Trapezium Dave posted:

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Ted Rall posted:

Donald Trump ran for president as an authoritarian strongman businessman who could get things done. Now we’re in a national crisis due to the coronavirus, and he’s hiding from the media and failing to take the kinds of steps you might expect him to take, such as curtailing international and domestic travel in a serious way.

Tags: authoritarian; schtick; strong man; Donald Trump; Melania Trump; hiding under the bed; girly man; coronavirus; covid-19

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: Come out from under the Bed and Rule like the Thug You Said You Were

Amoeba102 posted:

Zanetti is a hack.

Fire is bad - we already knew that. Economic stimulus as fuel means to say it will make things worse. And the shutddown as water means it'll make things better.
Only makes sense if the bad thing represented by fire is the economy. Or maybe capitalism.
I know some would say - hell yeah capitalism is a disaster waiting to consume us all and must be put out. But not hare-brained zanetti. He's only got a halfarsed metaphor with only the barest of surface level thinking.

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Ted Rall posted:

The coronavirus crisis is a classic example of how we're all in it together. What good is it if you have good healthcare if you're surrounded by contagious people who do not?

Tags: ACA, bargain, contagion, coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthcare, higher taxes, poverty, Wall Street

Evilreaver posted:

Bold move quoting a hard number in relation to an exponentially-increasing pandemic when you know you're on a two-week delay

[7954 deaths at time of posting]

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Sandpuppy posted:

Welp, I should have plenty of time for cartoon-posting, as Gov. Sisolak just shut down all non-essential business in NV till at least April 17. Will I get laid off over the phone or by email? - The anticipation!
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Shugojin posted:

Ah, another "Ramirez admits he actually hates America" cartoon

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MrUnderbridge posted:

Well-known blonde, Melania Trump. Jesus gently caress, Ted.

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Jedit posted:

It's Ivanka.

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Alhazred posted:

Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

I find this extremely aesthetically appealing but am completely oblivious to what's going on. Please help this gentle idiot.

E: If it's a hamfisted pun about 'coronavirus/crow on a wireless' as my wife suggested I'm gonna find the cartoonist and wring their neck

Alhazred posted:

https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/nar-hele-norge-blir-en-no-go-sone/72258577, auto-translated posted:

Children in corona crisis:
When all of Norway becomes a no go zone
A defense of everyday life.

Tuesday we are going to celebrate my daughter's two year anniversary.

Don't tell her, but we bought a two-wheel bike without pedals. One that she has to push with her legs over so that she does not fly out into traffic. That way we can keep her safe.

It is pink with purple handles. We bought balloons, baked cake, and invited the closest family. Grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins and cousins.

We had been looking forward to seeing her with a crown of cardboard in the nursery while she sipped chocolate cake with the other children. The way we had seen so many kids doing in the My Kid app kindergarten made us download.

I'm happy in this life.

Everyday life with the trips to the nursery, the perpetual quarrel about washing, drying, placement in the dishwasher, clothes not to be put in the washing machine, the filter to be cleaned and toilets to be washed.

But now it might be over.

BECAUSE TODAY NO ONE COMES. The nursery is closed. And I've told the rest of the condominium team to stay away. It's no big deal. The two-year-old, however, will not remember it.

But through the window I see youth, children and others playing on. A playground full of children who remember, dump, slide, climb on a tripod and playground.

Which plays on as if this is not the end of life as we know it. And I hope they are right.

I AM UNIQUE. And a little scared. But I try not to show it. We do not have quarantine. We have not been on a ski holiday in Austria.

But suddenly all the door handles, shop visits and play equipment are a threat.

Suddenly it is disgusting to go to the local Rema 1000 store with its empty shelves, no yeast, no toilet paper, and the crispbreads I am so fond of.

"I remember it first and foremost as a great time".

I was surprised by the answer. I had asked my uncle how he remembered the war.

But it was not the German soldiers, the war, the bombs, the deportation of the local Sachnowitz family, or the concentration camp with the Russian prisoners that had impressed him.

"It was so cozy. After all, we were not allowed to listen to the radio. So Mom and Dad were just concerned about me. They told stories we played and sang, "my uncle, who was four years old when the war began, told me.

There are many similar stories. About children who, even in the midst of the storm's eye, do not get the storm itself. As in the movie "Life is Wonderful," where the father manages to hide the cruel truth for the son by pretending that everything was just as if it were.

Or as in the true story of a group of scout girls held in a Japanese concentration camp in China. The adults managed to hide the cruel truth behind scouting.

My uncle was lucky. For it is a privilege to have the opportunity to remember only the pleasant. When I studied Russian in Minsk in 1998, I rented a room to an elderly lady who had seen both parents die at the beginning of the war.

She lived with her little sisters as street children in the ruins of Minsk through the war, and barely managed to survive the war by eating grass and crumbling the German soldiers left behind.

If she and her sister met, they drank vodka in complete silence. And if I asked what they remembered from the war, they didn't even bother to answer.

Why would they tell me.

NO ONE has portrayed the children's experience of World War II better than the 1985 film Go and See.

There we experience the atrocities through the eyes of 14-year-old Fljoras.

There is no room for sentimentality in the film. No one is trying to hide the violence, the cruelty behind storytelling or fantasy friends.

There is only the naked truth, a whole village stripped and killed behind a house, cows being shot with machine guns, women and children burned inside a church, and no one trying to make a story that justifies the evil.

Director Elem Klimov never made any more films. He had said what he wanted to say.

"Some are coming, some are going, some are dying in the spring of life," Jens Gunderssen wrote in "Vuggevise".

That's why so many children's songs and rules are about death.

"Danger, danger warrior. You must suffer death ». Whether it is Blåmann who dies or Blå beard that matches women.

It is to make the children competent to cope with loss and grief.

"Children must be allowed to read about Rome before traveling there," as one Norwegian publisher said when she was criticized for publishing children's books with sex scenes.

In the same way, we may have to dare to stand this with the children. By taking responsibility for everything that is difficult and uncertain. We should not hide it. But we have to bear it.

Few places in Norway, the apartments are as small and dark as in my neighborhood here in Greenland. Nowhere do the children live so tight, and nowhere are there so many poor families.

I look at them right now, here I am sitting in my deployed home office. And I don't quite understand how it should be possible to force them to choose the cramped apartment in front of the sunny parks and playgrounds.

Children must bear the burden of protecting the elderly, it is said. But the burden is not divided equally whether you live in a villa or in a narrow apartment in Borggata.

"You may have grown up in Norway. I have grown up in a completely different place, ”a Norwegian 15-year-old told me once.

It made a huge impression. Because he was right. His upbringing in no way resembled that of myself and my children have had.

Now that we as a nation have been hit by an incredible crisis, it is time we decide how our children will remember it.

If it becomes a story that they cannot tell. Or a rage they would rather leave unsaid.

Regalingualius posted:

It’s Loss.

Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

That was my first thought but I just couldn't see it without it being a huge stretch. Oh well.

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