66 thoughts on “Should Trump Be Quarantined?”

  2. You know SFB is freaking out.  However, if he doesn’t get cofeve, it will only increase his god-complex.   Did SFB touch Ivanker?   Melania should  be safe. 

  4. From prior thread:

    BiD, do you think that’s all they did? 🤣

    Love the “Melania should be safe” comment.  Indeed. 

  6. Son just bought stock in Princess and added to his Disney.  He really enjoyed his cruise to Alaska & family trip to Disneyland last year.  LOL

     

  8. Otay,  Run over to Sam’s to pick up coffee, they sell a local roast I like, and a bag of Pupperoni.  Walking across the front of the store left me impressed by how many people are suffering from diarrhea.  One hundred rolls. One hundred sixty rolls.  One old couple, maybe eighties, had well over two hundred rolls in their buggy.  You cannot tell me there is no epidemic happening.  Gauging by the quantity of TP being hoarded there is something very sinister happening.  At least we know that it flows from the head diarrhea spewer, SFB.

  9. Oh, good.  The WH is going to give another tidbit of BS in 10 minutes.   Go about your business; nothing to see here.   Meanwhile, the entire country of Italy is on lockdown.  

  10. rr – They are hoarding TP.  The hand sanitizer is all gone, so this gives a sense of control over the situation.   They’ve said to have 2 weeks worth of everything just in case.    I could feed everyone on the trail for at least 6 weeks.   Yeah, I’m well-fixed for TP, too.   

  13. Hey Ari Melber sometimes you are stupid
    people who have looked to the cost of Medicare for All such as the Kaiser Family foundation say it will cost less not more when you cut out the medical bottom feeders like the insurance companies
    Try actual facts

  14. Who is the woman in the gold/red silk suit staring approvingly at Pence? Debbie Birx? Pardon me, but I really don’t know who other than Fauci are on the WH COVID team.

  15. Help for hourly wager-earners and small businesses.  That’s good to hear, but all of those retail shops that are already barely existing thanks to Amazon aren’t going to have any customers and won’t be able to pay larger companies.    They aren’t going to survive and there will be job cuts (cuts) at businesses.  Unemployment insurance for how long, but then, no healthcare since COBRA is wicked expensive.     

  16. BiD… we always have extra food around at this time of year in case of a major blizzard or ice storm.  There was plenty of toilet paper at the store I went to this morning.  The only thing missing was Purell hand sanitizer.  I never buy that stuff… I bought a big refill bottle of soft soap… but I needed it.

  18. Just read up on Dr. Birx.  I can’t imagine that SFB left her on the team, being that she was appointed as US Global Aids Coordinator by Pres. Obama.

  19. we have been at Kaiser a bunch in the last few weeks.  Lab work, annual appointments and some office procedures
    we see a few people in masks but not all that many. The biggest difference a lot more and frequent disenfecting 

  20. Expanding sick leave?  Companies don’t have to give sick leave.  Mine didn’t for years; we finally lobbied them into 3 days.   We are too small for FMLA and it wouldn’t be paid to take care of a sick relative anyway.    Cutting payroll tax?  That won’t do squat.   You gave huge tax cuts to your buddies and it’s been squandered.     What a miserable mess of an administration.   I wonder if any Repug Senators are wishing they had joined Mitt?   Aw, we’d still be stuck with Pence.  

  22. “Knives Out” was pretty good, kinda similar to the “Clue” movie from the ‘80s

  23. Otay.  Tubed the old television receiver to SFB tv (faux snooze).  Did you know – f0rget it.  What a weird world.  The damned homeless are spreading Covid-19.  The chryon does show the markets have cratered but the vocal is ataccking less rhaen rich Californians.

  25. tiptoe – There’s a case of the virus up your way.   Stay safe.  Damned Californians.
    Take your vitamins, wash your hands and think good thoughts.  That’s as close to national healthcare as we will get.
    My insurance company sent out a notice that they will cover testing completely; no copay.   Now, if you need any kind of medical help or, heaven forbid, end up in the hospital, kiss what’s left of your 401(k) goodbye.

