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@Binghamton Beast makes a fair point though. Why not lock down the city? Millions of people living shoulder to shoulder. I'm not a fan of the guy, but think hes done a decent job so far. Presidential? No, he's rotten to the core and only NY style political cover prevented him from being exposed when his right hand man was pinched. Fair question, what did DiBlasio have on him that he deferred to DiBlasio.

Invite us all to the gender reveal! Virtually of course!

Nicole Wallace on the hot mic: “OMG HE’S A TOTAL GILF!”

This is funny, actually as Joe gets schooled on how to cough. However, he laughs it off and says he's alone in his house. Now the talking head may not know it, but common sense suggests there are a minimum of 8 to 10 people immediately in and/or around Joe while he hacks up a lung into his hand, like they did when he was driving around in Greased Lightnin' listening to Alan Freed and looking for Corn Pop outside the soda shoppe. Makeup people...segment producer...lighting people...boom operator...camera man...campaign members...and likely Jill Biden, just in case there was a need for a phDoctor to spell some of the hard words Joe might want to use.

Again, slight disagreement. His supporters will ride with him up to the point where he %$#@s up royally, and then they'll call him on the carpet for ^%$#ing up royally. That was always the deal, though supporters have likely gotten a bit more defensive over him since he was painted a treasonous rat b%stard by, well, some treasonous rat b%stards. No reasonable person wants death and bodies in the street like it is Vienna in the 1300s with bodies tossed into the catacombs of St. Stephens. No reasonable person is willing to trade a million deaths for 4% growth in the equities market. But when you cannot have a reasonable discussion about alternatives without being branded as a believer in such things, it's tough to move forward because the 'persuadables' often get most of their data from at least one media source. Let's hope you're correct on a cogent plan, let's hope many folks get onboard and let's hope that the plan works. Let's also have him on the teleprompter when he rolls it out. ?

Remember what FDR said: "This &^%$ is really ^%$#ing scary and I have no idea how we'll ever survive it."

Hey Magox--part of me wants to join the parade with you. A meeting somewhere in the middle, middle left or middle right makes the most sense. I'm a Trump supporter, but consider myself pretty reasonable in general. What you propose would generally make sense to me. The problem is that people are so ^%$#ing entrenched after 3+ years of garbage there is precious little common ground to be had. I understand your concerns about Trump and his delivery, disagree on your perception on how Cuomo is perceived but give him credit for doing a tough job. I am not sure how you get past the point of the entrenched masses, and frankly, I think we'll be at a point soon where Trump will simply act in his role as Chief Executive and do what he believes in the right thing to do on the federal level. In the end, we are here and we have to deal with it. When all is said and done, if reasonable people disagree, Trump moves forward and Cuomo does what he feels is right for NY. Ugly, sad, but certainly a byproduct of the past few years of hostility.

I'm confident you're not this dumb, but only because the threshold is so low. It's slightly above drinking any specialty household cleaner.

Good grief. He appears older by the syllable.

So...the new sheriff in town has unilateraly decided to lock down gun shops? While every liberal isn't always after your guns, some liberal always is. This should end well.

How often did that happen before Trump was in office though? I can't recall a man and his wife in their mid-60s ever ingesting enough fish tank cleaner to even get sick, let alone to die. Personally--and I hope @Tiberius @Gary Buseyand I can count on your support---we're taking action on a series of initatives: We aim to hold the manufacturer accountable for the toxins contained in the cleaner, clearly this product is a clear and present danger to liberal Americans everywhere. Let's hold #BIGFISHTANKCLEANERs feet to the fire! Trump is accountable here. It's no secret he's cut back funding for the FishTankPoisonControlResponseTeam in Washington. How many must die before the funding is restored? 1? 2? 3??? Sure, that means 6 more voters for the dems but at what cost? This is a feminist issue as well. It seems fairly obvious that the husband encouraged his wife to consume the Fish Tank Cleaner. It's just another example of our patriarchal society and the havoc it can cause. Join us brothers and sisters.

