It wasn’t me who started calling it a bailout either, type “coronavirus bailout” into any search engine and see how many results come up. It might not be the correct term, but as has been said, “a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet”. And this smells like a big pile of shit, but the alternative might be worse.
I’ve thus far refrained from sharing this thought on my public social media, but it has been in my head a lot. There’s been a lot of what I can only describe as “gleeful gloating” in some of my social media circles, but I’ve kept quiet publicly.
When I was 19 years old I was in a basement with a straw up to my nose and a line of heroin in front of me. I’d done coke before, this didn’t seem a whole lot different, but my gut knew it was. I decided to say no to drugs for the first time in my life.
Just about everyone else in the room didn’t, and our lives took on drastically different trajectories when I moved 800 miles away a few months after that night over 20 years ago.
When I hear the argument that conservative are “hypocrites” for being supportive of leveraging the full power of government to help the nation, one thought enters my head. I imagine all of those addicts I shared the room with that night sneering at me and calling me a hypocrite if I got in a serious accident and needed to take Oxycontin. After all, if something is good at one point in time, it must be good at all points in time, right? That’s how the logic seems to go.
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How come you don’t think I’m serious when I talk about lizard people and Batman? There really are people who believe in the lizard people, what do I have to do to prove to you that I’m a believer?
And boy is it dumb logic. I only wish we’d spent more time mending the roof while the sun was shining. The US could be at 60-70% GDP of national debt and it wouldn’t have been so painful.
Now we’ve all gotta print and hope it works. I just hope we don’t eviscerate SME’s while we solve this.
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Well I sure as shit don’t know where we’re headed. We’ll find out though.
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One way or another.
Gotta let the good times roll man. We got defense spending to increase. We need space force. We need to keep everything we were already doing. Then some more. And then we need to cut taxes.
I swear you’re such a Debbie downer. Fucking live it up man. Fire that printer full steam. You’re acting like we’re out of cartridges. We got at least two more.
And fuck surely China won’t stop making cartridges…right? Right?!
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This is true. Well, you can; but then people get pissed and make it dangerous to be in charge.
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Quite right. You can but it won’t be effective for long.
Even in the U.K., you close the building sites for too long and you’ll have 100 thousand pissed off men who are as hard as a coffin nail and have power tools.
Keep those lads on lockdown for a month with no pay, and the Boston tea party will look like a lover’s tiff.
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And anyone who would respond ‘well the army would…’ the U.K. army is recruited from the regions these chaps would be from. The north of England, east London, Scotland etc.
It’d be the shortest rebellion in history.
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Oh please. The British are singularly incapable of organizing a revolution of the lower classes - this is probably the only instance when Marx was right.
“Oohh, let’s plant some vegetables on a hill in a protest”
“We’re such revolutionaries”
A “revolution” is an event when the have-nots spill the blood of the haves, not when you call upon an incestuous Dutchman to be your king.
While I concur in aggregate, the ‘glorious revolution’ was every bit as bloody as the French Revolution. Us Brits being sensible, we decided not to keep up with the practice.
We had a close run with the peasants and Baron’s revolt. We don’t normally resort to it because that would be far too continental. One has to keep up appearances, after all.
The British secret to success has always been to threaten such things without actually doing them. Good Lord, we wouldn’t want to become France, after all.
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Agree to disagree with this.
It’s speculation, but it’s still “saving face” in their minds. I don’t believe for a second the 42,000 deaths was accurate anyway, unless they REALLY kept the official number of cases way below the actual cases. However there’s one the the CCP wants and it’s to save face. That’s a decent motive for lying. They also know that they’ll be called out for their handling of this virus.
Maybe they’re being straight up, maybe not. But I think the motive is plausible. Besides–and most importantly–theres a wide spectrum of behavior between heinously fabricating stats (outright lying) and massaging them to be significantly less shocking.
No offense but if that was your point in the first post you made it very poorly in, because I did not read that intent at all. You may want to consider revising things in future posts clarity’s sake.
I’d forgive a LOT of policy disagreements as a voter for this kind of real human servant, high character action. Bravo!
15% …in your dreams lol. Or at least from what I’ve seen of people owning local eateries. You’re 100% correct on the ethics IMO.
Son, you won the award. Let them sneer all they want. Bravo to you. Also, yes I agree with the rest of your post
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I concur. Real public servants are hard to find these days, I’m happy we have one, at least.
This was my concern, I was hoping at least some would have that margin, but as I am not in the industry, I can’t opine. 8-10% seems to be the commonly quoted figure.
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Have you been throwing down babies down wells like the Revolutionaries in crushing down the royalist uprising in Vendee? No?
Please don’t bring that up. Wat Tyler went to parlay with the king. Revolutionaries for centuries afterwards were disgusted by the naivete and respect towards regal authority.
I’ll grant you Charles the First though, although it’s been too drawn-out and mired in legalese.
They really do good revolutions. I was hoping for something from the yellow vests - the proclamation of the Third Empire for example.
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You know, it strikes me that really this is what politics should be. I’m sure, as much as they failed to hold the line perfectly themselves, our founding fathers had someone like this in mind for leaders.
When someone is doing this, it’s a lot easier to have disagreements without hating the person. When it’s a bunch of attorneys who have never done anything except campaign and argue, well…policy disagreements turn into personal hate much quicker.
We. Banned. Christmas.
As any good English revolution would be.
There’s time enough yet. If DeGaulle can’t prevent one what chance does Macron have?
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https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/paris-butcher-barber/amp/
One of my favorite cartoons that I believe came from England about the French Revolution.
Haven’t read the article just wanted to find the picture again quickly.
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I don’t know what it is about the US, tbh. The U.K. has its fair share of useless politicos, but you’ll find our better ones in the trenches in a crisis. Maybe you being the superpower makes for garbage politicians.
The U.K. had MP’s serving and dying in WW1 trenches for God’s sake.
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