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This is still the greatest zombie picture from the crisis. Shaun of the Dead anyone? 😂

"About 100 right wing protesters assembled outside of the Ohio Statehouse during Gov. DeWine's weekday update on Monday, upset that the state remains under a stay-at-home order and that non-essential businesses remain - or as one put it “a sad collection of Patriot nutballs, Antivaxxer assholes, QAnon creeps and Trumpers...”
 
editor said:
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This is still the greatest zombie picture from the crisis. Shaun of the Dead anyone? 😂

"About 100 right wing protesters assembled outside of the Ohio Statehouse during Gov. DeWine's weekday update on Monday, upset that the state remains under a stay-at-home order and that non-essential businesses remain - or as one put it “a sad collection of Patriot nutballs, Antivaxxer assholes, QAnon creeps and Trumpers...”
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the two women closest to the glass seem to be wearing the same horror mask.
 
Yossarian said:
It's truly frightening the way things are headed in the US - New York state alone has almost a tenth of the world's confirmed coronavirus cases - more cases and almost as many deaths as China has reported, though China's figures are unlikely to have much connection with reality.

It would be bad enough if there was a real president in charge - with states largely being left to chart their own courses in the absence of federal leadership, I think the country might struggle even to get it together enough to hold this year's election on time in a manner where the results won't be disputed.
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The results were always going to be in dispute.
 
Protests in Michigan:




LANSING, Mich. – Demonstrators drove thousands of vehicles – many draped with protest signs – to Michigan's state Capitol on Wednesday, loudly protesting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order intended to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Police watched as horns honked and commercial and private vehicles from around the state jammed Capitol Avenue and other streets surrounding Michigan's seat of government in Lansing.

"Liberty once lost is lost forever," read a sign draped across a commercial van. "Security without liberty is called prison," read another, stretched across the Capitol's front lawn. "Recall Whitmer," a third sign said.
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www.usatoday.com

Thousands converge to protest Michigan governor's stay-home order in 'Operation Gridlock'

Protesters said the stay home order is crippling their businesses and some called on the governor to be recalled.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com
 
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editor said:
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This is still the greatest zombie picture from the crisis. Shaun of the Dead anyone? 😂

"About 100 right wing protesters assembled outside of the Ohio Statehouse during Gov. DeWine's weekday update on Monday, upset that the state remains under a stay-at-home order and that non-essential businesses remain - or as one put it “a sad collection of Patriot nutballs, Antivaxxer assholes, QAnon creeps and Trumpers...”
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And when half of them get sick after all crowding together with their mouths open distributing as much spittle as possible, that won't be taken as evidence that maybe the 'stay at home' stuff has some basis to it but as proof that they really are being targetted by a sinister cabal of Chinese people, Bill Gates, Elvis, John Travolta in Battlefield Earth and, one assumes, all of the Jews.
 
SpookyFrank said:
And when half of them get sick after all crowding together with their mouths open distributing as much spittle as possible, that won't be taken as evidence that maybe the 'stay at home' stuff has some basis to it but as proof that they really are being targetted by a sinister cabal of Chinese people, Bill Gates, Elvis, John Travolta in Battlefield Earth and, one assumes, all of the Jews.
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+5G - everything comes served with a big dollop of 5G sprinkles in this apocalyptic Willy Wonka magic factory.
 
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editor said:
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This is still the greatest zombie picture from the crisis. Shaun of the Dead anyone? 😂

"About 100 right wing protesters assembled outside of the Ohio Statehouse during Gov. DeWine's weekday update on Monday, upset that the state remains under a stay-at-home order and that non-essential businesses remain - or as one put it “a sad collection of Patriot nutballs, Antivaxxer assholes, QAnon creeps and Trumpers...”
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Look at them, with their stupid Trump hats on and everything, as if he's blameless in all of this. Fucking idiots.
 
editor said:
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This is still the greatest zombie picture from the crisis. Shaun of the Dead anyone? 😂

"About 100 right wing protesters assembled outside of the Ohio Statehouse during Gov. DeWine's weekday update on Monday, upset that the state remains under a stay-at-home order and that non-essential businesses remain - or as one put it “a sad collection of Patriot nutballs, Antivaxxer assholes, QAnon creeps and Trumpers...”
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That's got to make it into the running for one of the pics of the year.
 
petee, what help are people, that can't work because of the lock-down, getting in the US?

I seem to remember reading that everyone is getting a cheque for $1200, otherwise is it just unemployment benefit, and at what rate is that paid?
 
I keep thinking about this lunacy, and actually this virus is perfect. They can rail against liberal conspiracies all they want, and they can insist the virus is manufactured/non-existent/being exploited by Big <whoeverthebogeymanistoday>, but the bottom line is - THE VIRUS DOESN'T CARE.

Their cause can be as righteous as they want, but if they huddle together in protest, and just one person is carrying it, it won't matter whose virus it is, because it'll be theirs in a very real sense.
 
cupid_stunt said:
petee, what help are people, that can't work because of the lock-down, getting in the US?

I seem to remember reading that everyone is getting a cheque for $1200, otherwise is it just unemployment benefit, and at what rate is that paid?
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not everyone, your situation must fit within parameters

Who is eligible for the economic impact payment?
Tax filers with adjusted gross income up to $75,000 for individuals and up to $150,000 for married couples filing joint returns will receive the full payment. For filers with income above those amounts, the payment amount is reduced by $5 for each $100 above the $75,000/$150,000 thresholds. Single filers with income exceeding $99,000 and $198,000 for joint filers with no children are not eligible. Social Security recipients and railroad retirees who are otherwise not required to file a tax return are also eligible and will not be required to file a return.

Eligible taxpayers who filed tax returns for either 2019 or 2018 will automatically receive an economic impact payment of up to $1,200 for individuals or $2,400 for married couples and up to $500 for each qualifying child.

Economic impact payments: What you need to know | Internal Revenue Service

IR-2020-61, March 30, 2020 — The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today announced that distribution of economic impact payments will begin in the next three weeks and will be distributed automatically, with no action required for most people. Updated with new information for...
www.irs.gov www.irs.gov

which is great, but:
1: companies are getting very generous help, and there is any number of stories about billion dollar outfits getting money which might go to working people
2: trump, of course, took the opportunity to try to buy the next election by forcing his name onto the checks, when normally the treasury secretary would be the signer, or the "treaurer of the united states", a functionary whose office (unsurprisingly for this administration) has been vacant since january (https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1016c2-7e82-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html)
 
Brave man
editor said:
View attachment 207054

This is still the greatest zombie picture from the crisis. Shaun of the Dead anyone? 😂

"About 100 right wing protesters assembled outside of the Ohio Statehouse during Gov. DeWine's weekday update on Monday, upset that the state remains under a stay-at-home order and that non-essential businesses remain - or as one put it “a sad collection of Patriot nutballs, Antivaxxer assholes, QAnon creeps and Trumpers...”
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Even the mode of transmission's the same as zombies - touch one and they're infected and they start stumbling towards you arms wide mumbling Trump MAGA, Trump MAGA, Trump MAGA . :eek:
 
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