Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

No one could have predicted…

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

This fight is for everything.

Fight them, without becoming them!

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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  1. 1.

    Kent

    Are we going to raid the pharma companies who are charging $800 for a bottle of generic insulin, and the hospitals that are charging $399 for a dose of Tylenol?

    Yes, this guy is a turd. But he’s only doing what corporate America does every day of the week, every time they can get away with it

    And Amazon was going to get a cut of every damn one of his sales.

  3. 3.

    Sister Golden Bear

    My schaden is freuding.

    @Kent: Actually the reason he had a huge stockpile is that Amazon banned him from selling when they discovered he was price-gouging and reported him to the authorities.

    And yes, I’d love to see “normal” corporate America price-gouging get hammered as well.

  4. 4.

    Philbert

    That much alcoholo is a major fire hazard. Maybe the fire department can ticket him if no one else can.

  5. 5.

    oldgold

    I have always disliked DeWine. But,….

    Gov. Mike DeWine said the state health director will order all bars and restaurants to close at 9 p.m. tonight in Ohio.

    DeWine said he came to the decision after hearing from people around the state on Saturday night who were concerned about crowded bars. He said he was concerned with St. Patrick’s Day coming up Tuesday that people would ignore warnings and go out to bars.

    https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200315/coronavirus-governor-orders-ohio-bars-restaurants-to-shut-down

  6. 6.

    MoCA Ace

    @Kent: Exactly this!  It’s OK if you are one of the masters of business and finance but let Joe sixpack pick up on the grift and the government will come down on him like a ton of bricks.

    Still, fuck him.

  9. 9.

    Bookeater (formerly JosieJ)

    Good!  I’m glad he came to his senses.  I read the original story in the Times yesterday and seriously had to go outside and walk around to cool off. I haven’t had a story outrage me like that one did in a long time. (I don’t know what that says about me!)

  10. 10.

    Patricia Kayden

    The administration’s struggle to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak has been marked by infighting and blame-shifting, misinformation and missteps, and a slow recognition of the danger. https://t.co/CdIff6EGGg— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 15, 2020

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    I am so glad.  Was wondering how this story would end.

    I wonder if there are any laws (OK, it’s Tennessee) under which the AG can prosecute these Martin Shkreli wanna be’s.

  14. 14.

    Elizabelle

    It’s hard to see anything with the video clip.  I wonder if it is what it purports to be.

    I rather hope they did get raided, and find their asses being indicted next.

    USA Today, from the Louisville-Courier Journal:
    Tennessee AG cracks down on men who hoarded thousands of sanitizer bottles amid shopper scare

    As cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer fly off grocery store shelves in a rush of coronavirus panic shopping, two Tennessee men are being ordered to stop hoarding and reselling in-demand products online.

    Noah Colvin, of Hixson, Tennessee, took a 1,300-mile road trip in early March across Tennessee and Kentucky, racking up thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer to resell online.

    … On Saturday night, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III announced his office had ordered the Colvins to stop buying and selling while they’re investigated for price gouging.

    “We will not tolerate price gouging in this time of exceptional need, and we will take aggressive action to stop it,” said Slatery in a press release.
    Tennessee and Kentucky have anti-price gouging laws to prevent necessities from being sold at a mark-up during states of emergency — a status that both states are under to fight the coronavirus.

    An online petition calling on Slatery to prosecute Matt Colvin has thousands of signatures.

    “This is a time where we have to focus on helping our neighbors, not profiting from them,” said Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. “We’re not going to tolerate selfish actions that put the health of Kentuckians at risk, and I’m grateful for Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery’s partnership in bringing an end to this harmful scheme.”

  15. 15.

    germy

    In a puzzling — but perhaps not entirely surprising — display of bad timing, the Trump administration is reportedly thinking about relaxing federal oversight on nursing homes amid a viral pandemic that has already proved particularly dangerous for nursing homes.
    According to the New York Times, the proposed plan has been in the works since at least last summer, before the coronavirus began spreading around the world.

  17. 17.

    MattF

    Bit of culinary/social news: Jose Andres, the DC area chef, is closing all his restaurants and reopening them as community kitchens.

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    @Patricia Kayden:

    The administration’s struggle to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak has been marked by infighting and blame-shifting, misinformation and missteps, and a slow recognition of the danger

    In other words, another typical day in the Trump Administration

    A Three Stooges Slapfest comes to mind.

