Covid-19 memes cartoons and shenanigans

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"Total Authority"

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In an episode of the South Park cartoon, Eric Cartman says, “Respect my athoritah!” Of course, nobody does because he’s a fat racist child on a big wheel whose mother did a lot of porn. In Donald Trump’s case, ditto.

Donald Trump is a fat racist man-child and his big wheel is the White House. His mom didn’t do porn but he does have mommy issues and married a porn star who refuses to sleep with him. No one respects him. Even then, the only people who respect him are people who don’t respect themselves and believe we should all be subjugated to a reality TV host who tapes his hair to his head. In the real world, world leaders laugh at him.

And just like Donald Trump crashes his talking points into each other, his cult is constantly getting their chocolate in their peanut butter. The only way that metaphor doesn’t work is that chocolate and peanut butter together is delicious. What Trump’s supporters are eating is Trump’s bullshit (in case you’re a Republican: Not delicious).

Let’s take one of Trump’s most recent stupid comments. He claimed “total authority” and can order states to reopen and end their stay-at-home orders. Nope. He can’t. We have a Constitution that doesn’t allow that which of course, Donald Trump has not read. We had this little thing called the “American Revolution.” It was over a king telling us what to do. We didn’t like that.

Here’s where Donald Trump’s shit runs into his shit: He refused to tell states they should issue stay-at-home orders because he can’t do that. He was afraid of doing that. Then, he says he can order them to reopen. He says states are responsible for their own ventilators and tests, he takes no responsibility, yet he is responsible for their reopening. He’s instead thrown more responsibility at China, the World Health Organization, governors, President Obama, Democrats, and the media.

His supporters consist of gun nuts. Part of their argument for guns is that they’re needed for that day when the big government comes for their guns. So you need your guns to keep the government from getting your guns. Right? You need your guns to protect you from a president who acts like a king. I mean, they all swore President Obama was coming for them and they’d be damned if they were going to let that happen. Now, their Dear Leader says he has “total authority.” I hope they’re locked and loaded.

When you talk to a supporter of the Confederacy, they argue the Civil War wasn’t about slavery but over states’ rights. Of course, the only right at issue during the Civil War was the right to own human beings. I’ve seen one Trump-supporting cartoonist draw a cartoon that governors can’t tell you what to do…then turn around and say that Donald Trump can tell you what to do. What happened to all that states’ rights shit?

They also argue the federal government shouldn’t be able to push abortion in their states and that their state has the right to ban them and shut down clinics. But, the president can order businesses to open and close? Again, what happened to states’ rights?

There are federal laws that govern all the states. They’re passed by Congress. If they’re challenged, it goes to the Supreme Court. The president doesn’t pick and choose. He has a lot of power in emergencies, but not the power to order governors around. Someone needs to sit Donald Trump down and force him to watch all the Schoolhouse Rocks.

Can you imagine the outrage if Obama gave the governor of Texas an order…or better yet, tell the governor of Indiana, Mike Pence during his term, to enact gay-friendly laws? Republicans got upset over Obama invading Texas and that never actually happened. Red states sued so they wouldn’t have to enact Obamacare.

It’s funny that Trump’s supporters want liberty while giving all of theirs to a king. They want a king. They want a very racist stupid king. They’re not getting a king, no matter how much they’re trying to ram it down our throats. But they do have a very racist stupid president but hopefully, not for much longer.

But let me warn you now, there will be statues of Donald Trump in fucknut areas of the country. If your town is one of them, move…unless you’re a bird. You’ll have something new to shit on.

 

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Several hotel chains are offering to house medical teams, patients, or homeless people. Not the Orange Menace's properties.

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I laughed way too much at both of these.

Edited April 16, 2020 by Ozlsn

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11 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

If this had been a group of Free Jingerites, one of us would have said, "Oh, honey, I've scooped things out of the litterbox bigger than that!"

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My company stopped offering sick leave in January. Today, in an all-hands meeting, someone asked the CEO if we would start offering it again, at least temporarily, thanks to COVID. Nope. This cartoon really hit home after that call.

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52 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

My company stopped offering sick leave in January. Today, in an all-hands meeting, someone asked the CEO if we would start offering it again, at least temporarily, thanks to COVID. Nope. This cartoon really hit home after that call.

This is just appalling. Offering sick leave isn't up to companies over here. It's covered by law. 

 

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1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

My company stopped offering sick leave in January.

I'm so sorry to read about this. ? Was any explanation given? 

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14 minutes ago, CTRLZero said:

I'm so sorry to read about this. ? Was any explanation given? 

Yes, it was too expensive to maintain, so rather than lay off a huge number, which they did last year, they cut sick leave.

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25 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

This is just appalling. Offering sick leave isn't up to companies over here. It's covered by law. 

