It’s weird that our elite betters of eliteness and betterness refuse to acknowledge that the emperor not only forgot to dress himself today but that he’s actively drooling. Check out President Asterisk trying to figure out who the Secretary of Defense is. Not that SecDef is an important job anymore or anything. His gig now is mostly to rid the ranks of extremists who don’t think men can change into women through the power of activists demanding everyone else pretend they can. But still, the president ought to, you know, know who he is.
It would be nice to have a CINC who isn’t manifestly senile. Which * is. And it matters – right now we have an alleged president who might start WWIII by pressing the wrong button thinking it’s his remote and that he’s changing channels from Matlock to Murder, She Wrote.
The U.S. death rate increased by 15 percent last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, making it the deadliest year in recorded U.S. history, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention will announce, according to two senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
The agency will summarize its findings in an upcoming issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Its analysis will detail the rates at which U.S. residents of various races and ethnicities died as a result of the virus as well as the total number of deaths in each demographic group.
Use your spreadsheet to start counting the death per day rate, from when the death rate reached 1,500 per day. The first few months had a lower rate of deaths.
You are distorting the information, because you are a cultist.
Fauci Shocked at Pandemic’s Death Toll On the Today Show, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he would have been “shocked” to hear a year ago that the U.S. coronavirus death toll would surpass 500,000.
Said Fauci: “It would have shocked me completely. I mean, I knew we were in for trouble… In fact that day, at a congressional hearing I made the statement, ‘Things are going to get much worse before they get better.’ But I did not in my mind think that ‘much worse’ was going to be 525,000 deaths.” _____________
If Trump had listened better to him and Dr. Birx, it would not now be that incredibly high.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President "sleepy" SJDS Joe Biden is set to sign into law Thursday the $1.9 trillion relief package that he says will help the U.S. defeat the virus and nurse the economy back to health.
He originally planned to sign the bill on Friday. But the White House moved that up to Thursday afternoon, hours before the president plans to give his first prime-time address to the American public on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic.
Chief of staff Ron Klain tweeted that the bill actually arrived at the White House late Wednesday, more quickly than than anticipated. “We want to move as fast as possible,” he said.
He added, “We will hold our celebration of the signing on Friday, as planned, with congressional leaders!”
A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds 75% of Americans approve of Congress passing President Biden’s pandemic relief plan, including large majorities of Democrats and independents, along with nearly half of Republicans.
Biden’s approval rate on handling the pandemic is 67% to 33%.
Trump’s Covid legacy: 402,269 Americans dead after former president claimed virus will ‘disappear’
‘It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,’ Mr Trump said on 27 February, 2020.
Danielle Zoellner New York Donald Trump has officially closed out his term as president at a time when the coronavirus death toll has surpassed 400,000 Americans dead – despite the president initially claiming the virus would “disappear”.
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,” Mr Trump said on 27 February, 2020.
But America was still waiting on that “miracle”.
Mr Trump left office with 24,255,934 coronavirus cases and 402,269 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. This death toll was nearly equal to how many American soldiers died during World War II, which stands at about 405,000, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
SORRY YOU BROUGHT THIS UP, SCOTTIE?
(Trump also told us early on that the number of cases and deaths would soon be down to "near zero." Add a LOT of zeros to that, and maybe he's right.)
Fauci was ‘blind to the harms of the lockdowns' that didn't work anyway, says Stanford doctor
As Dr. Jay Bhattacharya contends that lockdowns have brought more harm than good, a new CDC report shows mask mandates, in-person dining have only modest effects on COVID case and death numbers.
tanford University Professor of Medicine Jay Bhattacharya has been arguing for months that coronavirus lockdowns ultimately cause far more harm than good. As a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, he has been advocating an alternative to the public health establishment's comprehensively restrictive COVID-19 mitigation policies — a strategy known as "focused protection," which would instead tailor protective measures to the elderly and other high-risk groups while minimizing harm to the larger society by allowing those at lower risk to resume a semblance of their normal lives.
Now Bhattacharya and the other signatories to the declaration may have received some empirical support from an unlikely source — a little-remarked new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the very epicenter of the pro-lockdown public health establishment. While the study trumpets its findings of statistical correlations of mask mandates and in-person dining bans with better outcomes for coronavirus case rates and death rates, the positive effects reported were decidedly modest in scale.
Bhattacharya, who spoke with Just the News earlier this week, said that despite clear evidence that "lockdowns haven't worked to stem the pandemic," he sees a "strange desire to continue the lockdown," especially in the upper echelons of the federal government.
In Bhattacharya's view, Biden administration chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci and other top public health officials have failed to view the risks to a subset of the U.S. population in the indispensable context of risks to the larger population produced by drastic mitigation policies like socially and economically stultifying lockdowns that blanketed much of the country over the past year.
"Part of the problem for Dr. Fauci," Bhattacharya said, "is that he is blind to the harms of the lockdown ... He seems not to understand that the lockdown creates all kinds of physical problems, psychological problems, harms that I've never seen him talk about."
Among the issues to which Bhattacharya alludes are rises in child abuse, depression, and divorce rates. Not to mention the large swaths of the American economy that have been decimated, and countless small businesses that will never reopen.
Many of the pandemic restrictions didn't "actually have any effect on slowing the pandemic or protecting people," Bhattacharya asserted. "They were just indiscriminate closures that essentially protected the 'Zoom class' — the people who could afford to stay at home — while exposing the working class, other poor people and the vulnerable."
The U.S. should have targeted its mitigation efforts more precisely to protect the most vulnerable, primarily the elderly and those with certain underlying medical conditions, Bhattacharya argues. It was initially believed that "lockdowns would protect our older people," he said, but it should have been apparent early on that "they didn't."
Beyond mask mandates (which he has previously said do not work to slow the spread of the disease) and restaurant closures, though, Bhattacharya says that the "single biggest problem" America is going to see as a result of a year of lockdowns "is the harm to children."
"There's one estimate that the closure of schools will cause almost five and a half million life years lost to our children," he said. "That's because, if you're less well-educated, you live a less healthy life, you live a less long life, it has this ripple effect that lasts forever."
According to Bhattacharya, the U.S. will likely have to come up with an entirely new set of policy solutions to counteract the setbacks that American schoolchildren have suffered over the past year — especially the disproportionately negative effects on children from middle class or lower-income homes.
"The inequality is mind-boggling," Bhattacharya said. "If you're richer, you can afford to send your kids to private schools, which tend to be open ... but if you're poor, or even if you're just middle-class, and you send your kids to public schools, your kids have not been in school."
The CDC study, released on March 5, found that mask mandates were associated with decreases in daily coronavirus case and death rates and that reopening of restaurants for in-person dining was associated with increases in daily coronavirus case and death rates.
Th size of these positive effects, however, was small — a finding which the study authors downplay in their summary. Mask mandates were associated with decreases in daily COVID case growth rates and daily death growth rates of just 1.8% and 1.9%, respectively, 81-100 days after mandate implementation. Reopening restaurants for in-person dining, meanwhile, was associated with increases in daily case and death growth rates of, respectively, 1.1% and 3% after 81-100 days.
The study used models that accounted for state mask mandates, the closures of restaurants and bars, and stay-at-home orders. It did not, however, account for any other form of coronavirus policy (including distancing orders and locality-specific orders), or other factors, including seasonal changes, and population structure.
"The study is flawed because it doesn't account for seasonality, position along the epi curve, the age or morbidity structure of the population, or lots of other things," wrote Robert Wright, of the American Institute for Economic Research, in an article for the think tank's website. "Even with simplifying assumptions biasing the results in the desired direction, the difference the researchers find, even at the upper end of their estimate, is on the order of a few percent."
Neither Fauci nor his office has responded to a request for comment for this article https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/hold-fauci-was-blind-harms-lockdowns-didnt-work-anyway-says-stanford
Thanks Fauci, probably Trumps biggest mistake was listening to him
California will recover from the pandemic faster than the U.S.
Disney California Adventure plans to reopen in March 2021 at limited capacity for walks through the park and food and merchandise purchases.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
By MARGOT ROOSEVELTSTAFF WRITER
MARCH 10, 2021 1 AM PT
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The U.S. and California economies will experience near-record growth this year thanks to widespread vaccinations for COVID-19 and massive federal relief for struggling workers and businesses, UCLA forecasters predict.
“A waning pandemic combined with fiscal relief means a strong year of growth in 2021 — one of the strongest years of growth in the last 60 years — followed by sustained higher growth rates in 2022 and 2023,” according to the quarterly economic outlook released Wednesday.
California, buoyed by high-earning technology and professional sectors that shifted to at-home work during the pandemic, will recover somewhat faster than the U.S., even though a full rebound in the tourist-dependent leisure and hospitality businesses will lag.
“This is a very ‘good news’ forecast,” said Leo Feler, senior economist of the forecasting group based at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. “We have finally turned the corner.”
In early December, the forecast had predicted “the ‘20s will be roaring” after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the sharpest decline in economic growth in more than half a century. Now “the roar is definitely getting louder,” Feler said, estimating that gross domestic product, which shrank by a devastating 3.5% in 2020, will grow 6.3% this year, 4.6% in 2022 and 2.7% in 2023.
The growth is far faster than it was after the 2009 recession.
President Biden has learned from the mistakes during the Obama administration's economy recovery plan.
'It's going to disappear': A timeline of Trump's claims that Covid-19 will vanish
By Daniel Wolfe and Daniel Dale, CNN
Last updated October 31, 2020
In his first speech after his hospitalization for Covid-19, President Donald Trump stood on a White House balcony on October 10 and made a grand declaration about the coronavirus: “It’s going to disappear. It is disappearing.”
His words might have sounded more dramatic had he not been saying the same thing for eight months.
Trump has stuck to the refrain no matter what has been happening with the pandemic. Since February, the President has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to disappear or is currently disappearing.
His proclamations have been wildly inaccurate. When Trump first started making the claim in February, it was about the time the US had just suffered its very first known Covid-19 death. More than 220,000 deaths later, Trump continues to falsely claim that the virus will somehow just go away — even as the US experiences yet another surge in cases and hospitalizations.
February
You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.
President Trump
February, 10 2020
US cases begin to rise
March 7, 2020
54 average daily new cases
You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.
President Trump
February 10, 2020
China is working very, very hard. I have spoken to President Xi, and they’re working very hard. And if you know anything about him, I think he’ll be in pretty good shape. They’re — they’ve had a rough patch, and I think right now they have it — it looks like they’re getting it under control more and more. They’re getting it more and more under control. So I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away.
President Trump
February 25, 2020
…when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.
President Trump
February 26, 2020
It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.
President Trump
February 27, 2020
I don’t think people are panicking. I said last night — we did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm.’ It’ll go away.
President Trump
March 6, 2020
We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.
President Trump
March 10, 2020
You know, we need a little a separation until such time as this goes away. It’s going to go away. It’s going to go away.
President Trump
March 12, 2020
Stay calm. It will go away. You know it — you know it is going away, and it will go away. And we’re going to have a great victory.
President Trump
March 30, 2020
It’s going to go away, hopefully at the end of the month. And, if not, hopefully it will be soon after that.
President Trump
March 31, 2020
It is going to go away. It is going away.
President Trump
April 3, 2020
It did go — it will go away.
President Trump
April 7, 2020
But a lot of movement and a lot of progress has been made in a vaccine. But I think what happens is it’s going to go away. This is going to go away. And whether it comes back in a modified form in the fall, we’ll be able to handle it.
President Trump
April 28, 2020
It’s going to go. It’s going to leave. It’s going to be gone. It’s going to be eradicated. And it might take longer. It might be in smaller sections. It’ll be — it won’t be what we had. And we also learned a lot.
President Trump
April 29, 2020
And I think we’re doing very well on the vaccines but, with or without a vaccine, it’s going to pass, and we’re going to be back to normal.
We think we’re going to have a vaccine in the pretty near future. And if we do, we’re going to really be a big step ahead. And if we don’t, we’re going to be like so many other cases, where you had a problem come in, it’ll go away — at some point, it’ll go away. It may flare up, and it may not flare up. We’ll have to see what happens.
President Trump
May 15, 2020
So I think that’s — but even without that [a vaccine or therapeutics], you know, at some point this stuff goes away and it’s going away.
President Trump
June 15, 2020
I always say, even without it [a vaccine], it goes away.
President Trump
June 16, 2020
…if you look, the numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was. It’s dying out.
President Trump
June 17, 2020
But I will tell you, we’re very close to a vaccine, and we’re very close to therapeutics, really good therapeutics. And — but even without that — I don’t even like to talk about that, because it’s fading away. It’s going to fade away.
President Trump
June 17, 2020
And it is dying out. The numbers are starting to get very good.
President Trump
June 18, 2020
And I think we are going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that, at some point, that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope.
President Trump
July 1, 2020
I’ll be right eventually. I will be right eventually. You know I said, ‘It’s going to disappear.’ I’ll say it again. It’s going to disappear, and I’ll be right.
Well, the virus will disappear. It will disappear.
President Trump
July 21, 2020
We’re gonna beat it, yeah. We’re going to beat it. And with time, you’re going to be it — time. You know, I say, it’s going to disappear. And they say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible.’ He said — well, it’s true. I mean, it’s going to disappear. Before it disappears, I think we can knock it out before it disappears.
President Trump
July 22, 2020
This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away…
President Trump
August 5, 2020
It’s going away. No, it’ll go away like things go away. Absolutely. No question in my mind. It will go away. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
President Trump
August 5, 2020
And we’re getting them [manufacturing jobs] even in a pandemic — which is disappearing; it’s going to disappear.
President Trump
August 7, 2020
And frankly, you know, we’ve had a tremendous — a tremendous market, you and I have talked about that, the stock market. Think of it, we’re almost back to where we were, and we’re still in the pandemic, which will be going away, as I say, it’ll be going away. And they scream, how you can you say that? I said, because it’s gonna be going away.
President Trump
August 13, 2020
…And the China Plague will fade.
President Trump
August 17, 2020
And as soon as the plague is gone — we have vaccines coming, we have therapeutics coming, and it’s going to be gone. And it’s gonna be gone soon.
President Trump
August 17, 2020
It’s all coming back so fast and you’ll see it, and the pandemic goes away. The vaccines are going to be, I believe, announced very soon.
President Trump
August 24, 2020
Well, once you get to a certain number — you know, we use the word herd, right. Once you get to a certain number, it’s going to go away.
President Trump
August 31, 2020
It is gonna disappear. It’s gonna disappear. I still say it.
President Trump
September 15, 2020
But it’s going to disappear. It is disappearing. And vaccines are going to help, and the therapeutics are going to help a lot.
President Trump
October 10, 2020
The vaccine will end the pandemic. But it’s ending anyway. I mean, they go crazy when I say it. It’s going to peter out and it’s going to end. But we’re going to help the end and we’re gonna make it a lot faster with the vaccine and with the therapeutics and frankly with the cures.
President Trump
October 15, 2020
Even without the vaccine, the pandemic’s going to end. It’s gonna run its course. It’s gonna end. They’ll go crazy. He said ‘without the vaccine’ — watch, it’ll be a headline tomorrow. These people are crazy. No, it’s running its course.
BIDEN CLIMBS INTO HIS BULLY PULPIT BECAUSE HE Now Has a Relief Plan to Sell POLITICO: “Already, the president has been touting the measure, tweeting that ‘better days lie ahead,’ while his White House promoted announcements from Amtrak and American Airlines that furloughed employees will be brought back or not have their work interrupted.
“For veterans of prior Democratic administrations, the aggressive sales job is a welcome change from the past, when the party often seemed to think major legislation would sell itself. But they warned that Biden needs to strike an appropriate balance, lest his new administration come off as out-of-touch with those who feel left behind or are struggling to cope with the lingering effects of the year-long pandemic.” _____
Don't worry. Joe's good at showing concern and sympathy and empathy. And he just naturally comes across as trustworthy.
the alky is stupid enough to think that FL is a covid fail while I reside in the state with the most deaths, and where the governor is directly responsible for killing 15,500 people.
the alky is stupid enough to think that FL is a covid fail while I reside in the state with the most deaths, and where the governor is directly responsible for killing 15,500 people.
that's what we call "alky stupid."
You forgot the alky THWAP !!!
or does alky now own the trademark ?
it's definitely his brand
and did you know he started to read in third grade ???
SleepyJoe Biden just launched the second war on poverty.
The first war on poverty cut it in half. Joe Biden could do it again.
Vox
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is a historic piece of
Fifty-seven years ago, a Democratic president who had a reputation as a moderate — and who had been a senator and vice president before reaching the highest office in the land — announced his administration would be waging “unconditional war on poverty in America.”
The legislation that grew out of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration had no marquee program. Instead, the war on poverty was a collection of new initiatives that have stood the test of time: Medicare; Medicaid; food stamps (now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); aid for women, infants, and children (WIC); school breakfasts; Pell Grants; Head Start; and Section 8 housing vouchers, to name a few. It was a landmark passel of legislation that reshaped American life in the decades that followed.
With Congress’s passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, another Democratic president with a reputation as a moderate (and who came through the Senate and the vice presidency) is putting his stamp on American policy. The Covid-19 relief bill, which passed the US House on Wednesday afternoon and was signed into law by President Biden on Thursday, is the most far-reaching anti-poverty legislation in more than 50 years.
Only an idiot would fight a war on poverty by importing millions who will likely live in poverty.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
poor alky. he takes so many rakes to the face each day he can't even pick up on the fact that his latest plagiarism was already plagiarized by the pederast.
Politico a far leftist Socialist rag is very unimpressed with slow Joe and his hoe. "Biden’s Covid Relief Bill Might Be Good Politics, But It’s Bad Policy
The legislation is a misnomer; it is neither a Covid nor a relief bill."
