New Jersey is TOTALLY FUCKED UP. Is your state the same?
misterorange
Biden SUCKS, Kamala BLOWS
Adjacent to my condo complex, literally 25 yards from the front door of my building, there's a family-owned convenience store which has had “restricted hours” since this lock-down began. Nice old Indian guy owns the place and the employees are mostly his family. They know their customers well and it's a really good store. They're now forced to close at 8:00 PM. But the 7-11 about a block-and-a-half down the street is still open 24-7. The guy told me he's thankful for many loyal customers, but the time between 8 and 11 PM (old closing time) used to be very busy. Now they're not doing well.
A few miles down the road is my most frequently visited bar/restaurant called the Firehouse Eatery and Pub. The owner is an Irish guy (with a really cool Irish brogue accent) who used to be a bartender there. He married a waitress, and somehow the two of them managed to buy the place (I think some family members chipped in to help). They built this place into a thriving business. Packed full every night of the week. You almost couldn't find a seat at the bar sometimes and there was a wait for tables in the main restaurant. Good food, reasonably priced drinks, live bands on Saturday nights. Awesome place. The American Dream, right? Now they're open for take-out only, but it's (obviously) not nearly the same. I've ordered a few times and tried to enjoy a meal that's already gone cold by the time I get home and unpack the food. When you go in to pick it up, the bar that I've enjoyed so many times is dark and empty. I asked the guy's wife how they are doing. She said she doesn't know if they'll last much longer. Her husband brought my food out and when I asked, "How ya doing" he was enthusiastic and said they're doing great. I know that's not true.
Meanwhile, Taco Bell and Burger King near me are open until Midnight and 2:00 AM respectively. The other day I needed food but missed the 8:00 cut-off for "restaurants" including my favorite pizza joint across the street. Placed an order on-line with Taco Bell and paid with a credit card. When I got there to pick up the food at the drive-up window the line was all the way around the building plus 4 cars out into the street. There were literally about 25 cars in front of me. It took 35 minutes to get my food, and it was still cold when I got home. I would have left except that I had already paid for it. Plus it was shit-ass fast food which sucked to begin with. Maybe I would have had better luck at McDonald’s, where the drive-up is still open 24/7. WTF?
So I ask myself, “What the hell is going on?” Why can I go to Home Depot or Walmart, where a thousand people a day touch the merchandise and put it back, but I can’t get a haircut at my barbershop that has 3 or 4 people in the place? Why are all the small business people, who’ve busted their asses for years to build something, or struggled to maintain a decades old family business, being shut down while these magnificent giants of industry are thriving?
I live in a deep “blue” state and I believe that Democrats see this virus as a "perfect" political opportunity. Don’t forget, their motto is, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” They are using this pandemic to grow government and put more people on the government dole. It’s been that way since the Great Depression when FDR created the “New Deal" in 1933. When I go to Washington DC, I wish I could piss on the FDR memorial. And if they ever create a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama monument, I’ll piss on it and then I’ll shit on it.
I’m not so much of a conspiracy theorist to say that the Wuhan Virus was created and released on the world intentionally (although I wonder about that) but I am completely sure that it’s the best thing that's ever happened to the Democrat party, and they’re playing us all like a fiddle. The Democrat power of “fear tactics” is so strong that even Trump had to go along with it for a while. But now he’s pushing back, and the good citizens of the USA are finally fighting against all the bullshit. Gyms and restaurants are opening despite “executive” orders. They are accepting fines and even imprisonment, standing up for liberty.
This is the new revolution against tyranny, my friends. Our only hope for the survival of America as we once knew it is to re-elect Trump in November and give him a super-majority in the House and Senate.
Fuck socialists. Fuck ‘em all.
A few miles down the road is my most frequently visited bar/restaurant called the Firehouse Eatery and Pub. The owner is an Irish guy (with a really cool Irish brogue accent) who used to be a bartender there. He married a waitress, and somehow the two of them managed to buy the place (I think some family members chipped in to help). They built this place into a thriving business. Packed full every night of the week. You almost couldn't find a seat at the bar sometimes and there was a wait for tables in the main restaurant. Good food, reasonably priced drinks, live bands on Saturday nights. Awesome place. The American Dream, right? Now they're open for take-out only, but it's (obviously) not nearly the same. I've ordered a few times and tried to enjoy a meal that's already gone cold by the time I get home and unpack the food. When you go in to pick it up, the bar that I've enjoyed so many times is dark and empty. I asked the guy's wife how they are doing. She said she doesn't know if they'll last much longer. Her husband brought my food out and when I asked, "How ya doing" he was enthusiastic and said they're doing great. I know that's not true.