  20. 20.

    WereBear

    I’ll say this: the Gouger moved in early March, which was faster and more purposeful than the federal government.

    He should drop a CV off at the White House. They don’t care about any felonies or silly stuff like that!

  21. 21.

    p.a.

    TPM, good point.  Mr. DeBlasio?

    The decision to close schools involves a complex social and epidemiological calculus. But the act of closing schools itself seems to play a decisive role in public messaging. Populations don’t move into a true crisis footing until they hear that school systems are closing. Then they do.

  22. 22.

    Brachiator

    @8 man shell:

    But his original intent was to gouge people. From the story you link,

    he admitted to purchasing over 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer with his brother Noah Colvin and selling them at high prices to try and make a big profit. The former Air Force technical sergeant said he sold the items between $8 to $70, as did many other sellers..

  24. 24.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    @Elizabelle: We will not tolerate price gouging in this time of exceptional need

    …at other times, yes, but not now. And certainly not by some plebeian.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    @Elizabelle:

    Ah, so it sounds like multiple assholes thought up the same price-gouging scheme and their stories are getting conflated together.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    @p.a.:

    People didn’t start panic-buying here in LA until the schools started closing. Toilet paper and hand sanitizer was all gone a couple of weeks ago, but you didn’t have empty food shelves and refrigerated cases until Friday.

  28. 28.

    ShadeTail

    All of you complaining that this is exactly what pharmaceutical companies have always been doing…

    Please spare us your whataboutism. Seriously, shut up with that shit. We are outraged that insulin and cancer drugs and other “specialty” meds are basically a legal hostage situation. We are trying to put an end to that. And even if we weren’t, this goober was still nothing more than a barely legal(?) scalper trying to profit off other people’s panic and misery. Any at least half-way decent person would agree that this was some utter bullshit.

    I don’t know if you folks are just trying to virtue-signal on this, or if you think we’re unwilling to tackle more than one outrage at a time, but either way, knock it off.

  29. 29.

    trollhattan

    @MattF:

    Here’s my nomination of Jose Andres for the Nobel Peace Prize. A beacon of humanity in the midst of a shitstorm of open theft, depravity and non-governance.

  32. 32.

    Darkrose

    @p.a.: I’m not sure about the weather angle. It’s been unseasonably warm in Sacramento this month—mid 70’s and low 80’s last week—and we’ve had several confirmed cases and at least one death. It’s also difficult to make projections given that so little testing has been done.

  36. 36.

    J R in WV

    @ShadeTail:

    I don’t know if you folks are just trying to virtue-signal on this [price gouging], or if you think we’re unwilling to tackle more than one outrage at a time, but either way, knock it off.

    Well said, I’m with you. Fuq these assholes, take their goods, take their unearned profits.

  37. 37.

    MoCA Ace

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:Restaurants and bars to close in Illinois. Governor and Mayor Lightfoot and head of restaurant association on TV now

    If Florida’s Governor was smart (yes I know) he would do the same right now.  Talked to my son last night and he said several guys he knows have booked cheap flights to Florida.  They weren’t planning on going, but now that the university is shut down and air fair is cheap why not do an extended spring break!  YOLO BABY!

  39. 39.

    KateP

    @oldgold: DeWine has blown me away. I’ve lived in Ohio all of my life and never voted for him but he has stepped upend become the leader we need. Direct, calm, and science based. He doesn’t sugarcoat the situation, lets people know that there’ll be pain and sacrifices are needed. Friends and family reached out to be sure that I knew he was giving a briefing because they have trust in him since this crisis started. Pence looks good only in comparison to Trump. DeWine surpasses them by far.

  41. 41.

    JMS

    I’m just glad the hand sanitizer can go where it’s needed. I’m glad they put a stop to the price gouging but it bothered me that the supply was just sitting there of no use. Speaking of hoarding, I had to order boxes of tissues for my 89-year old father in Honolulu because he was limited to buying 2 boxes at a time at the store (not the good stuff) and only had 6 boxes on hand. Why does he need 6 boxes? I have no idea.

  42. 42.

    Jess

    These clowns reminded me of the adage that the capitalist will happily sell you the rope to hang him with. Did it ever occur to them that withholding the supplies that could help their communities maintain their health, and their country avoid economic crisis, could possibly bite them on the ass? Typical red-state voters…

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