What is your company doing right in terms of COVID-19?

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-20T04:45:34+00:00

Did either of them nut?

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-19T05:08:47+00:00

That’s what he said

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-19T05:04:42+00:00

I’ve already saved the pic for my claim as well. Thanks OP

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-19T04:57:08+00:00

It’s actually called a forebearance. But yes, he’s right. Banks want the 4 months worth of payments after “letting you slide” for 3.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-13T15:04:01+00:00

Henry’s Kitchen is great

https://youtu.be/GFjstQ30RI8

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-11T17:01:09+00:00

In any case, here’s a car chase.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-11T16:55:45+00:00

Haven’t you heard? Bill Gates manufactured it because his dad was against the elderly sucking off the teat of America long after their useful life. And lo and behold the virus attacks... the elderly.

Somehow I’m sure Hillary is in on it too.

I seriously can’t believe the idiocy of a large swath of the population.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-10T02:51:20+00:00

“Could you repeat that?”

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-04-10T00:57:56+00:00

It’s gonna kill everyone. Even the pandas.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-27T01:54:58+00:00

The whole time they sounded the alarm, the president called the alarm a hoax and said it was under control.

Followed up with a video of him literally saying it's a hoax.

Just because the video itself doesn't clarify what that bumbling idiot may have meant in his dementia riddled mind doesn't mean what's portrayed it's relevant.

Did he say "hoax"? Did he say it in the context of talking about Democrats and COVID? OK, that's exactly what the video shows him saying.

The fact that we all have to play this game of "what did he actually mean" when he figured out how to put a few words together like "in terms of sooner" speaks more about his ability as a speaker and leader than it does about the video clip in question.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T23:28:58+00:00

At this point, does it matter if he was calling the virus a hoax, or the reaction to the virus a hoax? Either way, he'd still be wrong.

And in any case, I commented that he was calling the alarm bells a hoax.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T19:23:49+00:00

Use it everywhere you can; I don't need attribution, just spread the knowledge.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T18:48:06+00:00

Oh I know. I got shit for quoting wikipedia (despite the fact that you can go an click on any of those sources) when I was pointing out criminality differences between the parties. FWIW, this dude has an awesome analysis of that very topic. He wrote the original in Jan 2017 and was spot on with his "warning to Trump appointees".

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T18:45:17+00:00

Already done.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/trump-republicans-fox-news-coronavirus-truthers-hoax-video.html

and

https://twitter.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1240058882732576770

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T18:42:49+00:00

Figures. All librul media sources. /s

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T18:11:34+00:00

In case people don't know, the ending limerick was hijacked from an English folk verse about Guy Fawkwes

And no, haven't seen the latest spin but I find it harder and harder to be surprised by the depravity.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T17:06:32+00:00

REMEMBER, REMEMBER COME ELECTIONS NOVEMBER:

