Of topic but it reminds me of the Reagan era of Welfare Queens and public unions.
The governing ideology in California today is corporate socialism hiding behind the moral imperatives of fighting climate change and combating racism. California today is run by an alliance of special interests—tech monopolies, public-sector unions, leftist billionaires, extreme environmentalists, and social justice warriors—who are crushing the middle class. Their motivations differ, and their intentions may not be so explicit, but their actions share the same goal. Environmentalists believe the middle-class lifestyle is ecologically unsustainable. Social justice warriors believe the middle class is racist and exclusionary. To the extent small businesses are wiped out and consumers are forced to buy green gadgets and pay more for everything, tech monopolies and billionaires accrue even more wealth and power. Public-sector unions share the ideology of the environmentalists and social justice warriors, and use collective bargaining to largely exempt themselves from the worst consequences afflicting the private sector middle class. But it’s all wrong.
Wanting to save the planet and end systemic racism may be legitimate moral concerns. But the policies being implemented in their name are not working. Rationing, redistribution, and retribution are the themes behind current policies.
Trump exploited but failed to redress: the effects of mass immigration, global trade, downward social mobility, and diminished opportunity.
What would this alternate vision of conservative politics look like in practice?
The guiding lights of the modern conservative movement have been a muscular anti-totalitarian foreign policy, at once nationalist and internationalist; free markets and limited government at home; and moral traditionalism. Any conservatism worthy of the name must continue to uphold these themes, while being agile about their application in new circumstances.
Some of Trump’s stalwarts deride “zombie Reaganism” on the sensible grounds that the problems of today are markedly different than the problems of a half-century ago, and call for a different set of remedies. There can be no return to the pre-Trump consensus on policy. But not all reforms are equally creditable. Some traditional conservative priorities—especially an emphasis on economic growth and national strength—remain vital to any such forward-looking politics. But that can only be a start. Beyond ensuring a dynamic economy and the material basis of international leadership, a modernized conservative policy agenda would seek to arrest the fragmentation of twenty-first-century America that is causing widespread dislocation, isolation, and alienation from the American dream. It must speak respectfully but firmly to the new Trump stalwarts, in hopes of winning over disaffected Americans of all stripes. Revisiting the “reform conservatism” policy ideas of a decade ago, all but forgotten during the Trump years, could be a one place to start.
Alas, none of this will be possible so long as American conservatism and the Republican party remain in thrall to Donald Trump. No decent political program can be built on the foundation of personal and political corruption that Trump evinced every day of his term in office.
And for the GOP to return to being an enlightened political organ, it must cease to be a vehicle for what the late sociologist Pierre van den Berghe called “Herrenvolk democracy,” the identification of “the people” with the numerically largest racial or religious community in a nation-state. It will need to offer an approach more benign than Trump’s vulgar and abusive demagoguery, and more constructive than the kneejerk adversarialism of today’s right toward the votaries of managerial liberalism. It must be committed to what Benjamin Disraeli called “one-nation conservatism.”
Republicans who hold fast to that older conservative tradition, and have the imagination and fortitude to implement it, should make clear that they are the proper stewards of the national interest that Trump—and Buchanan before him—occasionally lauded but never actually comprehended, much less advanced. For that noble tradition to be revived the right will need not more vapid appeals to “unity” after Trump, but considerably more heat. With any luck, it will bring some illumination to this party enduring a very long night.
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Yes indeed the stock market is down. Here's why: _________ CNN War over misinformation heats up as Covid case counts rise Stephen Collinson Profile Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Mon July 19, 2021
(CNN)As the coronavirus mounts a fresh US assault, it is again tearing at the nation's political divides in a way that multiplies its own impact and makes clear in a supposed summer of freedom that the battle against the virus is far from over.
President Joe Biden is locked in a showdown with Facebook over vaccine misinformation. His predecessor, Donald Trump, is now weighing in, linking his Big Lie over election fraud to Biden's management of the Covid-19 crisis in a way that could brew even more of the vaccine hesitancy that is causing thousands of Americans to become infected.
Conservative pundits, would-be presidential candidates and Trump proteges have already exploited skepticism of vaccines for political gain. And new fears that a return to masks and physical distancing might be necessary in Covid hot zones, where many people have refused vaccines, are reigniting partisan fault lines.