The ARPA provides up to six months of free COBRA coverage (whether provided under federal or state law), starting April 1, 2021, for certain “assistance eligible individuals.” In addition, these assistance eligible individuals will be entitled to take advantage of the subsidy by enrolling in COBRA only for the subsidy period during a special window. Plan sponsors are required to notify assistance eligible individuals about these rights. The government pays for the COBRA subsidies by providing plan sponsors of self-insured plans, and insurance companies with respect to fully-insured plans, a tax credit. More detailed information about these new COBRA provisions can be found here.
Pension Funding Relief
The ARPA changes certain funding rules for plan sponsors of single-employer defined benefit pension plans. The ARPA both extends into 2030 certain favorable interest rate provisions that were originally introduced in 2012 under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and lengthens the time that plan sponsors can pay off their plan’s underfunded amounts from 7 to 15 years. More detailed information about these new pension plan provisions can be found here.
Increase in Employer-Provided Dependent Care Limits
The ARPA increases the dependent care flexible spending account (“FSA”) limit from $5,000 to $10,500 for the 2021 tax year only. Employers are not required to incorporate this temporary, increased limit. If an employer wishes to incorporate this optional feature, an employer must amend its dependent care FSA plan no later than the last day of the plan year in which the amendment is effective (e.g., December 31, 2021 for calendar-year plans), and such amendment can have retroactive effect back to the beginning of the plan year.
Expansion of Code Section 162(m)
Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) limits the deduction that a publicly-held corporation can take with respect to compensation paid to each of its “covered employees” to $1 million per year. Current law provides that “covered employees” are the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and next three highest paid executive officers in any given year, plus any individual who has been a “covered employee” for any prior tax year beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
Starting with tax years that begin on or after January 1, 2027, the ARPA expands the number of “covered individuals” to also include the next five highest paid officers. These additional five individuals, however, do not follow the “once a covered employee, always a covered employee” rule. Rather, they are only considered a covered employee so long as they are one of the “next top five” paid individuals for the particular year. In other words, public companies will have to keep track of two lists of covered employees: (1) their “permanent list,” which covers the CEO, CFO, and next three highest paid officers each year and who, once on the list of covered employees, will always remain on the list, and (2) a “current year list,” which will include those officers who are the next five top paid officers for the year in question, and which may change from year to year.
Defined benefit pensions are getting help from Sleepy Joe Biden and Kamala Harris rrb's former love
That's exactly what people like you said about WOP,s
wrong again, alky.
If you had the first clue as to what you're talking about the Italians, and Irish, and Poles, and German's and Jews, etc. had to demonstrate not only physical health and being free from disease, but a means to support themselves - either through family who preceded them, a job upon arrival, something that did not make them an instant fucking burden upon the nation. And that was the process from the turn of the 20th century until 1965 when democrats fucked it all up and wiped away all those guidelines. since then it's been a free for all, and Slow Joe looks to make that exponentially WORSE, not only but opening the southern border, but importing tens of thousands of new positive covid cases.
my paternal grandparents were WOP's who came here in the 1920's so I know exactly of which I speak.
HEY! PAY ATTENTION TO THIS! READ IT CAREFULLY. IT MAKES SENSE.
CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU MAY HAVE BEEN TOLD, GOP GOVERNORS HAD HIGHER COVID DEATH RATES A new Johns Hopkins study found that states with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from Covid-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors SURPASSED THOSE RATES as the crisis dragged on, NBC News reports.
“The researchers theorized that one reason for the change is that Democrats were in charge of states where people who had the virus first arrived in the country — but Republicans were less stringent about safeguards, which could have contributed to their states’ ultimately higher incidence and death rates.” _________
YEP. YOU LISTENED TO TRUMP'S LIES AND FOLLOWED HIS NON-EXAMPLE, AND IT COST PEOPLE THEIR LIVES.
Hey pedo, those red states have far lower unemployment rates and their economies are much stronger.
true dat.
ALBANY — The five-county Albany metro area had 31,600 fewer jobs in January than the same month a year earlier, the state Labor Department reported Thursday. The pandemic in January 2020 hadn't yet triggered the lockdowns and layoffs that would follow two months later.
Those losses would hit two sectors — leisure and hospitality, and accommodation and food services — particularly hard, the report shows. Between them, the two categories had 20,700 fewer jobs in the metro that includes Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and Schoharie counties.
Percentage-wise, the 6.8 percent decline in Albany metro jobs wasn't as severe as the 11.1 percent decline for the state overall. The 636,100 jobs lost in New York City, meanwhile, represented a 13.7 percent loss.
U.S. stocks climbed to record highs Thursday as the comeback in tech shares resumed, while the signing of additional fiscal stimulus gave sentiment a further boost.
The list of a NY politicians calling for Cuomo to resign has gotten her long. Pols from both parties. But Cuomo still refuses. He's so damn arrogant he still thinks he can talk his way out of all the mess.
Medicaid Expansion Could Impact 2022 Races The Atlanta Journal-Constitution highlights some new incentives the pandemic relief plan has for holdout states like Georgia to expand Medicaid, and how it might play in their statewide races in 2022.
“The debate is also sure to factor into Kemp’s reelection campaign next year, when he’s set to run for a second term. Sen. Jon Ossoff and Sen. Raphael Warnock both campaigned on a promise of extending insurance coverage to hundreds of thousands of Georgians who don’t now receive it, and both have highlighted their work securing the Medicaid funding.”
GOOD! GEORGIA FOR THE DEMS!
The Biggest Thing Kamala Harris Could Do This Year ROn Brownstein: “The battle to protect voting rights needs a field general. Vice President Kamala Harris needs a cause to define her tenure. The second problem suggests the answer to the first: President Joe Biden could designate Harris as the administration’s point person in combatting the onslaught against voter access now advancing in Republican-controlled states.”
States with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from Covid-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors surpassed those rates as the crisis dragged on, a study released Tuesday found.
"From March to early June, Republican-led states had lower Covid-19 incidence rates compared with Democratic-led states. On June 3, the association reversed, and Republican-led states had higher incidence," the study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Medical University of South Carolina showed.
"For death rates, Republican-led states had lower rates early in the pandemic, but higher rates from July 4 through mid-December," the study found.
Introduction: The response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic became increasingly politicized in the U.S. and political affiliation of state leaders may contribute to policies affecting the spread of the disease. This study examines differences in COVID-19 infection, death, and testing by governor party affiliation across 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Methods: A longitudinal analysis was conducted in December 2020 examining COVID-19 incidence, death, testing, and test positivity rates from March 15 through December 15, 2020. A Bayesian negative binomial model was fit to estimate daily RRs and posterior intervals (PIs) comparing rates by gubernatorial party affiliation. The analyses adjusted for state population density, rurality, Census region, age, race, ethnicity, poverty, number of physicians, obesity, cardiovascular disease, asthma, smoking, and presidential voting in 2020.
Results: From March to early June, Republican-led states had lower COVID-19 incidence rates compared with Democratic-led states. On June 3, the association reversed, and Republican-led states had higher incidence (RR=1.10, 95% PI=1.01, 1.18). This trend persisted through early December. For death rates, Republican-led states had lower rates early in the pandemic, but higher rates from July 4 (RR=1.18, 95% PI=1.02, 1.31) through mid-December. Republican-led states had higher test positivity rates starting on May 30 (RR=1.70, 95% PI=1.66, 1.73) and lower testing rates by September 30 (RR=0.95, 95% PI=0.90, 0.98).
Conclusion: Gubernatorial party affiliation may drive policy decisions that impact COVID-19 infections and deaths across the U.S. Future policy decisions should be guided by public health considerations rather than political ideology.
Alky, pedo already posted this tripe and was summarily smacked
John Hopkins isn’t reporting the on the deaths donk governors created through their lockdowns, since red states are kicking blueanon ass regarding unemployment, economic growth, suicides, schools....
Roger as white farmers are forced off of 32,000,000 acres to get 900,000 newly minted BLACK ONLY farmers on that land, how much money is in Geppetto Joe's law to pay for it?
He's going to be the greatest President in the last 90 years. Unless you find a video showing he lost his mind, it was edited piece of shit.
One year after his predecessor told Americans from the Oval Office that the nation was “at a critical time in the fight against the virus,” President Joe Biden has promised that the nation is finally on the verge of a return to normalcy.
But 50 days into his presidency, and hours after signing into law the nearly $2 trillion relief bill that he promised would help “rebuild” the American middle class, Biden’s own primetime address from the White House on Thursday night was aimed at an audience exhausted by a year of catastrophic loss, social isolation, and a government disaster response that was, in many ways, its own disaster. In his remarks, Biden promised that the pandemic that has overturned nearly every part of American life could soon, finally, be over—as long as Americans do their own part.
“I promise, I will do everything in my power—I will not relent until we beat this virus,” Biden said. “But I need you, the American people, I need you, I need every American, to do their part. That’s not hyperbole. I need you.”
Now that “help is on the way,” as Biden said in his remarks, being able to actually follow through on his promises—reopened schools within 50 more days, with universal availability of the coronavirus vaccine to all adults by May 1 and a degree of normality by Independence Day—will be the greatest challenge of his presidency. It will also test the confidence of Americans in their government’s ability to tackle a crisis, a confidence that Biden himself admitted had been strained to breaking over the past year.
This is an easy question . Roger, should be able to answer it. It is after all part of the Socialist Redistribution Act if 2021.
Roger as white farmers are forced off of 32,000,000 acres to get 900,000 newly minted BLACK ONLY farmers on that land, how much money is in Geppetto Joe's law to pay for it?
“If we do this together, by July the Fourth, there’s a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day,”
“If we do this together, by July the Fourth, there’s a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day,”
LOL. someone please tell this fucking maroon that us normies have been doing this all along.
Trump's greatest legacy may end up being the tremendous success of Operation Warp Speed. Biden won't acknowledge it. But some in his administration are. Getting these vaccines to market so quickly is historic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden pledged in his first prime-time address to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the possibility of beginning to "mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July. He offered Americans fresh hope and appealed anew for their help.
Speaking in the White House East Room Thursday night, Biden honored the “collective suffering” of Americans over the past year in his 24-minute address and then offered them a vision for a return to a modicum of normalcy this summer.
“We are bound together by the loss and the pain of the days that have gone by,” he said. "We are also bound together by the hope and the possibilities in the days in front of us.”
He predicted Americans could safely gather at least in small groups for July Fourth to “make this Independence Day truly special.”
But he also cautioned that this was a “goal” and attaining it depends on people's cooperation in following public health guidelines and rolling up their sleeves to get vaccinated as soon as eligible. Only that, he said, can bring about an end to a pandemic that has killed more than 530,000 Americans and disrupted the lives of countless more.
Now that “help is on the way,” as Biden said in his remarks
someone please tell this finger-sucking retard that help HAS BEEN on the way since Operation Warp Speed. Thanks to TRUMP.
While trump was getting it done, Slow Joe was safely tucked away in his basement with Dr. Mommy, and Cum-Allah the commie whore was telling everyone who would listen that she WOULD NOT take any vaccine promoted by Trump.
When the only tool in your toolkit is to take credit for the work of others, you're not a leader, you're a poseur and a charlatan.
So, after being up WAY past his bed time last night, what time does Cunty McCircleback 'put a lid on it' this morning?
Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve.
JOE BIDEN may be the first president elected to do so.
His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises — by May 1 every adult will be eligible for a vaccine and by July Fourth relative normalcy will return.
But it is worth taking a moment to dwell on this unique pastoral role of the presidency, if only because it has been absent for the last four years and because Biden is being widely praised for restoring it.
Whether it’s a natural disaster, a war, a terrorist attack, a mass shooting — some devastating event that shocks Americans equally and temporarily suspends the usual divisions — for better or worse we turn to the president not just to push and pull the levers of government in response, but also to console us.
The images of those moments are indelible: RONALD REAGAN speaking after the Challenger disaster, BILL CLINTON memorializing the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, GEORGE W. BUSH with a bullhorn on a pile of rubble and BARACK OBAMA wiping away tears describing the Sandy Hook massacre.
The image last night of Biden retrieving from his breast pocket his daily schedule on which is written the latest Covid-19 death toll — 527,726 — may one day be a part of that grim pantheon of moments.
If politics is about timing, then there can be nothing more morbidly fortuitous than a politician whose own life has been defined by unimaginable loss coming along precisely when a wave of death was crashing over an America searching for some empathy.
By now almost every American knows of someone who died from Covid or someone who died in a way that Covid made worse by isolating them from the person they lost. And though Biden signed a staggeringly ambitious piece of legislation Thursday, he used his evening remarks to speak more to that loss than to the policy details of the recovery plan.
The speech was infused with a set of ideas but not really ideology: unity, self-governance, the virtues of collective action in the face of a common threat and — most of all — moving on from loss:
"While it was different for everyone, we all lost something — a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice, a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. But in the loss, we saw how much there was to gain in appreciation, respect and gratitude. Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do.
“In fact, it may be the most American thing we do. And that’s what we’ve done. We’ve seen frontline and essential workers risking their lives, sometimes losing them, to save and help others. Researchers and scientists racing for a vaccine. And so many of you, as Hemingway wrote, ‘Being strong in all the broken places.’”
That's not exactly the ERNEST HEMINGWAY line, which is from “A Farewell to Arms” and is a little more bleak than how he used it: “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.”
But either way it is hard to imagine any other contemporary politician making the speech Biden did Thursday night — both channeling our collective sorrow and reminding us that there is life after grief.
He predicted Americans could safely gather at least in small groups for July Fourth to “make this Independence Day truly special.”
as the governors of a growing list of states are telling their citizens -
"Pay no attention to to the drooling retard in the White House. We're open for business and back to normal."
You see alky, thanks to Trump we have a vaccine, and as people get it THE PEOPLE are deciding to cast off the masks, extend their middle fingers towards 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and return to things as they were before the "two weeks to flatten the curve" LIE.
Your Hospice President can predict and declare all he wants, alky. The only folks who are listening to him are geriatrics under lockdown like you.
This subhuman piece of shit sure has a lot of opinion for a fuck who never served and probably got beat up as a kid!!!!!! Rat nods his big head and takes another swig!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Yahoo News Military leaders target Tucker Carlson after Fox News host calls pregnant soldiers a 'mockery' Dylan Stableford·Senior Writer Thu, March 11, 2021, 2:28 PM In a striking display of solidarity, members of the U.S. military condemned Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his remarks criticizing the government's efforts to retain women in uniform, including those who are pregnant.
During his primetime cable news show Tuesday, Carlson criticized President Biden for making the military “more feminine.”
“While China’s military becomes more masculine as it has assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine,” Carlson said. “So we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a mockery of the U.S. military.”
The segment triggered a remarkable public backlash from top military officials, many of them men.
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston was among those who responded directly to Carlson through social media.
“Women lead our most lethal units with character. They will dominate ANY future battlefield we’re called to fight on,” Grinston wrote on Twitter. “@TuckerCarlson’s words are divisive, don’t reflect our values.”
A representative for Fox News did not immediately return a request for comment.
One year ago, I tweeted: “This is what the Left wants. They want people stripped of wealth, isolated, and terrified. They want sources of joy—church, sporting events, vacations, large social gatherings—eliminated. This is how they get control. And it’s far scarier than any virus.”
It was not a popular sentiment at the time.
My initial reaction to government-ordered lockdowns, promoted by politicians on both sides and President Trump, was in the slim minority to say the least. “Flattening the curve” required deep personal sacrifices, we were warned.
Anyone skeptical of the alleged effectiveness of lockdowns or concerned about the long-term consequences was condemned as a bloodless “grandma killer” or “greedy capitalist” defying science and lacking compassion.
But from the start, “the curve” was bogus stagecraft. As I explained last year, the curve the authorities presented to Americans wasn’t accurate.
“It’s not unreasonable, in fact, it’s necessary and responsible, to consider that COVID-19 has been in the states since the first of the year,” I wrote March 19, an assessment we now know is true. “If this is the new normal, where incomplete data and media-fueled panic rule the day, that is an even more frightening prospect than what’s happening right now.”
Sadly and shamefully, it has been America’s new normal for one year and counting.
[...]
One year later, we are vindicated—yet there’s no cause for celebration. Only in time of war has this country endured more permanent economic damage, more reckless government spending, or more widespread human suffering. This has been an unnecessary self-inflicted wound from which millions of families will never fully recover. And it’s ongoing to this day.
Lockdowns were doomed to fail: with a few exceptions, humans have been unable to conquer debilitating viruses—pathogens outsmart us every time; there is nowhere to hide. And the quarantine of healthy people, especially children, set the world’s most advanced civilization back to the Stone Ages.
But the “party of science” wisely seized the opportunity. The strong overpowered the weak in the biggest political power grab in modern U.S. history; the young sacrificed for the old. Our most vulnerable citizens, children and the elderly, were betrayed, in some cases killed, by the very same political interests purportedly devoted to protecting them.
Even I underestimated the wickedness of the Left, how far they would go to exploit the crisis. I also underestimated the cowardice of so-called conservative leaders who not only refused to confront catastrophic, liberty-crushing lockdowns but went along with those authoritarian government orders. Republican governors, for the most part, have acted as badly as their Democratic counterparts.
A representative for Fox News did not immediately return a request for comment.
They didn't have to. Tucker addressed it on his show last night and he made the Pentagon - and the assholes who have politicized it - look like idiots.
Kimmel's special also aired the same day President Joe Biden delivered his first prime-time address where he outlined his plan to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the prospect of "independence from this virus" by the Fourth of July. Kimmel decided to take aim at former President Donald Trump who also delivered his own virus-related address where he stated, "the risk is very very low."