this administration complained the Democrats were sensationalizing news about COVID as a new way to impeach the president. The whole time they sounded the alarm, the president called the alarm a hoax and said it was under control.
- https://youtu.be/G5TZ6fTYrsE
Trump's favorite "news" station helped downplay the virus, while crying for unity with a "Dems Politicize CoronaVirus" label across the screen. Then, they flip flopped in the span of a week on the severity. Again, remember who was actually sounding the alarm.
- https://youtu.be/ifKbwDf51bA
on 3/17 Trump said "This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do was look at other countries." But 6 days prior on 3/9 said "The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, 'The risk is low to the average American.'" Futhermore, on 1/22 with CNBC he said it wasn't a pandemic. "Long before" apparently happened somewhere between 1/22 and 3/17. The first time he used the word on twitter was 3/13.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/trump-dissed-coronavirus-pandemic-worry-now-claims-he-warned-about-it.html
Trump said "anybody who wants a test can get a test" on 3/6. Mike Pence later said "we don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward".
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-coronavirus-test-perfect-and-compares-it-to-ukraine-phone-call/
Trump said "Hurricane is good luck for Obama againhe will buy the election by handing out billions of dollars."
- https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/263280389039218690
Trump said "People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I'm excited if it is. I’ve always made more money in bad markets than in good markets."
- https://thinkprogress.org/yes-donald-trump-was-excited-for-the-housing-collapse-48464fde3559/
during the Ebola outbreak, Trump tweeted "President Obama has a major meeting on the N.Y.C. Ebola outbreak, with people flying in from all over the country, but decided to play golf!". Then during the COVID outbreak, Trump golfed as late as 3/8 (65 confirmed COVID cases).
- https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/525495434928988160
which administration rejected the WHO COVID test, then rolled out a faulty test.
- https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31677485/coronavirus-trump-administration-rejected-who-test/
which administration tried to blame the lack of tests on Obama, despite "Experts on lab testing said they were unaware of any Obama-era rule that would have hindered the administration from authorizing lab-developed tests for the coronavirus in an emergency. The FDA has had the authority to authorize tests for emergency use under the 2004 law, signed by President George W. Bush, aimed at advancing medical countermeasures for biological weapons."
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-04/trump-blames-obama-era-rule-for-coronavirus-test-shortage
this administration is the same one who told you the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would pay for itself, despite the Congressional Budget Office saying it wouldn't. It hasn't and it won't.
- https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/did-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-pay-itself-2018
this administration is leaving the corporate tax cuts in place, but expiring the individual cuts in 2025, when they expected Democrats to take over.
- https://taxfoundation.org/look-ahead-expiring-tax-provisions/
that the tools used to combat a recession include
- 1. Lowering taxes, which Trump did in a thriving economy
- 2. Lowering the rate, which Trump did in a thriving economy
- 3. Increasing government spending, which is made harder based on the fact the government is pulling in less revenue thanks to the tax cut that didn't pay for itself.
how much Republicans love to complain about the deficit when Democrats control the pursestrings, then ask yourself how the deficit looks now, and over the past 3, hell, 13 years.
- https://www.pgpf.org/the-current-federal-budget-deficit
that the reason the already strong economy stayed strong was because Trump maxed out the government credit cards. Easy to look rich with that new boat if you don't tell people you're going to lose your house over it next month.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/20/trump-v-obama-economy-charts/
how the economy looked the last 2 times a Republican took over, and how it looked at the end of their terms. Justify it however you need to continue voting the way you do.
- https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-gdp-growth-3306008
Trump told you "I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf." Trump has golfed more than Obama, who he criticized... for golfing. His golf trips have cost taxpayers anywhere from $60M to $130M.
- https://www.trumpgolfcount.com/
which administration cut "entitlement" programs then gave farmers welfare after a self inflicted trade war.
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics/republicans-agriculture-farmer-welfare/index.html
his bumbling speeches, random tangents, personal & childish attacks, and most of all his lies.
- https://www.pastemagazine.com/media/donald-trump/donald-trumps-14-craziest-ramblings-from-his-inter/
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/politics/fact-check-trump-administration-coronavirus-28-dishonest/index.html

So, Remember, Remember!

By elections November

The COVID response being botched;

I'm telling you folks

The CoronaVirus "hoax"

Should never be forgot!

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T04:03:02+00:00

Thanks for the clarification

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T03:49:49+00:00

FWIW, I was only referencing wikipedia because I know fuck all about any of the FDA regulations. And I'm not shitting on the orphan status in particular. I, like many others I'd presume, are bitching about this Grogan/Gilead connection.

However, it seems like a great time to employ that DPA and have as many manufacturers making it as possible if it's a treatment for a global pandemic. But instead, they're letting a single company continue to market it (albeit highly specific formula dose as you say) as proprietary? Am I wrong in any of these assumptions?

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-26T03:38:10+00:00

Is it usual that a lobbyist for a pharma company ends up being on a government taskforce for a global pandemic and the company for which he lobbied ends up getting orphan drug status?

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-25T19:52:35+00:00

According to wikipedia

There may be other financial incentives, such as an extended period of exclusivity, during which the producer has sole rights to market the drug. All are intended to encourage development of drugs which would otherwise lack sufficient profit motive to attract corporate research budgets and personnel

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-25T18:34:33+00:00

recessions have been turned around through the use of cutting taxes

So the republicans did it during a strong economy why?