The rising political discord threatens not only to tarnish and reverse Biden's early success in rolling out vaccines and tamping down the virus -- only two weeks after the President declared partial independence from Covid-19. It could present the White House with severe challenges in the event of a full-scale next wave of infections and deaths in the coming weeks.
Even if many of the people getting sick are anti-vaccine Republicans who are not his voters anyway, any reimposed restrictions and business closures could interrupt the economic recovery that the President is relying on to boost Democrats in next year's midterm elections. The Dow was down more than 700 points Monday morning over virus concerns.
Rampant infection rates would also threaten children who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated — and raise the prospect of disastrous new disruptions to schooling for a generation whose education has been irreparably interrupted. And the pernicious nature of the more infectious Delta variant is a warning of the possibility that dangerous mutations of the virus are more likely when it is widespread. So while vaccine skeptics act on the basis of individual rights, their decisions could end up affecting every American, especially if a variant emerges that is resistant to vaccines.
Rising cases in the United States come at what looks like a grim moment in the exhausting fight against the pandemic across the globe. All remaining Covid-19 restrictions are expected to be lifted in England on Monday — despite soaring infections. The government in London hopes it has broken the link between infections and hospitalizations and deaths as a result of a successful vaccine effort. In Tokyo, public opposition to the Olympic Games, which start on Friday, has been exacerbated by cases identified among a number of athletes. Much of the developing world, meanwhile, remains highly vulnerable due to a lack of vaccines.
Misinformation 'costs lives' The Biden administration, conscious of the public health and political risks at play, has taken aim at social media companies. US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, defended Biden, who bluntly said on Friday that social media networks were "killing people" by allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on their platforms. Murthy said that while Big Tech had made some efforts, the administration had also made clear to them that "it's not enough."
"We know that health misinformation harms people's health. It costs them their lives," Murthy told CNN's Dana Bash.
Facebook reacted furiously to Biden's call out, which possibly showed frustration on the part of the President that a significant minority of the population refuses to protect themselves with free, safe and effective vaccines.
"President Biden's goal was for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4. Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed," Guy Rose, Facebook's vice president of integrity, wrote in a post on the company's website Saturday.
He accused Biden of blaming a handful of social media networks at a time when Covid-19 cases are rising. This White House has tried to not politicize the pandemic on the grounds that doing so could worsen vaccine hesitancy. But its decision to send teams into hard-hit states to push lifesaving inoculations spurred conservative outrage and false claims that the government was trying to force people to take vaccinations against their will.
Trump, who consistently put his own political goals ahead of properly managing the crisis when he was president, weighed into the issue on Sunday, with an attack on Biden likely to incite his supporters and conservative media propagandists to follow suit.
"People are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don't trust his Administration, they don't trust the Election results, and they certainly don't trust the Fake News," Trump said in a statement.
THEY DON'T TRUST THE VACCINE YOU SO PROUDLY PRIVIDED, AND BRAGGED ABOUT PROVIDING AT WARP SPEED?
The former President frequently lauds his own administration for the genuinely impressive feat of partnering with the private sector to produce Covid-19 vaccines in record time. But he spends far less time trying to convince his supporters to get vaccinated in a way that might help end the pandemic.
SO, "I PROVIDED THIS LIFE-SAVING VACCINE BUT YOU SHOULDN'T TRUST IT?
US surgeon general on tech companie'steps to fight Covid misinformation: It's not enough; One of the senior architects of the Trump administration's erratic anti-Covid effort, former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, has in recent days been warning that a return to masking in some areas might be necessary. He said that he now regrets advice that he and the government's top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, gave early in the pandemic that masks were not necessary. The guidance was later superseded by evidence that masks could help prevent infections.
"I'm worried the CDC also made a similarly premature, misinterpreted, yet still harmful call on masking in the face of (the) delta variant," Adams tweeted.
But speaking on "State of the Union," Murthy said US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance that told fully vaccinated Americans they did not need to wear masks or socially distance was meant to give flexibility to people in regions with low Covid-19 cases.
"When you see places like L.A. County and other parts of the country, where you see counties making decisions about masks that may be different from other counties, that's OK," Murthy said. "They're doing that based on what's happening in their communities, based on vaccination rates and case counts."
