ALL TRUMP!!! ALL THE TIME!!!

Easier said than done in many cases. People who are defaulting on debt tend to be in a "tough time" regardless of pandemic status, but we can't just make collecting debts illegal. I do agree that there should be some kind of relief, but I'm not riding the extremes on this one.

See they are going extreme though.

I don't know the numbers, but if you made $1200 in March normally, debt collectors could garnish... what %? It's certainly not 100%.

If you get this $1200 that's "supposed" to be for rent, food, etc, they can take 100%. There's no justification for that.

Not really, my direct deposit clearly says its from the IRS, so it would be pretty easy to differentiate.

No, that's not what I mean. I'll give a simple explanation.

You've got a dollar. You receive a one dollar stimulus. Rent is a dollar. You pay it, and you have a dollar left. Which dollar is left? The stimulus dollar or the other dollar? You don't get to choose, it's just a pool of money.

They take both before you can spend the first one!

lol. Who do you think.

But watch this one;

No he didn't, only the people he tells what to do did, so he didn't do it.

Congress where explicitly stated, otherwise defaulting to applicable laws and regulations that are already in place.


Well, the crack goes without saying. It's an American tradition. In fact, if you rearrange the letters of "United States of America" you get "I love crack cocaine".

In fact, when Congress was writing all this, they originally were going to make it $1000 per adult, but then one of them realized that it wasn't enough when you take into account the cost of crack, so they looked at how much they each used in a month and it averaged out to $200. It also explains the amount of pork and other nonsense in the package. It's not that they were trying to be sneaky, it's that they didn't remember what bill they were writing because of all the crack.

(This is my head canon now and nobody can take that away from me.)

In this case it was a Treasury regulation EXCEPT for child support garnishment. That was in the bill.

So much for that aggregate, Trump continues to tailspin.

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The aggregate is at pretty much the same spot as when I last mentioned it. This is nowhere near a “tailspin”. Large spikes are often accompanied by corrective movement in the opposite direction as the aggregate shifts towards the mean. It hasn’t even dipped below the bottom point of his most recent spike. Learn how trends work over time before prematurely declaring victory every time it moves in your favored direction.

Polls are crap to me. The combination of a segment of society that more than likely doesn't represent the whole of their own area, let alone the entirety of the US, along with how the questions are worded will give you whatever result you desire.

Fixed.

Yeah, I'm not exactly thrilled with the current state of polling. I don't trust any one outfit, but the aggregates can be useful for trend watching if you understand the underlying methodologies. Realclearpolitics is nice because they just give straight-up averages whereas Fivethirtyeight screws with the numbers. Given the choice, I'll take the more pure data every time.

Malaria drugs fail to help coronavirus patients in controlled studies
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There was never any expectation that a drug used to treat malaria was going to be effective against a brand new covid. Of course its not working. It was just false hope being peddled by a desperate fool.

Much more sinister than that, it's strictly about money.

Because sharing a random image you found on Google is so much easier than refuting a point on a topic you know nothing about.

FiveThirtyEight is more more left-leaning whereas RealClearPolitics is more right-leaning. Biggest thing to note is FiveThirtyEight was marked high for factual reporting whereas RealClearPoltics is only mostly factual due to failing fact checks.

Uhh, that’s not related to their polls. RCP just gives them straight. 538 weighs them according to various criteria, giving more room for bias.