Meanwhile, Taco Bell and Burger King near me are open until Midnight and 2:00 AM respectively. The other day I needed food but missed the 8:00 cut-off for "restaurants" including my favorite pizza joint across the street. Placed an order on-line with Taco Bell and paid with a credit card. When I got there to pick up the food at the drive-up window the line was all the way around the building plus 4 cars out into the street. There were literally about 25 cars in front of me. It took 35 minutes to get my food, and it was still cold when I got home. I would have left except that I had already paid for it. Plus it was shit-ass fast food which sucked to begin with. Maybe I would have had better luck at McDonald’s, where the drive-up is still open 24/7. WTF?
So I ask myself, “What the hell is going on?” Why can I go to Home Depot or Walmart, where a thousand people a day touch the merchandise and put it back, but I can’t get a haircut at my barbershop that has 3 or 4 people in the place? Why are all the small business people, who’ve busted their asses for years to build something, or struggled to maintain a decades old family business, being shut down while these magnificent giants of industry are thriving?
I live in a deep “blue” state and I believe that Democrats see this virus as a "perfect" political opportunity. Don’t forget, their motto is, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” They are using this pandemic to grow government and put more people on the government dole. It’s been that way since the Great Depression when FDR created the “New Deal" in 1933. When I go to Washington DC, I wish I could piss on the FDR memorial. And if they ever create a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama monument, I’ll piss on it and then I’ll shit on it.
I’m not so much of a conspiracy theorist to say that the Wuhan Virus was created and released on the world intentionally (although I wonder about that) but I am completely sure that it’s the best thing that's ever happened to the Democrat party, and they’re playing us all like a fiddle. The Democrat power of “fear tactics” is so strong that even Trump had to go along with it for a while. But now he’s pushing back, and the good citizens of the USA are finally fighting against all the bullshit. Gyms and restaurants are opening despite “executive” orders. They are accepting fines and even imprisonment, standing up for liberty.
This is the new revolution against tyranny, my friends. Our only hope for the survival of America as we once knew it is to re-elect Trump in November and give him a super-majority in the House and Senate.
Fuck socialists. Fuck ‘em all.
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@Mister: At this point, the blue state budgets are so fucked up that they are holding out in order to justify a massive federal bailout money. FEMA is already going to pay for 100% of equipment purchases and each state got CARE Act money on top of that, but for the piggish states with bloated budgets that is not enough. They have overwhelming public employee pension obligations that they do not know how they are going to pay now that tax revenues have sputtered, so the only path they see is to take the position that continued closures are necessary. They are holding out in hopes that they can keep on exerting leverage for the ZEROES Act to get passed. I am sorry that you live in one of those places.
It's a virus. We need to stop running and hiding.
And the capricious picks as to what businesses get to stay afloat boggles my mind.
Anyone who can support this constitutional abuse will soon get what they want. Enjoy your subordinate life.
The curve has been flattened. It's time to be done.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzej…
Trump downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic and lied about it constantly. "Anyone who wants a test can get a test." He continues to tout unproven treatments and suggests dangerous treatments like injecting or ingesting bleach. I would have expected better from "a very stable genius" who was Dean of Science at Trump University.
An intelligent, competent president would have nipped this pandemic in the bud. The severe economic consequences of the lockdown could have been avoided if we had a president who relied on science and medical expertise to control it from the start.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste."
Trump is going to lose, it’s only a question of by how large a margin
It is not unusual for fearful types like you to want somebody else to be responsible for making you feel safe and to blame leaders when you do not feel so. But sometimes shit happens. Trying to make a politician responsible for a virus outbreak is just silly by almost any rational measure.
Trump is giving Herbert Hoover a good name, he’s tried to bring back all of Hoover’s failed policies.
Political or not.....this house arrest has to end. I’m in healthcare and there is no surge, no overwhelming hospitals, etc. Just people who are so afraid to seek emergency treatment that by the time they get in, they are almost too sick to help and expire but NOT from a virus.
We should really be coming together to blame that country that doesn't share our values, freedoms, and way of life. If China wasn't so authoritarian and lacking in free speech then they wouldn't have been able to hide the real danger and consequences of the virus thus allowing a proper and timely response by the rest of the world.
It's time to open everything up. If you're afraid to leave home, stay home. But donit without Gov't handouts. No more stimulus. No more expanded unemployment. Carpe diem and caveat emptor.
As a result of his inaction I hope they hang every death all 95 thousand and climbing around his fat neck
And we legitimate conservatives blame him for every case of coronavirus, one and a half million and rising, here in America all of them Are a result of his failure of leadership.
LOL.