  26. For all you free market Republicans: this crash is the invisible hand of the market signaling it has zero faith in trump’s “leadership”.

  30. Tomorrow the Hillary voters speak out loud and clear, and the message is:

    Payback is a mother and she is voting for Joe Biden.  

  31. corey, southies in boston cancelled st pat too.   forget the parade, go straight to the booze –  disinfectant you know.

     

  32. best endorsement statement award goes to Sterling Heights MI mayor

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/republican-mayor-drops-trump-for-joe-biden-in-key-swing-state-of-michigan/ar-BB10Y4En?ocid=spartanntp

    While Taylor, a life-long Republican, voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, he said he would cast his ballot for Biden this year because Trump is “deranged.”
    “I think Joe Biden is the candidate who can unify all of the Democrats and he’s the candidate who can appeal to moderates and Republicans like me who don’t want to see four more years of President Trump,” Taylor said, according to the Chicago Tribune on Monday.
    “I remember thinking this Trump thing is insane, but when it was down to him and Hillary, I kind of said, ‘Well, you are a Republican, and yeah he’s nuts, but maybe he’ll get better and you know he’s going to lower taxes,” Taylor said. “I slowly talked myself into it. ‘He can’t seriously be this deranged once he gets in there,’ and he’s even more deranged now than I thought then. So, I take the blame. I voted for him.”

  33. wapo:

    The incoming White House chief of staff, Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, was among three Republican congressmen who said Monday that they were quarantining themselves because of suspected contact with a confirmed carrier of the coronavirus.
    A spokesman, Ben Williamson, said that Meadows learned this weekend that he “may have come in contact” with the individual who attended the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington late last month. Meadows tested negative for the virus and is not displaying symptoms but is remaining home in self-quarantine until Wednesday, Williamson said in a statement.
    Trump named Meadows his chief of staff on Friday evening, replacing Mick Mulvaney. Williamson’s statement did not address whether Meadows physically interacted with Trump since the conference last month.

  34. also from above wapo story:

    Five of the six — Gaetz, Collins, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Meadows — attended the CPAC meeting, just one of many public gatherings where lawmakers, aides and other political players are in proximity with potential carriers of the virus.
    The sixth lawmaker, Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.), said Monday that she met with a person in Washington last week who has since tested positive for the virus and that she would be “working remotely” as a result.
    “Out of an abundance of absolute caution, my D.C. staff and I are self-monitoring and maintaining social distancing practices,” she said.
    Gaetz and Brownley said they were closing their offices in Washington
    […]
    A seventh lawmaker, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.), said he possibly had been exposed to the carrier at CPAC, but after discussing his situation with a CDC physician, he decided to return to work.

     

  36. Wishful thinking on my part, but every time I read the headline above I’m seeing “Quartered” 

    Drawn and quartered is so appealing. 

  37. Did I sleep for a week? St. Pat’s is next Tuesday.     Does the trail have cofeve?  I had to go to the dashboard to get the post recent post and last night it said database unavailable.  Maybe it’s just me.   

  39. mike Bloomberg, if you’re listening, please get (R) Mayor Taylor for your next anti-trump ad to repeat into the camera his:

    “I slowly talked myself into it. ‘He can’t seriously be this deranged once he gets in there,’ and he’s even more deranged now than I thought then. So, I take the blame. I voted for him.”

  40. sub-titles a nice touch. 
    sure fire hit here if dolly or willy would write a catchy covid19 country song for us  

  41. BiD, LOL.  You are correct – I guess I got stuck in the Wayback Machine and overshot by a week when I returned from 2017.

  42. Poobah, incoming for today if you want it (and with minor changes it can be recycled about 4 or 5 more times before the convention.

  43. Today could be very bad for Bernie.  Of the 6 states holding primaries, Joe leads in 5 with noticeable mo in WA & a 4 point lead in the only poll in Idaho, and I can’t find a poll in ND.