"That's what they say about owning a casino and he bankrupted three of those," Kimmel quipped. "I never get tired of seeing that. The whole time Captain Contagious was telling us it would go away. Forthy times, he said this on TV alone. Unfortunately, saying 'go away' doesn't work. It's a virus. Not Eric."
It was most amusing and telling how much you and trump fucked up.....And you still suck his dick like the good little slurping loser you are!!!!!!@ BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
and the assholes who have politicized it - look like idiots.
Look in the mirror if you want to see a real fucking idiot!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Tucker the new mouth of the right.....would crumble like a cheap suit if ever confronted with reality!!!!!
The Hospice Presidency. Turning our military into a fucking freak show.:
Taxpayers will now foot the bill for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000 under an executive order signed by President Biden.
Tucked inside Biden’s Jan. 25 transgender order, “Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform,” is a clause that repeals an Obama-era policy that prohibited federally funded reassignment surgery. This was followed up by memos from both Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough specifically stating that surgery is now an added benefit.
“This revised policy will also ensure all medically-necessary transition related care authorized by law is available to all Service members,” Austin wrote.
I was really surprised by the President's short remarks last night. His speech had been touted (by someone?) as the "first State of the Union (SOTU) speech of his presidency."
It was hardly that. SOTUs deal with everything. That speech did not.
AND YET--
Last Night Is Why Joe Biden Won Playbook: “Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve. Joe Biden may be the first president elected to do so.
“His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises — by May 1 every adult will be eligible for a vaccine and by July Fourth relative normalcy will return.
“But it is worth taking a moment to dwell on this unique pastoral role of the presidency, if only because it has been absent for the last four years and because Biden is being widely praised for restoring it.”
I know something about pastoral roles. Biden fulfills his well.
Fauci Has Become Biden’s Top Covid Adviser Politico: “The straight-talking infectious disease expert has developed an increasingly close relationship with the president, who now leans on Fauci more than any other health official to guide his pandemic response … Through dinners and White House conversations, the pair has built on a connection that began early in the Obama administration.
“Fauci’s ascension from his longtime post leading the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has left newer health officials such as [CDC Director Rochelle] Walensky playing catch up. While she and other senior health experts are included in conversations with the president about the state of the pandemic, Fauci often takes the lead.” _____
Fauci has been a straight shooter unwilling to bow even to Trump. He calls it as he sees it, and usually correctly.
Birx damaged her reputation by too much playing along with Trump, though even she refused to be pushed across some lines.
Americans want straight talkers, after so much lying from the Trumpian Oval Office.
DNC Launches Ad Campaign Touting Relief Plan CNN: “The Democratic National Committee, in cooperation with the Biden White House, will kick off a sweeping effort to sell the newly signed Covid-19 relief package to a politically divided American people on Friday, releasing a new national ad bragging about the bill along with a detailed guide on how Democrats across the country should tout the legislation.
“The multi-prong effort is aimed at turning the bill into something Democrats can run on, not run away from, in the coming years, including in the politically critical 2022 midterms.”
MEANWHILE Can Cyrus Vance Nail Trump? Taegan Goddard (citing NYT): Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., told the New Yorker that he will not seek re-election this year.
But will he indict Donald Trump before his term expires? Sources say the investigation “has dramatically intensified” and “they mean business.”
CNN: Trump’s time in the White House could end up benefiting New York prosecutors.
DON'T BE TOO SURE THE MIDTERMS WILL LEAD TO REPUBLICAN VICTORIES
The Politics of Biden’s Rescue Plan Jeff Greenfield: “The political potential here is impressive. Consider a 2022 midterm where the future of the now-temporary child tax credits is on the line, and where every Republican House and Senate incumbent will have to explain to the electorate why they voted against them. Consider the votes of tens of thousands of small-business owners—the entrepreneurial heart of what Republicans rhetorically celebrate—whose enterprises survived because of the law enacted with a clear partisan split. Imagine a Republican arguing that only a small fraction of the law addressed the costs of the pandemic, when there are countless parents of school-age children, restaurant workers, retail shop owners, hotel clerks, freelance consultants, who know exactly what happened to their lives when Covid struck.
“This is a possibility that Republicans simply may not have imagined, given their midterm successes in running against the initiatives of the past two Democratic presidents, and inflicting on Clinton and Obama successive political catastrophes.
“This time, the benefits of the new law are easy to grasp, and will be—literally—in the hands of Americans within weeks.”
Schumer Puts Gun Control on Senate Agenda Roll Call: “Senate Democrats on Thursday announced plans for a floor vote on legislation to expand background checks for private gun sales, which would force Republicans to choose between their party’s traditional gun rights positions and a policy that is broadly popular with the public."
THWAP!
“Majority Leader Charles Schumer told reporters there will be hearings at the Senate Judiciary Committee and at least a procedural vote on a bill the House passed Thursday on a 227-203 bipartisan vote.”
Trump’s Afghanistan Order Reversed Before He Left David Ignatius: “President Donald Trump was so eager to pull the plug in Afghanistan that in mid-November, shortly after the election, he impulsively signed an order to withdraw U.S. forces by year’s end. Pentagon officials tell me the unpublicized order was quickly reversed, after strenuous protests from Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other military leaders.”
THWAP!
Lauren Boebert’s Tall Tale About a Man’s Death The Washington Post finds that Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) story about how a man was beaten to death “outside her restaurant” — and that’s why she started carrying a gun and allowed customers to do so as well — is false.
Boebert refused to comment when reached directly on her cell phone.
THWAP!
Biden to Host Japanese Prime Minister USA Today: “President Joe Biden’s will host Japan’s prime minister at the White House – his first in-person meeting with a foreign leader – as his administration seeks to shore up U.S. alliances in Asia and counter China’s global ambitions.”
Capitol Riot Aftershocks Worsen In House Politico: “The two-hour meeting of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties — billed as an academic review of lawmakers’ ability to punish or expel one another under House rules — quickly devolved into a tidal wave of outrage, a snapshot of the increasingly toxic environment that has enveloped Capitol Hill since a mob of pro-Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and sent them fleeing for their lives.
“Democrats continue to seethe over their GOP colleagues who countenanced Trump’s efforts to discredit the election, and blame them for contributing to the atmosphere that inspired the mob.
"Republicans have largely sidestepped that debate, but as Democrats have begun ramping up tactics to marginalize the 138 House Republicans who voted to reject some of the 2020 results, some are beginning to bristle more vocally.
In case you were wondering why these tyrannical cowards are hiding behind soldiers and razor wire, this is why -
On Thursday night, a masked Biden tottered down a long, empty hall to a podium. He then gave the most bizarre presidential address in American history. After a grim recital of "facts" about the last year, Biden emphasized multiple times that Americans had better take the vaccine -- and be grateful to him for his amazing ability to get the vaccine to Americans. He also insisted that, vaccines or not, the government's in control and can lock all of us up all over again...
...Biden was more alert than he's been in many months. Even his eyes, which are usually tightly squinted as he struggles to stay alert and read his teleprompter, were wide open, almost scarily so. Given how frail and confused Biden's been lately, well, let's just say his verve was suspicious...
...The speech was both bizarre and boring. Despite the teleprompter, it wandered hither and yon, without ever touching clearly on a single point. It was a grim, depressing speech about a miserable year that probably won't get better even with a vaccine because we must all remain scared and isolated... Biden kept saying that he was going to tell the truth. He quoted a woman he allegedly met who told him her heart's desire: "'I just want the truth. The truth. Just tell me the truth...'" Do you know who says things like that? Someone who's lying...
...Here's the scariest thing Biden said, although he slipped it in so quickly many may not have noticed (emphasis mine): "Fourth, in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinatedto lessen the confusion, to keep people safe, and encourage more people to get vaccinated."
The vaccine, rather than freeing us, will bring us even more tightly under government control as the federal government mandates what we can and cannot do.
Lessons of One of the Worst Years in American Life David Sanger: “The 365 days between the United States’ panicked retreat from offices and schools and President Biden’s speech on Thursday night, celebrating the prospect of a pandemic’s end, may prove to be one of the most consequential years in American history.
“People learned about national vulnerabilities most had never considered, and about depths of resilience they never imagined needing except in wartime.
"Even the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, for all their horror and the two decades of war they ushered in, did not change day-to-day life in every city and town in the United States quite the way the coronavirus did.
“One president lost his job in large part for mishandling a crisis whose magnitude he first denied.
"His successor knows his legacy depends on bringing the catastrophe to a swift conclusion.”
The Wikipedia article on American Thinker is short and sweet: (COMMENTS IN CAPS BY ME) ______
American Thinker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Thinker is a daily online magazine dealing with American politics from a conservative viewpoint. It was founded in 2003 by Ed Lasky, a Northbrook lawyer, Richard Baehr, a Chicago health-care consultant, and Thomas Lifson, a Berkeley, California sociologist and business adviser.
The magazine has been described as a conservative blog. The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the site "a not so thoughtful far-right online publication."
LOL, THAT'S PUTTING IT MILDLY.
One of the American Thinker's most prolific contributors, Raymond Ibrahim, has written over 100 articles extremely critical of Islam.
RAT LOVES THAT SORT OF THING.
Another, David Solway, in the months following the 2020 presidential election, contributed seven articles perpetuating the myth of a stolen election based on evidence such as "Biden’s rallies routinely featured twenty or so vehicles in a car park. That alone tells us that Biden was never in the game."
SOME EVIDENCE!
Coverage In 2009, in the wake of the election of Barack Obama, the American Thinker joined a wave of conservative media publications discussing the possibility of a second Civil War. They forecast the possibility of "several regional republics" emerging following the "overbearing, oppressive leviathan" of Obama's presidency.
RAT HAS BEEN HOPING FOR CIVIL WAR FOR A LONG TIME.
A 2008 column in the American Thinker drew attention to a California plan to require programmable thermostats that could be controlled by officials in the event of power-supply difficulties. According to The New York Times, the column was "by turns populist..., free-market..., and civil libertarian".
THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO CONTROL EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT OUR LIVES, YOU SEE.
Right Wing Watch has written about American Thinker, including that the site had in 2014 published a complimentary piece on white nationalist Jared Taylor and in 2015 asserted that rainbow-colored Doritos are a "gateway snack to introduce children to the joys of homosexuality".
LOL LOL LOL
In a 2020 blog post on the site, Thomas Lifson referenced a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters to claim that sea level rise has been slow and constant, and that this rise pre-dated industrialization. This claim went viral over social media in March 2020. The author of the paper describes this interpretation as factually incorrect, constituting climate misinformation.
WHY ARE WE NOT SURPRISED?
Under threat of litigation, in January 2021 American Thinker published a retraction of false, unsupported, and debunked stories it published asserting that Dominion Voting Systems engaged in a conspiracy to rig the 2020 presidential election against President Donald Trump, acknowledging, "These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact."
Historically, it’s not the good guys who are out burning books and censoring speech. It isn’t the caring, empathetic people who try to destroy lives based on something someone said years ago, often while young, often taken out of context. It isn’t the good guys who take undisguised glee at the ruining of lives, families and careers.
You know who does these things? Horrible, awful people. Selfish people. People with serious mental and emotional problems who seek some sort of vindication for their deficient characters by taking power trips while imposing suffering on others.
Treat these tyrants as what they are: awful people who shouldn’t be listened to and who need to work hard on joining the better half of the human race. And remind them of it, over and over. Because it’s true. Deep down, they know it, too.
rrb said... In case you were wondering why these tyrannical cowards are hiding behind soldiers and razor wire, this is why -
On Thursday night, a masked Biden tottered down a long, empty hall to a podium. He then gave the most bizarre presidential address in American history. After a grim recital of "facts" about the last year, Biden emphasized multiple times that Americans had better take the vaccine -- and be grateful to him for his amazing ability to get the vaccine to Americans. He also insisted that, vaccines or not, the government's in control and can lock all of us up all over again...
“I set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. I said I intended to get 100 million shots in people’s arms in my first hundred days in office.
Biden has become the master of underpromising and then overdelivering, in contrast to former neanderthal's.
A new Pew Research poll finds that 68% of Democrats think their party should be accepting of Democratic elected officials who openly criticize President Joe Biden.
In contrast, 56% of Republicans said their party should not be accepting of GOP elected officials who openly criticize former President Donald Trump.
First Read: “We’re reminded of how Ronald Reagan popularized the so-called ‘11th commandment,’ urging the GOP that ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.'”
“That seems to have been superseded by a new commandment for Republicans: ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of Trump.'” _________
Funny. I don't remember people saying, Thou shalt never speak ill of Roosevelt.
but I do remember people saying, Thou shalt never speak ill of Adolf.
Biden* had the table set for him, and all he has to do is NOT fuck it up. When Trump floated the concept of having a vaccine by EOY 2020, he was roundly mocked and ridiculed by "the smart set" on MSDNC.
Then he went out and did it anyway, once again enjoying the last laugh.
THIS is what you clowns have to worry about alky-
"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."
Saint Ronald Reagan 11th Commandment ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.'” has been suspended by rrb ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of Trump.'”
If you were expecting President Joe Biden to take a victory lap, to boast about his remarkable achievements in just 50 days in office, it's understandable. After four years of the former president, many of us became accustomed to self-serving rhetoric. But Biden's first prime-time address Thursday night was something altogether different from that.
"I need you," Biden said, leaning into his lectern, "I need every American to do their part." He said that if everyone agrees to get the Covid-19 vaccine, if everyone wears a mask like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us, "by July the 4th, there's a good chance," that we can get together with neighbors and friends in small groups.
Biden was 20 minutes into his speech before he mentioned that he had just signed into law a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 economic relief package that is, in fact, one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern history -- one that will change the lives of tens of millions of Americans -- and that he made it happen less than two months into his presidency.
Instead of a self-serving, boastful address, he offered a moving, compassionate and at the same time uplifting and inspiring speech, acknowledging the losses we've all suffered, not only the more than half a million deaths in the pandemic, not only the millions of jobs lost, of family events foregone, but very simply, "the loss of living."
But then he drew attention to the progress we've made and he announced a stepped-up program of vaccinations, with all adults becoming eligible by May 1.
When Biden speaks about the pandemic, when he implores Americans to do their part, when he speaks about losses, and about his determination to defeat the virus, there's a striking earnestness in his demeanor. He promises to tell the truth. We've all learned to become cynical, skeptical of politicians, but Biden sounds, as he might say, like the real deal.
Listening to this brand-new President, watching what he has done so far, it's impossible not to wonder how many lives would have been saved if the United States had had a reasonable, competent, stable president when the coronavirus struck. How many who died would be alive today?
It was exactly one year ago that the pandemic was declared; one year ago that the former president gave a national address filled with lies, empty promises, and incoherent information.
What followed was our excruciating, dystopian year, during which the worst public health challenge in a century overlapped with a narcissistic, incompetent presidency. As a result, the United States became the epicenter of the global pandemic, with more cases and deaths than any country on Earth, despite having the most advanced medical facilities, some of the world's top scientists, and the greatest economic resources. Americans lost trust in government. Even the advice from the experts was manipulated for political ends.
Now, Biden has put America's resources to use and the results are tangible. The United States will have administered more than 100 million shots of the Covid-19 vaccine by Friday.
Then there's the massive $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, the American Rescue Package, a bold piece of legislation that economists say will not only turbocharge America's recovery, but will give it such impetus that it will boost economic growth around the world. For the first time in many years, the US economy could potentially grow faster than China's, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve president.
More importantly, beyond economic statistics, the measures within the bill are expected to slash the country's poverty by about a third, put small businesses on a stronger footing and help local governments become more solvent.
America is back!
THWAP!!!
The Neanderthals disappeared because of evolution.
Biden said last night that the Trump admin had the vaccines for months without distributing it. That is a bald faced lie. It wasn't even approved until December. And on Jan 21, 1.5M people received vaccines. So Mr Unity is trying hard to take credit for what will probably end up being Trump's greatest legacy. Operation warp speed.
He knew how dangerous it was on February 7th and he didn't start warp speed until May. Three months of deaths from the covid-19 virus would have been lowered by hundreds of thousands lives.
. “We need to remember the government isn’t some foreign force in a distant capital. No, it’s us. All of us. We, the people.”
As the city of Washington remains as militarized as any time since the Civil War, a response to what the government deems the preeminent challenge of domestic extremism, demonstrating unity may yet be the heaviest lift of all. Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere, and his presidency, even his lust for a comeback concedes, hardly solved the problems which gave occasion to his rise.
Biden said last night that the Trump admin had the vaccines for months without distributing it. That is a bald faced lie. It wasn't even approved until December. And on Jan 21, 1.5M people received vaccines. So Mr Unity is trying hard to take credit for what will probably end up being Trump's greatest legacy. Operation warp speed.
Exactly correct. but Biden* isn't even enough of a man to give Trump the credit he deserves.
Biden* is a piece of shit on a scale even 0linsky couldn't achieve.
But the complete collapse of Time’s Up came when Tara Reade accused Joe Biden of sexual assault. Reade had initially reached out to people at Time's Up only to be told that the organization legally couldn't support her because Biden was a political candidate. President Trump was also a political candidate, but that hadn’t stopped Time’s Up from attacking him.
The same organization that recently put out a statement by Tina Tchen headlined, “Donald Trump Must Be Removed From Office”, claimed that it couldn’t speak out against Biden for legal reasons. The legal reasons were a joke, but the political ones were there for everyone to see.
Tchen managed to praise Biden for having the right response to the allegations. This wasn’t surprising as Time’s Up was populated by former Obama people, and in a glaring conflict of interest, its public relations were being handled by Biden advisor Anita Dunn. Beyond being Biden’s “decision-making authority”, Dunn had also provided advice to Harvey Weinstein.
