DL Open Thread: Thurs., April 23, 2020
Breaking: 4.4 Million More Americans Filed Jobless Claims Last Week. To quote Springsteen, some of these ‘jobs are going, boys, and they ain’t coming back’.
Trump Fires Vaccine Czar. Well, ‘relocates’. Why? Because he wouldn’t push Trump/Fox News’ miracle drug hype. Yes, the cheerleaders have gone silent on that one because the test results sucked. At least we’ve got 30 mill doses of it on reserve awaiting the next malaria outbreak.
McConnell: Let The States Go Bankrupt. The Rethugs’ version of Federalism: Throw all responsibility on the states and then stick ’em with the bill. I’ve run out of synonyms for ‘odious’.
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. Global. US. The latest carnage: 842,624 confirmed cases and 46,785 deaths in the United States. Another 1700 deaths yesterday. Looks like we hit 50,000 some time on Saturday. The virus is making serious inroads in traditional R states now. Nursing homes and meatpacking plants. It’s not just for effete NYC liberals any more. Whenever I see a hot spot, I check out the impacted county on Wikipedia, and then look at the political breakdown and Presidential vote for those counties. This thing is firmly entrenched in Trump country now. Schadenfreude prevents me from making further observation.
Lawless Sheriffs Refuse To Enforce Stay-At-Home Orders. When these posse comitatus types use the term ‘law-abiding citizens’, you can bet that they’re breaking the law. Refusing to enforce the law is breaking the law.
Rethugs Using Coronavirus To Shut Down Voter Registration. If you can’t assimilate a pandemic into your voter suppression plan, you don’t deserve to be called a Rethuglican.
Local Officials Struggle With Budget Cuts. Matt Meyer and Mike Purzycki have differing approaches to the tough decisions just ahead.
What do you want to talk about?
The politics of immigration will change. Many business will never recover and the era of full employment is over. Workers (including white-collar workers) who are not accustomed to being unemployed will find themselves for the first time directly competing with legal and illegal immigrants for skilled and unskilled jobs. This could be the October surprise.
Trump captures the sentiment when he says: “It would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad,” the president told reporters.
Granted, that quote was in support of Trump’s overly broad immigration ban, and there is much wrong with it. It is red meat for the deplorables, but as the economic labor and wage crisis unfolds, that sentiment will draw in wavering Democrats and swing voters who otherwise might have voted for Biden.
Vote By Mail is the solution to many of our problems, it will over ride Republican voter suppression and let the people vote without hardship, it is the future of the Democrats. And the Republicans, like it or not.
you are 100% stupid
Big Banks Gave Wealthy Clients ‘Concierge Treatment’ On Getting Fed $$’s:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/business/sba-loans-ppp-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
In other words, the banks took advantage as gatekeepers of the funds to defeat the purpose of the program. Once again, criminals who won’t spend a day in jail.
The images of long lines at food pantries is infuriating. There is no food shortage – there is an income shortage. With grocery money, those people waiting in the food line could easily go to the supermarket and be home with their groceries in an hour. Emergency SNAP benefits should be quickly and easily available.
It is especially infuriating that many of those people in food pantry lines likely spent their last cash on bank payments or rent instead of food.
Food lines might be a good target for registering voters and signing people up for mail-in voting.
That’s an excellent idea.
Biden keeps gaining in national polls and swing states. I’m liking Biden’s invisible campaign. Keep your head down Joe; Trump is beating himself. For now.
you are 100% stupid
Inslee brings the hammer to law-defying county:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inslee-commissioner-washington-franklin-county-order
From the comments to the Inslee article. Brutal! Share with your friends
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Kids, remember, you must at least bring SOMETHING to the table in order to keep posting here. Rethug trolls who toss out an incoherent line or two will be swiftly excised.
You are one tough guy. I am impressed. Exactly what constitutes “Something” to you? Boot licking the far Left? Please elaborate.
Say something intelligent, if you can. You haven’t yet.
Answer my question please. What constitutes “something” to you?
C’mon, you don’t know the meaning of “something?” Make an intelligent statement. Insults that aren’t even clever won’t cut it. We don’t suffer fools, so prove you aren’t one.
Hell, we’ll even accept clever insults. But you’ve added nothing so far, just disagreement for its own sake.
As for intelligent comments, your swipe at Kowalko below is a good example — what’s a “dysfunctional” rant? It functions just fine as a rant. You’d recommend anger management — but then you claim he’s “way past that choice.” What does that add to the conversation? What does it even mean?
Show some intelligence. How hard is that for you? If you have a point, make one. Just insulting people is going to get you banned pretty quickly.
How about “GUN (Butt)” licking by the loonie right./ That would be “SOMETHING” to see for posterior-posterity. Especially that fat, bloated orange tinged one attached to the maestro of malevolence. Wonder if he has a red, white and blue NRA tattoo on that bulbous storage locker that contains all of his brain cells and few surviving thoughts. Wouldn’t Mitch and Lindsay make a wonderful video fighting for the first kiss.