But the idea of masking being reintroduced drew a swift riposte from one visible Republican, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, underscoring how the next phase of the pandemic is likely to be as politically contentious as previous ones.
"No. No. No. Hell NO," Cruz, who is accusing Biden of using Facebook, Google and Twitter to censor views that he doesn't agree with, wrote on Twitter in response to the Adams tweet.
HELL NO! NO MASKS! NO CLOSING DOWN! NO VACCINATIONS. WE CAN JUST PRAY AND WISH EACH OTHER WELL!
US Surgeon General: 'I am worried' The effects of misinformation are increasingly apparent. Murthy painted a grave picture of what may lie in store in the US, after weeks of positive news on vaccines and a return of something like normal life was undermined by the spread of the Delta variant.
"I am worried about what is to come, because we are seeing increasing cases, among the unvaccinated in particular," Murthy told Bash.
"And while, if you are vaccinated, you are very well protected against hospitalization and death, unfortunately, that is not true if you are not vaccinated."
New Covid-19 cases are rising in 50 states, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The evolution of the virus means it is now attacking younger people. Covid wards are being reopened in many hotspots. New infections are soaring in states as far apart as California and Louisiana. Almost all of the serious illness and deaths are among the unvaccinated, making it all the more important that the slowed inoculation effort picks up pace.
Former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that there is now "an epidemic of the unvaccinated."
"Most people will either get vaccinated or have been previously infected, or they will get this Delta variant," Gottlieb said, laying out a daunting scenario, and adding that the number of new cases of the disease is likely being undercounted because of the lack of testing.
The hope will be that given the fact that 48.6% of Americans are now fully vaccinated, the previous waves of deaths in the pandemic can be avoided. Twenty states — most of them run by Democrats -- have fully vaccinated more than 50% of their population. But many others, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONSERVATIVE SOUTH, have yet to fully vaccinate even 40%, meaning the pool of potential victims of the Delta variant remains significant.
The daily average of new infections is now back up at more than 39,000 per day, after bottoming out at around 8,000 nearly a month ago. Deaths have started to tick up as well but are usually a few weeks behind infection spurts.
Pomp �� https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1416844832107110402 Your cost of living is increasing because your government pumped trillions into the market so stock prices wouldn’t fall.
Emerald Robinson https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1415101256834732033 Guess what was not just "potentially a death sentence" but actually a death sentence?
63% of Americans believe China should pay reparations for the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Center for Security Policy/TIPP poll.
The question is - Can YOU move forward without Trump.
The MSM has shown that it can't. Since Trump left their ratings have fucking CRATERED. Which Trump publicly predicted by the way.
Smart Trump supporters have left the GOP. Left it to Romney, Sasse, Cheney... you know, all the democrat "valet's."
We'll be fine. You guys on the other hand, have bet the farm on on a drooling imbecile and a $10 whore. And Peloshee has announced her retirement. That should tell you something.
Our voices are silenced, we have no institutional advocates; the institutions designed to vindicate our rights won't. That limits our options going forward to opting for submission -- that's the aptly-named David French solution -- or opting to burn it all down. I say flick the Bic.
We'll be told we hate democracy. Yet, for all the performative anguish about the perilous peril posed by selfie-snapping grandmas in the Rotunda -- the best thing ever are the media blue checks insisting the sight of a faux Viking and some elderly tourists so traumatized them that they must see therapy--- the elite sure hates democracy. Well, to be precise, it hates democracy when we attempt to participate in it. There's a high fuss factor out there right now over how uppity we peasants are getting, and the message is clear.
Stop complaining, racist.
Stop complaining, insurrectionist.
Stop complaining, Jesus gun people who like the flag.
Obey.
But people aren't obeying, and the usual suspects are mortified. How dare we say "No," but dare we do, and the ruling class can�t even.
So the elite fight back, aided and abetted by the surrender caucus of formerly relevant conservagrifters who take a break from thinking about their pool boys and their wives to come out and explain why True Conservatism(TM) means absolute submission to whatever the establishment wants.
Yes, they want democracy to die in darkness, preferably painfully.
