Last night:
DR OZ: "Schools are a very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece in The Lancet arguing the opening of schools may only cost us 2 to 3%, in terms of total mortality. Any, you know, any life is a life lost, but … that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider." ?? pic.twitter.com/aifMeKTsIv
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 16, 2020
Never once in 20 years was this greater-comparative-death-from-mundane-occurrences argument acceptable on the right when it came to terrorism. But for millionaires to save their investment portfolios, a lItLLe PeRSpEctIVe Is iN OrDeR https://t.co/utKZGe6H8J
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) April 17, 2020
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Today:
100's of protestors outside Governor of Minnesota home shouting, "USA" 1 women reported to say, "don't come near me I have #COVID19"
Trump incited Minnesota on Twitter, saying "Liberate Minnesota" TRUMP THIS IS ON YOU. No masks, no social distancing!??pic.twitter.com/eEuWyg4Ank
— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) April 17, 2020
EMULATE MARYLAND!https://t.co/7t3seiWVt0 https://t.co/jV0T5Rg3c7
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) April 17, 2020
Oh fuck off https://t.co/08Mk3Owata
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 17, 2020
Thing about Trump’s call for insurrection: the kinds of people who showed up in Lansing—a lot of old people who wouldn’t get out of their cars—are far from a Freikorps or Bolshevik vanguard.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 17, 2020
Call out the serfs!…
I gotta say what makes the tweet sublime is the obvious implication that, just as in the conflicts she mentioned, Ms Ingraham will not be doing any “liberating” herself.
— Adam Serwer?? (@AdamSerwer) April 17, 2020
The “LIBERATE” stuff makes no sense outside of a herrenvolk ideology, where a majority of actual citizens is meaningless because only the Volk, represented by its Leader, can offer legitimacy. If you’re not a Real American or their anointed you don’t matter.
— Adam Serwer?? (@AdamSerwer) April 17, 2020
The fiction-writing professionals find themselves outdone:
I have to admit that the number of people openly and publicly disappointed that there have not been more dead because of this virus has been educational in itself. https://t.co/J4XjkRUOjC
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 15, 2020
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