republicans have no shame

[Shirley]

If only the Stimulus packages in some way could help.

I heard her say that. She said at $50 a test it wasn't economical, but at $100 a test it was, because that was what was needed to pay the technicians.

There's something completely fucked up about those numbers if the testing is at all fast or high-throughput.

Now, finding and hiring enough qualified people to administer the tests, I could believe that to be a bottle-neck. But the numbers she quoted seem like complete nonsense to me.

Depends on who in the administration/cabinet/donor list is and what their ROI needs to be.

This should start ~ 25 seconds before she makes reference to the $50 test not being economical.
If it doesn't, fwd to ~ 1:07:40 mark.

[Deleted User 289]

[Deleted User 62]

"Opening Up America Again"

JFC

[Shirley]

Of course, because that's what cultists do:

[seahawk]

I wonder if Bob Brooks knows that nurses on the front lines on military bases are using cloth masks that they have made. Could he be more disgusting?

[Geezer]

[Shirley]

[HouseDivided]

So, there’s no such thing as conspiracies, unless they are conspiracies that confirm my own preconceived notions and prejudices. Got it.

[TDub]

This is silly.

[Shirley]

So, there’s no such thing as conspiracies, unless they are conspiracies that confirm my own preconceived notions and prejudices. Got it.

If I had said "there's no such thing as conspiracies", you'd have a point.

I didn't, so you don't.

Another post based on a false premise?

Try harder.

[Geezer]

Which one was Rosa Parks?

[HouseDivided]

So, there’s no such thing as conspiracies, unless they are conspiracies that confirm my own preconceived notions and prejudices. Got it.

If I had said "there's no such thing as conspiracies", you'd have a point.

I didn't, so you don't.

Another post based on a false premise?

Try harder.

Your premise is that there are only conspiracies if you believe them.

[HouseDivided]

This is silly.

Yup. Real Americans just sit at home patiently. Baaaaa!

[Shirley]

This is silly.

We don't expect much out of Psych, but you?

Maybe you need to get out more?

April 13, 2020 White House aides, outside groups launch effort to reopen economy

...The outside effort from conservative groups is expected to be led by Stephen Moore, a conservative at the Heritage Foundation who is close with White House economic officials; Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots; Adam Brandon, president of FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy organization; and Lisa Nelson, chief executive of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative organization with ties to the Koch brothers, according to the three people, who were granted anonymity to reveal details of an effort that had not been publicly revealed...

Thousands of Americans backed by rightwing donors gear up for protests. Conservative activists to demand governors lift stay-home orders – and movement has been driven by wealthy conservative groups.

Thousands of people are preparing to attend protests across the US in the coming days, as a rightwing movement against stay-at-home orders, backed by wealthy conservative groups and promoted by Donald Trump, continues to take hold.

Conservative activists are demanding governors lift orders designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus, despite the recommendations of public health officials. Trump, who has clashed with Democratic governors over how soon to reopen the US economy, tweeted his support on Friday, in an unprecedented endorsement of civil disobedience by a sitting president.

...Yet while organisers claim the protests are grassroots- and people-driven, a closer look reveals a movement driven by traditional rightwing groups, including one funded by the family of Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos.

The rallies have drawn comparisons to the Tea Party movement, which sprang into life in 2009 following the election of Barack Obama and was driven in part by Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by rightwing donors Charles and David Koch.

As with the Tea Party, the anti-stay-at-home movement has been promoted by a rightwing media eager for the economy to reopen, including Fox News which on Friday aired a segment on protests in Virginia, Michigan and Minnesota. Two minutes later, Trump tweeted to his 77.4 million followers the need to “liberate” those states.

The two groups behind the “operation gridlock” rally in Michigan on Wednesday have ties to the Republican party and the Trump administration.

The Michigan Freedom Fund, which said it was a co-host of the rally, has received more than $500,000 from the DeVos family, regular donors to rightwing groups.

The other host, the Michigan Conservative Coalition, was founded by Matt Maddock, now a Republican member of the state house of representatives. The MCC also operates under the name Michigan Trump Republicans, and in January held an event featuring several members of the Trump campaign.

[...]

[PhDhawk]

This is silly.

Yup. Real Americans just sit at home patiently. Baaaaa!

I mean, yes, if they value other people's lives.

[HouseDivided]

Ah, yes, the ubiquitous, ever-reliable “anonymous sources”. Funny how they only count when they support your conspiracies.

[Deleted User 62]

You would have to be pretty fucking stupid to not be able to connect the dots when our "Twat-In-Chief" says that states need to be "liberated" and his mouth breathing followers load up and gather.