But when the ordinary ways to have our voices heard are closed off to us, we'll find extraordinary ones. Trump was one. He was a warning. But he was, despite the mass-micturition of the elite, no radical. He had no desire to lay waste; he wanted to rule, but as a member of what he did not understand was a terminally ill ruling caste. Remember how he was caught up in institutional prestige -- this college was great, that company was respected? This, as well as the fact that he showed up without a Rolodex and needed to rely on a bunch of establishment acolyte-kissers, made him too weak to truly use his power. Yet even with his limitations, he did many amazing and consequential things.
The Strong Man Populist coming soon will not have that weakness. He will not hesitate to use his power to clean house, to prosecute the criminals, to defeat our enemies, both foreign and domestic. Some Republicans will recoil in horror at the idea of us actually winning. "We can't abandon our fundamental norms," they will fret, and that's literally true. We can't abandon our fundamental norms because the establishment these shills flack for already abandoned our fundamental norms over the last five years. Zombie norms will not restrain the Strong Man Populist.
RRB, THANK YOU. For giving us all.the heads up on the looming Sept, 2021 meltdown , when rent deferred payments ends.
Thanks KD, but that was the easiest prediction to make in the history of predictions. The bums who rode the free rent face eviction, especially since most of them did not squirrel away the back rent - which they'll owe. Homeless encampments like the ones we already see in democrat-run cities will explode.
It'll be interesting to see how the stock market reacts. If you can predict THAT, then you're smart. I won't make a guess on that front. Too many variables. suffice it to say it'll be interesting.
40% of people being admitted to hospital with #COVID19 in England have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the government's chief scientific adviser.
A Federal judge has ruled that Indiana University may require its students to submit proof of Covid-19 vaccination before returning to campus this fall, dealing a setback to a brewing legal effort against vaccination requirements in higher education.
In a 101-page decision handed down Sunday, U.S. District Judge Damon R. Leichty said the university system acted reasonably to protect public health when it required all of its students, faculty and staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by July 1, with limited medical and religious exceptions.
In saying so, the judge denied an injunction sought by eight college and graduate students who claimed the university’s vaccine policy unconstitutionally infringes on their bodily autonomy and medical privacy.
The case is among the first to tackle the constitutionality of Covid-19 vaccine requirements at public universities.
"WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers on Monday will make public a plan to raise as much as $16 billion annually by imposing a tax on imports from China and other countries that are not significantly reducing the planet-warming pollution that they produce.
The tax would be levied regardless of whether Congress passed new laws to reduce emissions created by the United States. It would be designed to be approximately equivalent to the costs faced by American companies under state and federal environmental regulations.
Experts said a border carbon tax would almost certainly provoke America’s trading partners and could create serious diplomatic challenges ahead of United Nations climate negotiations set for November in Glasgow."
Blogger Roger Amick said... A Federal judge has ruled that Indiana University may require its students to submit proof of Covid-19 vaccination before returning to campus this fall, dealing a setback to a brewing legal effort against vaccination requirements in higher education.
Radical right-wing conspiracy hero and End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles used his “TruNews” program Friday to call for a civil war to put down the “communist revolution” supposedly being carried out by the Biden administration.
Wiles, a virulent anti-Semite, bigot, and conspiracy theorist whose TruNews network regularly received White House press credentials from the Trump administration, has in recent years openly and repeatedly advocated for violence against his perceived political enemies. Outraged by the administration’s efforts to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitation and the spread of right-wing disinformation about the vaccines, Wiles declared on Friday that if conservatives don’t fight back, they will soon “end up in a concentration camp, and after that, you’re going to end up in a grave.”
“Let’s stop being nice about these people,” Wiles said. “These are not good people. They’re not good people. They’re evil, and they’re wicked, and they want us dead.”
“Let’s meet at Gettysburg [and] get this over with,” he added. “That bunch of sissified lefties would never come out and meet real men. Never. They’re cowards. They’re a bunch of cowards that never would come out and face real men. They’ll never do it. They’re nothing but stinking cowards. I’m fed up with putting up with their crap.”
“I’m a free man. I live in a free country,” Wiles continued. “We ought to be ashamed that we’re allowing these cowards to take our country. We don’t want to be inconvenienced with putting down a communist revolution. It’s here, and if the people don’t do something very, very soon, you’re going to end up in a concentration camp, and after that, you’re going to end up in a grave.”
In saying so, the judge denied an injunction sought by eight college and graduate students who claimed the university’s vaccine policy unconstitutionally infringes on their bodily autonomy and medical privacy.
