the order of 75-90%--so the stores can clear their shelves. Anybody with a sweet tooth might want to load up.
Let’s see what trump’s next few GDP prints look like. How’s he going to reconcile his miraculous economy with a +20% unemployment rate by Nov? Hint - he’s going to blame somebody else
Nike ain’t gonna like this wrote:
L L wrote:
You think Trump can turn waiters and hotel staff into manufacturer workers sewing clothes and assembling electronics in six months?
Not six months but he will move it in that direction. Modern manufacturing is very technological now anyway. It may appeal to millennials more that we think.
Will they be happy working for $2/day to compete with the global labor market or will you be happy buying that t-shirt for 10x current prices?
Democrats are fauci fairies.
She was a conservative columnist in the Post before Trump.
Nike ain’t gonna like this wrote:
L L wrote:
You think Trump can turn waiters and hotel staff into manufacturer workers sewing clothes and assembling electronics in six months?
Not six months but he will move it in that direction. Modern manufacturing is very technological now anyway. It may appeal to millennials more that we think.
Sounds like evil socialism. Trump will first need to decree forced labor to pick the fruit and vegetables which are rotting in the fields, and plant next seasons crops. Food comes first because even slaves have to eat.
Trollminator wrote:
Ana Theist wrote:
Sad to say, it *is* happening in a number of places.
Florida Man--surprise, surprise--is one of several governors who consider church an "essential" service. It's simple pandering: Preachers lose income when they can't pass a collection plate, true; but more to the point, he's counting on a "The governor let us have Easter!" response from the electorate.
Of course, if people *really* believed that "G-d" is everywhere, they could simply worship at home; but that's not enough for some.
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On a different but related note: The drugstores that I've been in recently have *loads* of unsold Easter candy. I do expect that kids will still get their Easter baskets, but the stuff is selling slowly right now. In NYC, Duane Reade stores are already discounting their Easter stuff and starting next week there should be very steep discounts--reaching on the order of 75-90%--so the stores can clear their shelves. Anybody with a sweet tooth might want to load up.
Let’s see what trump’s next few GDP prints look like. How’s he going to reconcile his miraculous economy with a +20% unemployment rate by Nov? Hint - he’s going to blame somebody else
And in politics, when you are playing defense you are losing.
freeidea wrote:
She was a conservative columnist in the Post before Trump.
She is still a conservative columnist. She is not a Trumper columnist.
Conservative Max Boot, who also writes for WaPo, is the same ... bailed out of the Trumptanic.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
I'm not always sure how Trump's mind works. Is he blatantly lying while knowing his lie can easily be fact-checked, or does he not understand the findings of the Judicial Watch in California?
Easy political calculation.
He knows he is lying.
He knows his base doesn't care about the substance and likes it when the media calls him a liar.
Nike ain’t gonna like this wrote:
The thing Trump has played this virus thing very well. He’s put it on the governors to make the decisions. Which is how a republic is suppose to work. People will rather praise or condemn their states governor and accuse them of blood on their hands. While trump can say “that’s the constitution” which smartly limits the power of a president. I’m not a fan of Trump. I don’t like his personality. However he is very calculated and if he plays this out right will roll into a reelection.
Not sure what you mean by "he is very calculated".
Trump's play book is pretty simple. Never take responsibility for anything until you know if it turned out well. Always blame someone else for anything that does not go well. Always take credit for anything that does go well.
I guess that could be called calculated.
The data are interesting…from the beginning the data have been strongly led by hotspots. First it was Italy, then Italy and Iran, then Italy, Spain and France. And now France is the country leading the percentage growth.
The daily counts out of France are wildly different each day and are hiding whatever pattern might exist in the data. Or at least making the patterns harder to discern. France was 29% of world deaths yesterday. At least per the data…I don’t think that represents reality.
So I have a new feature: The world ex-France.
This smooths out the data a bit, but the very bad day on April 7 are still in the 3 day average.
So I don’t want to say too much about 4/9 data.
The best spin: I can say that in the world ex-France, daily death counts have been flat for two days in a row. That’s pretty good.
That’s not true including France – with France in the data, the 3 day average for the world is very high: 14%. Which is about he same as we’ve seen since the beginning of the epidemic. But when 4/7 data drops out that number will fall a lot.
I do think I need to change that to 7 day averages, to round off the outlier days and weekly patterns.
USA deaths have been steady for three straight days – that’s consistent with the top the IHME model projects. I think. Although the peak is in hospital allocation, not deaths. So maybe the flattening death counts in the US are better than expected news since deaths are a trailing indicator.
Italy and Spain continue to be the only major countries where the data are actually showing a decrease in deaths. Low single digits in percent, but this is what we’d expect to see if they are past peak, so that’s good. The peak seems to be quite round with this disease, which is disappointing.
Today’s data will be interesting – to see if we can get past 4/7 data and confirm that we are in a slowing…or if 4/7’s terrible numbers will repeat.
Belgium is bad news…on a per capita basis that nation is worse than France and catching Italy, with some very, very bad days. Spain is still the worst per capita. Among major nations.
I am astounded that Italy has been on lockdown for a month but continues to have ~4,000 new cases per day. I guess this is what flattening the curve looks like, but it's bad news for anyone who wants the USA to open up in May.