“I actually cried a little because I felt really betrayed,” Reade had said. “They never told me that their public relations was run by Anita Dunn. I found out in real-time reading Ryan’s article. I gave them so much personal information and they say they didn’t give it to Biden. But come on. They said they had firewalls or something.”
Time’s Up said lots of things. But then it did very different things.
The Chief Strategy and Policy Officer for Time’s Up, Jennifer Klein, maxed out her donations to Biden. Klein, a former Obama and Clinton vet, has now been appointed by Biden as the co-chair of Biden’s new White House Gender Policy Council, alongside Julissa Reynoso, Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff, an Obama ambassador, and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow.
Maybe James is suggesting that Trump should not have followed the early guidance put out last year by Dr Fauci and the WHO.
But aside from that, Biden still lied. Trump had the vaccines a few weeks and got them out. He didn't sit on them for months like biden claimed. Sometimes it's best to just say thank you and nothing more. That would've gone far toward building unity.
If the flesh and blood man Jesus of history were to be transported from his time into ours and set down on the Mount of Olives to look out over Jerusalem as it is today, he would be very disappointed. Not so much because of what he would see -- a Muslim shrine sitting where once the Temple sanctuary stood -- but because of what he would not see.
What Jesus would not see is the fulfillment of all the scriptural promises he had fervently hoped would be fulfilled within the lifetime of “this generation.”
What he would not see is a Jerusalem exhibiting that fulfillment, a Jerusalem which, as the Prophets had predicted, is radiantly exalted above all hills and mountains, with all the peoples of the earth streaming to her light to worship in a temple built, not by any human hand, but by God alone to be a “house of prayer for all the nations.”
What he would not see is a world in which, as promised, there are no weapons anymore, for swords have been “beaten into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks” so that no nation need ever again “lift up sword against nation” or ever again “prepare for war.”
What he would not see is a human race marvelously forgiven and made holy, pure, and righteous, living together in prosperity, peace, and loving harmony throughout the earth.
What he would not see – as expressed in his own words – is the wonderful new “Kingdom of God” expected to replace all the kingdoms of this world, the Kingdom of God he had lived and struggled and taught and suffered and died to bring to all the earth.
All this he would not see. And yet it is one of his most precious legacies that he so profoundly and uniquely dreamed the great dreams of his people that they are made to cry out still in us, yearning for fulfillment.
Soon Christians around the world will celebrate Yeshua riding a lowly donkey into Yerushalaim in humble obedience to another of those dreams, the hope that war horse, chariot, and battle bow can be cut off forever, and all humble servants of humanity can enjoy peace among the nations, and to the very ends of the earth.
Would that it could be, here and now today! ___________ Boswell is a retired pastor of the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ. Contact him through his website at TheDeadSeaGospel.com ____________
This column appeared today in The Pantagraph, newspaper of Bloomington-Normal, IL.
Jordan Schachtel https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1370183836613677061
The whole speech is a joke, lying about mitigation policies & peddling pseudoscience. It's 1 big heap of nonsense. Every sentence a lie. Govt is so entirely corrupt. They've ruined millions of lives & don't care. They want to continue the power grab & don't give a shit about you.
Biden's whole presidency has been a joke.
The only step he took to unify was to call off his dogs.
Biden is not dictatorially saying what you can or can not do, only suggesting you might want to listen to expert opinion and advice on how to behave as we cfontinue to get this pandemic under control.
For example, I am right now heading out to get my second Moderna vaccination. I will follow guideline suggestions of NOT stopping my wearing masks and NOT getting into large crowds even now for a while.
Later I may modify this as I get further good advice, but not right away.
OPINION When To Hold A Press Conference - And When Not To by Guy Bergstrom 2018
A press conference is not an easy event or a casual one. It's a big production and should only be saved for big issues. If you schedule press conferences every week, or every day, the press will stop showing up.
So when should you do a press conference?
When It's Truly Big News A press conference is typically set only to announce huge news, something you'd want to give TV reporters advance notice and time to drive down and set up their cameras. In politics, you'd do a press conference to announce a run for office -- or to drop out of a major race.
Same thing for other public figures. A business would hold a press conference for earth-shaking news like mergers and bankruptcies. An NFL quarterback might hold one to announce he's asking for a trade to a different team.
When the News Breaks The news has to be fresh. If you schedule a press conference for Friday but leak the news to your favorite reporter on Tuesday, there's no reason for any reporters to show up to your press conference. They already got scooped.
If you're going to have a press conference, you've got to have it when the news breaks. No leaks. No favors. No hints to friendly reporters, because good reporters will sniff around and figure it out.
When the Phone Won't Stop Ringing If reporters are calling you all day about an issue, wondering when you'll make the announcement, that's a good time to have a press conference.
If not a single reporter has asked about this issue, that's a sign. Don't schedule a press conference about it. Save press conferences for big news. If you have them too often, the press will stop showing up. [ or stop showing interest]
Once You Call a Press Conference If you make a determination that it's time to call a press conference you'll need to be very clear about the objective behind the press conference. There are many details that go into a planning a press conference, but here a few steps that will help you get started in planning:
Step 1: Identify the objective of your press conference. Step 2: Determine the message that you want to share in the press conference.
Step 3: Identify the location of the press conference.
Step 4: Set the date and time of the press conference.
Step 5: Invite the media and guests.
Step 6: Prepare your spokesperson, keep to one or two speakers. Make sure they are prepped with talking points to relay the message that has been identified.
Step 7: Use the steps above to build your comprehensive press conference plan to ensure its success.
You'll have to talk clients out of press conference and into other events and products. "Press conference" and "press release" are the two phrases that most laypersons know. When they say "press conference," they might actually mean a media availability or a photo op. They probably don't know the menu of options; what they do know is they want to get press about something. Talk them through the options before scheduling a press conference.
He's doing more than suggesting when he insults half the country for disagreeing. And he's dou g more than suggesting ehrn he restricts citizen travel but not illegal immigrant travel.
Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve.
JOE BIDEN may be the first president elected to do so.
His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises — by May 1 every adult will be eligible for a vaccine and by July Fourth relative normalcy will return.
But it is worth taking a moment to dwell on this unique pastoral role of the presidency, if only because it has been absent for the last four years and because Biden is being widely praised for restoring it.
Whether it’s a natural disaster, a war, a terrorist attack, a mass shooting — some devastating event that shocks Americans equally and temporarily suspends the usual divisions — for better or worse we turn to the president not just to push and pull the levers of government in response, but also to console us.
The images of those moments are indelible: RONALD REAGAN speaking after the Challenger disaster, BILL CLINTON memorializing the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, GEORGE W. BUSH with a bullhorn on a pile of rubble and BARACK OBAMA wiping away tears describing the Sandy Hook massacre.
The image last night of Biden retrieving from his breast pocket his daily schedule on which is written the latest Covid-19 death toll — 527,726 — may one day be a part of that grim pantheon of moments.
If politics is about timing, then there can be nothing more morbidly fortuitous than a politician whose own life has been defined by unimaginable loss coming along precisely when a wave of death was crashing over an America searching for some empathy.
By now almost every American knows of someone who died from Covid or someone who died in a way that Covid made worse by isolating them from the person they lost. And though Biden signed a staggeringly ambitious piece of legislation Thursday, he used his evening remarks to speak more to that loss than to the policy details of the recovery plan.
The speech was infused with a set of ideas but not really ideology: unity, self-governance, the virtues of collective action in the face of a common threat and — most of all — moving on from loss:
"While it was different for everyone, we all lost something — a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice, a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. But in the loss, we saw how much there was to gain in appreciation, respect and gratitude. Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do.
“In fact, it may be the most American thing we do. And that’s what we’ve done. We’ve seen frontline and essential workers risking their lives, sometimes losing them, to save and help others. Researchers and scientists racing for a vaccine. And so many of you, as Hemingway wrote, ‘Being strong in all the broken places.’”
That's not exactly the ERNEST HEMINGWAY line, which is from “A Farewell to Arms” and is a little more bleak than how he used it: “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.”
But either way it is hard to imagine any other contemporary politician making the speech Biden did Thursday night — both channeling our collective sorrow and reminding us that there is life after grief.
He's doing more than suggesting when he insults half the country for disagreeing
And he has gotten more done in 51 days than trump did in 4 years!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! BTW....you and your assholes will disagree with EVERYFUCKING THING HE Does!!!!! But I'd be willing to bet you spend every cent of that 1400 bucks that comes your way.....probably 4x what you ever may have seen with the bankrupting tax cuts.....LOLOLOLOLOL
Speaking to reporters from the White House Thursday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki failed to explain why Americans and other individuals traveling into the United States by air must show a negative Wuhan coronavirus test for entry -- while illegal immigrants crossing the southern border don't have to do the same.
"In terms of keeping COVID out of the country, does the White House think it's a problem that travelers have to show a negative COVID test, proof of a negative COVID test, when they fly into the U.S. from any foreign country but travelers don't need to show anything like that when they walk across the border as long as they don't go to a port of entry," Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked.
Psaki evaded the question and went after Texas Governor Greg Abbott. After a follow up question, she still failed to give a valid answer.
"I can just describe to you what our policies are. If there's more to convey to you, I'm happy to do that," Psaki said.
You guys are the disgusting liars here, you who appear on these pages and call Democrats liars, POSes, pedophiles, pederasts, abusers and cannibalizers of children in a basement of a pizza restaurant in DC that has no basement, etc., etc., etc.-- you are the constant liars and defenders of a BLATANTLY lying former President, and in doing that you constantly make yourselves look ridiculous.
MEANWHILE Joe Biden’s Confident, Unconventional Politics Walter Shapiro: “Biden’s speech, delivered on the day he signed into law his $1.9 trillion stimulus package, differed from what almost any other Democrat would have said at a similar moment. Instead of trumpeting his achievement—instead of basking in passing what may be the most ambitious anti-poverty program since the 1960s—Biden devoted almost the entire speech to the pandemic.
“This choice captured something close to the essence of the Biden presidency. Despite a lifetime in government, he will not take the easy road, mimicking standard political oratory. Listening to his internal drummer is a risk for any president, even one who, at age 78, may be beyond the raging pressures of ambition. But even though his words are often soft, and there is little obvious straining for eloquence, the self-confidence that undergirds Biden’s rhetoric is impressive.”
It is a self confidence borne of years of knowing he is being honest with those to whom he speaks. ______________
AND Biden’s Relief Plan HAS ALREADY SAVED JOBS MSNBC: “It’s not often Congress passes a law on a Wednesday, and by Thursday afternoon, tens of thousands of American jobs have been saved.”
“It was just last month when American Airlines announced it was sending furlough notices to roughly 13,000 employees. Within a few hours of Congress passing the Democratic COVID relief package, the company reversed course, saying those workers can now stay on the job.”
Airline workers received a letter from management: “To those who had received notices warning of furloughs: those are happily canceled — you can tear them up!”
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Yeah, there toward the end Trump was really racking up those deaths, alright.
and Slow Joe is supposed to attempt to mouth some prepared remarks tonight in recognition of his achievement.
LOL.
It’s weird that our elite betters of eliteness and betterness refuse to acknowledge that the emperor not only forgot to dress himself today but that he’s actively drooling. Check out President Asterisk trying to figure out who the Secretary of Defense is. Not that SecDef is an important job anymore or anything. His gig now is mostly to rid the ranks of extremists who don’t think men can change into women through the power of activists demanding everyone else pretend they can. But still, the president ought to, you know, know who he is.
It would be nice to have a CINC who isn’t manifestly senile. Which * is. And it matters – right now we have an alleged president who might start WWIII by pressing the wrong button thinking it’s his remote and that he’s changing channels from Matlock to Murder, She Wrote.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/03/11/the-emperor-is-naked-and-senile-too-n2586000?
rrb said...
and Slow Joe is supposed to attempt to mouth some prepared remarks tonight in recognition of his achievement.
LOL.
his actual "achievement" will be if he is able to walk unassisted to the podium.
And take actual unscripted questions.
By himself.
Of course they can pump him full of drugs. No drug tests for Joe.
And DEFINITELY NO COGNITIVE TESTS.
but likely it will be Joe reading from the teleprompter. Stiff as a board.
SJDS
The U.S. death rate increased by 15 percent last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, making it the deadliest year in recorded U.S. history, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention will announce, according to two senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
The agency will summarize its findings in an upcoming issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Its analysis will detail the rates at which U.S. residents of various races and ethnicities died as a result of the virus as well as the total number of deaths in each demographic group.
Scott has SJDS
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/10/cdc-finds-covid-19-drove-15-percent-spike-in-death-rate-475219
Joe the Uniter will give
a very uniting speech.
Not at all like the divisive Donald.
Biden the Builder is building
a very impressive record.
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What year was that? And who was President then?
Covid-19 killed nearly 400,000 people in the U.S. in 2020,
making it the third-leading cause of deaths.
YEP, AS I SAID,
there toward the end Trump
WAS REALLY RACKING UP those deaths, alright.
Use your spreadsheet to start counting the death per day rate, from when the death rate reached 1,500 per day. The first few months had a lower rate of deaths.
You are distorting the information, because you are a cultist.
He is going to sign the bill soon!
Fauci Shocked at Pandemic’s Death Toll
On the Today Show,
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he would have been “shocked” to hear a year ago that the U.S. coronavirus death toll would surpass 500,000.
Said Fauci:
“It would have shocked me completely. I mean, I knew we were in for trouble… In fact that day, at a congressional hearing I made the statement, ‘Things are going to get much worse before they get better.’ But I did not in my mind think that ‘much worse’ was going to be 525,000 deaths.”
_____________
If Trump had listened better to him and Dr. Birx, it would not now be that incredibly high.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President "sleepy" SJDS Joe Biden is set to sign into law Thursday the $1.9 trillion relief package that he says will help the U.S. defeat the virus and nurse the economy back to health.
He originally planned to sign the bill on Friday. But the White House moved that up to Thursday afternoon, hours before the president plans to give his first prime-time address to the American public on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic.
Chief of staff Ron Klain tweeted that the bill actually arrived at the White House late Wednesday, more quickly than than anticipated. “We want to move as fast as possible,” he said.
He added, “We will hold our celebration of the signing on Friday, as planned, with congressional leaders!”
It's not Rasmussen fake news robotics.
A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds 75% of Americans approve of Congress passing President Biden’s pandemic relief plan, including large majorities of Democrats and independents, along with nearly half of Republicans.
Biden’s approval rate on handling the pandemic is 67% to 33%.
Trump’s Covid legacy:
402,269 Americans dead after former president claimed virus will ‘disappear’
‘It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,’ Mr Trump said on
27 February, 2020.
Danielle Zoellner
New York
Donald Trump has officially closed out his term as president at a time when the coronavirus death toll has surpassed 400,000 Americans dead – despite the president initially claiming the virus would “disappear”.
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,” Mr Trump said on 27 February, 2020.
But America was still waiting on that “miracle”.
Mr Trump left office with 24,255,934 coronavirus cases and 402,269 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. This death toll was nearly equal to how many American soldiers died during World War II, which stands at about 405,000, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
SORRY YOU BROUGHT THIS UP, SCOTTIE?
(Trump also told us early on that the number of cases and deaths would soon be down to "near zero."
Add a LOT of zeros to that, and maybe he's right.)
Fauci was ‘blind to the harms of the lockdowns' that didn't work anyway, says Stanford doctor
As Dr. Jay Bhattacharya contends that lockdowns have brought more harm than good, a new CDC report shows mask mandates, in-person dining have only modest effects on COVID case and death numbers.
tanford University Professor of Medicine Jay Bhattacharya has been arguing for months that coronavirus lockdowns ultimately cause far more harm than good. As a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, he has been advocating an alternative to the public health establishment's comprehensively restrictive COVID-19 mitigation policies — a strategy known as "focused protection," which would instead tailor protective measures to the elderly and other high-risk groups while minimizing harm to the larger society by allowing those at lower risk to resume a semblance of their normal lives.
Now Bhattacharya and the other signatories to the declaration may have received some empirical support from an unlikely source — a little-remarked new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the very epicenter of the pro-lockdown public health establishment. While the study trumpets its findings of statistical correlations of mask mandates and in-person dining bans with better outcomes for coronavirus case rates and death rates, the positive effects reported were decidedly modest in scale.
Bhattacharya, who spoke with Just the News earlier this week, said that despite clear evidence that "lockdowns haven't worked to stem the pandemic," he sees a "strange desire to continue the lockdown," especially in the upper echelons of the federal government.
In Bhattacharya's view, Biden administration chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci and other top public health officials have failed to view the risks to a subset of the U.S. population in the indispensable context of risks to the larger population produced by drastic mitigation policies like socially and economically stultifying lockdowns that blanketed much of the country over the past year.
"Part of the problem for Dr. Fauci," Bhattacharya said, "is that he is blind to the harms of the lockdown ... He seems not to understand that the lockdown creates all kinds of physical problems, psychological problems, harms that I've never seen him talk about."
Among the issues to which Bhattacharya alludes are rises in child abuse, depression, and divorce rates. Not to mention the large swaths of the American economy that have been decimated, and countless small businesses that will never reopen.
Many of the pandemic restrictions didn't "actually have any effect on slowing the pandemic or protecting people," Bhattacharya asserted. "They were just indiscriminate closures that essentially protected the 'Zoom class' — the people who could afford to stay at home — while exposing the working class, other poor people and the vulnerable."
The U.S. should have targeted its mitigation efforts more precisely to protect the most vulnerable, primarily the elderly and those with certain underlying medical conditions, Bhattacharya argues. It was initially believed that "lockdowns would protect our older people," he said, but it should have been apparent early on that "they didn't."
Beyond mask mandates (which he has previously said do not work to slow the spread of the disease) and restaurant closures, though, Bhattacharya says that the "single biggest problem" America is going to see as a result of a year of lockdowns "is the harm to children."