It’s no longer, “My body, my choice”, unless we’re doing abortions.
China threatens to begin World War III'We will use nuclear bombs continuously'
By Bob Unruh Published July 19, 2021 at 5:24pm
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A video has appeared online that reportedly is circulating among Chinese Communist Party channels in which the repressive regime on the mainland there threatens to unleash a "continuous" nuclear war on the world.
"When we liberate Taiwan, if Japan dares to intervene by force, even if it only deploys one soldier, one plane and one ship, we will not only return reciprocal fire but also start a full-scale war against Japan," the statement threatens.
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"We will use nuclear bombs continuously until Japan declares unconditional surrender for the second time. What we want to target is Japan's ability to endure a war. As long as Japan realizes that it cannot afford to pay the price of war, it will not dare to rashly send troops to the Taiwan Strait.
"In 1964, when our first atomic bomb was successfully detonated, we promised the world that we would not use atomic bombs against non-nuclear countries and that we would not be the first to use them. Nearly 60 years have passed. Although the strength of our nuclear deterrent has been somewhat affected this decision has been a success, and has safeguarded our peace when we built our country."
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With the state's Covid-19 cases roughly doubling each week, Florida has become one of the country's biggest hot spots for the latest surge fueled by the highly contagious delta variant, as well as vaccine skepticism.
UF Health in Jacksonville said it broke its record for most hospitalized Covid patients Monday. At the start of Sunday, the hospital had 86. At one point Monday, the number reached 126, an increase of more than 40% in just one day.
The May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis ignited protests for racial justice and an end to police discrimination and brutality. Yet Trump sought to exploit the simmering divisions for personal political gain, quickly declaring himself “your president of law and order” and relentlessly pressuring Pentagon leaders to deploy active-duty troops against Black Lives Matter protesters. The worsening climate crisis, meanwhile, was almost entirely ignored by Trump, who earlier in his term had rolled back environmental regulations and withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement. The president was instead preoccupied with stoking doubts about the legitimacy of the election. After he lost to Joe Biden, Trump fanned the flames of conspiracies and howled about fraud that did not exist. His false claims of a “rigged election” inspired thousands of people to storm the Capitol in a violent and ultimately failed insurrection on January 6, 2021. The year 2020 tested the republic. Yet the institutions designed by the Founding Fathers were still standing by the time Trump left office. America’s democracy withstood the unrelenting assault of its president. Trump’s cries summoned tens of thousands of angry citizens to Washington to overturn the election, but Vice President Mike Pence and scores of lawmakers followed their constitutional duties.
A student of history, Milley saw Trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. He described to aides that he kept having this stomach-churning feeling that some of the worrisome early stages of twentieth-century fascism in Germany were replaying in twenty-first-century America. He saw parallels between Trump’s rhetoric of election fraud and Adolf Hitler’s insistence to his followers at the Nuremberg rallies that he was both a victim and their savior. “This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told aides. “The gospel of the Führer.” — After states certified their election results on December 14, they sent their electoral college votes to Congress to be counted and affirmed on January 6. This event had long been a ceremonial formality, officiated by the vice president, acting in his or her capacity as president of the Senate. In this case, Vice President Pence was set to certify Biden’s victory. As painful as that might be, there was precedent: Vice President Al Gore had certified George W. Bush’s win in 2001 and Vice President Walter Mondale had done the same for Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Republicans in those state legislatures could maneuver on his behalf to somehow overturn the election results, or at least delay the ultimate outcome. Most lawyers and constitutional scholars believed this would be illegal; the vice president had no such authority. But not Trump’s lawyers. Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell told the president that this junk legal theory was no slam dunk but had potential. A litany of other outside voices, whom Meadows put on the phone with the president or invited into the Oval Office for meetings in late December and early January, echoed their agreement. They included Flynn, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, and Mark Martin, a former chief justice of the State Supreme Court in Meadows’s home state of North Carolina. One after another, they told Trump that Pence not only had the power but the duty to take this drastic step. The vice president was the guy to right this wrong. Other senior administration officials blamed Meadows for neglecting his gatekeeper role. “The president was exposed to crazy people spouting lunatic theories about the election and his ability to overturn it. That is all Meadows,” one of them recalled. “He’s going to pick up the phone and call people, or crazy people are going to call him, but you can limit that. You’ve got to get him exposed to the right people, the right dissenting voices, and channel it. Meadows did none of that. He reinforced [Trump’s] instincts.”