I'm trying your girly winky yellow button thingy does it make it easier for you to follow 🙄
Trump let governors make decisions. He shouldn't have done that. He should have just declared our whole country closed. He should have closed all borders, airports, and ports. He should have ordered every single person living in America to stay home.
Fuck Trump. He created this massive pandemic that has killed nearly .0003% of everyone in the USA.
It’s interesting that a lot of the Stripperweb bunch feels more strongly about lockdown measures. From a selfish perspective, a less bad economy and more deaths would mean more lonely men spending. A worse economy and less deaths means too many people who may decide to focus on other things in life than titty bars. 😝
Let's get real there are 95,000 deaths in a short period of time, that didn't need to occur, you cannot refute that it's a plain fact, and it happened on his watch. If you'd like to politicize this feel free, but don't complain when reasonable people push back. Part of that push back is holding the con man accountable, you can say what you like but the facts are stubborn things, over a million and a half Americans are infected and over ninety-five thousand of them are dead, and the POTUS at this point in time is Donald Trump, he may not have created this pandemic and the resulting economic disaster that came with it but he needs to be held accountable for this disaster that is happening on his watch.
No fucking Winky Smiley Emoticons just the actual facts.
RE: 10th amendment of the US Constitution
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
"Now he praises both sides, goes on his Twitter account with messages egging on those that are disposed to civil disobedience, all the while saying he supports from both sides of his mouth."
How horrid of Trump to give credit where credit is due.
"Let's get real there are 95,000 deaths in a short period of time, that didn't need to occur, you cannot refute that it's a plain fact, and it happened on his watch."
Would we be having this conversation if Trump shut everything down on Feb 1? No. We'd be having the conversation of what an Authoritarian Regime we're living under.
"If you'd like to politicize this feel free, but don't complain when reasonable people push back. Part of that push back is holding the con man accountable, you can say what you like but the facts are stubborn things, over a million and a half Americans are infected and over ninety-five thousand of them are dead, and the POTUS at this point in time is Donald Trump,"
I am not arguing any of these fact, but to hold Trump solely accountable is ridiculous. Had China been more forthcoming with details, perhaps he would have handled it differently.
" he may not have created this pandemic and the resulting economic disaster that came with it but he needs to be held accountable for this disaster that is happening on his watch."
How do propose we hold one man accountable when we have fifty different governors and hundreds of other world leaders making decisions for their citizens? By that logic, we should hold Adam responsible for everything. If he never impregnated Eve, then we'd never have had any human problems. (That's sarcasm, don't take it as fact)
"No fucking Winky Smiley Emoticons just the actual facts."
Trump is the one who said he knows better than the experts, as POTUS he is responsible to set an example for the country, he hasn't, all he has done is played both sides of this debate against the middle, as president his job is to set guidelines, he hasn't and we are suffering because of it.
Your arguments are disingenuous and disrespectful to everyone who has died or gotten sick, I refuse to have this conversation any more until you start respecting the fact that most other people have a very different opinion and they are tired of this tyranny of the minority, so go out and refuse to wear a mask IDGAF ingest some poisons that's not my concern, but stop expecting reasonable people to accommodate your unreasonable demands that we allow you to make decisions, that affect us, our children and our parents.
You have no respect for differing opinions.
You belittle and degrade anyone who disagrees with you.
Covid-19 isn't done yet so we don't know how this is going to affect the country and the world. Hopefully we all agree that we need competent people in charge of handling this pandemic and any other emergency effort instead of people who favor our political ideologies.
I staunchly disagree with this comment. What you wanted was clairvoyance, which is impossible. If Trump had advocated closing the economy before the supposed necessity of it was apparent, then state governors would have fought him for the obvious reasons. Look what happened when he took the simple step of restricting travel from China - NY politicians responded by encouraging their citizens to attend a body-to-body Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown.
But even if he acted at the precisely best moments in the optimal ways, the notion that a President prevent deaths from a virus that was here at least a month before anyone knew is ludicrous. Our power structure is decentralized, in case you didn't know this, and our ability to restrict freedoms is not unlimited. It has to do with something we call the Constitution.
There is an article making the rounds on internet news sites that 26 states have uncontrolled spread, and r-naught greater than 1. What does that mean? You're on the internet, fucker, look it up. Masks and social distancing are the only known and proven means to create a minimal risk of viral transmission. They have ruled out surface transmissions as a major pathway to infection. Like the flu and a cold, it is airborne.
Here's my take: the states that still have lockdowns in place are fucked up. The states which have lifted lockdowns, but are not enforcing common sense behaviors are fucked up. The truth is somewhere in the middle: open up, enforce masks, social distancing, and groups less than 10.