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And sorry but Apple should step the **** up and provide laptops to a bazillion districts and students. **** them too.
 
Archie Moses said:
But when people are trying to pay their bills and feed their kids, sending them to jail for a week and giving fining them is just absurd.
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Everyone is trying to pay their bills and feed their kids. It's not like those of us who aren't defying orders by judges are just living it up during this lock down. We either all follow the rules or no one follows the rules. What makes this lady special? She's apparently just one of dozens of middle class white women who have suddenly come to believe that a haircut is a right on par with free speech or voting.

I for one would be perfectly happy if one of the consequences of this pandemic was the permanent closure of all hair salons and barber shops. I've cut my hair once in the last decade, and miraculously, I'm still alive.
 
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The other day, when touring the Arizona plant making masks, Trump was asked why he was not wearing a mask. He answered that he did wear one, “backstage”, but not onstage, not when the cameras were on him.

That was a very telling observation. Every president, every politician, will know when the cameras are on them, and act accordingly, I guess. But, what Trump’s observation tells us is:

The Presidency is a TV show to Trump. Every day, Trump plays the President on TV. But, the emperor has no clothes, and those of us who detest how low we have sunk with this man in the Oval Office understand this is an unqualified narcissist who is playing the President on TV, having turned the office of Chief Executive into “The Apprentice. Oval Office Edition”. This is a fake presidency, and, boy, has the joke ever been on us.

And here's the thing. He wants his TV show renewed in November. Getting an up and running full testing regimen, and contact tracing, would result in a realization of the full extent of the pandemic in the United States, and that would produce poor ratings for his Presidential TV show. Getting the federal government too involved risks blame on Trump, also damaging to his ratings.

His calculation: open the country, revive the economy, and live with the deaths, and this is the best path to renewing the Presidential reality tv show. I don't think that's a winning strategy, but to Trump renewing his TV show outweighs the lives of Americans. 8 days of the week.
 
JimLes said:
Everyone is trying to pay their bills and feed their kids. It's not like those of us who aren't defying orders by judges are just living it up during this lock down. We either all follow the rules or no one follows the rules. What makes this lady special? She's apparently just one of dozens of middle class white women who have suddenly come to believe that a haircut is a right on par with free speech or voting.

I for one would be perfectly happy if one of the consequences of this pandemic was the permanent closure of all hair salons and barber shops. I've cut my hair once in the last decade, and miraculously, I'm still alive.
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I gave myself a haircut a few weeks ago. I have a mullet now because I had no idea how to cut the back.

I don't think she's special. I'm just not on board with throwing her in jail longer than the ban on salons/barber shops. That's just silly.
 
Red said:
The other day, when touring the Arizona plant making masks, Trump was asked why he was not wearing a mask. He answered that he did wear one, “backstage”, but not onstage, not when the cameras were on him.

That was a very telling observation. Every president, every politician, will know when the cameras are on them, and act accordingly, I guess. But, what Trump’s observation tells us is:

The Presidency is a TV show to Trump. Every day, Trump plays the President on TV. But, the emperor has no clothes, and those of us who detest how low we have sunk with this man in the Oval Office understand this is an unqualified narcissist who is playing the President on TV, having turned the office of Chief Executive into “The Apprentice. Oval Office Edition”. This is a fake presidency, and, boy, has the joke ever been on us.

And here's the thing. He wants his TV show renewed in November. Getting an up and running full testing regimen, and contact tracing, would result in a realization of the full extent of the pandemic in the United States, and that would produce poor ratings for his Presidential TV show. Getting the federal government too involved risks blame on Trump, also damaging to his ratings.

His calculation: open the country, revive the economy, and live with the deaths, and this is the best path to renewing the Presidential reality tv show. I don't think that's a winning strategy, but to Trump renewing his TV show outweighs the lives of Americans. 8 days of the week.
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He never wore one. It doesn’t look manly to his own self-image (neither does spray on tanning, but I digress).

The reality is that mask use would be far greater if he, Pence and everyone else did wear one. As a result, we are seeing unrest in communities, boycotting of businesses and another sign of blind sheep that think their rights are being infringed.
 


Donald either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care why testing is key. It appears that he views it as detrimental to his re-election and doesn’t want increased capacity for testing and tracing. He feels like increased capacity will lead to increased case numbers, which makes it harder for him to claim that it’s safe to go out, which makes it harder for the economy to recovery, which dooms his re-election. All he cares about is giving off the impression that we’re fine so we give him 4 more years to lie to and plunder our country. That’s not good.



For those of you interested, South Korea is opening up safely and responsibly and this is how they did it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/whats-south-koreas-secret/611215/
 
Wes Mantooth said:
And sorry but Apple should step the **** up and provide laptops to a bazillion districts and students. **** them too.
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I don’t mind my iPhone, but give me a Chromebook any day of the week over a Mac. Apple will give no quarter considering they sell wheels for $700.

School districts here already use them and it doesn’t require a ton of processing power to access the internet anyway.
 
Avery said:
I don’t mind my iPhone, but give me a Chromebook any day of the week over a Mac. Apple will give no quarter considering they sell wheels for $700.

School districts here already use them and it doesn’t require a ton of processing power to access the internet anyway.
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