62 thoughts on “FOX News: Don’t worry, be happy.”

  1. To add to the fantasy world the NY Times printed a letter from that trumpist most likely to replace the bobble head on the ticket Nikki Haley.  Oh it was deep in the brown pile.  No link, NY Times does not deserve the click.

  2. What did I say last week.   If it was 99,999 deaths, Trump would claim a victory because it wasn’t 100k.   Now that the guesstimate is 80-some thousand, SFB will claim both a victory if that number holds true, and, he will blame the economy on the over-reaction of the left.     

  3. One can only hope that the virus hits close  enough to home for the dumbasses at Faux Noise to understand.    When their loved ones can’t breath, cough up blood, or are seizuring, let’s see if they think it’s an F-ing overreaction.

  6. It is all John Prine’s fault that Sherry and I got together.  She gave me a ride to a neighborhood meeting, she put a John Prine cd on and I started singing along. The guy that lived across the street was hitting on her but he thought John Prine was stupid. He never had a chance. 
    Renee, as goofy as it is, If Sherry and I had a song, that one was it. The album had just been released and that song seemed to fit our situation. We would look at each other and grin when it came on.
     
    Jack

  9. Ya know the governor who really kicking it isn’t Cuomo but Gavin Newsome in California. While NYC is spiking out of control California is keeping a lid on their outbreaks. Why Cuomo, he has the NYC media markets.
    Jack

  10. whskyjack:
    My favorite Track on the album “The Bonnie Raitt Collection” (1990) is “Angel from Montgomery,” a live recorded duet that she sang with John Prine, who wrote the song.
    It’s on you tube. I tried to download it here, but I couldn’t.

  12. Nash – I provided a link to that in the last thread.  It’s on the 1971 Live album.  It is IMHO the definitive version of that song, which may very well be the best song he’s written.  Here’s the link again.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T5NuI6Ai-o
    (Hit the “skip ads” button 5 seconds in) I, too am an utter failure at posting YouTube vids on the site.

  15. OK, This is the best version of Angel from Montgomery 
    The gal has pipes and great instrumental solos too 

  16. BiD
    Beware of rumors, 
    The connection, Covid-19 is a bat corona virus, A lab in Wuhan was studying corona viruses in bats, there for it was a lab accident that cause the epidemic. Total nonsense,   No proof of conection, no cause and effect just idle speculation by the ignorant.
    Jack

  20. Bernie Sanders has just announced he is quitting the race for the Democratic nomination.
    Champagne corks are popping on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.
    The Democratic Party’s hope now rests with a dimwitted and corrupt former vice president, who is campaigning from a laptop in his basement.
    Biden’s new campaign slogan to appeal to progressives … “Shut up and vote for me.”
     
     

  23. Sorry, I posted  the wrong don’t worry song(now deleted) 
    Here is Bob Marley with a superior “don’t worry song” 

  24. Nash, it’s time for the younger voters to recognize that their choice is between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.  That’s all.  If they want Trump, they’ll stay home or vote for him.  Elections are not just a pipe dream.  They have consequences.  The fact is Joe was beating Bernie for whatever reason, and Bernie’s share of primary voters dropped by between 1/4 and /1/3 from 2016.  Unless you like what you’ve got in Washington, tearing down Joe is counter productive and will keep the status quo – and likely change the balance on the Court to 6-3 0r even 7-2 for a decade or two.  I do not want anything like that. 

  26. What pogo said, he was much politer than what I was getting ready to say. Must be the lawyer training.
     
    Jack

  27. Jack – The report that SFB ignored from US intel is that folks were getting sick & dying in Wuhan in November, prior to the live animal market, which is the story the Chinese govt have for the outbreak.   

  28. I guess Bernie didn’t like the exit polls from Wisconsin.  Hopefully, seeing those long lines of voters risking their health and lives to have their voices heard was a wake-up call for him.  If he had continued in the race, it wouldn’t be long before he was accused of having blood on his hands just like trump.
     
    Bye, Bye Bernie…

  29. Pogo, I agree with you and Jack. Since the dictator wasn’t impeached, what’s left is vote him out, or off him so says Lawrence Tribe in his book, “”To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment:
      Perhaps, Covid-19 will do that.
    https://youtu.be/fAjf64M-a6A

  30. I’m so hopping mad at Fox News and the moronic, talking heads.  There aren’t even words. 

  31. BiD
    First, your link was to a WSJ opinion piece. You might as well been quoting Hannity of Fox news. Same difference. Don’t confuse WSJ reporting division with WSJ opinion section totally different animal.
    There have been a lot of misinformation flying around. 
    I haven’t read a credible source of how it transferred from animal to human, we probably won’t know.
    China first notice it when a lot of people connected to a fish market got sick. A market like that is the perfect breeding ground. A lot of people in close quarter, multiple points of contact. That there were earlier isolated cases doesn’t surprise me. 
    Now has China been honest with us? No, that has been obvious from the start. Just like Trump they have been trying to downplay the problem. It is the problem of having an autocratic minded government. 
    But keep an eye on them as they release some of the restrictions and see if the virus resurges as that will tell us our future.
    Jack

