Why would Trump be upset? He refuses to wear a mask, engage in social distancing, and can apparently get tested every 5 minutes, while the rest of us are expected to just get back out there and be warriors (and die).

People need to start protesting the lack of testing. NOTHING can "be opened" or "restarted" until every single person has the access to testing Don the Con has.

How is he going to react when he resumes is rallies and the people that show up all get sick? Trump should not have access to testing anytime he wants when he flat out refuses to release scientific evidence and recommendations of how exactly we need to do things (because they are all in direct opposition of his fantasy of this all going away and him remaining the resident in the WH). Trump continues to pin his hopes on magical thinking.

CDC guidance on reopening safely will 'never see the light of day,' scientists told
The 17-page “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework” was supposed to be published last Friday—but then, an unnamed CDC official tells the Associated Press, scientists were told it “would never see the light of day.” And it’s reportedly not because the document had errors or was incomplete, but because, with Donald Trump pushing reopening no matter what, the White House doesn’t want to release detailed guidance.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/7/1943282/-Trump-administration-blocks-release-of-CDC-guidelines-for-reopening-safely

Poor Banksy.
His whole oeuvre is based on cleverness wedded to scrupulous attention to technique.
That cleverness requires an edge, some anger, a sense of righteousness offended.
Take that away and he is basically just an illustrator.
Still a pretty good one, but ... zzz...
Sad fact is that his style of transgressive art is a young man's game.

Duck Fart scolding
Strangers for
'immorality'
Rich.

Remember when you
said you fucked my mom?

Well, "upset" could also mean bursting into tears.

Yeah, the GOP isn't even pretending to be pro-life anymore.
"Hey you! - You there! Yeah, you're making $7.15 per hour!
Get back to the meat plant and keep producing, so Donnie and Christie can have their cheeseburgers!"

@1:

I presume at this point, "upset" = "threw an epic tantrum", because now he personally has to deal with what so many other citizens have been and are going through, namely, the inescapable fact that COVID can affect ANYONE, no one is safe; and with the realization there is a good possibility he himself is now responsible for potentially spreading the contagion to others, including members of his own inner circle. COVID has now reached into the very nooks and crannies of the WH, so he can no longer blithely ignore the implications of what that means. Remember, he's a pathological germophobe, so he's no doubt forcing his minions to sterilize everything he comes into contact with as he barricades himself in an East Wing bathroom with a towel under the door frantically tweeting that "everything is fine!" while the flop-sweat drips down his orange spray-tanned corpulence like condensation on a cold can of beer.

If COVID-19 killed those with immoral character Trump would have been dead in January.

@3:

Equally strange is that the highest per-capita rates are appearing in the rural south, primarily because of the lack of adequate health care, because our for-profit system, in its inexorable drive to squeeze every last dollar out of the system for the benefit of investors rather than consumers, has left many counties without hospitals, clinics, or even general practitioners, forcing infected residents to drive (or be driven since many are too sick to drive themselves) hours from home, only to find the facility in the next county - or two - over is understaffed, undersupplied, underfunded and overwhelmed by the time they get there.

Has the 404 dilrod had his commenting loophole addressed? He's been conspicuously silent for a couple days.

@10 no doubt you are correct about the temper tantrum. the tales of him being a germaphobe are a lie that has been perpetuated ad nauseum though. i grew up in new york and spent my 20s and in NYC and am well versed in the one man attention whore shit show trump has always been, was when he slithered into the white house, and is now, more than ever.

he's no germaphobe, not the way people believe him to be. first, someone as germaphobic as he is painted as being would never live in NYC. and someone as germaphobic as he is would never NOT wear a mask. it just would never happen. he is bat shit insane, a total fucking sadist, and truly the most empty bag of skin on the face of the earth in every possible way, but someone who is a true germaphobe would be walking around in a hazmat suit 24/7, like, say, Putin is.

shorter version of 16, republicans only give a shit if it affects them personally. as for everyone else sick or dying, fuck them, they aren't us.

...a growing collection of empirical research indicates that an individual’s propensity to experience empathy correlates with one’s general political attitudes (including party affiliation) as well as with which specific policy positions one takes. More specifically, this research suggests that a strong connection exists between empathy and liberal political views.

https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/1102/html

@13 Yep. It's fixed.

@24: Looks like!

@13 and @24 and @26 I was wondering about that, but was afraid to bring it up.

People doubling down on tiresome non-facts are exhausting. There were countries that were prepared. The United States of Dumb Fuck Shits in charge knew exactly what was coming and CHOSE, ON PURPOSE, WITH FORETHOUGHT, TO NOT DO ANYTHING. There is a HUGE difference in being unprepared and ignoring the problem. Facts matter. Truth matters. Reality matters. One's subjective opinion regarding the matter, IRRELEVANT.

Here's just a fraction of the information establishing the differences in prepared vs. just did not give a shit. There is plenty of information available to you on the internet, your refusal to acknowledge it does not make it cease to exist.