"There's one estimate that the closure of schools will cause almost five and a half million life years lost to our children," he said. "That's because, if you're less well-educated, you live a less healthy life, you live a less long life, it has this ripple effect that lasts forever."
According to Bhattacharya, the U.S. will likely have to come up with an entirely new set of policy solutions to counteract the setbacks that American schoolchildren have suffered over the past year — especially the disproportionately negative effects on children from middle class or lower-income homes.
"The inequality is mind-boggling," Bhattacharya said. "If you're richer, you can afford to send your kids to private schools, which tend to be open ... but if you're poor, or even if you're just middle-class, and you send your kids to public schools, your kids have not been in school."
The CDC study, released on March 5, found that mask mandates were associated with decreases in daily coronavirus case and death rates and that reopening of restaurants for in-person dining was associated with increases in daily coronavirus case and death rates.
Th size of these positive effects, however, was small — a finding which the study authors downplay in their summary. Mask mandates were associated with decreases in daily COVID case growth rates and daily death growth rates of just 1.8% and 1.9%, respectively, 81-100 days after mandate implementation. Reopening restaurants for in-person dining, meanwhile, was associated with increases in daily case and death growth rates of, respectively, 1.1% and 3% after 81-100 days.
The study used models that accounted for state mask mandates, the closures of restaurants and bars, and stay-at-home orders. It did not, however, account for any other form of coronavirus policy (including distancing orders and locality-specific orders), or other factors, including seasonal changes, and population structure.
"The study is flawed because it doesn't account for seasonality, position along the epi curve, the age or morbidity structure of the population, or lots of other things," wrote Robert Wright, of the American Institute for Economic Research, in an article for the think tank's website. "Even with simplifying assumptions biasing the results in the desired direction, the difference the researchers find, even at the upper end of their estimate, is on the order of a few percent."
Neither Fauci nor his office has responded to a request for comment for this article
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/hold-fauci-was-blind-harms-lockdowns-didnt-work-anyway-says-stanford
Thanks Fauci, probably Trumps biggest mistake was listening to him
And the mental health harm we have done to our children is compounded by a national debt that has already soared past 28 TRILLION !!!
Biden's response is more spending than a drunken sailor
and causing what will be millions more to come streaming into America.
Everything's FREE !!!
borders not required !!!
WHEEEE !!!!
drinks on the house !!!
California will recover from the pandemic faster than the U.S.
Disney California Adventure plans to reopen in March 2021 at limited capacity for walks through the park and food and merchandise purchases.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
By MARGOT ROOSEVELTSTAFF WRITER
MARCH 10, 2021 1 AM PT
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The U.S. and California economies will experience near-record growth this year thanks to widespread vaccinations for COVID-19 and massive federal relief for struggling workers and businesses, UCLA forecasters predict.
“A waning pandemic combined with fiscal relief means a strong year of growth in 2021 — one of the strongest years of growth in the last 60 years — followed by sustained higher growth rates in 2022 and 2023,” according to the quarterly economic outlook released Wednesday.
California, buoyed by high-earning technology and professional sectors that shifted to at-home work during the pandemic, will recover somewhat faster than the U.S., even though a full rebound in the tourist-dependent leisure and hospitality businesses will lag.
“This is a very ‘good news’ forecast,” said Leo Feler, senior economist of the forecasting group based at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. “We have finally turned the corner.”
In early December, the forecast had predicted “the ‘20s will be roaring” after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the sharpest decline in economic growth in more than half a century. Now “the roar is definitely getting louder,” Feler said, estimating that gross domestic product, which shrank by a devastating 3.5% in 2020, will grow 6.3% this year, 4.6% in 2022 and 2.7% in 2023.
The growth is far faster than it was after the 2009 recession.
President Biden has learned from the mistakes during the Obama administration's economy recovery plan.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-11/new-report-faults-lapd-for-mishandling-summer-unrest
'It's going to disappear':
A timeline of Trump's claims that Covid-19 will vanish
By Daniel Wolfe and Daniel Dale, CNN
Last updated October 31, 2020
In his first speech after his hospitalization for Covid-19, President Donald Trump stood on a White House balcony on October 10 and made a grand declaration about the coronavirus: “It’s going to disappear. It is disappearing.”
His words might have sounded more dramatic had he not been saying the same thing for eight months.
Trump has stuck to the refrain no matter what has been happening with the pandemic. Since February, the President has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to disappear or is currently disappearing.
His proclamations have been wildly inaccurate. When Trump first started making the claim in February, it was about the time the US had just suffered its very first known Covid-19 death. More than 220,000 deaths later, Trump continues to falsely claim that the virus will somehow just go away — even as the US experiences yet another surge in cases and hospitalizations.
February
You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.
President Trump
February, 10 2020
US cases begin to rise
March 7, 2020
54 average daily new cases
You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.
President Trump
February 10, 2020
China is working very, very hard. I have spoken to President Xi, and they’re working very hard. And if you know anything about him, I think he’ll be in pretty good shape. They’re — they’ve had a rough patch, and I think right now they have it — it looks like they’re getting it under control more and more. They’re getting it more and more under control. So I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away.
President Trump
February 25, 2020
…when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.
President Trump
February 26, 2020
It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.
President Trump
February 27, 2020
I don’t think people are panicking. I said last night — we did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm.’ It’ll go away.
President Trump
March 6, 2020
We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.
President Trump
March 10, 2020
You know, we need a little a separation until such time as this goes away. It’s going to go away. It’s going to go away.
President Trump
March 12, 2020
Stay calm. It will go away. You know it — you know it is going away, and it will go away. And we’re going to have a great victory.
President Trump
March 30, 2020
It’s going to go away, hopefully at the end of the month. And, if not, hopefully it will be soon after that.
President Trump
March 31, 2020
It is going to go away. It is going away.
President Trump
April 3, 2020
It did go — it will go away.
President Trump
April 7, 2020
But a lot of movement and a lot of progress has been made in a vaccine. But I think what happens is it’s going to go away. This is going to go away. And whether it comes back in a modified form in the fall, we’ll be able to handle it.
President Trump
April 28, 2020
It’s going to go. It’s going to leave. It’s going to be gone. It’s going to be eradicated. And it might take longer. It might be in smaller sections. It’ll be — it won’t be what we had. And we also learned a lot.
President Trump
April 29, 2020
And I think we’re doing very well on the vaccines but, with or without a vaccine, it’s going to pass, and we’re going to be back to normal.
President Trump
Roger Amick said...
California will recover from the pandemic faster than the U.S.
Disney California Adventure plans to reopen in March 2021 at limited capacity for walks through the park and food and merchandise purchases.
Can't even remember how long Disney Florida has already been open.
Other entire states are already open
Dem states, not so much.
Of course if Newsom is recalled the recovery will speed up
THWAP !!!
We think we’re going to have a vaccine in the pretty near future. And if we do, we’re going to really be a big step ahead. And if we don’t, we’re going to be like so many other cases, where you had a problem come in, it’ll go away — at some point, it’ll go away. It may flare up, and it may not flare up. We’ll have to see what happens.
President Trump
May 15, 2020
So I think that’s — but even without that [a vaccine or therapeutics], you know, at some point this stuff goes away and it’s going away.
President Trump
June 15, 2020
I always say, even without it [a vaccine], it goes away.
President Trump
June 16, 2020
…if you look, the numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was. It’s dying out.
President Trump
June 17, 2020
But I will tell you, we’re very close to a vaccine, and we’re very close to therapeutics, really good therapeutics. And — but even without that — I don’t even like to talk about that, because it’s fading away. It’s going to fade away.
President Trump
June 17, 2020
And it is dying out. The numbers are starting to get very good.
President Trump
June 18, 2020
And I think we are going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that, at some point, that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope.
President Trump
July 1, 2020
I’ll be right eventually. I will be right eventually. You know I said, ‘It’s going to disappear.’ I’ll say it again. It’s going to disappear, and I’ll be right.
President Trump
July 19, 2020
Well, the virus will disappear. It will disappear.
President Trump
July 21, 2020
We’re gonna beat it, yeah. We’re going to beat it. And with time, you’re going to be it — time. You know, I say, it’s going to disappear. And they say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible.’ He said — well, it’s true. I mean, it’s going to disappear. Before it disappears, I think we can knock it out before it disappears.
President Trump
July 22, 2020
This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away…
President Trump
August 5, 2020
It’s going away. No, it’ll go away like things go away. Absolutely. No question in my mind. It will go away. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
President Trump
August 5, 2020
And we’re getting them [manufacturing jobs] even in a pandemic — which is disappearing; it’s going to disappear.
President Trump
August 7, 2020
And frankly, you know, we’ve had a tremendous — a tremendous market, you and I have talked about that, the stock market. Think of it, we’re almost back to where we were, and we’re still in the pandemic, which will be going away, as I say, it’ll be going away. And they scream, how you can you say that? I said, because it’s gonna be going away.
President Trump
August 13, 2020
…And the China Plague will fade.
President Trump
August 17, 2020
And as soon as the plague is gone — we have vaccines coming, we have therapeutics coming, and it’s going to be gone. And it’s gonna be gone soon.
President Trump
August 17, 2020
It’s all coming back so fast and you’ll see it, and the pandemic goes away. The vaccines are going to be, I believe, announced very soon.
President Trump
August 24, 2020
Well, once you get to a certain number — you know, we use the word herd, right. Once you get to a certain number, it’s going to go away.
President Trump
August 31, 2020
It is gonna disappear. It’s gonna disappear. I still say it.
President Trump
September 15, 2020
But it’s going to disappear. It is disappearing. And vaccines are going to help, and the therapeutics are going to help a lot.
President Trump
October 10, 2020
The vaccine will end the pandemic. But it’s ending anyway. I mean, they go crazy when I say it. It’s going to peter out and it’s going to end. But we’re going to help the end and we’re gonna make it a lot faster with the vaccine and with the therapeutics and frankly with the cures.
President Trump
October 15, 2020
Even without the vaccine, the pandemic’s going to end. It’s gonna run its course. It’s gonna end. They’ll go crazy. He said ‘without the vaccine’ — watch, it’ll be a headline tomorrow. These people are crazy. No, it’s running its course.
President Trump
October 16, 2020
Now that the TWEETER has PETERED OUT--
BIDEN CLIMBS INTO HIS BULLY PULPIT
BECAUSE HE
Now Has a Relief Plan to Sell
POLITICO:
“Already, the president has been touting the measure, tweeting that ‘better days lie ahead,’ while his White House promoted announcements from Amtrak and American Airlines that furloughed employees will be brought back or not have their work interrupted.
“For veterans of prior Democratic administrations, the aggressive sales job is a welcome change from the past, when the party often seemed to think major legislation would sell itself. But they warned that Biden needs to strike an appropriate balance, lest his new administration come off as out-of-touch with those who feel left behind or are struggling to cope with the lingering effects of the year-long pandemic.”
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Don't worry.
Joe's good at showing concern and sympathy and empathy.
And he just naturally comes across as trustworthy.
HEY alky,
I see you're still not over that TDS
Do you even know who's now president ?
And who he is using for his Covid plan ?
That same guy you are now praising.
The complete failure Fauci who Trump had relied on.
THWAP !!!
If Florida had followed the CDC guidelines, thousands of people would be alive now troll squad asshole
$1.9 TRILLION.
9% goes directly to Covid.
there's all you really need to know.
it's no wonder these democrat traitors feel the need to surround themselves with soldiers and razor wire.
And the POS "pastor" and waterboy runs over
Biden Now Has a Relief Plan to Sell
March 11, 2021 at 1:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/11/biden-now-has-a-relief-plan-to-sell/
impressive
ROFLMFAO !!!
but you still haven't learned to show your link !!!
the alky is stupid enough to think that FL is a covid fail while I reside in the state with the most deaths, and where the governor is directly responsible for killing 15,500 people.
that's what we call "alky stupid."
rrb said...
the alky is stupid enough to think that FL is a covid fail while I reside in the state with the most deaths, and where the governor is directly responsible for killing 15,500 people.
that's what we call "alky stupid."
You forgot the alky THWAP !!!
or does alky now own the trademark ?
it's definitely his brand
and did you know he started to read in third grade ???
Biden Now Has a Relief Plan to Sell
should read:
"Biden has a Bribe to Sell."
democrats, the party of "SCIENCE!" and of the really super smart set, never tire of being bribed with their own fucking money.
9% of Biden's "BRIBE" goes directly to Covid relief.
nine fucking percent.
this is criminal, yet the usual suspects around here cheer like they're at a BLM rally.
WHO WAS THE BIGGEST "COMPLETE FAILURE"?
TRUMP: "soon down to zero"
FAUCI: "could be as high as 400,000"
Easy answer there~!
Nancy Amick, the un-debator.
Roger , the math is easy.
32,000,000 acres ÷ y = how many Black slaves you Socialist put back on your plantations.
so is it 200,000 or 900,000 ?
"California will recover from the pandemic faster than the U.S."
Really, empirical Data?
Got any?
Unemployment Bidenomics
CA. 9.2%
Illinois 8.0
New York 8.6%
National Average 6.2 %
Kansas 4.7
Yet, Alky showing his spectacular Stupidity said.
"California will recover from the pandemic faster than the U.S."
If Florida had followed the CDC guidelines, thousands of people would be alive now troll squad asshole
Persons 65 years and over, percent CA14.8% FL20.9% NY16.9%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/CA,FL,NY,TX/PST045219
THWAP!! THWAP!!
"California will recover from the pandemic faster than the U.S."
progress measured by capturing the two millionth "recall their asshole governor" signature.
SleepyJoe Biden just launched the second war on poverty.
The first war on poverty cut it in half. Joe Biden could do it again.
Vox
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is a historic piece of
Fifty-seven years ago, a Democratic president who had a reputation as a moderate — and who had been a senator and vice president before reaching the highest office in the land — announced his administration would be waging “unconditional war on poverty in America.”
The legislation that grew out of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration had no marquee program. Instead, the war on poverty was a collection of new initiatives that have stood the test of time: Medicare; Medicaid; food stamps (now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); aid for women, infants, and children (WIC); school breakfasts; Pell Grants; Head Start; and Section 8 housing vouchers, to name a few. It was a landmark passel of legislation that reshaped American life in the decades that followed.
With Congress’s passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, another Democratic president with a reputation as a moderate (and who came through the Senate and the vice presidency) is putting his stamp on American policy. The Covid-19 relief bill, which passed the US House on Wednesday afternoon and was signed into law by President Biden on Thursday, is the most far-reaching anti-poverty legislation in more than 50 years.
Only an idiot would fight a war on poverty by importing millions who will likely live in poverty.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Only an idiot would fight a war on poverty by importing millions who will likely live in poverty.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
poor alky. he takes so many rakes to the face each day he can't even pick up on the fact that his latest plagiarism was already plagiarized by the pederast.
That was a fantastic kicking of the gutter drunk Alky.
"MyballsMarch 11, 2021 at 1:32 PM
Only an idiot would fight a war on poverty by importing millions who will likely live in poverty"
Jamie and Alky , simply two parrots.
They don't know what they are saying.
Neither can debate.
Politico a far leftist Socialist rag is very unimpressed with slow Joe and his hoe.
"Biden’s Covid Relief Bill Might Be Good Politics, But It’s Bad Policy
The legislation is a misnomer; it is neither a Covid nor a relief bill."
Latest Accusation Against Cuomo Is Reported to Albany Police
The police characterized the alleged groping by the governor of a female aide as something that may rise “to the level of a crime.”
COBRA Subsidies and Special Enrollment Window
The ARPA provides up to six months of free COBRA coverage (whether provided under federal or state law), starting April 1, 2021, for certain “assistance eligible individuals.” In addition, these assistance eligible individuals will be entitled to take advantage of the subsidy by enrolling in COBRA only for the subsidy period during a special window. Plan sponsors are required to notify assistance eligible individuals about these rights. The government pays for the COBRA subsidies by providing plan sponsors of self-insured plans, and insurance companies with respect to fully-insured plans, a tax credit. More detailed information about these new COBRA provisions can be found here.
Pension Funding Relief
The ARPA changes certain funding rules for plan sponsors of single-employer defined benefit pension plans. The ARPA both extends into 2030 certain favorable interest rate provisions that were originally introduced in 2012 under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and lengthens the time that plan sponsors can pay off their plan’s underfunded amounts from 7 to 15 years. More detailed information about these new pension plan provisions can be found here.
Increase in Employer-Provided Dependent Care Limits
The ARPA increases the dependent care flexible spending account (“FSA”) limit from $5,000 to $10,500 for the 2021 tax year only. Employers are not required to incorporate this temporary, increased limit. If an employer wishes to incorporate this optional feature, an employer must amend its dependent care FSA plan no later than the last day of the plan year in which the amendment is effective (e.g., December 31, 2021 for calendar-year plans), and such amendment can have retroactive effect back to the beginning of the plan year.
Expansion of Code Section 162(m)
Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) limits the deduction that a publicly-held corporation can take with respect to compensation paid to each of its “covered employees” to $1 million per year. Current law provides that “covered employees” are the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and next three highest paid executive officers in any given year, plus any individual who has been a “covered employee” for any prior tax year beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
Starting with tax years that begin on or after January 1, 2027, the ARPA expands the number of “covered individuals” to also include the next five highest paid officers. These additional five individuals, however, do not follow the “once a covered employee, always a covered employee” rule. Rather, they are only considered a covered employee so long as they are one of the “next top five” paid individuals for the particular year. In other words, public companies will have to keep track of two lists of covered employees: (1) their “permanent list,” which covers the CEO, CFO, and next three highest paid officers each year and who, once on the list of covered employees, will always remain on the list, and (2) a “current year list,” which will include those officers who are the next five top paid officers for the year in question, and which may change from year to year.