The year 2020 tested the republic. Yet the institutions designed by the Founding Fathers were still standing by the time Trump left office. America’s democracy withstood the unrelenting assault of its president. Trump’s cries summoned tens of thousands of angry citizens to Washington to overturn the election, but Vice President Mike Pence and scores of lawmakers followed their constitutional duties.
LOL. Having to hide the fact that you're running as a democrat. Fucking priceless...
A growing swath of House Democratic candidates says the party needs to radically improve its heartland appeal to have any hope of keeping power in Washington.
Why it matters: With control of the House and Senate on the bubble, many ambitious Democrats — from the South to the Midwest to the Rockies — are running against their own national party's image.
What's happening: After four years of listening to President Trump, many rural voters are reflexively distrustful of progressive solutions to everything from the pandemic to infrastructure.
In a 3-min. ad for his Senate campaign, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio never says he's a Democrat.
What we're hearing: Democratic strategists are advising candidates in states like these to refrain from "fancy" language, and focus on populist economic policies.
It's probably double that. Assisted living facilities ain't cheap. If he had any brains he would've done a Medicaid asset transfer with his tranny daughter (son?) Char-Lee so we the taxpayers pick up his tab like we did with his liver transplant when he drank THAT fucker to death.
The alky's life is a steaming pile of shit fully engulfed in flames.
If CH ever shuts down this blog the alky is dead in 30 days, tops.
DeSantis may have his bubble busted as more start to realize how little he has done....Now the fuck is selling T Shirts with Don't Fauci My State!!!!!! Brilliant PR campaign to a dedicated Dr who has given his life for doing good for the country!!!!!
Yahoo TV Florida congresswoman claims Fox News and Ron DeSantis are responsible for state’s COVID surge Stephen Proctor Mon, July 19, 2021, 2:28 AM·2 min read In this article:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared on CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown Sunday, where the Florida Democrat blamed Gov. Ron DeSantis for the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in the state. Florida currently accounts for roughly 20 percent of new cases in the U.S.
“What I think explains high infection rates is that we have a governor who has not taken COVID seriously from the very beginning,” Wasserman Schultz said. “You know, he’s essentially right now treating it like a joke.”
DeSantis recently passed a law prohibiting local jurisdictions from imposing new COVID restrictions, and is selling anti-vaccine merchandise, like t-shirts that read “Don’t Fauci My Florida.”
“I would rather see us Fauci our Florida than have people go through death by DeSantis, and that's what we're facing now,” Wasserman Schultz said. “He actually had a law passed in Florida to prohibit local governments from being able to enact measures like mask requirements and social distancing to keep people safe. You just can't make this stuff up. So that's where the blame lies, at his feet.”
I completely agree with this op ed from LA.......Kinda amusing all these talking vax deniers screaming you can't tell me what to do with my body as they all sit in unison telling what women can and cannot do with theirs....The GOP the party of hypocrisy!!!!!!!
Nobody and I mean nobody in Florida want to return to mandatory mask wearing.and lockdowns.
Ron DeSantas was one of the best Governors to handle the pandemic.
The Democrats are scared of him. He's odds on the favorite to trounce any Democrat opponent in 2022 and is a real threat to win it all in 2024 (providing Trump doesn't run)
“I would rather see us Fauci our Florida than have people go through death by DeSantis, and that's what we're facing now,” Wasserman Schultz said.
Meanwhile, up here in NY, Killer Cuomo engaged in a wholesale slaughter of the elderly in nursing homes, and the Feds have determined that he undercounted Covid deaths by at least 10,000.
But it's DeSantis that sends liberals to the fainting couch.
Mean while in NY.....rat is still alive and breathing stupidity in every possible way!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!! Yep...it is all cuomo's fault for covid....the mantra of dumb fucks who support trump!!!!
ommonsense said... Nobody and I mean nobody in Florida want to return to mandatory mask wearing.and lockdowns.