  45. To get an overview, since Mike and Lizzie dropped out Joe’s numbers nationally increased by 13 points versus Bernie’s 6.  Mike and Lizzie had a collective 28%, so there’s another 9 points out there to claim.

  46. Just got back from voting and having breakfast at Dunkins.  Our town election is today….   town officials…  and warrant articles.  Warrant articles are the purest democratic vote.  We vote our town and school budgets and how we want to spend our property tax money….  paving roads, buying firefighter equipment, police cars, etc., etc.  What’s really surprising is that more people will have voted in the NH primary from our town than how we want our tax dollars spent…  it really should be reversed.

  47. Majority of Washingtonians are deeply pissed off at Bernie.  In 2016 they got a good look at the caucus that counted that had been invaded by Bernie and compared it to the Primary numbers won easily by Hillary that didn’t count.

    End result, elimination of party caucuses for Presidential delegates replaced by today’s Primary.  

    An Awkward Reality 

     

  49. It is a beautiful day, so I walked the 2 blocks to where I vote. To be honest even if I could early vote I would probably got vote in person. Something about the ritual and the chatting with the poll workers. 
    It wasn’t busy but they did have a steady stream of voters while I was there.
    Jack

  50. Mr C just canceled going to his granddaughter’s wedding in L A. I’m not sure it’s because of the virus or because he doesn’t like her choice of husbands

  52. jack – TX early votes in person.  I have yet to figure out how they can keep all of these polling places staffed for 2 weeks.  
    Still trying to find out what happened to 44 thumb drives containing about 10% of the TX Super Tuesday votes.

  53. Flatus
    Not fatigue. He isn’t too impressed with the husband to be and has noticed a lot of folks are not traveling or going to large events.  So it could be a combo

  54. the hill:

    With the Capitol consumed by anxiety over the coronavirus, Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) rose in a closed-door caucus meeting Tuesday and told his Democratic colleagues they should leave Washington and return home to their districts, where they would be safer.  
    Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) immediately quashed the idea, according to multiple sources in the room.  
    “We are the captains of the ship. We are the last to leave,” she told her caucus, borrowing a line uttered moments earlier by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), a Navy veteran. 

  55. I’ll be avoiding large crowds for the next ten years.  That oughta do it.

    But just to be sure, I’ll also be avoiding small crowds.

  57. KC, in my neckofthewoods we (I) call that an excuse.  Find them handy at times.
    Prolly gonna violate fair use or something, but from Wapo:

    Trump spars with Rep. Schiff over briefings on foreign election interference
     

    As voters headed to the polls in six primary states Tuesday, President Trump sparred on Twitter with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) over planned briefings of the full House and Senate on foreign interference in the election.
     

    “There is another Russia, Russia, Russia meeting today,” Trump tweeted ahead of the afternoon sessions, scheduled to be conducted by members of his administration.

    “It is headed up by corrupt politician Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, so I wouldn’t expect too much!” Trump added, using one of the derogatory descriptions of Schiff that he frequently employed during the impeachment proceedings in which Schiff played a prominent roll.
     

    Schiff responded on Twitter: “Mr. President, you are wrong. As usual,” Schiff wrote. “Today’s briefing for all House Members focuses on the threat of foreign interference in our election. The briefers are agency heads and senior officials. They are your own people. We will insist on the truth, whether you like it or not.”

    Priceless.  Is it even POSSIBLE for SFB to be more stupid than he demonstrates on a daily basis?

  59. Pogo
    Very convenient excuse.  He’s been complaining about this guy since he met him but of course would never say anything although he gives the marriage less than two years.  

  61. According to the CDC, one is company, two is a crowd.
     
    There’s never been a better time to be a misanthrope.

  63. Too Late the Misanthrope. 
    And that’s not just hyperbole.
    Whenever I think of it I say, “Oh, me.
    What kind of shit am I fixin’ to see?”

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