Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 3:00 pm
All Things Kansas.
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Three months of shelter-in-place and there will be no sane people left, never mind an economy to support them. If that’s how it is going to be, go ahead and shoot me now.
Reading your link, I thought some of it sounded familiar, then I saw that among the endorsers is
Also, the small business provisions don't protect Planned Parenthood. Link?DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:28 pmYou -- and by "you," I mean ALL of you -- should, on occasion, get out of your bubble.TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:48 pm i’m waiting for someone, DC?, to put a spin on this that it’s been done before when we’ve faced catastrophe
aka...i’m looking for a reason to not be completely floored and pissed that pubs seem to be deliberately attempting to pull the wool over our eyes
For example, you could read this very short thread:
Pelosi's got some pet projects, you see. They need to be taken care of. Also, the small business provisions don't protect Planned Parenthood. Also...
Mnuchin and Trump are ignorant assholes. But only ignorant assholes honestly believe that they're the only ignorant assholes here.
#BITFD
Feral wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:41 pm Don't know for sure, but reading that the GOP wants $500 Billion for Mnuchin to have a discretionary fund, to distribute as he sees fit.
BTW, the futures market opens in less than 3.5 hours. Care to predict how fast it will limit down if there's no agreement before then?
Might have something to do with latest Morgan Stanley forecasts. Last Monday, 2nd quarter forecast was -4%.Feral wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:17 pmFeral wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:41 pm Don't know for sure, but reading that the GOP wants $500 Billion for Mnuchin to have a discretionary fund, to distribute as he sees fit.
BTW, the futures market opens in less than 3.5 hours. Care to predict how fast it will limit down if there's no agreement before then?
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said that the U.S. unemployment rate could reach 30 percent in the second quarter because of the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg News reported Sunday.DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:25 pmMight have something to do with latest Morgan Stanley forecasts. Last Monday, 2nd quarter forecast was -4%.Feral wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:17 pmFeral wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:41 pm Don't know for sure, but reading that the GOP wants $500 Billion for Mnuchin to have a discretionary fund, to distribute as he sees fit.
BTW, the futures market opens in less than 3.5 hours. Care to predict how fast it will limit down if there's no agreement before then?
New forecast: -30%.
Holy fuck.
Personally, the Glenn Hubbard/Michael Strain small business support plan is the only thing that could prevent most of this...Feral wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:30 pmFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said that the U.S. unemployment rate could reach 30 percent in the second quarter because of the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg News reported Sunday.
Bullard also said a 50 percent reduction in gross domestic product is possible in the second quarter given the shutdown of business throughout much of the country, which is only expected to increase.
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you said nothing of the 6 mo provisionDCHawk1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:28 pmYou -- and by "you," I mean ALL of you -- should, on occasion, get out of your bubble.TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:48 pm i’m waiting for someone, DC?, to put a spin on this that it’s been done before when we’ve faced catastrophe
aka...i’m looking for a reason to not be completely floored and pissed that pubs seem to be deliberately attempting to pull the wool over our eyes
For example, you could read this very short thread:
Pelosi's got some pet projects, you see. They need to be taken care of. Also, the small business provisions don't protect Planned Parenthood. Also...
Mnuchin and Trump are ignorant assholes. But only ignorant assholes honestly believe that they're the only ignorant assholes here.
#BITFD
DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:28 pmYou -- and by "you," I mean ALL of you -- should, on occasion, get out of your bubble.TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:48 pm i’m waiting for someone, DC?, to put a spin on this that it’s been done before when we’ve faced catastrophe
aka...i’m looking for a reason to not be completely floored and pissed that pubs seem to be deliberately attempting to pull the wool over our eyes
For example, you could read this very short thread:
Pelosi's got some pet projects, you see. They need to be taken care of. Also, the small business provisions don't protect Planned Parenthood. Also...
Mnuchin and Trump are ignorant assholes. But only ignorant assholes honestly believe that they're the only ignorant assholes here.
#BITFD
goodjobgoodpostFeral wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 6:10 pm New Rule:
Starting now, during his daily WH Coronavirus Task Force campaign events, Trump will no longer be allowed to whine about not being "thanked" for not taking his $450,000/year salary until we get to see his, his company's, his charity's, (lol), and his children's tax returns, to see just how much they are profiting from being America's Royal Family.