 

I've never worked at a place that offered sick leave, but my workplace now at least doesn't dock vacation time for one off sick leave.  For weeks though - Idk.

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11 minutes ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

I've never worked at a place that offered sick leave, but my workplace now at least doesn't dock vacation time for one off sick leave.  For weeks though - Idk.

Good grief. Over here, if you have taken vacation time and you get sick whilst you're off, you get sick leave and your hours/days vacation time back. 

Workers in America are so screwed.

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On 4/16/2020 at 11:03 AM, fraurosena said:

Good grief. Over here, if you have taken vacation time and you get sick whilst you're off, you get sick leave and your hours/days vacation time back. 

Workers in America are so screwed.

I know.  I have been a regular at another site for years and I'm used to how incredulous Europeans are at how little protections we have even for small things like staying home with the flu.  And aside from lack of pay, the cultural push to work when sick is so unhealthy (pardon the pun.)

I worked at a toxic place where one co-worker's wife was getting her leg amputated and he took the day of amputation off (and was available via email  and cell) and back at work the next day.  The owners could not stop praising him for his loyalty and being so awesome, etc.  I thought he was a psychopath who clearly cared more about sucking up to tptb at work than his wife.  Any time someone wanted time off for a family member after that it was thrown in their face that he didn't take time off after that.  And if he could take calls during his wife's surgery why can't you?

Another guy wanted to take a day off without pay to bring his wife and newborn home from the hospital after a C-Section and it was denied.   I was in the office when he was told, "if you're not here when your shift starts, you're fired."

At least where I am now that would never happen - they are even gave our older and immunocompromized employees who cannot work from home (factory workers) 2 weeks off with pay at the start of the lockdown until they could get disinfecting measures in place, masks, etc.  

It's nice to work for humans.  It would be nicer to work in a country that required all employers to recognize that their workers are actually people.

Sorry for the rant...I have serious Euro-jealousy when it comes to workplace stuff.

 

Edited August 28, 2020 by HerNameIsBuffy

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On 4/16/2020 at 11:21 AM, HerNameIsBuffy said:

I know.  I have been a regular at another site for years and I'm used to how incredulous Europeans are at how little protections we have even for small things like staying home with the flu. 

I KNEW IT! 

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Another guy wanted to take a day off without pay to bring his wife and newborn home from the hospital after a C-Section and it was denied.   I was in the office when he was told, "if you're not here when your shift starts, you're fired."

This is absurd to me. I do not miss lower 48 work culture. "they" (I don't know who, specifically, but various speakers and magazines and trade publication type places) are always going on about how no one wants to do business in Alaska because of our work culture, which is kind of lazy compared to pretty much everywhere else. My biggest problem with my old boss was that she was constantly out-of-office doing personal stuff and then telling us all about it. Usually when there was some sort of deadline and we needed her, she'd be off getting her hair cut or looking for a bathing suit for her daughter to take to Hawaii. 

Other, non small businesses, have concerns about how so many people need to take weeks off at a time to go fishing/hunting/cycling/ect. The worst is that it's all changing. Generous leave policies are being trimmed down - it used to be pretty standard to get at least 4 weeks and all holidays in an non-profit office type setting; now I am changing my expectation while job hunting. 

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It's nice to work for humans.  It would be nicer to work in a country that required all employers to recognize that their workers are actually people.

I too wish this stuff was codified into law. The woman who sells me alcohol (we know each others names and chat about stuff all the time and sometimes I'm like "i should go to a different liqueur store but she's so nice" ) told me that they have a union at the grocery store, which actually surprised me a bit. 

The best thing we could do is stop shopping at places like Walmart who actively go out of their way to harm their employees, while waiting for laws to change. 

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Sorry for the rant...I have serious Euro-jealousy when it comes to workplace stuff.

I do too, but I also get SO tired of reading the "Euro Perspective" on certain websites. Mainly because it's just kind of an echo chamber. We all know. At least the people who are reading these particular websites know, as they are geared toward people who already know these things. I wish they would go express their shock to people who don't know these things. 

Or maybe I should just get off the internet when I start to be annoyed, lol. 

 

Edited August 28, 2020 by HerNameIsBuffy

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25 minutes ago, Maggie Mae said:

I do too, but I also get SO tired of reading the "Euro Perspective" on certain websites. Mainly because it's just kind of an echo chamber. We all know. At least the people who are reading these particular websites know, as they are geared toward people who already know these things. I wish they would go express their shock to people who don't know these things. 

Totally agree.  Not here on FJ, but on other sites when someone is asking advice about maternity leave or negotiating for more vacation time it isn't helpful to have 500 non-US posters posting about how much better they have it and how our system sucks.  

We know.  But we have to work within the system we have and talking over people who can actually offer advice isn't helpful.  

29 minutes ago, Maggie Mae said:

I KNEW IT! 

HA!  I spread similar cheer where ever I am