Author Topic: FUCKDOWN, U.S.A. (Read 16068 times)

Head Gardener · « **Reply #60 on:** April 22, 2020, 10:51:26 PM »

Fambo Number Mive · « **Reply #61 on:** April 23, 2020, 08:50:13 AM »

If the Governor of Nevada says no, can the Mayor of Las Vegas still allow businesses to open up? Not sure how this works.

Zetetic · « **Reply #62 on:** April 23, 2020, 08:52:27 AM »

I think, in the American system, it depends on who has the most firepower.

Head Gardener · « **Reply #63 on:** April 23, 2020, 09:59:12 AM »

Buelligan · « **Reply #64 on:** April 23, 2020, 10:01:24 AM »

Mulch? Since when have they been so honest?

Head Gardener · « **Reply #65 on:** April 23, 2020, 10:02:03 AM »

it's a great pic, it has everything

Buelligan · « **Reply #66 on:** April 23, 2020, 10:02:28 AM »

It does.

Pinball · « **Reply #67 on:** April 23, 2020, 10:21:34 AM »

And they're mostly not wearing masks. Darwinism happening in near real-time.

Fambo Number Mive · « **Reply #68 on:** April 23, 2020, 11:48:35 AM »

Trump now saying he disagrees with some of Kemp's plan to re-open Georgia. Will this make Kemp think again?

bgmnts · « **Reply #69 on:** April 23, 2020, 11:57:08 AM »

Quote from: Head Gardener on April 23, 2020, 09:59:12 AM

Where was Bart Simpson at the time?

El Unicornio, mang · « **Reply #70 on:** April 23, 2020, 12:53:33 PM »

Fambo Number Mive · « **Reply #71 on:** April 23, 2020, 01:44:27 PM »

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In the United States, Attorney General William Barr has compared coronavirus shutdowns to "house arrest" and said the Justice Department could take legal action against states.

Speaking on radio programme The Hugh Hewitt Show, Barr said: "These are unprecedented burdens on civil liberties. The idea you have to stay in your house is disturbingly close to house arrest.

"We're looking carefully at a number of these rules and if we think one goes too far, we initially try to jawbone the governors into rolling them back or adjusting them. If they're not and people bring lawsuits, we [will] file statement of interest and side with the plaintiffs."...

Buelligan · « **Reply #72 on:** April 23, 2020, 03:17:01 PM »

Bit rich coming from people who keep children in cages.

DistressedArea · « **Reply #73 on:** April 23, 2020, 07:54:15 PM »

You’re supposed to keep them in the fridge otherwise they go off.

Dewt · « **Reply #74 on:** April 23, 2020, 08:36:40 PM »

Yeah, unlike European children they wash the natural protective coating off so you can't keep them at room temperature.

Dex Sawash · « **Reply #75 on:** April 23, 2020, 09:06:00 PM »

I do like the LET MY PEOPLE GO-LF ONE

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #76 on:** April 24, 2020, 08:19:02 AM »

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-york-virus-deaths-top-15k-cuomo-expected-to-detail-plan-to-fight-nursing-home-outbreaks/2386556/

alan nagsworth · « **Reply #77 on:** April 24, 2020, 11:32:03 AM »

All Gas No Brakes, a hilariously straight-faced two-man independent media team who tour America interviewing some of the most batshit, idiotic, weird and controversial groups of people (well worth following this guy on social media, his edits are hilarious) has been at the anti-lockdown protests recently. This stuff is truly unbelievable. Imagine being a lawyer in America and going out with a placard comparing lockdown to slavery.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/410898416

momatt · « **Reply #78 on:** April 24, 2020, 11:35:25 AM »

America can't be as mad as this can it?
Or are their mad people just a bit louder than ours?

El Unicornio, mang · « **Reply #79 on:** April 24, 2020, 11:46:47 AM »

Quote from: momatt on April 24, 2020, 11:35:25 AM

America can't be as mad as this can it?
Or are their mad people just a bit louder than ours?

