DL Open Thread: Tues., March 17, 2020
We’re all watching the COVID-19 story. Here’s one that Trump and Barr snuck by us under the cloak of All Coronavirus All The Time:
Justice Department Abandons Prosecution Of Russian Firm Indicted In Mueller Probe. The trial was scheduled to start on April 6. Gee, this sure sounds suspicious:
Assistants to U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea of Washington and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers cited an unspecified “change in the balance of the government’s proof due to a classification determination,” according to a nine-page filing accompanied by facts under seal.
That sure sounds like some evidence was placed off-limits by Barr’s barristers. The ongoing criminal conspiracy continues unabated.
Somebody Finally Gets To Trump. Fauci, Kushner? What scares me most is the predictive curve in the article. No peak in the US until June? We’re just at the beginning of the human carnage. Of course, when it comes to Trump, leadership only goes so far–he tells governors to ‘…try getting (equipment) for yourselves’.
Oopsies, News-Journal falls victim to the proofreaders’ nightmare: “State pubic health officials are monitoring and responding to the coronavirus outbreak from the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill…”
Eric Holder’s Fight To Unrig Redistricting. Not sexy, just merely essential for democracy.
How To Beat Coronavirus Capitalism. Watch this video. BTW, we’re going to bail out the airlines who have treated people worse than sheep? Screw American Airlines. Who are already begging for a huge bailout.
Delaware Restaurants And Bars Ordered Closed. We know that ‘social distancing’ is one of the tools to retard the growth of the virus. Which makes me wonder…have any public health officials visited a grocery store lately? Ain’t much social distancing going on there. I have to think it’s only a matter of time before we see outbreaks there.
What do you want to talk about?
It occurred to me that Donald Trump (!) might become the first president to sign something like a Universal Basic Income package.
Restaurants aren’t going to make it on takeout, nor are individual homeowners/apartment renters. We need a general rent/mortgage holiday, which means the banks will take a haircut.
Even someone with a rental property that needs a renter to pay the mortgage will be in trouble.
The big money boys are already lining up to feed at the government trough with Trump talking about giving billions to the airlines and cruise ships, no doubt many others want a pay out as well. No talk of tough love, capitalism or robbing the treasury. Will they get the money? Most likely and we’ll get a few trillion more dollars of debt. Hoping it’s a catalyst for Medicare For All, forgive me if I think the net result will be all the little piggies of industry will get theirs and the rest of us get nothing or death.
Capital is salivating at the opportunity to buy up all our stuff at pennies on the dollar. Upward transfer of wealth happens in two ways – slowly, and then all at once.
This checks out.
What I’ve seen written today about “the check will be in the mail” relief program says the money will be distributed to “Americans.”
Have not seen a definition of who belongs to this class.
Should we be surprised if the pandemic adds more fuel to the anti-immigrant fire?
Well, that news conference was another clusterfuck. “The only thing we haven’t done well is the press.” What. An. Asshole.
You know the difference between Trump and a colostomy bag?
You can change a colostomy bag.
Joe Biden needs to move Warren’s bankruptcy plan front and center of his campaign. Even more than cash, Americans need protection from their creditors in the coming economic collapse, so we can all come out on the other side.
“Try getting equipment for yourselves”
A staggeringly stupid comment. Setting all 50 states in competition with each other for a scarce resource is the one approach virtually guaranteed to result in shortages and hardship. Selling to the highest bidder, stockpiling in one state regardless of need, rich people buying them for personal use etc. etc.
I hope the governors can establish some type of cooperative agency that can work around the abject idiocy of this administration.
Delaware doubles confirmed coronavirus cases. Up to 16:
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/coronavirus-in-delaware/2020/03/17/state-reports-8-more-coronavirus-cases-raising-total-16-first-sussex-case-reported/5071918002/
Several of them were positives from the drive-thru tests at the Riverfront.