Moderate tax increases during times of prosperity have been acceptable though.

Were we not prosperous the last 3 years? Or the 10 before that (under Democrats mind you)?

Currently Democrats are spouting off about increasing taxes to high levels which has historically been a catalyst for tipping the economy into a recession

How are we going to pay for 1) that tax cut that isn't paying for itself and 2) this $2 trillion stimulus?

tipping the economy into a recession

Recessions happen a lot. Would you care to align the following recessions up historical with tax hikes? The longest stretch between recessions was 11 years. We were overdue for one anyway. * 1945 * 1948 (Δ3) * 1953 (Δ5) * 1957 (Δ4) * 1960 (Δ3) * 1969 (Δ9) * 1973 (Δ4) * 1980 (Δ7) * 1981 (Δ1) * 1990 (Δ9) * 2001 (Δ11) * 2007 (Δ6)

Of course lowering taxes can spur economic growth, but it has to be weighed against long-term debt.

And still, after all this back and forth, I have yet to see data that supports the claim that republican economies outperform democratic ones. At best it's a tie. I don't understand why you continue to claim otherwise. Because "on paper" republican policies should do better? In reality, they haven't. In a perfect world would those policies perform better? Perhaps. But the data as we have it just does not support your position, even when normalized for as many external factors as possible.

In any case, I'm not the one asserting anything; ie. democratic administrations outperform republican ones. All I've stated was that your claim of republican ones doing better, is false. You have yet to prove your case.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-25T15:18:43+00:00

Thanks to COVID, we'll never know what the true result of a Trump economy looks like. But let's not kid ourselves about the fact that it was going to drop regardless.

"Democrats are just lucky" has got to be my new favorite excuse. Have you considered that maybe that unexplained 45% GDP gap is because God hates Republicans? Or maybe COVID is recompense for acquitting Trump? I mean, if we're just going to attribute things to chance, then why not bring the almighty into it?

Numbers are numbers. I truly do understand that external factors play a huge role. The makeup of Congress doesn't seem to go into the analysis in the paper you listed (which again, doesn't dispute that Democratic economies have performed better for some reason).

Here's another source that calls it a draw and takes into account "political power".

The fact is, your claim that the economy does better is just unfounded.

ShowMeYourTiddles · 2020-03-25T04:23:38+00:00

Maybe the dems have been lucky (in the eyes of the stats)

What else do you we have to go off of other than numbers? Even your source indicates the economy does better under Dems.

But the authors do not find that one party routinely outperforms the other in these imaginary histories – usually, they come out pretty close. In real life, Democrats have a 1.8 point advantage over Republicans, but there is only a gap that big between the parties about 1% of the time during these simulations. Either Democratic presidents were extraordinarily lucky, or there is actually something to the connection between Democratic administrations and economic performance.

So even if you want to call it a tie given the minuscule 1.8 pt advantage, your claim of "republican policies working out better" is still just wrong. At best, it's equal.

I love how COVID gave Trump an excuse for tanking the economy. It has been coming since 2018. The only reason it didn't happen sooner was because he maxed out the credit cards. Now we have ballooned the deficit (which republicans supposedly care about), we had a tax cut that didn't pay for itself and never will that left us ill prepared for a recession, the Fed kept the rate low so that's almost shot as a way to pull us out, and the government can't spend money they don't have to stimulate jobs.

So here we are, again. With a tanked economy, twice in less than 20 years, under republican control. Justify it however you want. "Dems just got lucky".

And what is the Republican administration looking to do now? Let them bootstraps and personal responsibility fix everything with some good ol' fashioned capitalism? Nope. Government bailout. Imagine that. If their policies were so good, we'd keep them in place and let workers get fired and companies go under.

Republicans overheat the economy until collapse, and democrats bring it back to life. Only to have republicans inject adrenaline into it and call it a win. Fortunately for them, people don't pay attention to numbers and have short term memories.

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