[Shirley]

Ah, yes, the ubiquitous, ever-reliable “anonymous sources”. Funny how they only count when they support your conspiracies.

And yet, you haven't done anything to support your fantasy that liberals and democrats are using the pandemic to destroy the economy and win the 2020 election, have you?

hypocrisy: noun: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform;

Others organizing protests have been open about the involvement of outside donors.

Speaking on a YouTube program called “Freedom on Tap,” the Trump-allied economics commentator Stephen Moore said he was “working with a group in Wisconsin that wants to do a drive-in,” which he equated to the sit-ins of the civil rights era, only this time in protest of the restrictions put in place by Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.

Speaking of the planned Wisconsin rally, he said he had one big donor who had promised to pay the bail and legal fees of anyone who was arrested.

“So this is a great time, gentlemen and ladies, for civil disobedience,” Mr. Moore said. “We need to be the Rosa Parks here, and protest against these government injustices.”

[...]

[Shirley]

You would have to be pretty fucking stupid to not be able to connect the dots when our "Twat-In-Chief" says that states need to be "liberated" and his mouth breathing followers load up and gather.

I don't know Jeep, I don't see it. Looks spontaneous, to me:

Trump calls to “LIBERATE” states where people are protesting social distancing restrictions.

President Trump on Friday openly encouraged right-wing protests of social distancing restrictions in states with stay-at-home orders, a day after announcing guidelines for how the nation’s governors should carry out an orderly reopening of their communities on their own timetables.

In a series of all-caps tweets that started two minutes after a Fox News report on the protesters, the president declared, “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” — two states whose Democratic governors have imposed strict social distancing restrictions. He also lashed out at Virginia, where the state’s Democratic governor and legislature have pushed for strict gun control measures, saying: “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”

His stark departure from the more bipartisan tone of his announcement on Thursday night suggested Mr. Trump was ceding any semblance of national leadership on the pandemic, and choosing instead to divide the country by playing to his political base.

Echoed across the internet and on cable television by conservative pundits and ultraright conspiracy theorists, his tweets were a remarkable example of a president egging on demonstrators and helping to stoke an angry fervor that in its anti-government rhetoric was eerily reminiscent of the birth of the Tea Party movement a decade ago.Trump calls to “LIBERATE” states where people are protesting social distancing restrictions.

[...]

[TDub]

This is silly.

We don't expect much out of Psych, but you?

Maybe you need to get out more?

April 13, 2020 White House aides, outside groups launch effort to reopen economy

...The outside effort from conservative groups is expected to be led by Stephen Moore, a conservative at the Heritage Foundation who is close with White House economic officials; Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots; Adam Brandon, president of FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy organization; and Lisa Nelson, chief executive of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative organization with ties to the Koch brothers, according to the three people, who were granted anonymity to reveal details of an effort that had not been publicly revealed...

Thousands of Americans backed by rightwing donors gear up for protests. Conservative activists to demand governors lift stay-home orders – and movement has been driven by wealthy conservative groups.

Thousands of people are preparing to attend protests across the US in the coming days, as a rightwing movement against stay-at-home orders, backed by wealthy conservative groups and promoted by Donald Trump, continues to take hold.

Conservative activists are demanding governors lift orders designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus, despite the recommendations of public health officials. Trump, who has clashed with Democratic governors over how soon to reopen the US economy, tweeted his support on Friday, in an unprecedented endorsement of civil disobedience by a sitting president.

...Yet while organisers claim the protests are grassroots- and people-driven, a closer look reveals a movement driven by traditional rightwing groups, including one funded by the family of Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos.

The rallies have drawn comparisons to the Tea Party movement, which sprang into life in 2009 following the election of Barack Obama and was driven in part by Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by rightwing donors Charles and David Koch.

As with the Tea Party, the anti-stay-at-home movement has been promoted by a rightwing media eager for the economy to reopen, including Fox News which on Friday aired a segment on protests in Virginia, Michigan and Minnesota. Two minutes later, Trump tweeted to his 77.4 million followers the need to “liberate” those states.

The two groups behind the “operation gridlock” rally in Michigan on Wednesday have ties to the Republican party and the Trump administration.

The Michigan Freedom Fund, which said it was a co-host of the rally, has received more than $500,000 from the DeVos family, regular donors to rightwing groups.

The other host, the Michigan Conservative Coalition, was founded by Matt Maddock, now a Republican member of the state house of representatives. The MCC also operates under the name Michigan Trump Republicans, and in January held an event featuring several members of the Trump campaign.

[...]

I just dont believe its a big coordinated conspiracy.