I think its going to be the sports leagues that finally get trump to move.

[Garion_55]

Here is what i believe.

Trump is being advised by the heritage foundation, mark levin, limbaugh, chamber of commerce.

I wont even say hannity because he is just the mouthpiece for them. He LOVESSSSS mark levin and gets his talking points from him.

Problem is, so does trump. Those people are running the country right now.

Why is the federal government so inept? Cuz thats how that group wants it, its part of their ideology and their crusade against socialism.

Here is where private business and that criminal mob are clashing imo.

The NBA wants DESPERATELY to finish their season. They get most of their money from playoff TV ratings, they dont really need fans showing up.

Every plan of theirs to finish is going to require MASSIVE testing...period...end of story.

Same with BASEBALL starting their season. Not without testing.

So those rich team owners are looking to trump to save their seasons or they lose billions.

My guess is that the trump people are promising those leagues as many test kits as they need to run their sports (behind the scenes of course)

The leagues are responding by pointing out what it will look like when hundreds of millionaire players are able to get thousands of tests immediately in order to make billionaire owners lots of money from tv revenue while average americans cant get a test, arent working and still getting sick and dying.


The optics of that are about as bad as you are thinking. maybe worse.


So 'Sports' are not going to do doing SHIT until ALL of us can get testing like trump promised. They have to take that stance


Which means until trump gets off his ass and stops listening to the heritage foundation and gets the government in gear to really try to save EVERYONE....test EVERYONE.... the leagues are going to lose millions and billions of dollars waiting on him.

You better believe that they are not taking this well at all. And those rich fuckers are finally realizing just how fucked up trump is.

What can they do? just sit around at let his stupid anti government ideology cost them their livelihoods?

The only choices for them are to get his ass in gear or sit around and wait a year for a new president..... or a 3rd more dark more disturbing option ala jfk.

Wall street is doing just fine. looks like the banks are going to be fine. airlines always get bailed out. lots of money for investors.

what about sports leagues? Who bails them out? who helps them pay their millionaire players? pays the concession stand operators suffering right now? the ticket takers? even if the leagues do start up again it will be without those people.

thats going to make it look even worse.

Trump is in a world of shit from the entertainment industry if he doesnt start acting soon and quickly.

[pnwest]

1. That's kind of a brilliant new slant on things.

Makes a lot of sense. Although I COULD see trump giving sports teams a lot of the tests instead of medical professionals...

[smirkymonkey]

2. They can't really force people to attend though, can they?

I'm not a sports fan, but even if I was, I would not be attending a game in a crowded stadium for a LONG time even after an "official" all-clear was given.

[Squidly]

4. Well, the talk right now is

To start the baseball season without fans, centered around the Arizona spring training complexes, in a sort of quarantined area. But, this will require everyone involved to be tested before they can begin.

[smirkymonkey]

5. But depending upon the region of the country, a lot of people will still be very cautious and loath

to gather in any kind of massive crowd. I certainly would.

It will be a very long time before I attend any event where crowds are assembled, even if precautions are taken. I just don't have faith that enough could be done to prevent transmission of the virus or that it could easily be detected.

[Squidly]

7. But the plan is to not have any fans in the stands at all

So your fear is a moot point.

[smirkymonkey]

8. So just televised?

I guess that makes sense, if the players are up for it.

[Squidly]

9. Yep

Just televised and all games played in Arizona. At least thats the plan being floated around.[link:https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/inside-baseballs-effort-to-save-2020-mlb-season-with-arizona-plan-its-this-or-nothing/313227936|

[MoonlitKnight]

3. Trump has always wanted to own an NFL franchise.

He essentially killed the USFL because he wanted a merger with the NFL which never would have happened.

[denbot]

6. Interesting view point, sports have the ability to draw eyes.

That doesn’t translate to the optics of sport figures and teams being able to test when us plebs can’t. That is already happening, and it is tolerated.

Keapernick took a knee to protest unwarranted deaths, and those same owners you propose may save us, turned on him. With a population effectively on lockdown, they would have the only game in town.

Ask yourself, would a group of corporations and businessmen sacrifice for the greater good, or take advantage of a populous, essentially confined and starved for distraction?

Most of them have been pro Shitler from the gate, so ask yourself, What Would Trump Do?

BTW, that was a rhetorical question. As a whole, team owners and corporations will do whatever gathers the most profits in whatever financial quarter is at hand. To the top tenth of a percent, we are just breeders, and the only quickly regained renewable resource worth a fuck.