  32. When it come to Bernie I always wonder how many times LBJ would piss on his shoes before he would go away. 
    I need to get out Robert Caro”s books on LBJ and reread them. That he was not respectful to the left wing of the party is an understatement.  He took the only one he could stomach and made him the leader by just not talking to anyone else. That was Hubert Humphry.
    Funny thing he got more of the lefts agenda passed than any president in the twentieth century, even Roosevelt.
    The only time the left get something is when a centrist is in control.  It irritates the F### out of them but still.
    Jack

  34. I will vote for Biden but it will be with deep regret.
    I expect NOTHING from him, except the same old pro-business establishment Democratic Party crap that has, for the last 40 years, taken almost everything away from the middle and lower classes to reward the upper class.
    Guys like Biden send their kids to Ivy League colleges so they can spend their lives exploiting working people whom they despise.  So they can, for example, go to the Ukraine and make $50,000 month sitting on the board of an energy company, like Biden’s son did, with a little “help” from Vice President Joe.   (You can be sure that Trump will remind us of THAT in every campaign speech he gives.)
    There really are no more “FDR-style” Democrats left, except a few powerless members of the House of Representatives.  All we have in government leadership now are conservative Democrats and fascist Republicans.  That’s the only choice we are given. 
    As Ralph Nader said, we have a choice between “Tweedle Dumb, and Tweedle Dee.”  
    There is no way to stop the ecological and economic catastrophe caused by climate change with this “ship of fools” in charge.   Exxon owns them all. 
    What the hell.  I’m almost 70.  I probably won’t be around when the ship finally sinks.
    *****
    And I still can’t believe that Nixon won in 1968.  How the hell did  THAT happen?
    (Yeah, I am still pissed off about that.)

  36.  I got a campaign message from Joe today – here it is in its entirety, purely for information purposes:

     

    [Pogo],

    I’ve had a chance to get to know Bernie over the years. We were in the Senate together before Barack and I took office, and of course, I had known him from his work in the House. What I liked about Bernie was that he said what he believed, no matter who was in the room. I admired his passion. I liked his convictions. I thought people who failed to take him seriously would prove to be sorely mistaken. And, as it turns out, I was right.

    Bernie suspended his campaign today, but while you can suspend a campaign, you can’t suspend a movement. Bernie and his supporters have taken issues which had been given little attention and brought them to the center of the conversation. Bernie gets a lot of credit for his passionate advocacy for the issues he cares about. But he doesn’t get enough credit for being a voice that forces us all to take a hard look in the mirror and ask if we’ve done enough.Jill and I can’t wait to work with him and Jane on building a more progressive future.

    Bernie has often said that his campaign was not about him. It was about “us.” That goes for me, too. And now more than ever, that rings true. This primary is over — but this campaign is just beginning. And it’s a campaign bigger than whose name is on the ballot. It’s a campaign about people like us coming together to not only defeat Donald Trump, but to ensure that America lives up to its founding promises once we do.

    We will not defeat Donald Trump by being like Donald Trump. We won’t win with division, cruelty, or appealing to the worst in us. We’ll win with compassion, humanity, humility, and joy. We’ll win by being a campaign that brings Americans together — a campaign that shows decency, but also determination. A campaign that shows humanity, but also grit. And in the end: we will show the country that a better future is possible. And we’ll show that it is possible because of people like you.

    You’ve built this campaign, and believed in us — always.So I’m going to ask you, in the spirit of gratitude, at this pivotal moment: can you pitch in $5 to this campaign?

    Around this country right now, there are people stepping up to the call of a crisis. Nurses with nothing but garbage bags to protect them — but they go into work anyway. Environmental Services workers — like the one Jill spoke to just this morning in Chicago — keeping our hospitals safe without attention or little appreciation — but they work around the clock anyway. Teachers leading classes remotely, while balancing their own families at home — but they teach anyway. There are grocery store workers and food delivery people paid far too little for the work they do – but they do it anyway.

    It’s amazing who we are. I have talked a lot in this campaign about the Soul of America. Well — we are seeing the soul of the nation on display every day in this crisis. Courage. Bravery. Selflessness. A commitment to something bigger than ourselves. That’s who we are. And it makes me so damn proud of America. And those are the things that make me so damn proud to be our party’s nominee.

    So, yes: we’re going to defeat Donald Trump. But once we do that, we’re going to tackle the climate crisis head-on. We’re going to make health care accessible and affordable to everyone. We’re going to take on the NRA, and we’re going to relieve a generation of the crushing burden of debt. We will not win just the battle for the soul of our nation. We’ll transform it as well.We can’t wait to get started on doing it — together. And I hope you’ll pitch in to get us going.https://go.joebiden.com/Donate

    Thanks for always keeping the faith,

    Joe

     
    I deleted links and extraneous crap like boxes with donation amounts in them. Some paragraph breaks may be in the wrong place (so shoot me)

     

  37. I apologize if I mentioned this already, but back in about 1975 John Prine played at the University of Alabama in Morgan Auditorium (which was actually a theater sized stage in the English Department – probably held 300 or so.  A good friend of mine, then trying to make it as a singer-songwriter guitar playing troubadour type opened for him.  He met John just before going on, and not to speak ill of the dead, but he said John was drunk off his ass.  I saw the show, and while you could tell he’d been drinking, he put on one hell of a good show, kept up a fun banter with the audience, and most of it sounded – as the saying goes – just like the record.  

