#43 - Episode XIII - Prop Pardons Edition

[Kaslo]

how can he be so stupid it would have been such an easy layup

give me 1200 dollars you orange retard

Welcome to Orange Man Bad

[Tymon]

He is just giving his boys one last lap around the money stock market train guys. He tweets this knowing it will tank the stock market for a bit. Give his boys time to load up on stock, then say they came to a deal. Easy money before he gets pushed out.

That or he is just retarded.

The joker card is that he knows he's going to lose and is doing that for both the reason you say and his own gain. Trump org buys low then sells high in the Biden admin.

I don't think he's smart enough to do this but I do think Kushner is.

[Tyrath]

As I vote in MA, Trumpito can buy my vote for

[archibaldcrane]

It basically removes any motivation dems have for keeping the senate functioning, there's no reason not to obstruct any and all activity now in order to push ACB into the lame duck at least

[Yabby]

Dem's should double down and pass another one with double everything

[Guitarman]

So best case scenario if this turd doesn't go back on this is we have to wait til near the end of January at the soonest for relief?

Exactly. There's almost zero chance the repubs gain enough control to quickly push any relief after the elections...Dems are not losing control of the house, so Trump wins = more infighting for months on end. Trump loses, Dems prep funding ready to go soon as Biden's in office. I consult with small/medium sized businesses and many are on the ropes as is. Q4 with no relief package to stimulate spending is going to be Armageddon.

[Karbuncle]

Exactly. There's almost zero chance the repubs gain enough control to quickly push any relief after the elections...Dems are not losing control of the house, so Trump wins = more infighting for months on end. Trump loses, Dems prep funding ready to go soon as Biden's in office. I consult with small/medium sized businesses and many are on the ropes as is. Q4 with no relief package is going to be Armageddon.

Q4 with no relief is going to be Armageddon for a lot of folks... If I don't get something, very soon, I'm really not sure what I'm going to be able to do to get past even this month, let alone November, December, January and maybe further. Its a troubling thought.

[Day]

A lot of retailers, especially brick and mortar, about to get crushed in Q4

[synistar]

Also RIP more airlines with even more layoffs and furloughs. No one will bother with holiday travel this year. I'm genuinely curious what the year-over-year passenger number drop will be for Thanksgiving week.

[Katlan]

When I think he can’t get more stupid, trump once again exceeds my expectations. Dude is the evil villain of his own movie

[BaneTheBrawler]

I'm curious what all these airlines going under will do to the price of airliners.

i'd never be able to take advantage. but WHAT IF is fun.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/jamesrhenson/sta...71909297209344

[arus2001]

The biggest 3 of those annoying Democratic states are 25% of the entire US GDP. Donnie might not want to actively try and fuck them over when you're trying to restart the economy.

Who's got the US breaking up into multiple smaller countries on their bingo card should Trump steal the election?

[Jaybar]

Who's got the US breaking up into multiple smaller countries on their bingo card should Trump steal the election?

Cmon Great Lakes Nation, soaking up all the fresh water with our Canadian allies. Gonna be the Great Michigan Megalopolis from Milwaukee all the way around to Detroit and Toronto.

[Andalusian girls]

[Cail]

Northeast Dominion checking in

[zoobernut]

The resource distribution in this country is so imbalanced between different regions. Splitting up like that would instantly create third world countries. The south learned the hard way that they need the north during the civil war when they ran out of everything except people.

[synistar]

California would be split into at least 3 pieces. Man I would laugh really hard seeing Jefferson (Rural N. California + S. Oregon) immediately transform into a Mississippi overnight.

[Krandor]

I enjoy debating with people about whether the Bay area is or isn't northern California, would be fun to see where the line would get drawn.

[Qalbert]

https://news.avclub.com/william-jack...arl-1845292952

Last night on Twitter, William Jackson Harper from The Good Place revealed that he was recently involved in a “disturbing experience” related to his attempt to participate in a movie screening and Q&A discussion with people in the military through the Arts In The Armed Forces charity, explaining that his plan to host a virtual screening of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X was almost completely sidelined because of a new executive order that Donald Trump signed in September. The order is called “Executive Order Combating Race And Sex Stereotyping,” and Indie Wire says that it establishes that “it shall be the policy of the United States not to promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating in the Federal workforce or un the Uniformed Services. In addition, Federal contractors will not be permitted to inculcate such views in their employees.” As Harper explains it in his Twitter thread, this could be interpreted as a ban on government employees entertaining the possibility that the United States is an inherently sexist and racist country or that people themselves might be predisposed to sexism or racism, all of which would make it hard for people in the military to see and discuss a film like Malcolm X.

The event was being organized for several military academies, and Harper says in his thread that students at two of them expressed concerns a few days before the screening that participating in it would put them in violation of Trump’s order. Ultimately, three of the four military academies did hold the virtual screening, though one did apparently back out because of the order. Harper says this is “censorship” and that Trump’s administration is trying to cover up the “difficult truths that still haunt our society.”