New Zealand Has Only 20 COVID-19 Deaths. Vietnam Has Zero. How They Succeeded:
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid-19-deaths-low-in-vietnam-south-africa-new-zealand#Common-themes

What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/#460dcd553dec

Golf, handshakes and a Mar-a-Lago conga line: Squandered week highlights Trump’s lack of COVID-19 focus
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/04/09/instead-prepping-coronavirus-trump-partied-golfed-held-fundraisers/2941076001/

White House Knew Of Coronavirus' 'Major Threat,' But Response Fell Short
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814881355/white-house-knew-coronavirus-would-be-a-major-threat-but-response-fell-short

Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/07/trump-coronavirus-management-style-123465

Sugarcoating and Brutal Honesty: How Leaders Are Handling Coronavirus Crisis
The pandemic is a challenge not only for public health but also for messaging. Here’s how some world leaders have talked to their citizens about the outbreak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/world/europe/leaders-coronavirus-france-new-zealand-philippines-germany.html

@34 doubling down some more on why a black man should be blamed for his own murder when there is video tape of three men chasing down the black man jogging and murdering him.
people who are actually smart don't talk about how smart they are. you sound like trump and his stable genius comments. stupid is as stupid does and stupid doubles down every damn time no matter what the facts are. the ex-cop saying the man he lynched in broad daylight looked like the burglary suspect = i saw a black man and wanted to murder him so i took it upon myself to chase him down and do just that.

@38 Arbery lived in that neighborhood and jogged in that neighborhood often. It was HIS neighborhood and HIS street and he had every right to be there, living, existing, and doing so without being hunted down and murdered.

Even if your fantasy of a story were remotely true, people do NOT have a right to hunt down a human and murder them, no matter what they believe they've done.

Arbery was murdered in February. The ex-cop in the murder trio and his relationship with the DA is why it was covered up and is only now being addressed due to widespread, public, national outrage and the video of the murder being released.

I'm done with you.

Please drive thru.

Someday the Musk kid is going to thank the state of CA. What a horrendous thing to try to do to a kid. Most parents spend a bit of time trying to give their kid a name that WON'T get his ass kicked daily.

@40: There's no evidence or culpability of any crime past or present in the moment and at the scene when the homicide occurred that could be actionable even for a citizen's arrest. I'm not lawyer, but I think that's what the DA should decide.

FFS no you do not have the right to hunt ANY HUMAN BEING DOWN AND MURDER HIM NO MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE HE HAS DONE. Not even in Georgia. FUCK OFF.

Going to have set up a Venmoe that pays me every time you post a comment since the 404 trolls have been dispensed. I miss that $kaching$

Every time a racist fuck rights hate filled shit on the SLOG comments,

@40 - I seriously doubt that Georgia law allows you to pull a gun on someone in an attempt to hold them (or to get property returned). Self-help is frowned upon generally in the Anglo-American law framework. It is sort of in society's interest not to have gunfights left and right.

There is in most (perhaps all) jurisdictions an exception for self-defense or the defense of others when it is necessary. But there was no necessity here. And you can't use self-defense if you yourself created the jeopardy (i.e., you can't jump someone and then shoot him if he hits you). The crackers that shot this guy could readily have called the cops. Could have followed him and pointed out to the police where he went if they thought he was getting away. But I bet wacking him themselves sounded like more fun.

*writes hate filled shit on the SLOG comments

@14 - I always wondered how banging hookers, alleged immigration-violating hookers, and pornstars squared with being a germophobe.

@27 I had tested it a couple weeks ago with an innocuous comment and it did indeed work, but is now fixed. The reason it did not work for y'all when you tried it is that you used the same browser you use for regular commenting and the stored Stranger password cookies prevented it from working.

But, on a browser with no previous cookies from The Stranger, it worked just fine.

"Bellevue must be reeling" ...Bellevue is DEFINITELY NOT REELING!!! We still have lots of excitement & fun things to do...mall walkers, Orange Julius, plenty of parking garages for our gargantuan Suburban Subdivisions, and waterfront parks. Well, maybe not so much on that last one, but who needs them? Our homes have plenty of private lakefront footage.

@48: Word on the street is that a bipartisan investigation headed by Trump's own party recently came to the same conclusion as all the preceding investigations: that Russia absolutely did interfere in the 2016 election in Trump's favor. Word on the street is also that Trump's lies about it shifted day to day and week to week, and his own lawyer gave testimony to Congress that Trump was in communication with Russia over the election, but sure.

If you need to interpret that Michael Flynn's guilty plea to lying to the FBI was some sort of conspiracy against Trump, and that clearing of charges is not further proof of proven liar Bill Barr's interference in the DOJ to stonewall on Trump's behalf, well, there's clearly not much anyone can do to convince you otherwise.

@47 I didn't try anything, I just noticed the trolls that were helping me build a rainy day fund had all suddenly stopped posting on SLOG. funny how that suddenly got fixed so quickly after years of people complaining about it.

They FIXED it?

If I send them money and they unfix it can I get my money back? Perhaps an Edit Button may be in the offing as well...

C U on Payday
Stranger.

Do you take checks?

Goodgye, trollingtrollytrolleyTroll!

I hope you get the Help* you so clearly Need!

*Whatever you Do,
do NOT try psychedelics
all that Anger "looks good" on you.

Good luck!

The faces of white supremacist terrorists. Real mouth breathers.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/7/1943479/-Father-and-son-killers-of-Ahmaud-Arbery-FINALLY-arrested-on-murder-and-aggravated-assault-charges#read-more