  39. The plagues are bound to get worse.  You can’t have human beings wiping out habitat and fouling their surroundings while moving unrestrained from country to country. 

    Any nation not doing the genetic research and in preparation for these potential killers will e the worst victims.  At the same time the animal habitat has to increase to create less interaction.

    The next one could be similar to the Black Plague that was actually somewhat limited by geography.  It still killed 1/3 of the global population.  The modern human equivalent of that one would be three billion people. 

  40. lizzie quoted by the hill:

    “Thank you @BernieSanders, for fighting so relentlessly for America’s working families during this campaign,” Warren tweeted. “Your fight for progressive ideas moved the conversation and charted a path for candidates and activists that will change the course of our country and party.”
    “That fight does not end today,” she added. “We’ll continue it together in the Senate and keep working to hold the wealthy and well-connected accountable to the people.”

  43. “Mary Poppins Returns” is on Netflix, if you need something else to watch.  It’s very good!

  46. …the comment editor is running at a glacial pace, so i’ll just add here that maybe there is a value in cataloging FauxNews disinformation?  What a cost to one’s psyche for it!  Thanks for your service, CC🧠❤️🇺🇸
     
    Stay sane, peoples✌️

  47. The report of body bags being brought out of houses points out a fundamental flaw in our accounting of COVID-19 exposures and deaths. Absent a positive test, anyone who dies of pneumonia or respiratory failure is a potential COVID-19 victim not among those accounted for.  In short, we don’t know. 

  48. I really enjoyed Mary Poppins Returns particularly the music hall styled “The Cover Is Not The Book”.  It is an Emily Blunt & Lin-Manuel Miranda duet with a definitely more frisky Mary than in the original movie.

     

  49. Brian Williams likes Trump. He keeps calling the virus the way invisible enemy 
    Ken Doll

  51. News reports say that hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Covid-19 deaths that occur at peoples’ homes and apartments in NYC are not being counted.
    The New York State and New York City governments are just reporting the hospital deaths. 
    This is not an oversight.  It is a “cover-up” policy designed to conceal the full extent of the damage caused by both DiBlasio’s and Cuomo’s mistakes in not initially taking the pandemic seriously and waiting too long to do a “partial” shutdown.
    Those two politicians are not quite as bad as Trump but they are not “heroes” either.  They did all of the things they are criticizing him for now.

  53. BlueBronc….  if you hang your toilet paper in the over position it slides easily.  Cats and puppies love it. If you hang your toilet paper in the under position… they don’t like it as much and hopefully will leave it alone.   I fill the holder in our upstairs bathroom in the under position… it’s never been touched.  Rick fills the downstairs bathroom and keeps forgetting and puts it in the over position…  our cats have a blast!

  55. As far as I can tell Mr Cracker and I won’t be able to leave the house until there is a vaccine

  57. ABC said there is a drug going to trial that keeps the virus from sticking to proteins on lungs cells in the lab & that it may be a treatment and a prophylactic.   I think they said it was called EEID (something like that).     However, that doesn’t answer all of the other weird things the virus does, like cause encephalitis and conjunctivitis.    Anyway, maybe we’ll have an answer soon than later.    Trump will probably really lose it if he bought into the wrong drug.   Is anyone looking into his financial ties to companies producing hydroxycloroquine?

  58. BiD, that has been covered extensively at WaPo. Don’t waste your time or energy. Dipshit owns a small share of a mutual fund that owns Santos, who manufactures the drug. He’s banking on being a hero if it turns out to be efficacious. The monetary angle is minor at best. How about focus on how he’s fucked up the response. That’s real. Or how about him fighting voting by mail while he (today) applied for his and Melanoma’s absentee, mail in ballot for Palm Springs. Focus on real things, not chickenshit that’s already been investigated and reported. 

  59. The best estimate is that it will take at least 18 months to develop a “vaccine,” produce BILLIONS of doses. and distribute it to all the people on the planet.   
     
    Well… the “developed” nations will get it, but “lesser developed” nations…probably not.
     
    A “treatment,” a drug that helps people who are infected increase their chances of survival, may come sooner, but even if there are possible candidates at very this moment, proper testing for dangerous side-effects will take at least 3 months.  
     
    So we all need to protect ourselves (if we can) for anywhere from 3-18 months.  This will not be easy for people who have to work and cannot work from home, especially for those who use public transport to get to work or to shop for food.
     
    One of the biggest problems we have in this country is the tens of millions of Fox News viewers who have been told over and over again, that “the danger has been exaggerated by liberals who want to defeat Trump.”  So they refuse to take any precautions. 

  60. Hoping trials of the new drug that keeps the virus from attaching to lung cells in the lab will work in human trials.   EEID? EIID?  

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