This, basically. Everything in America is amplified/exaggerated. I mean, I love the place and the people but would often find that group conversations were just people taking turns to shout whatever was on their mind into the air.

Buelligan · « **Reply #80 on:** April 24, 2020, 01:05:46 PM »

Quote from: alan nagsworth on April 24, 2020, 11:32:03 AM

All Gas No Brakes, a hilariously straight-faced two-man independent media team who tour America interviewing some of the most batshit, idiotic, weird and controversial groups of people (well worth following this guy on social media, his edits are hilarious) has been at the anti-lockdown protests recently. This stuff is truly unbelievable. Imagine being a lawyer in America and going out with a placard comparing lockdown to slavery.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/410898416

Fucking hell nags, those people are really very mad indeed.

alan nagsworth · « **Reply #81 on:** April 24, 2020, 01:41:51 PM »

AGNB has an excellent knack of finding the best (read: worst) subjects to talk to, plus his blankly delivered line of questioning that ekes out the most bonkers qualities of his interviewees is somewhere between Louis Theroux and Nathan Fielder. Ordinarily his videos at porn star conventions and juggalo gatherings are out-and-out hilarious but in this protest video it's just really disturbing.

'Are you scared to die?'
'No more scared than I am for anything else.'

The wrapped-up microphone is a very amusing touch.

monkfromhavana · « **Reply #82 on:** April 24, 2020, 06:09:28 PM »

I wonder if a proportion of the UK population will start acting like this in the next ten years.

Replies From View · « **Reply #83 on:** April 24, 2020, 06:38:31 PM »

Quote from: Head Gardener on April 21, 2020, 01:59:07 PM

Dracula lays down his ultimatum.

Fambo Number Mive · « **Reply #84 on:** April 26, 2020, 03:24:18 PM »

Houston City Council member disobeying stay at home order compares his actions to those of Rosa Parks: https://mobile.twitter.com/jen_rice_/status/1253900083868958720

EOLAN · « **Reply #85 on:** April 26, 2020, 04:12:49 PM »

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on April 26, 2020, 03:24:18 PM

Houston City Council member disobeying stay at home order compares his actions to those of Rosa Parks: https://mobile.twitter.com/jen_rice_/status/1253900083868958720

As mentioned in some of the replies; there has been numerous other references to this being a version of Rosa Parks.

Fambo Number Mive · « **Reply #86 on:** April 26, 2020, 04:16:49 PM »

You can read more about the restaurant reopening here: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Harris-County-backs-down-as-Hedwig-Village-15225164.php

These people will have to take their masks off to eat inside.Unless Trump has now advised that restaurants can open if the food is administered via an enema or something.

Pearly-Dewdrops Drops · « **Reply #87 on:** April 26, 2020, 04:23:41 PM »

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on April 24, 2020, 11:46:47 AM

This, basically. Everything in America is amplified/exaggerated. I mean, I love the place and the people but would often find that group conversations were just people taking turns to shout whatever was on their mind into the air.

I don't know if the people are really more exaggerated. I think it has more to do with the fact that there are no meaningful tabloids in the U.S. like in the U.K., so all of the mass media gets folded together and bullshit astro-turf protests like these are instead amplified by the "real" news.

Fambo Number Mive · « **Reply #88 on:** April 28, 2020, 11:28:55 AM »

Texas now following Georgia and announcing a lifting of the stay at home order.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus/governor-abbott-to-address-reopening-of-texas-economy-monday/2358748/

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During a news conference in Austin Monday afternoon, Abbott said restaurants, malls, retail stores and movie theaters can reopen on May 1 but will be limited to 25% of their capacity. Museums and libraries are included, but interactive stations and exhibits must remain closed. Within malls, the governor said all food courts, play areas and interactive displays also must remain closed.

How well will the 25% limit be enforced? This seems like a very bad idea and is probably being done to reduce the amount of money the state has to pay for unemployment benefits, which is disgusting.

peanutbutter · « **Reply #89 on:** April 28, 2020, 11:56:17 AM »

Has it even properly reached Georgia and Texas yet?

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