Starker on 24/3/2020 at 21:50
Well, to be fair, he did promise you'll all get sick from all the winning.
Renzatic on 24/3/2020 at 21:51
Quote Posted by heywood
The economy will continue tanking until the threat of the virus is over. Suppose we just go back to our normal routines. All the data so far indicates that every significant metropolitan area will end up like Lombardy, Madrid, NYC within maybe 2-4 weeks. And when our health care system is failing simultaneously all over the nation, then what? Do they seriously expect people will stick to their normal routines when we get to that condition? In this case, the best thing for getting the economy going again is also the best thing for saving lives: get the virus behind us.
Do you actually think Trump has thought things through? It's obviously a hail mary pass to attempt saving the one thing that made Trump look even remotely close to competent.
Without a high Dow Jones index, what is our president? A loudmouth fuckwit with a dangerously overenthusiastic fanbase. If the economy isn't working in his favor, we can't praise him for the fact that at least we still have our jobs.
Quote Posted by Starker
Well, to be fair, he did promise you'll all get sick from all the winning.
OOOH! DARK!
...I'm stealing that.
bob_doe_nz on 24/3/2020 at 22:01
Quote Posted by icemann
The only places hiring is supermarkets, due to all the panic buying. But then you'd be on the front line, and highly likely to get the virus. So a catch 22.
I'm still alive right n...*cough cough cough*
bob_doe_nz on 24/3/2020 at 22:11
Sorry, we sold out of that 3 days ago and are waiting for the suppliers to come in. We have a couple of bags of toilet paper and a few scraps of bread. Don't look at the freezer department. But there is plenty of milk.
Renzatic on 24/3/2020 at 22:15
DON'T QUOTE A PICTURE ON THE VERY NEXT POST, DAMNIT! EDIT THAT NOW! :mad:
Anyway, don't worry, I've got plenty of Lysol to spray you people with.
heywood on 24/3/2020 at 22:19
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Do you actually think Trump has thought things through? It's obviously a hail mary pass to attempt saving the one thing that made Trump look even remotely close to competent.
Without a high Dow Jones index, what is our president? A loudmouth fuckwit with a dangerously overenthusiastic fanbase. If the economy isn't working in his favor, we can't praise him for the fact that at least we still have our jobs.
True.
But he did have a chance to pivot. If it was within himself to do so, he could have bucked up and been the steady but decisive leader who saved millions of Americans from death and got this thing over with in two or three months, just in time for summer tourism and conventions. Our economy could have bounced back as fast as China's will. Of course it wasn't within him. And to be fair, it would have required people on the other side of the aisle to follow.
It's crazy that the threat of something as inherently apolitical as a virus has turned out to be another dividing point and not a unifying one. The last time I remember such divided politics was after the 2000 election, but it came back together after 9/11. Not this time.
bob_doe_nz on 24/3/2020 at 22:23
Quote Posted by Renzatic
DON'T QUOTE A PICTURE ON THE VERY NEXT POST, DAMNIT! EDIT THAT NOW! :mad:
You're the moderator. You do it :p
(Who knows, I might be infected)
But in all seriousness, is it just something that makes server bandwidth bad?
Renzatic on 24/3/2020 at 22:31
Hey, Bob_Doe. I'm not
really mad at you. I just need to look like I'm actually doing my job on occasion, and you were a convenient target.
Quote Posted by heywood
But he did have a chance to pivot. If it was within himself to do so, he could have bucked up and been the steady but decisive leader who saved millions of Americans from death and got this thing over with in two or three months, just in time for summer tourism and conventions. Our economy could have bounced back as fast as China's will. Of course it wasn't within him. And to be fair, it would have required people on the other side of the aisle to follow.
It'll likely bounce back even if Trump nixes the quarantine. There aren't any systemic internal issues dragging the economy down like there were in 2008. It's just that under normal circumstances, the chances of it bouncing back to its previous highs by November are about nil, keeping him from using it during the election. It'll take at least a year for things to start getting even close to normal again.
Though a bunch of people getting sick and dying while our healthcare system crumbles under the stress won't exactly make things any better for him. All he's doing is banking on a nice little temporary upswing in the market he can brag about before it craters again, which will make him look even worse with everything else that'll be going on around him.
But we also need to consider that Trump is about the luckiest motherfuck on the face of the earth. It could end up just going away, because hey, it turned out that national pride was the real cure all along.