Defined benefit pensions are getting help from Sleepy Joe Biden and Kamala Harris rrb's former love
That's exactly what people like you said about WOP,s
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.natlawreview.com/article/employee-benefits-and-executive-compensation-changes-american-rescue-plan-act-2021%3famp
Lol@Alky.
The Queen Parrot of CHT.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
That's exactly what people like you said about WOP,s
wrong again, alky.
If you had the first clue as to what you're talking about the Italians, and Irish, and Poles, and German's and Jews, etc. had to demonstrate not only physical health and being free from disease, but a means to support themselves - either through family who preceded them, a job upon arrival, something that did not make them an instant fucking burden upon the nation. And that was the process from the turn of the 20th century until 1965 when democrats fucked it all up and wiped away all those guidelines. since then it's been a free for all, and Slow Joe looks to make that exponentially WORSE, not only but opening the southern border, but importing tens of thousands of new positive covid cases.
my paternal grandparents were WOP's who came here in the 1920's so I know exactly of which I speak.
THWAP!!! THWAP!!! THWAP!!!
Roger never knows what he posts here.
He can't debate his topics.
HEY! PAY ATTENTION TO THIS!
READ IT CAREFULLY. IT MAKES SENSE.
CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU MAY HAVE BEEN TOLD,
GOP GOVERNORS HAD HIGHER COVID DEATH RATES
A new Johns Hopkins study found that states with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from Covid-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors SURPASSED THOSE RATES as the crisis dragged on, NBC News reports.
“The researchers theorized that one reason for the change is that Democrats were in charge of states where people who had the virus first arrived in the country — but Republicans were less stringent about safeguards, which could have contributed to their states’ ultimately higher incidence and death rates.”
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YEP. YOU LISTENED TO TRUMP'S LIES AND FOLLOWED HIS NON-EXAMPLE, AND IT COST PEOPLE THEIR LIVES.
HISTORY WILL NOT LET YOU ESCAPE THIS.
What a wonderful day, Sunny , warm , and living a great life.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
What a wonderful day, Sunny , warm , and living a great life.
same here. we hit 70 today.
being able to go outside without setting off an alarm is nice. sure beats a tiny room with a tv and wifi.
LOL.
Hey pedo, those red states have far lower unemployment rates and their economies are much stronger.
It’s not just about trying to protect the old and sickly like you.
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Hey pedo, those red states have far lower unemployment rates and their economies are much stronger.
true dat.
ALBANY — The five-county Albany metro area had 31,600 fewer jobs in January than the same month a year earlier, the state Labor Department reported Thursday. The pandemic in January 2020 hadn't yet triggered the lockdowns and layoffs that would follow two months later.
Those losses would hit two sectors — leisure and hospitality, and accommodation and food services — particularly hard, the report shows. Between them, the two categories had 20,700 fewer jobs in the metro that includes Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and Schoharie counties.
Percentage-wise, the 6.8 percent decline in Albany metro jobs wasn't as severe as the 11.1 percent decline for the state overall. The 636,100 jobs lost in New York City, meanwhile, represented a 13.7 percent loss.
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Albany-metro-lost-more-than-30-000-jobs-to-16018845.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-Spotlight
our economy sucked to begin with so Killer Cuomo thought he should finish it off.
factor in covid-induced suicides and the the blue states are MUCH WORSE off, no matter how Johns Hopkins want to manipulate the data.
Steve Scalise
@SteveScalise
🚨 BREAKING → House Democrats just REJECTED an amendment that would have required ICE to be notified if an illegal immigrant tries to buy a gun.
But they’re fine taking away the gun rights of law-abiding American citizens.
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being able to go outside without setting off an alarm is nice. sure beats a tiny room with a tv and wifi.
Or having someone forced to sign you out and leave an expected return time
lol
Cali,, wait , Alky said CA will lead recover economically .
They have no where to go but up
SLDS makes it impossible for Scott to cheer!!!!!
U.S. stocks climbed to record highs Thursday as the comeback in tech shares resumed, while the signing of additional fiscal stimulus gave sentiment a further boost.
The S&P 500 jumped 1% to 3,939
Blogger Roger Amick said...
SLDS makes it impossible for Scott to cheer!!!!!
every investor I know is cheering the market alky.
we're just too smart to give any credit to your drooling-retard-dementia-hospice president.
LOL.
THWAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gas prices continue to rise. Anything to oppose whatever Trump did. Brilliant.
Not sure I'd call 1% a jump.
The list of a
NY politicians calling for Cuomo to resign has gotten her long. Pols from both parties. But Cuomo still refuses. He's so damn arrogant he still thinks he can talk his way out of all the mess.
And Sen Gillibrand still is silent on it.
Pres Geppetto, will have his strings pulled tonight.
Medicaid Expansion Could Impact 2022 Races
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
highlights some new incentives the pandemic relief plan has for holdout states like Georgia to expand Medicaid, and how it might play in their statewide races in 2022.
“The debate is also sure to factor into Kemp’s reelection campaign next year, when he’s set to run for a second term. Sen. Jon Ossoff and Sen. Raphael Warnock both campaigned on a promise of extending insurance coverage to hundreds of thousands of Georgians who don’t now receive it, and both have highlighted their work securing the Medicaid funding.”
GOOD! GEORGIA FOR THE DEMS!
The Biggest Thing Kamala Harris Could Do This Year
ROn Brownstein:
“The battle to protect voting rights needs a field general. Vice President Kamala Harris needs a cause to define her tenure. The second problem suggests the answer to the first: President Joe Biden could designate Harris as the administration’s point person in combatting the onslaught against voter access now advancing in Republican-controlled states.”
GREAT IDEA!
14,000 is the average miles driven by each American.
25 mpg is the average per car.
560 gallons,,, Biden gasoline tax so far per driver $280 ....
Making the poor , poorer.
Roger, you never debate.
I know why.
"1%" good increase.
So what stocks by name do you own?
Teach us your investing strategy.
States with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from Covid-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors surpassed those rates as the crisis dragged on, a study released Tuesday found.
"From March to early June, Republican-led states had lower Covid-19 incidence rates compared with Democratic-led states. On June 3, the association reversed, and Republican-led states had higher incidence," the study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Medical University of South Carolina showed.
"For death rates, Republican-led states had lower rates early in the pandemic, but higher rates from July 4 through mid-December," the study found.
Introduction: The response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic became increasingly politicized in the U.S. and political affiliation of state leaders may contribute to policies affecting the spread of the disease. This study examines differences in COVID-19 infection, death, and testing by governor party affiliation across 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Methods: A longitudinal analysis was conducted in December 2020 examining COVID-19 incidence, death, testing, and test positivity rates from March 15 through December 15, 2020. A Bayesian negative binomial model was fit to estimate daily RRs and posterior intervals (PIs) comparing rates by gubernatorial party affiliation. The analyses adjusted for state population density, rurality, Census region, age, race, ethnicity, poverty, number of physicians, obesity, cardiovascular disease, asthma, smoking, and presidential voting in 2020.
Results: From March to early June, Republican-led states had lower COVID-19 incidence rates compared with Democratic-led states. On June 3, the association reversed, and Republican-led states had higher incidence (RR=1.10, 95% PI=1.01, 1.18). This trend persisted through early December. For death rates, Republican-led states had lower rates early in the pandemic, but higher rates from July 4 (RR=1.18, 95% PI=1.02, 1.31) through mid-December. Republican-led states had higher test positivity rates starting on May 30 (RR=1.70, 95% PI=1.66, 1.73) and lower testing rates by September 30 (RR=0.95, 95% PI=0.90, 0.98).
Conclusion: Gubernatorial party affiliation may drive policy decisions that impact COVID-19 infections and deaths across the U.S. Future policy decisions should be guided by public health considerations rather than political ideology.
Alky, pedo already posted this tripe and was summarily smacked
John Hopkins isn’t reporting the on the deaths donk governors created through their lockdowns, since red states are kicking blueanon ass regarding unemployment, economic growth, suicides, schools....
THWAP!!
Roger proves he doesn't read Pedo.
Roger as white farmers are forced off of 32,000,000 acres to get 900,000 newly minted BLACK ONLY farmers on that land, how much money is in Geppetto Joe's law to pay for it?
Short and sweet like the old woman's dance.
30 % increase in illegals. crossing into the Socialist States of America.
Geppetto Joe winning .
He's going to be the greatest President in the last 90 years.
Unless you find a video showing he lost his mind, it was edited piece of shit.
One year after his predecessor told Americans from the Oval Office that the nation was “at a critical time in the fight against the virus,” President Joe Biden has promised that the nation is finally on the verge of a return to normalcy.
But 50 days into his presidency, and hours after signing into law the nearly $2 trillion relief bill that he promised would help “rebuild” the American middle class, Biden’s own primetime address from the White House on Thursday night was aimed at an audience exhausted by a year of catastrophic loss, social isolation, and a government disaster response that was, in many ways, its own disaster. In his remarks, Biden promised that the pandemic that has overturned nearly every part of American life could soon, finally, be over—as long as Americans do their own part.
“I promise, I will do everything in my power—I will not relent until we beat this virus,” Biden said. “But I need you, the American people, I need you, I need every American, to do their part. That’s not hyperbole. I need you.”
Now that “help is on the way,” as Biden said in his remarks, being able to actually follow through on his promises—reopened schools within 50 more days, with universal availability of the coronavirus vaccine to all adults by May 1 and a degree of normality by Independence Day—will be the greatest challenge of his presidency. It will also test the confidence of Americans in their government’s ability to tackle a crisis, a confidence that Biden himself admitted had been strained to breaking over the past year.
Kiss my ass kputz
Geppetto Joe, strings pulled performs.
This is an easy question . Roger, should be able to answer it.
It is after all part of the Socialist Redistribution Act if 2021.
Roger as white farmers are forced off of 32,000,000 acres to get 900,000 newly minted BLACK ONLY farmers on that land, how much money is in Geppetto Joe's law to pay for it?
President Biden:
“If we do this together, by July the Fourth, there’s a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day,”
Blogger Roger Amick said...
President Biden:
“If we do this together, by July the Fourth, there’s a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day,”
LOL. someone please tell this fucking maroon that us normies have been doing this all along.
LOL. drooling hospice dementia fuck.
THWAP!!!
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Alky, pedo already posted this tripe and was summarily smacked
yep, and BIGLY.
hey alky, what does this even mean? do you know?
A Bayesian negative binomial model was fit to estimate daily RRs and posterior intervals (PIs) comparing rates by gubernatorial party affiliation.
ooh. fancy talk, eh alky? LOL.
another "model." just like all the "models" that told us the world was ending and we were all gonna die.
THWAP!!!
Trump's greatest legacy may end up being the tremendous success of Operation Warp Speed. Biden won't acknowledge it. But some in his administration are. Getting these vaccines to market so quickly is historic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden pledged in his first prime-time address to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the possibility of beginning to "mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July. He offered Americans fresh hope and appealed anew for their help.
Speaking in the White House East Room Thursday night, Biden honored the “collective suffering” of Americans over the past year in his 24-minute address and then offered them a vision for a return to a modicum of normalcy this summer.
“We are bound together by the loss and the pain of the days that have gone by,” he said. "We are also bound together by the hope and the possibilities in the days in front of us.”
He predicted Americans could safely gather at least in small groups for July Fourth to “make this Independence Day truly special.”
But he also cautioned that this was a “goal” and attaining it depends on people's cooperation in following public health guidelines and rolling up their sleeves to get vaccinated as soon as eligible. Only that, he said, can bring about an end to a pandemic that has killed more than 530,000 Americans and disrupted the lives of countless more.
Even a majority of Republicans approve of his handling the pandemic and rebuilds the economy.
Now that “help is on the way,” as Biden said in his remarks
someone please tell this finger-sucking retard that help HAS BEEN on the way since Operation Warp Speed. Thanks to TRUMP.
While trump was getting it done, Slow Joe was safely tucked away in his basement with Dr. Mommy, and Cum-Allah the commie whore was telling everyone who would listen that she WOULD NOT take any vaccine promoted by Trump.
When the only tool in your toolkit is to take credit for the work of others, you're not a leader, you're a poseur and a charlatan.
So, after being up WAY past his bed time last night, what time does Cunty McCircleback 'put a lid on it' this morning?
535 k dead from trumps flu and his lack of vision....Rat asks for another one!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve.
JOE BIDEN may be the first president elected to do so.
His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises — by May 1 every adult will be eligible for a vaccine and by July Fourth relative normalcy will return.
But it is worth taking a moment to dwell on this unique pastoral role of the presidency, if only because it has been absent for the last four years and because Biden is being widely praised for restoring it.
Whether it’s a natural disaster, a war, a terrorist attack, a mass shooting — some devastating event that shocks Americans equally and temporarily suspends the usual divisions — for better or worse we turn to the president not just to push and pull the levers of government in response, but also to console us.
The images of those moments are indelible: RONALD REAGAN speaking after the Challenger disaster, BILL CLINTON memorializing the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, GEORGE W. BUSH with a bullhorn on a pile of rubble and BARACK OBAMA wiping away tears describing the Sandy Hook massacre.
The image last night of Biden retrieving from his breast pocket his daily schedule on which is written the latest Covid-19 death toll — 527,726 — may one day be a part of that grim pantheon of moments.
If politics is about timing, then there can be nothing more morbidly fortuitous than a politician whose own life has been defined by unimaginable loss coming along precisely when a wave of death was crashing over an America searching for some empathy.
By now almost every American knows of someone who died from Covid or someone who died in a way that Covid made worse by isolating them from the person they lost. And though Biden signed a staggeringly ambitious piece of legislation Thursday, he used his evening remarks to speak more to that loss than to the policy details of the recovery plan.
The speech was infused with a set of ideas but not really ideology: unity, self-governance, the virtues of collective action in the face of a common threat and — most of all — moving on from loss:
"While it was different for everyone, we all lost something — a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice, a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. But in the loss, we saw how much there was to gain in appreciation, respect and gratitude. Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do.
“In fact, it may be the most American thing we do. And that’s what we’ve done. We’ve seen frontline and essential workers risking their lives, sometimes losing them, to save and help others. Researchers and scientists racing for a vaccine. And so many of you, as Hemingway wrote, ‘Being strong in all the broken places.’”
That's not exactly the ERNEST HEMINGWAY line, which is from “A Farewell to Arms” and is a little more bleak than how he used it: “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.”
But either way it is hard to imagine any other contemporary politician making the speech Biden did Thursday night — both channeling our collective sorrow and reminding us that there is life after grief.
He predicted Americans could safely gather at least in small groups for July Fourth to “make this Independence Day truly special.”
as the governors of a growing list of states are telling their citizens -
"Pay no attention to to the drooling retard in the White House. We're open for business and back to normal."
You see alky, thanks to Trump we have a vaccine, and as people get it THE PEOPLE are deciding to cast off the masks, extend their middle fingers towards 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and return to things as they were before the "two weeks to flatten the curve" LIE.
Your Hospice President can predict and declare all he wants, alky. The only folks who are listening to him are geriatrics under lockdown like you.
show your plagiarism, alky
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/03/12/last-night-is-why-joe-biden-won-the-presidency-492086
This subhuman piece of shit sure has a lot of opinion for a fuck who never served and probably got beat up as a kid!!!!!! Rat nods his big head and takes another swig!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Yahoo News
Military leaders target Tucker Carlson after Fox News host calls pregnant soldiers a 'mockery'
Dylan Stableford·Senior Writer
Thu, March 11, 2021, 2:28 PM
In a striking display of solidarity, members of the U.S. military condemned Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his remarks criticizing the government's efforts to retain women in uniform, including those who are pregnant.
During his primetime cable news show Tuesday, Carlson criticized President Biden for making the military “more feminine.”
“While China’s military becomes more masculine as it has assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine,” Carlson said. “So we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a mockery of the U.S. military.”
The segment triggered a remarkable public backlash from top military officials, many of them men.
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston was among those who responded directly to Carlson through social media.
“Women lead our most lethal units with character. They will dominate ANY future battlefield we’re called to fight on,” Grinston wrote on Twitter. “@TuckerCarlson’s words are divisive, don’t reflect our values.”
A representative for Fox News did not immediately return a request for comment.
show your plagiarism, alky
So when did your wife and kids move out rat???????
One year ago, I tweeted: “This is what the Left wants. They want people stripped of wealth, isolated, and terrified. They want sources of joy—church, sporting events, vacations, large social gatherings—eliminated. This is how they get control. And it’s far scarier than any virus.”
It was not a popular sentiment at the time.
My initial reaction to government-ordered lockdowns, promoted by politicians on both sides and President Trump, was in the slim minority to say the least. “Flattening the curve” required deep personal sacrifices, we were warned.
Anyone skeptical of the alleged effectiveness of lockdowns or concerned about the long-term consequences was condemned as a bloodless “grandma killer” or “greedy capitalist” defying science and lacking compassion.
But from the start, “the curve” was bogus stagecraft. As I explained last year, the curve the authorities presented to Americans wasn’t accurate.
“It’s not unreasonable, in fact, it’s necessary and responsible, to consider that COVID-19 has been in the states since the first of the year,” I wrote March 19, an assessment we now know is true. “If this is the new normal, where incomplete data and media-fueled panic rule the day, that is an even more frightening prospect than what’s happening right now.”
Sadly and shamefully, it has been America’s new normal for one year and counting.
[...]
One year later, we are vindicated—yet there’s no cause for celebration. Only in time of war has this country endured more permanent economic damage, more reckless government spending, or more widespread human suffering. This has been an unnecessary self-inflicted wound from which millions of families will never fully recover. And it’s ongoing to this day.
