Red Mosquito

Strat wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:Maybe they sent the payments out to dead people so they could whine about how flawed mail in voting would be?

Bingo. All the trumpers are posting this exact thing all over social media and in comments sections of the story

WELL?!?!?!?!!!!

But them mailing money to dead people* only proves the ineptitude of the administration.


* One of our area hospitals closed last year due to it being a money laundering situation for an Irish gangster. It closed when the IRS said “pay us the millions you owe us or close.” It got $250,000 in coronavirus relief. And it’s been closed over a year.

it's a known issue that government agency databases don't 'talk to one another' - and the SSN death index is unreliable too. oddly enough, sometimes there are repeat SSNs

they knew going into this stimulus package it 'would not be perfect' and they erred on the side of speed

this is imaginary money made up by the Fed and if it was $1.4 B / $290 B then that is a less than half a percent error rate which for a program like this is doing pretty OK

plus if the person is dead then the check probably won't be cashed anyway

and if it's a direct deposit the treasury can work with the Bank to reverse it later if confirmed the person is dead

Fuck the Internet for always making everything into crybaby shit. impossible to have a grown-up conversation about anything anymore. everything is always Heroes vs. Villains

$1.4 billion here. $1.4 billion there. Pretty soon, we're talking about real money here.

Close it down. Best tweet ever. From the author of trainspotting

He's not detached from reality though, he's just straight up lying about what's going on and hoping his base keeps his dick in their mouths.

I’m not at all trying to shit on Josh or get a rise out of him, genuinely curious if he’s still supporting this guy, or maybe starting to look at things a bit differently?

I haven't been paying attention. Is Josh the only vocal Trump supporter on the board?

Maybe macphisto?

tragabigzanda wrote:Maybe macphisto?

Not convinced they aren't the same account

tragabigzanda wrote:I’m not at all trying to shit on Josh or get a rise out of him, genuinely curious if he’s still supporting this guy, or maybe starting to look at things a bit differently?

PRO ISRAEL

SAVES BABYS

GUNS

tree_ wrote:I haven't been paying attention. Is Josh the only vocal Trump supporter on the board?

Bammer

LV

My FIL is a Trump supporter. He doesn't like his character. He's a devout Christian. But he says he supports him because of his business savvy and what he does for jobs and everything like that. How do I argue against this point, specifically, next time he brings it up?

Call him a fucking hypocrite and spit in his face

I’m less interested in if people like Josh still support him, and more interested on if they still think he’s on a path to reelection. Whether you believe polling in general or not, in 2018 we all watched the ACA repeal destroy Republicans’ chances of electoral success....and now they’re playing the same card again during a pandemic.

verb_to_trust wrote:Call him a fucking hypocrite and spit in his face

I mean, it can't go off any worse then trying to debate him.

I just want to know the most basic argument against him being good for the economy. My wife seems to think this too.

Shouldn’t you start by turning it around and asking them what metric they’re using to define “great for the economy?“ GDP? Deficit? Trade balance?

Once you know that, it just becomes a Google search.

tree_ wrote:I just want to know the most basic argument against him being good for the economy. My wife seems to think this too.

Try this: a strong economy requires a healthy functioning workforce; and that workforce requires science-based safeguards to make sure that they remain healthy and functioning. And this president has good at those safeguards and basically every opportunity, and he completely owns this tanked economy.

What safeguards, specifically?