Show of hands, and don't nobody lie: Who hasn't mixed a little chlorox into their Gin and T yet? CHLOROquine....CHLOROx? With that many letters in common, it's gotta be the same thing.

I mentioned in another thread that I like to look at behavior and see what those in the know are saying. I think this is a positive sign, and the fact that Cuomo is beginning to echo the sentiment(s) of reopening the economy is a good thing. I have no major issues with his handling thus far--and I can't stand the guy on a regular basis---but his initial comments involved analogies of tsunami's crushing the health care system, and of doom and gloom. I'm not criticizing him for that, just my opinion. There was very little tht was positive or of the "Look, we're strong, we're tough, we're NYers and we'll get through this together:".

Nearly 88000 employees in the Treasury, more than enough to figure it out. The buck has to stop somewhere, and it must be assumed that whatever happened, somebody is going to be pissed off. Agree on where the focus should be.

Less of an EU, more like an FU. There was a post script to this email that is not included here: ps: If you get a chance in the next 3 years, remind her how the Electoral College works.

What happened in Arizona? Someone committed suicide and blamed President Trump???

Or, they recognize that the most complaint among us are the easiest to dupe, easiest to manipulate, least likely to question. To a person, every climate televangelist has his flock staring out the window of their home in central Michigan, waiting waiting waiting for the angry tides of Lake Ponchatrain to breach their front porch. I do tend to think that at times, those at the top of the ladder have an ulterior motive. We can debate the science, the speculative nature of the gloom/doom data, and that if the numbers are manipulated on the way in, the data is garbage on the way out. Be that as it may, I generally watch behavior first. It always seems to me that the people we trust with predictions of calamity should, at a minimum p, model the behavior necessary to pull us back from the edge. It seems to me that across the board, 100% of the time, those shouting loudest that we must change behave as if we do not. I really don’t understand why you and others accept things the way they are, when things are purported to be the way they are, and in anticipation of the way they will be. Plus, the carbon tax is basically the Ticketmaster of envirocauses, and I say pass.

It's China for Gods sake. I know in one of the posts on OTW where they are discussing "facts" it's been established that alternative suggestions to the official cause are not to be tolerated. Still, with the threat of bioterrorism, and the ability of these labs to "grow" all manner of nasty $#@!, seems not all that far of a stretch to me. What would bioterrorism look like, a lot of sick people and a discarded syringe with "made in China" on the side?

Let's begin to set the table for alternative voting procedures for the senators in quarantine..if millions of Americans can be forced to work from home, the public will be agreeable to this sort of thing.

I dont know the guy in the scrubs, could be Tibs in his Oompa's rec room for all I know, but it would be criminal malfeasance for those charged with keeping our country safe to not consider this scenario and explain the fondongs to the American people one way or the other.

That is brutal(ly funny).

I choose hope and optimism.

Putting aside the occult angle for just a moment, what the heck was that? Creepy music in the background, hanging onto the faucet handle like it’s Sean Penn’s $#@*, and I found myself wanting to throw myself out a window just to get that voice out of my head. And I wish I was more creative because I’d be adding delicate little bubbles with a couple chunky b’s coming to the surface while she spoke.

As I said, I understand that school of thought, I simply wanted to clarify Mnuchin’s comments. I’m handling it the same way I handle everything—I try to remain calm, recognize this is roughly the 57th time the world was ending in the last 100 years, recognize that I have a safety net if necessary, and whether it goes one way or the other, I just keep stepping forward and keep my wits about me. That’s pretty much my job.

If you think the economy is going to burn, that’s certainly a school of thought. However, Mnuchin has stated that his concern was that without governmental intervention and stimulus, the consequences could include 20% unemployment. His point was that this was not a time to jerk around. Clearly, the government is in the stimulus business at this time. He further clarified that in his opinion, Q2 and Q3 would difficult, with explosive growth in Q4 for obvious reasons. I was on a conference call with members of the advisory team at Blackrock, a not-inconsequential player in finance and their protection was very similar.