Lockdowns were doomed to fail: with a few exceptions, humans have been unable to conquer debilitating viruses—pathogens outsmart us every time; there is nowhere to hide. And the quarantine of healthy people, especially children, set the world’s most advanced civilization back to the Stone Ages.
But the “party of science” wisely seized the opportunity. The strong overpowered the weak in the biggest political power grab in modern U.S. history; the young sacrificed for the old. Our most vulnerable citizens, children and the elderly, were betrayed, in some cases killed, by the very same political interests purportedly devoted to protecting them.
Even I underestimated the wickedness of the Left, how far they would go to exploit the crisis. I also underestimated the cowardice of so-called conservative leaders who not only refused to confront catastrophic, liberty-crushing lockdowns but went along with those authoritarian government orders. Republican governors, for the most part, have acted as badly as their Democratic counterparts.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/11/one-year-later-vindication-for-lockdown-skeptics/
Roger is a cut in paste troll.
Can't debate.
A representative for Fox News did not immediately return a request for comment.
They didn't have to. Tucker addressed it on his show last night and he made the Pentagon - and the assholes who have politicized it - look like idiots.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kimmel's special also aired the same day President Joe Biden delivered his first prime-time address where he outlined his plan to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the prospect of "independence from this virus" by the Fourth of July. Kimmel decided to take aim at former President Donald Trump who also delivered his own virus-related address where he stated, "the risk is very very low."
"That's what they say about owning a casino and he bankrupted three of those," Kimmel quipped. "I never get tired of seeing that. The whole time Captain Contagious was telling us it would go away. Forthy times, he said this on TV alone. Unfortunately, saying 'go away' doesn't work. It's a virus. Not Eric."
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Roger is a cut in paste troll.
Can't debate.
I'm still waiting for him to explain his understanding of THIS:
A Bayesian negative binomial model was fit to estimate daily RRs and posterior intervals (PIs) comparing rates by gubernatorial party affiliation.
"Forthy times," alky?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jimmy-kimmel-looks-back-on-covid-19-in-coronaversary-special
LOL. THWAP!!!
posting Kimmel's TDS. Genius.
posting Kimmel's TDS. Genius.
It was most amusing and telling how much you and trump fucked up.....And you still suck his dick like the good little slurping loser you are!!!!!!@ BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
and the assholes who have politicized it - look like idiots.
Look in the mirror if you want to see a real fucking idiot!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Tucker the new mouth of the right.....would crumble like a cheap suit if ever confronted with reality!!!!!
The Hospice Presidency. Turning our military into a fucking freak show.:
Taxpayers will now foot the bill for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000 under an executive order signed by President Biden.
Tucked inside Biden’s Jan. 25 transgender order, “Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform,” is a clause that repeals an Obama-era policy that prohibited federally funded reassignment surgery. This was followed up by memos from both Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough specifically stating that surgery is now an added benefit.
“This revised policy will also ensure all medically-necessary transition related care authorized by law is available to all Service members,” Austin wrote.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/military-transgender-surgery-free
I was really surprised by the President's short remarks last night. His speech had been touted (by someone?) as the "first State of the Union (SOTU) speech of his presidency."
It was hardly that. SOTUs deal with everything. That speech did not.
AND YET--
Last Night Is Why Joe Biden Won
Playbook:
“Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve. Joe Biden may be the first president elected to do so.
“His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises — by May 1 every adult will be eligible for a vaccine and by July Fourth relative normalcy will return.
“But it is worth taking a moment to dwell on this unique pastoral role of the presidency, if only because it has been absent for the last four years and because Biden is being widely praised for restoring it.”
I know something about pastoral roles. Biden fulfills his well.
Fauci Has Become Biden’s Top Covid Adviser
Politico:
“The straight-talking infectious disease expert has developed an increasingly close relationship with the president, who now leans on Fauci more than any other health official to guide his pandemic response … Through dinners and White House conversations, the pair has built on a connection that began early in the Obama administration.
“Fauci’s ascension from his longtime post leading the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has left newer health officials such as [CDC Director Rochelle] Walensky playing catch up. While she and other senior health experts are included in conversations with the president about the state of the pandemic, Fauci often takes the lead.”
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Fauci has been a straight shooter unwilling to bow even to Trump. He calls it as he sees it, and usually correctly.
Birx damaged her reputation by too much playing along with Trump, though even she refused to be pushed across some lines.
Americans want straight talkers, after so much lying from the Trumpian Oval Office.
DNC Launches Ad Campaign Touting Relief Plan
CNN:
“The Democratic National Committee, in cooperation with the Biden White House, will kick off a sweeping effort to sell the newly signed Covid-19 relief package to a politically divided American people on Friday, releasing a new national ad bragging about the bill along with a detailed guide on how Democrats across the country should tout the legislation.
“The multi-prong effort is aimed at turning the bill into something Democrats can run on, not run away from, in the coming years, including in the politically critical 2022 midterms.”
MEANWHILE
Can Cyrus Vance Nail Trump?
Taegan Goddard (citing NYT):
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., told the New Yorker that he will not seek re-election this year.
But will he indict Donald Trump before his term expires? Sources say the investigation “has dramatically intensified” and “they mean business.”
CNN:
Trump’s time in the White House could end up benefiting New York prosecutors.
DON'T BE TOO SURE THE MIDTERMS WILL LEAD TO REPUBLICAN VICTORIES
The Politics of Biden’s Rescue Plan
Jeff Greenfield:
“The political potential here is impressive. Consider a 2022 midterm where the future of the now-temporary child tax credits is on the line,
and where every Republican House and Senate incumbent will have to explain to the electorate why they voted against them.
Consider the votes of tens of thousands of small-business owners—the entrepreneurial heart of what Republicans rhetorically celebrate—whose enterprises survived because of the law enacted with a clear partisan split.
Imagine a Republican arguing that only a small fraction of the law addressed the costs of the pandemic,
when there are countless parents of school-age children, restaurant workers, retail shop owners, hotel clerks, freelance consultants, who know exactly what happened to their lives when Covid struck.
“This is a possibility that Republicans simply may not have imagined, given their midterm successes in running against the initiatives of the past two Democratic presidents, and inflicting on Clinton and Obama successive political catastrophes.
“This time, the benefits of the new law are easy to grasp, and will be—literally—in the hands of Americans within weeks.”
BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS WERE RIGHT TO HANG TOUGH.
Schumer Puts Gun Control on Senate Agenda
Roll Call:
“Senate Democrats on Thursday announced plans for a floor vote on legislation to expand background checks for private gun sales, which would force Republicans to choose between their party’s traditional gun rights positions and a policy that is broadly popular with the public."
THWAP!
“Majority Leader Charles Schumer told reporters there will be hearings at the Senate Judiciary Committee and at least a procedural vote on a bill the House passed Thursday on a 227-203 bipartisan vote.”
Trump’s Afghanistan Order Reversed Before He Left
David Ignatius:
“President Donald Trump was so eager to pull the plug in Afghanistan that in mid-November, shortly after the election, he impulsively signed an order to withdraw U.S. forces by year’s end. Pentagon officials tell me the unpublicized order was quickly reversed, after strenuous protests from Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other military leaders.”
THWAP!
Lauren Boebert’s Tall Tale About a Man’s Death
The Washington Post
finds that Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) story about how a man was beaten to death “outside her restaurant” — and that’s why she started carrying a gun and allowed customers to do so as well — is false.
Boebert refused to comment when reached directly on her cell phone.
THWAP!
Biden to Host Japanese Prime Minister
USA Today:
“President Joe Biden’s will host Japan’s prime minister at the White House – his first in-person meeting with a foreign leader – as his administration seeks to shore up U.S. alliances in Asia and counter China’s global ambitions.”
THWAP!
YOU GUYS PICKED THE WRONG SIDE TO BE ON
Capitol Riot Aftershocks Worsen In House
Politico:
“The two-hour meeting of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties — billed as an academic review of lawmakers’ ability to punish or expel one another under House rules — quickly devolved into a tidal wave of outrage, a snapshot of the increasingly toxic environment that has enveloped Capitol Hill since a mob of pro-Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and sent them fleeing for their lives.
“Democrats continue to seethe over their GOP colleagues who countenanced Trump’s efforts to discredit the election, and blame them for contributing to the atmosphere that inspired the mob.
"Republicans have largely sidestepped that debate,
but as Democrats have begun ramping up tactics to marginalize the 138 House Republicans who voted to reject some of the 2020 results, some are beginning to bristle more vocally.
"And at Thursday’s hearing, the dam broke.”
In case you were wondering why these tyrannical cowards are hiding behind soldiers and razor wire, this is why -
On Thursday night, a masked Biden tottered down a long, empty hall to a podium. He then gave the most bizarre presidential address in American history. After a grim recital of "facts" about the last year, Biden emphasized multiple times that Americans had better take the vaccine -- and be grateful to him for his amazing ability to get the vaccine to Americans. He also insisted that, vaccines or not, the government's in control and can lock all of us up all over again...
...Biden was more alert than he's been in many months. Even his eyes, which are usually tightly squinted as he struggles to stay alert and read his teleprompter, were wide open, almost scarily so. Given how frail and confused Biden's been lately, well, let's just say his verve was suspicious...
...The speech was both bizarre and boring. Despite the teleprompter, it wandered hither and yon, without ever touching clearly on a single point. It was a grim, depressing speech about a miserable year that probably won't get better even with a vaccine because we must all remain scared and isolated... Biden kept saying that he was going to tell the truth. He quoted a woman he allegedly met who told him her heart's desire: "'I just want the truth. The truth. Just tell me the truth...'" Do you know who says things like that? Someone who's lying...
...Here's the scariest thing Biden said, although he slipped it in so quickly many may not have noticed (emphasis mine): "Fourth, in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinatedto lessen the confusion, to keep people safe, and encourage more people to get vaccinated."
The vaccine, rather than freeing us, will bring us even more tightly under government control as the federal government mandates what we can and cannot do.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/bidens_scary_boring_and_bizarre_address_to_the_nation.html
Lessons of One of the Worst Years in American Life
David Sanger:
“The 365 days between the United States’ panicked retreat from offices and schools and President Biden’s speech on Thursday night, celebrating the prospect of a pandemic’s end, may prove to be one of the most consequential years in American history.
“People learned about
national vulnerabilities most had never considered,
and about depths of resilience they never imagined needing except in wartime.
"Even the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, for all their horror and the two decades of war they ushered in, did not change day-to-day life in every city and town in the United States quite the way the coronavirus did.
“One president lost his job in large part for mishandling a crisis whose magnitude he first denied.
"His successor knows his legacy depends on bringing the catastrophe to a swift conclusion.”
rrb (aka republican rat bastard) pops up with a diatribe from The American Thinker.
The Wikipedia article on American Thinker is short and sweet: (COMMENTS IN CAPS BY ME)
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American Thinker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Thinker is a daily online magazine dealing with American politics from a conservative viewpoint. It was founded in 2003 by Ed Lasky, a Northbrook lawyer, Richard Baehr, a Chicago health-care consultant, and Thomas Lifson, a Berkeley, California sociologist and business adviser.
The magazine has been described as a conservative blog. The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the site "a not so thoughtful far-right online publication."
LOL, THAT'S PUTTING IT MILDLY.
One of the American Thinker's most prolific contributors, Raymond Ibrahim, has written over 100 articles extremely critical of Islam.
RAT LOVES THAT SORT OF THING.
Another, David Solway, in the months following the 2020 presidential election, contributed seven articles perpetuating the myth of a stolen election based on evidence such as "Biden’s rallies routinely featured twenty or so vehicles in a car park. That alone tells us that Biden was never in the game."
SOME EVIDENCE!
Coverage
In 2009, in the wake of the election of Barack Obama, the American Thinker joined a wave of conservative media publications discussing the possibility of a second Civil War. They forecast the possibility of "several regional republics" emerging following the "overbearing, oppressive leviathan" of Obama's presidency.
RAT HAS BEEN HOPING FOR CIVIL WAR FOR A LONG TIME.
A 2008 column in the American Thinker drew attention to a California plan to require programmable thermostats that could be controlled by officials in the event of power-supply difficulties. According to The New York Times, the column was "by turns populist..., free-market..., and civil libertarian".
THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO CONTROL EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT OUR LIVES, YOU SEE.
Right Wing Watch has written about American Thinker, including that the site had in 2014 published a complimentary piece on white nationalist Jared Taylor and in 2015 asserted that rainbow-colored Doritos are a "gateway snack to introduce children to the joys of homosexuality".
LOL LOL LOL
In a 2020 blog post on the site, Thomas Lifson referenced a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters to claim that sea level rise has been slow and constant, and that this rise pre-dated industrialization. This claim went viral over social media in March 2020. The author of the paper describes this interpretation as factually incorrect, constituting climate misinformation.
WHY ARE WE NOT SURPRISED?
Under threat of litigation, in January 2021 American Thinker published a retraction of false, unsupported, and debunked stories it published asserting that Dominion Voting Systems engaged in a conspiracy to rig the 2020 presidential election against President Donald Trump, acknowledging, "These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact."
SO MUCH FOR AMERICAN THINKER!
Historically, it’s not the good guys who are out burning books and censoring speech. It isn’t the caring, empathetic people who try to destroy lives based on something someone said years ago, often while young, often taken out of context. It isn’t the good guys who take undisguised glee at the ruining of lives, families and careers.
You know who does these things? Horrible, awful people. Selfish people. People with serious mental and emotional problems who seek some sort of vindication for their deficient characters by taking power trips while imposing suffering on others.
Treat these tyrants as what they are: awful people who shouldn’t be listened to and who need to work hard on joining the better half of the human race. And remind them of it, over and over. Because it’s true. Deep down, they know it, too.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/to-beat-woke-tyrants-rest-of-us-must-treat-them-like-monsters/
Joe Biden's Stimulus Speech Was a Complete and Total Failure
President Biden demonstrated his and his party's dependence upon the coronavirus pandemic for the achievement of office and their conduct in office.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/politics/joe-bidens-stimulus-speech-was-complete-and-total-failure-179986
a Complete and Total Failure
Funny you fucking asshole....I guess that failure has translated to approval rates you and trump can only masturbate to......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
rrb said...
In case you were wondering why these tyrannical cowards are hiding behind soldiers and razor wire, this is why -
On Thursday night, a masked Biden tottered down a long, empty hall to a podium. He then gave the most bizarre presidential address in American history. After a grim recital of "facts" about the last year, Biden emphasized multiple times that Americans had better take the vaccine -- and be grateful to him for his amazing ability to get the vaccine to Americans. He also insisted that, vaccines or not, the government's in control and can lock all of us up all over again...
Biden's America
Banana Republic
Demented figurehead
1984
razor wire
police state
tyranny
Fuck Americans, give to the ROW
China won, instead of Obama's we won.
Get used to it neanderthals and shut up
“I set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. I said I intended to get 100 million shots in people’s arms in my first hundred days in office.
Biden has become the master of underpromising and then overdelivering, in contrast to former neanderthal's.
lol
tottered... well, not so badly
took credit for
but not so much as Trump always did, for everything
threated to lock us up...
strange, i didn't hear that...
in what tormented tortured fevered right wing mind does that exist?
Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of Trump
A new Pew Research poll finds that
68% of Democrats think their party should be accepting of Democratic elected officials who openly criticize President Joe Biden.
In contrast,
56% of Republicans said their party should not be accepting of GOP elected officials who openly criticize former President Donald Trump.
First Read:
“We’re reminded of how Ronald Reagan popularized the so-called ‘11th commandment,’ urging the GOP that ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.'”
“That seems to have been superseded by a new commandment for Republicans: ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of Trump.'”
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Funny. I don't remember people saying,
Thou shalt never speak ill of Roosevelt.
but I do remember people saying,
Thou shalt never speak ill of Adolf.
(And enforcing that by firing squads.)
Biden* had the table set for him, and all he has to do is NOT fuck it up. When Trump floated the concept of having a vaccine by EOY 2020, he was roundly mocked and ridiculed by "the smart set" on MSDNC.
Then he went out and did it anyway, once again enjoying the last laugh.
THIS is what you clowns have to worry about alky-
"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."
- Skeets Hussein 0linsky
So we must keep our eyes on Biden and see how well or poorly he will do.
We have already seen how poorly his forerunner did.
Saint Ronald Reagan 11th Commandment ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.'” has been suspended by rrb ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of Trump.'”
https://forums.somd.com/threads/biden-lectures-america-what-you-can-and-cannot-do.369964/
The most chilling line of Slow Joe's speech.:
...in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated...
This asshole needs to go fuck himself and keep fucking himself until he can fuck himself no more.
speak ill of Trump all you want alky.
what cannot be denied is the fact that we had a vaccine before the end of 2020 AS PROMISED because of TRUMP.
And all Slow Joe needs to do is to manage to NOT FUCK IT UP.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
If you were expecting President Joe Biden to take a victory lap, to boast about his remarkable achievements in just 50 days in office, it's understandable. After four years of the former president, many of us became accustomed to self-serving rhetoric. But Biden's first prime-time address Thursday night was something altogether different from that.
"I need you," Biden said, leaning into his lectern, "I need every American to do their part." He said that if everyone agrees to get the Covid-19 vaccine, if everyone wears a mask like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us, "by July the 4th, there's a good chance," that we can get together with neighbors and friends in small groups.
Biden was 20 minutes into his speech before he mentioned that he had just signed into law a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 economic relief package that is, in fact, one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern history -- one that will change the lives of tens of millions of Americans -- and that he made it happen less than two months into his presidency.
Instead of a self-serving, boastful address, he offered a moving, compassionate and at the same time uplifting and inspiring speech, acknowledging the losses we've all suffered, not only the more than half a million deaths in the pandemic, not only the millions of jobs lost, of family events foregone, but very simply, "the loss of living."
