Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

The late, great Kroll Show had a clip with one of the supporting actors talking about getting his card for “anxiety, and my back hurts sometimes.”

 

From a brief survey of my Trump-leaning Facebook friends, I'm telling you: Operation Fuck It is taking hold.

In a week, the GOP is going to give up trying and try to tell everyone to go back to work, else we have a spike in suicides from the economic downturn.

 

Liberty University is forcing its professors back to campus next week to keep office hours.

 

This one is so easy to decode.

1. Governments start shutting down large gatherings and offices.

2. Big corporations bitch for handouts.

3. Handouts marketed as "stimulus to help working people.

4. "stimulus," which smells worse than newly dropped dog shit, doesn't pass.

5. Big business gets mad and says, "well then, if we aren't getting anything, I want everyone back to work."

6. Big Baby starts whining on Twitter that its time to get back to work soon.

Follow the money.

 

Here's how coronavirus politics is being played right now in Vermont ... there is a House vote tomorrow morning to allow remote voting (think social distancing) during this state emergency. The senate is likely going to vote yes on the same thing. There won't be enough House voters to make a quorum (76) so the House Speaker, a progressive Dem, has made deals with minority leaders to suspend rules which would allow 4 or 5 committee chairs to push remote voting through. This would allow the Speaker, in cahoots with the Senate Pro Tem, also progressive Dem, to repackage a Paid Family Leave bill, stuff it into "essential" (read: coronavirus) bills that can be voted on remotely, and send it back to the governor, a Republican, who vetoed a FPL bill last month and narrowly escaped a veto override by 1 vote. The play is that House/Senate progs don't care about an override vote at this point, they simply want the governor to veto PFL, again, but during a national emergency so they can call him a heartless monster the next several months leading up to the election while pushing their progressive pot-smoking hippy candidate as the savior who will make PFL his top priority. Full stop. There is one way to stop a vote tomorrow morning: just one rep has to stand up before the speaker offers a motion to suspend the rules to ask for a quorum count. This would stop the process and there would be no vote. I'm told the speaker and her crew have been working phones and emails to urge Dems not to show up for tomorrow's vote. Who knows how many Republicans will show up. There likely won't be more than 30 who do show up. If anyone is going to stand up and request that count it'll have to be a Republican and as of now I'm told that none is willing to make that stance.

 

India, population 1.3 billion, has ordered a three-week lockdown.

 

India's PM declares a total lockdown for 21 days for 1.3 billion people.

“If you can’t handle these 21 says, this country will go back 21 years,” he said.

But what about the stock market!?!

 

You know, an update of legislative practices and rules of order adopted in the 18th century might make politics more understandable to more 21st century citizens.

 

You'll start to see other states legislatures voting via remote locations which allows for shenanigans.

 

Yikes.

Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a 'Super Spreader'

 

People are going to refuse to go to work. That simple. You can't ask people to make a choice between their family's health and their income. I also believe rushing people back to work usher in the start of widespread violence. People are legitimately fucking scared right now, and this shit isn't helping.

 

And unlike reputable institutions of higher learning, Trump University of Lynchburg does not grant tenure. So they're faced with a choice. I'm guessing most of them are Trumpists anyway and will bow to what Dear Leader(s) say.