Political Roundtable Part XXVIII

[Pointgod]

Absolute **** scumbags. Trump is a malignant cancer on the world.

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Very strange tale.

The White House is issuing denials and making claims about fabricated stories, yet just on Wednesday CureVac announced that Dan Menichella would be succeeded as CEO by Ingmar Hoerr, the founder and former CEO whom Menichella replaced back in 2018.

That's three days after Menichella's meeting at the White House.

Just a press release and no word from Menichella on the circumstances.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-confirms-that-donald-trump-tried-to-buy-firm-working-on-coronavirus-vaccine/amp/

[Zonkerbl]

Closing in on wiping away all stock markets gains since Trump's inauguration

[Zonkerbl]

If Trump hadn't screwed the pooch on the tests and gone out and really aggressively identified covid cases and quarantined them we wouldn't need to be taking the drastic steps we're taking now. This is all 1000% on Trump.

[gtn130]

Yeah it's almost as if Trump is a complete moron and his supporters are going to get themselves killed by prioritizing racism and owning the libs over their own health and safety

[gtn130]

Never forget that this absolute moron sent Fox News a signed chart showing stock market gains on Friday. Legitimately one of the dumbest people in our society.

[Ruzious]

Closing in on wiping away all stock markets gains since Trump's inauguration

I thought it was bizarre that the markets wen up up at the end of Friday's trading. That's helping make today a historically terrible day on Wall Street.

[Ruzious]

And now he's spending all his time - and probably his staff's time - on fighting a non-existing battle with Google - in order to try to make himself look like a martyr. https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/15/trump-says-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-called-to-apologize/2020/03/15/trump-says-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-called-to-apologize/

Meanwhile Pence is at least trying to do his job and says the WH is working with Google - as well as others. I'm no fan of Pence, but you can see the dramatic difference between him and Trump. He's an adult, while Trump is... not a child - but a purely evil punk. Do some people still really not get this? HOW???

[dckingsfan]

And now he's spending all his time - and probably his staff's time - on fighting a non-existing battle with Google - in order to try to make himself look like a martyr. https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/15/trump-says-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-called-to-apologize/2020/03/15/trump-says-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-called-to-apologize/

Meanwhile Pence is at least trying to do his job and says the WH is working with Google - as well as others. I'm no fan of Pence, but you can see the dramatic difference between him and Trump. He's an adult, while Trump is... not a child - but a purely evil punk. Do some people still really not get this? HOW???

Go to 2:11

and this is what happens when you elect a sociopath

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[I_Like_Dirt]

Seeing Bernie still dragging things out is pretty cringe-worthy at this point. Rather than actually network or compromise, he's still going to insist on trying to make his point through brute force? Drawing major crowds among potential voters at this point probably isn't a very good idea and he's not winning at this point.

It strikes me as pretty irresponsible on his part and yet another example of how he puts his own ego ahead of the values he claims to support. It's always been hard for me to trust someone who's argument effectively boils down to their ability to change how they're acting once in power because if they don't then they aren't actually going to do/achieve what they claim they're going to try to do/achieve. It sucks for him personally but he really needs to end this already. There are other ways to drive those values despite the fact that he's largely ignored them for his entire political career.

[Kanyewest]

Seeing Bernie still dragging things out is pretty cringe-worthy at this point. Rather than actually network or compromise, he's still going to insist on trying to make his point through brute force? Drawing major crowds among potential voters at this point probably isn't a very good idea and he's not winning at this point.

It strikes me as pretty irresponsible on his part and yet another example of how he puts his own ego ahead of the values he claims to support. It's always been hard for me to trust someone who's argument effectively boils down to their ability to change how they're acting once in power because if they don't then they aren't actually going to do/achieve what they claim they're going to try to do/achieve. It sucks for him personally but he really needs to end this already. There are other ways to drive those values despite the fact that he's largely ignored them for his entire political career.

Bernie has canceled rallies, unless I'm missing something. He also said the primaries could be delayed, which I think hurts Sanders more since older voters are more likely to show up at a later date.

[I_Like_Dirt]

Bernie has canceled rallies, unless I'm missing something. He also said the primaries could be delayed, which I think hurts Sanders more since older voters are more likely to show up at a later date.

Put it this way, what is he hoping to achieve by not dropping out? The NBA is talking about June as a best case scenario for fan-less games to resume and realistically is probably going to cancel the season at some point. Let's just say that this is something that carries towards June or July at the very least. When does Bernie actually call it quits rather than trying to postpone? At what point does he have to acquiesce to reality so that the party can focus on healing wounds and unifying? He can talk all about how he'll support whoever the candidate is should they win but the reality is that he makes it evidently clear that he doesn't through his actions rather than his words by dragging this out in the face of a reality, as you pointed out, probably hurts him more than Biden. In my NBA scenario, there is either a season or no season so they obviously don't want to cancel. In Bernie's case, there will be a democratic nominee either way; he's making it abundantly clear that he doesn't really care about that and only cares about his own nomination.

[Kanyewest]

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[Zonkerbl]

20,500... almost there...

[Zonkerbl]

20,186...

[Ruzious]

20,186...

Down over 12% for the day - even with the fed putting out all the stops. This really sucks.

[Zonkerbl]

closed at 20,360. Just... brutal

[dobrojim]

This’ll never happen but it would be really instructive for
at least many of the Trump voters who willfully ignored the
advice of ‘experts’ ie the editorial boards of virtually every
newspaper of note in the country, to go back and read
why nearly none of them could in good conscience, endorse Trump
for President

https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/304606-final-newspaper-endorsement-count-clinton-57-trump-2

[gtn130]

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Killing ourselves by electing an imbecile to own the libs #MAGA

[montestewart]

Never forget that this absolute moron sent Fox News a signed chart showing stock market gains on Friday. Legitimately one of the dumbest people in our society.

It was a great speech. A perfect speech. A beautiful speech.

Stock market goes down? That's the lying FAKE NEWS media, Obama, Pelosi, Schiff, Biden, Clinton, Sanders, AOC, China, Mexicans, Europe, Iran, Islam, never-Trumpers, incompetent ex-administration officials, Bezos, Stormy Daniels, Bong Joon-ho, Steve Kerr, Hollywood, "scientists," and everybody else.

Stock market goes up? That's all about me baby. I did it. I made America great again. Me.

[montestewart]

This’ll never happen but it would be really instructive for
at least many of the Trump voters who willfully ignored the
advice of ‘experts’ ie the editorial boards of virtually every
newspaper of note in the country, to go back and read
why nearly none of them could in good conscience, endorse Trump
for President

https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/304606-final-newspaper-endorsement-count-clinton-57-trump-2

The part that caught my eye:

The rejection of Trump is even more lopsided than the 1972 presidential contest, when the vast majority of papers backed Richard Nixon's reelection bid. Only 7 percent of papers that endorsed that year picked George McGovern, the Democratic nominee. This year, only 3 percent of papers are backing Trump.

Trump's tweet on the article would singularly leverage that fact: