*** The Official MAGAposting thread ***

[Poopadoop]

So wtf is going on with Biden right now anyways? Why is he going all Hillary by avoiding a camera at all costs? Did the Dems not learn their lesson last time?

[CoccoBill]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...ecurity-160901

[CoccoBill]

https://twitter.com/lenkiefer/status...449784832?s=20

[oskar]

https://twitter.com/lenkiefer/status...449784832?s=20

Tremendous numbers! Huge!

But don't worry, this guy is on the job:

[Poopadoop]

Trump is using the federal stockpile to reward 'good' behaviour by the governors who suck up to him. What a little, little man he is.

[Poopadoop]

He looks like he's about to cry.


"The president wanted to make sure we had the best people doing the best jobs...."

Gee, where have we heard that before?


"...demands that all the recommendations we make be based on data..."

Which president are we talking about here?

[CoccoBill]

How old is Jared? He sounds like he's 16.

[Poopadoop]

https://twitter.com/JustinAHorwitz/s...20593387798534

[oskar]

He has like 10 people around him all day trying to home school him on this shit and he still doesn't get it:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1...355328512?s=20

[CoccoBill]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...coronavirus-c/

[Poopadoop]

Only the best people.



Meanwhile, looks like Fauci is on his way out.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Lists credentials of everyone... Has nothing to say about Ivanka or Jared.

[Poopadoop]

...and not a single economist or public health expert. But hey, as long as you have Jarvanka, why do you need competent people?

[Poopadoop]

6.00: "Lab in Wuhan was point of concern for State Dept. two years ago." But two months ago, Trump was saying he trusted the WHO and Xi totally.

7.45: "This is COVID-19, not COVID-1. You'd think the WHO would be on top of that."

[Poopadoop]

Meanwhile in MAGA country, people fight for their right to spread COVID 19

[Poopadoop]

Well, this should knock some sense into those protesters!

[Poopadoop]

The people have spoken.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1251564861257113602

[Poopadoop]

What's the over-under on days until Fauci gets fired?

Next question: What's the odds he's replaced by Jared and/or Ivanka?

[oskar]

The brilliant thing about this is that they have been so brainfucked that what they mean by liberation is going back to work. Freedom is being a wage slave.

[wufwugy]

The brilliant thing about this is that they have been so brainfucked that what they mean by liberation is going back to work. Freedom is being a wage slave.

What are your thoughts on how to improve reality?

[oskar]

What are your thoughts on how to improve reality?

I don't understand the question.

[wufwugy]

I don't understand the question.

ECON 101 on reality: humans have unlimited desires in a world of limited resources. To allocate resources to better meet desires, humans use their comparative advantages.

The above is one of the reasons that "wage slavery" is a thing. People want to go back to their jobs because they get more of what they want by doing so than by doing something else. People are slaves to reality, and the wage is a part of the very effective model that improves our lives given our reality.

Do you have a better model than the economics one?

[oskar]

ECON 101 on reality: humans have unlimited desires in a world of limited resources. To allocate resources to better meet desires, humans use their comparative advantages.

The above is one of the reasons that "wage slavery" is a thing. People want to go back to their jobs because they get more of what they want by doing so than by doing something else. People are slaves to reality, and the wage is a part of the very effective model that improves our lives given our reality.

Do you have a better model than the economics one?

I'll ignore your premise because I think it's extremely flawed, but also irrelevant.

There absolutely is a scenario where you can work and not be a wage slave, and that is owning the means of production. Prime example for a company that does work that way is UPS. It is entirely self sustaining. There are no billionaire ceo's at the top doing their magic work, yet it functions more efficiently than comparable private companies.

I find it very hard to understand how capitalists can justify having people like Jeff Bezos syphon billions in surplus from their companies for their personal pleasure while paying their employees minimum wage. I know all the magical thinking that makes you justify this... what it comes down to is you're saying it's worth the human suffering because you think the company is more successful under your model.
I don't care about companies. I don't think there's any inherent value in being hyper efficient if it doesn't lead to better outcomes for everyone, and I disagree with the idea that capitalism is the more efficient model to begin with.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I miss my job so much. I'm going stir crazy. I looked at a photo of my office yesterday and felt a little homesick.

[jackvance]

I'm just WFH. Have been quite busy this week actually. The only annoyance is the over-abundance of my wife and kids but what to do right.

[Poopadoop]

Am I hallucinating or did Trump just suggest injecting bleach into the body to treat CV?

[MadMojoMonkey]

Am I hallucinating or did Trump just suggest injecting bleach into the body to treat CV?

Not exactly*, but he did say something about getting sunlight inside your body, I think.

*In a shocking turn of events, he was asking a question at the time.

[oskar]

Not exactly*, but he did say something about getting sunlight inside your body, I think.

flashlight?

[oskar]

https://twitter.com/AndyOstroy/statu...284122626?s=20
The reaction shot is amazing.

Yes, buddy, there are a lot of ways to remove the virus from a body. That's never the hard part. I love that he's so stupid that he actually thinks he's helping. In his mind scientists are sitting in front of the TV furiously taking notes.

[MadMojoMonkey]

If it has output in the UV range, I guess. Pretty sure that's what he was talking about.

[oskar]

[OngBonga]

I don't think he knows what he's talking about. The questions he was asking would be perfectly legitimate for someone who is stupid when it comes to medical matters to ask a doctor in private. If it were leaked he quietly asked medical experts if it was possible to safely inject disinfectant, I wouldn't consider that newsworthy, but to make such comments in a public address watched by hundreds of millions, it's really hard to believe anyone is this idiotic.

[Poopadoop]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1253553753506091008

[Poopadoop]

Gotcha again Fauci!

[boost]

I don't think he knows what he's talking about. The questions he was asking would be perfectly legitimate for someone who is stupid when it comes to medical matters to ask a doctor in private. If it were leaked he quietly asked medical experts if it was possible to safely inject disinfectant, I wouldn't consider that newsworthy, but to make such comments in a public address watched by hundreds of millions, it's really hard to believe anyone is this idiotic.

Yeah, sure, but idk, shouldn't we wait for an inquiry before we pass judgement? Surely he's well intentioned..

[Poopadoop]

Maybe, but his ratings are through the roof!

[OngBonga]

Hahahaha Toilet Duck is top trending in the UK.

Not sure if that product is available elsewhere, but if it's not, it's a bog cleaner in a sort-of duck-shaped bottle designed to get under the rim of the toilet.

[OngBonga]

Are you suggesting that perhaps his medical advisers told him injecting disinfectant was a potential cure?

[Poopadoop]

I think he's suggesting Trump wasn't intelligent enough to grasp what they were telling him, or what it meant. But, I'm sure an inquiry will be needed before we can know for sure. Even still, as long as it was an honest misunderstanding, he's good to go as POTUS.

[OngBonga]

I mean boost's comment is just gleeful opportunism. He knows it's a poor comparison, but he couldn't stop himself from having a dig.

Of course, that applies to you too poop for your follow up.

[OngBonga]

My point was that boost's sarcasm was misplaced. We're not talking about poor decision making here, we're talking about saying dangerous things that nobody could have possibly advised him to say.

[Poopadoop]

Oh I get it. Poor decision making that costs thousandss of lives is ok as long as it's well-intentioned, but saying something really dumb on TV is dangerous.

[OngBonga]

You're on another planet if you think you have a point here. I can only assume you're just running with this to amuse yourself.

[OngBonga]

I mean to emphasise how ridiculous this is, you seem to be suggesting that we'd need an inquiry to determine if the comment he made about disinfectant was something he might have been advised to say, or that there is merit to his comments, just because I argued that an inquiry is the correct forum for accountability when it comes to policy.

[Poopadoop]

No, I just think we should suspend judgment on Trump until we have all the facts through an inquiry. It's entirely possible that CDC guy told him they were going to test injecting disinfectant and inserting UV light up people's asses. We don't have all the facts. That's what an inquiry is for.

[OngBonga]

No, I just think we should suspend judgment on Trump...

Please make this your signature.

[Poopadoop]

Please make this your signature.

Did it work?

Ahhh perfect.

[wufwugy]

That was pretty fucking dumb.

[boost]

That was pretty fucking dumb.

This actually might be what sinks him. Two reasons to think this:

1. He self mated in claiming it was sarcasm. He can't go to the next level and claim that claim was a joke. He's stuck with sarcasm. The problem is the "don't be such a snowflake, I was just fooling around" move utterly fails when 50,000 Americans are dead from a global pandemic and you're the head of state "sarcastically" suggesting people ingest poison as a cure. He needs to be relentlessly hammered on this point. This is all that should be talked about.

2. It happened, and people think it's absurd, but none of the commentariat is claiming this will bring him down. After all, if they were, it's almost a lock it wouldn't.

[wufwugy]

The media has probably lost too much credibility by now.

Enough people know they give the public its opinion.

[wufwugy]

Jesus Christ(owitz), I lol'd.

[OngBonga]

Right, so now you're not allowed to post anything critisising Trump, I will delete any such post.

[Poopadoop]

Here's one:

https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/statu...28405596717056

[Poopadoop]

You're right - that guy is just entrely making shit up. It's not that the gov't won't tell us who is on their scientific committees, and it's not that they claim the committees are independent, and its' not that Cummings has been sitting on at least one of those 'independent' committees. None of that is known already to be true and being lampooned in this tweet.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I will delete any such post.

Cool it, Hitler.

ps I'm a monkey twat

[Poopadoop]

Ok I'll focus my criticism on the UK gov't then; plenty to work with there.

[OngBonga]

Ah, Twitter, naturally the correct forum for journalism and accountability. More trustworthy than Reuters, and much faster than an inquiry.

[OngBonga]

I didn't even click the link, I just saw it was directing to Twitter. I mean, if that's how you do accountability, that's up to you.

idk what reasons the govt have for not disclosing who their scientific advisers are, perhaps it's a question of privacy. They can still be called to give evidence at an inquiry, and they will be under oath. I don't care if his name is Professor Bob Smith, I care about how reliable the information he gives is.

[OngBonga]

Pretty sure you're the Nazi, I saw the photo.

Obviously I wasn't being serious, cmon dude. When did I ever abuse my mod privileges?

[Poopadoop]

Yesterday I saw a guy beating his wife in the street. I've organised an inquiry for when he stops beating her so we can find out what happened.

[OngBonga]

Yesterday I saw a guy beating his wife in the street. I've organised an inquiry for when he stops beating her so we can find out what happened.

There's only one word I can use to reply to this.

Dickhead.

[boost]

There's only one word I can use to reply to this.

Dickhead.

whoa! Slow down-- he may well be a dickhead, but there's a time and place for name calling, and it's certainly not before he and the relevant parties have been put under oath at an inquiry!

[Poopadoop]

whoa! Slow down-- he may well be a dickhead, but there's a time and place for name calling, and it's certainly not before he and the relevant parties have been put under oath at an inquiry!

Hey, don't be so hard on Ong. We need to hold an inquiry to get to the bottom why he's resorted to name-calling before we can hold him accountable for his actions. He may just have received bad advice somewhere along the line.

[OngBonga]

Yesterday I saw a guy beating his wife in the street. I've organised an inquiry for when he stops beating her so we can find out what happened.

Let's revisit this post.

The "inquiry" that you speak of in this context is a criminal investigation followed by a trial. Even if you saw it happen, he's innocent until a court proves him guilty. That's how law works. That doesn't stop you from intervening, but if you simply read about it in the paper, well how do you know he isn't legally justified in his actions? Maybe she attacked him first, or even had a knife. Unlikely, but still, a court has to decide if he is legally accountable.

[Poopadoop]

Let's revisit this post.

If I saw the man beating his wife, then saw her the next day with bruises, then he argued that someone had advised him to hit her, I would believe he was guilty of assault. I wouldn't need to wait for a court to hold a trial and make it official. My standard of belief does not require independent verification from an outside authority, I can reach logical conclusions very well all on my own.

I don't need an inquiry to tell me 2 + 2 = 4.

[Poopadoop]

Oh wait, looking at the wrong game. I think I see you now.

[Poopadoop]

I only see one game with 12 players and one with 11000

[Poopadoop]

I'm actually called Poop. I identify as a bodily function.

[OngBonga]

8-max turbo NLHE $1.10

[Poopadoop]

What's the tourney ID?

[Poopadoop]

Ah, had turbo off on filter.

[OngBonga]

I don't normally play turbos but for a dollar I fancied it, a change from my usual badugi.

[Poopadoop]

[boost]

Ong, we have accountability here too-- congress has the power of subpoena, it's great, except if you just stonewall them, and were able to stack the courts ahead of time, nothing comes of it. Maybe your system of checks and balances is more robust, idk, but to rule out public pressure as a lever against poor governance is naive.

[OngBonga]

Ong, we have accountability here too-- congress has the power of subpoena, it's great, except if you just stonewall them, and were able to stack the courts ahead of time, nothing comes of it. Maybe your system of checks and balances is more robust, idk, but to rule out public pressure as a lever against poor governance is naive.

At least you're trying to engage in good faith, unlike poop.

But you're still missing my point. It's fine to critisise bad governance. But laymen thinking they can tell the government how they should be dealing with an unprecedented situation because "other countries", as though things apply equally across the world, that's naive.

I don't know better. So I won't pretend to.

Said poop, never.