But then he drew attention to the progress we've made and he announced a stepped-up program of vaccinations, with all adults becoming eligible by May 1.
When Biden speaks about the pandemic, when he implores Americans to do their part, when he speaks about losses, and about his determination to defeat the virus, there's a striking earnestness in his demeanor. He promises to tell the truth. We've all learned to become cynical, skeptical of politicians, but Biden sounds, as he might say, like the real deal.
Listening to this brand-new President, watching what he has done so far, it's impossible not to wonder how many lives would have been saved if the United States had had a reasonable, competent, stable president when the coronavirus struck. How many who died would be alive today?
It was exactly one year ago that the pandemic was declared; one year ago that the former president gave a national address filled with lies, empty promises, and incoherent information.
What followed was our excruciating, dystopian year, during which the worst public health challenge in a century overlapped with a narcissistic, incompetent presidency. As a result, the United States became the epicenter of the global pandemic, with more cases and deaths than any country on Earth, despite having the most advanced medical facilities, some of the world's top scientists, and the greatest economic resources. Americans lost trust in government. Even the advice from the experts was manipulated for political ends.
Now, Biden has put America's resources to use and the results are tangible. The United States will have administered more than 100 million shots of the Covid-19 vaccine by Friday.
Then there's the massive $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, the American Rescue Package, a bold piece of legislation that economists say will not only turbocharge America's recovery, but will give it such impetus that it will boost economic growth around the world. For the first time in many years, the US economy could potentially grow faster than China's, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve president.
More importantly, beyond economic statistics, the measures within the bill are expected to slash the country's poverty by about a third, put small businesses on a stronger footing and help local governments become more solvent.
America is back!
THWAP!!!
The Neanderthals disappeared because of evolution.
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/national/573972362.html?ref=362
Biden said last night that the Trump admin had the vaccines for months without distributing it. That is a bald faced lie. It wasn't even approved until December. And on Jan 21, 1.5M people received vaccines. So Mr Unity is trying hard to take credit for what will probably end up being Trump's greatest legacy. Operation warp speed.
alky, I feel compelled to thank you for the best laugh I will have today, and perhaps all weekend.
LMAO.
"victory lap" thinking he can tell us what we can and cannot do.
LMAO.
THWAP!!!
Re: 8:50
THAT is the most resounding THWAP we've had here in a long, long time.
Read 8:50 again.
The compassionate, caring parts are what matter most.
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Balls, operation warp speed can never erase the enormous harm done in the way Trump handled the pandemic. Sorry.
He knew how dangerous it was on February 7th and he didn't start warp speed until May. Three months of deaths from the covid-19 virus would have been lowered by hundreds of thousands lives.
In other news:
Andy Ngô
@MrAndyNgo
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Garland won't do anything about it because it happened AT NIGHT.
THWAP!!!
A real Republican conservative.
. “We need to remember the government isn’t some foreign force in a distant capital. No, it’s us. All of us. We, the people.”
As the city of Washington remains as militarized as any time since the Civil War, a response to what the government deems the preeminent challenge of domestic extremism, demonstrating unity may yet be the heaviest lift of all. Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere, and his presidency, even his lust for a comeback concedes, hardly solved the problems which gave occasion to his rise.
This time came from that time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Curt Mills
President Biden will rise to the occasion.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Biden said last night that the Trump admin had the vaccines for months without distributing it. That is a bald faced lie. It wasn't even approved until December. And on Jan 21, 1.5M people received vaccines. So Mr Unity is trying hard to take credit for what will probably end up being Trump's greatest legacy. Operation warp speed.
Exactly correct. but Biden* isn't even enough of a man to give Trump the credit he deserves.
Biden* is a piece of shit on a scale even 0linsky couldn't achieve.
But the complete collapse of Time’s Up came when Tara Reade accused Joe Biden of sexual assault. Reade had initially reached out to people at Time's Up only to be told that the organization legally couldn't support her because Biden was a political candidate. President Trump was also a political candidate, but that hadn’t stopped Time’s Up from attacking him.
The same organization that recently put out a statement by Tina Tchen headlined, “Donald Trump Must Be Removed From Office”, claimed that it couldn’t speak out against Biden for legal reasons. The legal reasons were a joke, but the political ones were there for everyone to see.
Tchen managed to praise Biden for having the right response to the allegations. This wasn’t surprising as Time’s Up was populated by former Obama people, and in a glaring conflict of interest, its public relations were being handled by Biden advisor Anita Dunn. Beyond being Biden’s “decision-making authority”, Dunn had also provided advice to Harvey Weinstein.
“I actually cried a little because I felt really betrayed,” Reade had said. “They never told me that their public relations was run by Anita Dunn. I found out in real-time reading Ryan’s article. I gave them so much personal information and they say they didn’t give it to Biden. But come on. They said they had firewalls or something.”
Time’s Up said lots of things. But then it did very different things.
The Chief Strategy and Policy Officer for Time’s Up, Jennifer Klein, maxed out her donations to Biden. Klein, a former Obama and Clinton vet, has now been appointed by Biden as the co-chair of Biden’s new White House Gender Policy Council, alongside Julissa Reynoso, Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff, an Obama ambassador, and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/exec-metoo-group-covered-bidens-sex-abuse-heads-daniel-greenfield/
The one demented asshole who really did GRAB HER BY THE PUSSY, and it was completely ignored and covered up.
piece of shit.
History will decide which of our presidents should or should not be labeled pieces of s, and why or why not.
Maybe James is suggesting that Trump should not have followed the early guidance put out last year by Dr Fauci and the WHO.
But aside from that, Biden still lied. Trump had the vaccines a few weeks and got them out. He didn't sit on them for months like biden claimed. Sometimes it's best to just say thank you and nothing more. That would've gone far toward building unity.
Happy coming Palm Sunday.
Happy coming Easter.
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From the pulpit
James Boswell
If the flesh and blood man Jesus of history were to be transported from his time into ours and set down on the Mount of Olives to look out over Jerusalem as it is today, he would be very disappointed. Not so much because of what he would see -- a Muslim shrine sitting where once the Temple sanctuary stood -- but because of what he would not see.
What Jesus would not see is the fulfillment of all the scriptural promises he had fervently hoped would be fulfilled within the lifetime of “this generation.”
What he would not see is a Jerusalem exhibiting that fulfillment, a Jerusalem which, as the Prophets had predicted, is radiantly exalted above all hills and mountains, with all the peoples of the earth streaming to her light to worship in a temple built, not by any human hand, but by God alone to be a “house of prayer for all the nations.”
What he would not see is a world in which, as promised, there are no weapons anymore, for swords have been “beaten into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks” so that no nation need ever again “lift up sword against nation” or ever again “prepare for war.”
What he would not see is a human race marvelously forgiven and made holy, pure, and righteous, living together in prosperity, peace, and loving harmony throughout the earth.
What he would not see – as expressed in his own words – is the wonderful new “Kingdom of God” expected to replace all the kingdoms of this world, the Kingdom of God he had lived and struggled and taught and suffered and died to bring to all the earth.
All this he would not see. And yet it is one of his most precious legacies that he so profoundly and uniquely dreamed the great dreams of his people that they are made to cry out still in us, yearning for fulfillment.
Soon Christians around the world will celebrate Yeshua riding a lowly donkey into Yerushalaim in humble obedience to another of those dreams, the hope that war horse, chariot, and battle bow can be cut off forever, and all humble servants of humanity can enjoy peace among the nations, and to the very ends of the earth.
Would that it could be, here and now today!
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Boswell is a retired pastor of the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ. Contact him through his website at TheDeadSeaGospel.com
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This column appeared today in The Pantagraph,
newspaper of Bloomington-Normal, IL.
* Boswell is a retarded POS "pastor" of the Christian Church who constantly plagiarizes and spams from his true GODdard's blog, political_lire.com
the vaccines a few weeks and got them out
Opinions like assholes....everyone has one especially you ballz.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Jordan Schachtel
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1370183836613677061
The whole speech is a joke, lying about mitigation policies & peddling pseudoscience. It's 1 big heap of nonsense. Every sentence a lie. Govt is so entirely corrupt. They've ruined millions of lives & don't care. They want to continue the power grab & don't give a shit about you.
Biden's whole presidency has been a joke.
The only step he took to unify was to call off his dogs.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1370186820911308820
Joe Biden shouldn't be leading bingo night at a nursing home--let alone the greatest country on earth.
May not be by the time he leaves
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1370388631685369863
Anyone else see the irony of Biden telling you that you might be able to gather in small groups on Independence Day?
He can fuck off.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Biden is not dictatorially saying what you can or can not do, only suggesting you might want to listen to expert opinion and advice on how to behave as we cfontinue to get this pandemic under control.
For example, I am right now heading out to get my second Moderna vaccination. I will follow guideline suggestions of NOT stopping my wearing masks and NOT getting into large crowds even now for a while.
Later I may modify this as I get further good advice, but not right away.
People have died because they did not listen.
OPINION
When To Hold A Press Conference - And When Not To
by Guy Bergstrom 2018
A press conference is not an easy event or a casual one. It's a big production and should only be saved for big issues. If you schedule press conferences every week, or every day, the press will stop showing up.
So when should you do a press conference?
When It's Truly Big News
A press conference is typically set only to announce huge news, something you'd want to give TV reporters advance notice and time to drive down and set up their cameras. In politics, you'd do a press conference to announce a run for office -- or to drop out of a major race.
Same thing for other public figures. A business would hold a press conference for earth-shaking news like mergers and bankruptcies. An NFL quarterback might hold one to announce he's asking for a trade to a different team.
When the News Breaks
The news has to be fresh. If you schedule a press conference for Friday but leak the news to your favorite reporter on Tuesday, there's no reason for any reporters to show up to your press conference. They already got scooped.
If you're going to have a press conference, you've got to have it when the news breaks. No leaks. No favors. No hints to friendly reporters, because good reporters will sniff around and figure it out.
When the Phone Won't Stop Ringing
If reporters are calling you all day about an issue, wondering when you'll make the announcement, that's a good time to have a press conference.
If not a single reporter has asked about this issue, that's a sign. Don't schedule a press conference about it. Save press conferences for big news. If you have them too often, the press will stop showing up. [ or stop showing interest]
Once You Call a Press Conference
If you make a determination that it's time to call a press conference you'll need to be very clear about the objective behind the press conference. There are many details that go into a planning a press conference, but here a few steps that will help you get started in planning:
Step 1: Identify the objective of your press conference.
Step 2: Determine the message that you want to share in the press conference.
Step 3: Identify the location of the press conference.
Step 4: Set the date and time of the press conference.
Step 5: Invite the media and guests.
Step 6: Prepare your spokesperson, keep to one or two speakers. Make sure they are prepped with talking points to relay the message that has been identified.
Step 7: Use the steps above to build your comprehensive press conference plan to ensure its success.
You'll have to talk clients out of press conference and into other events and products.
"Press conference" and "press release" are the two phrases that most laypersons know. When they say "press conference," they might actually mean a media availability or a photo op. They probably don't know the menu of options; what they do know is they want to get press about something. Talk them through the options before scheduling a press conference.
He's doing more than suggesting when he insults half the country for disagreeing. And he's dou g more than suggesting ehrn he restricts citizen travel but not illegal immigrant travel.
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Biden is not dictatorially saying what you can or can not do
And I QUOTE:
...in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated...
what you can and cannot do
what you can and cannot do
what you can and cannot do
what you can and cannot do
what you can and cannot do
THWAP!!!
Opinion politico
Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve.
JOE BIDEN may be the first president elected to do so.
His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises — by May 1 every adult will be eligible for a vaccine and by July Fourth relative normalcy will return.
But it is worth taking a moment to dwell on this unique pastoral role of the presidency, if only because it has been absent for the last four years and because Biden is being widely praised for restoring it.
Whether it’s a natural disaster, a war, a terrorist attack, a mass shooting — some devastating event that shocks Americans equally and temporarily suspends the usual divisions — for better or worse we turn to the president not just to push and pull the levers of government in response, but also to console us.
The images of those moments are indelible: RONALD REAGAN speaking after the Challenger disaster, BILL CLINTON memorializing the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, GEORGE W. BUSH with a bullhorn on a pile of rubble and BARACK OBAMA wiping away tears describing the Sandy Hook massacre.
The image last night of Biden retrieving from his breast pocket his daily schedule on which is written the latest Covid-19 death toll — 527,726 — may one day be a part of that grim pantheon of moments.
If politics is about timing, then there can be nothing more morbidly fortuitous than a politician whose own life has been defined by unimaginable loss coming along precisely when a wave of death was crashing over an America searching for some empathy.
By now almost every American knows of someone who died from Covid or someone who died in a way that Covid made worse by isolating them from the person they lost. And though Biden signed a staggeringly ambitious piece of legislation Thursday, he used his evening remarks to speak more to that loss than to the policy details of the recovery plan.
The speech was infused with a set of ideas but not really ideology: unity, self-governance, the virtues of collective action in the face of a common threat and — most of all — moving on from loss:
"While it was different for everyone, we all lost something — a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice, a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. But in the loss, we saw how much there was to gain in appreciation, respect and gratitude. Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do.
“In fact, it may be the most American thing we do. And that’s what we’ve done. We’ve seen frontline and essential workers risking their lives, sometimes losing them, to save and help others. Researchers and scientists racing for a vaccine. And so many of you, as Hemingway wrote, ‘Being strong in all the broken places.’”
That's not exactly the ERNEST HEMINGWAY line, which is from “A Farewell to Arms” and is a little more bleak than how he used it: “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.”
But either way it is hard to imagine any other contemporary politician making the speech Biden did Thursday night — both channeling our collective sorrow and reminding us that there is life after grief.
Thwap
how many times are you going to plagiarize that bullshit alky?
LOL.
I'll grieve when appropriate, and won't need a piece of shit like Hospice Joe when I do.
He's doing more than suggesting when he insults half the country for disagreeing
And he has gotten more done in 51 days than trump did in 4 years!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! BTW....you and your assholes will disagree with EVERYFUCKING THING HE Does!!!!! But I'd be willing to bet you spend every cent of that 1400 bucks that comes your way.....probably 4x what you ever may have seen with the bankrupting tax cuts.....LOLOLOLOLOL
Speaking to reporters from the White House Thursday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki failed to explain why Americans and other individuals traveling into the United States by air must show a negative Wuhan coronavirus test for entry -- while illegal immigrants crossing the southern border don't have to do the same.
"In terms of keeping COVID out of the country, does the White House think it's a problem that travelers have to show a negative COVID test, proof of a negative COVID test, when they fly into the U.S. from any foreign country but travelers don't need to show anything like that when they walk across the border as long as they don't go to a port of entry," Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked.
Psaki evaded the question and went after Texas Governor Greg Abbott. After a follow up question, she still failed to give a valid answer.
"I can just describe to you what our policies are. If there's more to convey to you, I'm happy to do that," Psaki said.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/03/11/psaki-cant-explain-why-illegal-immigrants-dont-have-to-show-a-negative-covid-test-n2586125
so an illegal criminal beaner wracked by covid can crawl across the border, nor problemo.
American citizen traveling by air: SIEZE HIM!!!
rrb said...
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Biden is not dictatorially saying what you can or can not do
And I QUOTE:
...in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated...
what you can and cannot do
what you can and cannot do
what you can and cannot do
what you can and cannot do
what you can and cannot do
THWAP!!!
the POS "pastor" doesn't care what Biden ACTUALLY SAYS.
it's all about what the POS "pastor" THINKS he hears.
that's why he spends so much time just being a plagiarizing waterboy
You guys are the disgusting liars here, you who appear on these pages and call Democrats liars, POSes, pedophiles, pederasts, abusers and cannibalizers of children in a basement of a pizza restaurant in DC that has no basement, etc., etc., etc.-- you are the constant liars and defenders of a BLATANTLY lying former President, and in doing that you constantly make yourselves look ridiculous.
MEANWHILE
Joe Biden’s Confident, Unconventional Politics
Walter Shapiro:
“Biden’s speech, delivered on the day he signed into law his $1.9 trillion stimulus package, differed from what almost any other Democrat would have said at a similar moment. Instead of trumpeting his achievement—instead of basking in passing what may be the most ambitious anti-poverty program since the 1960s—Biden devoted almost the entire speech to the pandemic.
“This choice captured something close to the essence of the Biden presidency. Despite a lifetime in government, he will not take the easy road, mimicking standard political oratory. Listening to his internal drummer is a risk for any president, even one who, at age 78, may be beyond the raging pressures of ambition. But even though his words are often soft, and there is little obvious straining for eloquence, the self-confidence that undergirds Biden’s rhetoric is impressive.”
It is a self confidence borne of years of knowing he is being honest with those to whom he speaks.
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AND
Biden’s Relief Plan HAS ALREADY SAVED JOBS
MSNBC:
“It’s not often Congress passes a law on a Wednesday, and by Thursday afternoon, tens of thousands of American jobs have been saved.”
“It was just last month when American Airlines announced it was sending furlough notices to roughly 13,000 employees. Within a few hours of Congress passing the Democratic COVID relief package, the company reversed course, saying those workers can now stay on the job.”
Airline workers received a letter from management: “To those who had received notices warning of furloughs: those are happily canceled — you can tear them up!”
the POS "pastor" doesn't care what Biden ACTUALLY SAYS.
it's all about what the POS "pastor" THINKS he hears.
that's why he spends so much time just being a plagiarizing waterboy
yep
https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/12/bidens-relief-plan-has-already-saved-jobs/
https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/12/joe-bidens-confident-unconventional-politics/
whatever the Goddard blog prints, the POS "pastor" hears
ROFLMFAO !!!
9:50 is well said and worth re-reading.
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