Most amusing that you are speaking for every single floriduh resident.....Wth DeSantis doing nothing but selling anti fauci shirts....who knows how bad this siege of virus will get???? Really sucks to be you cramps and your hate of science!!!!! If everyone in floriduh got the shot, we sure wouldn't be worrying about masks would we.....LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! It is your side driving the BS and the low intellect idiots who are failing freedom from getting sick...... Ron D 's great leadership is leading Floriduh to be #1 in new infections......yep great job Ron!!!! You can't argue with such a record of success like his!!!!
Readout of White House Listening Session with Cuban American Leaders
JULY 19, 2021STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Today, Senior Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Cedric Richmond and Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere for the National Security Council Juan Gonzalez met with Cuban American leaders to listen to their policy recommendations and concerns in light of the recent, unprecedented demonstrations unfolding across Cuba. Administration officials underscored that the White House is monitoring the situation in Cuba closely and that addressing the moment and ongoing situation in Cuba is a top priority for the Administration. They also affirmed what the President said last week: that the demonstrations are the direct result of a failed communist government, and reminded the leaders that the President stands firmly with the people of Cuba. Stakeholders shared what they’ve done over the last week to help elevate the voices of demonstrators in Cuba and provided their recommendations for how the U.S. government can help. Today’s was the latest event in ongoing work the White House has done to reach Cuban American leaders following the historic demonstrations.
This leads us to one of the trickiest long-term trends of all: the future of work. The pandemic has sped up the digitalisation of everything. I think that’s going to create a major disinflationary force in the global economy. Corporate investment in “intangible” goods such as intellectual property and software rose sharply during the pandemic. An executive survey last year by McKinsey, the consultancy, found that three quarters of respondents in North America and Europe expected to accelerate such investments over the next four years. That is up from 55 per cent between 2014 and 2019. These kinds of investments increase productivity but at the cost of jobs, and fewer jobs translates into less demand. Combined with digitisation, this could drive down the prices of goods, plus services such as healthcare and education. Alongside housing, these services are generally the most inflation-generating categories among OECD countries, including the US. Such technology-driven productivity would therefore be deflationary. So too if there were more workers able to leverage these new technologies in their work. Ideally, government investment in reskilling will do just that. By converting low paid care work into higher skilled middle income jobs, consumption could rise even as prices might fall in sectors such as healthcare. Demand for that is rising sharply as boomers age, yet the jobs currently on offer are neither productive nor well paid. Such investment in the “caring economy” is the focus of much of Joe Biden’s administration’s proposed stimulus. Let’s hope it gets through. Otherwise, if nothing changes, we may see more digitalised businesses employing only a few highly paid people — and the cost of consuming the goods and services that constitute middle class living will continue to rise.
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Middle income disparity will be reduced by President Biden's infrastructure plan and again a path forward.
Otherwise, if nothing changes, we may see more digitalised businesses employing only a few highly paid people — and the cost of consuming the goods and services that constitute middle class living will continue to rise.
Most amusing that you are speaking for every single floriduh resident.
Didn't say I did. But I do have personal knowledge of this as well as statistical backup from the latest polls. Any attempt to reestablish mandatory face mask or lockdowns will face wholesale resistance in Florida.
everyone in floriduh got the shot, we sure wouldn't be worrying about masks would we.
Currently 47% of Floridians have been fully vaccinated and 55% have one shot. Witch means in about 3 weeks 55% will be fully vaccinated.
Since Florida's demographics are older and more at risk from the disease, you don't have a significant anti-fax movement. In fact 95% of the people who are at risk have been fully vaccinated.
When asked which poses a greater risk to their health, more unvaccinated Americans say the COVID-19 vaccines than say the virus itself, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a view that contradicts all available science and data and underscores the challenges that the United States will continue to face as it struggles to stop a growing “pandemic of the unvaccinated” driven by the hyper-contagious Delta variant.
The survey of 1,715 U.S. adults, which was conducted from July 13 to 15, found that just 29 percent of unvaccinated Americans believe the virus poses a greater risk to their health than the vaccines — significantly less than the number who believe the vaccines represent the greater health risk (37 percent) or say they’re not sure (34 percent).
Over the last 18 months, COVID-19 has killed more than 4.1 million people worldwide, including more than 600,000 in the U.S. At the same time, more than 2 billion people worldwide — and more than 186 million Americans — have been at least partially vaccinated against the virus, and scientists who study data on their reported side effects continue to find that the vaccines are extraordinarily safe.
Dumbfuckers believe Tucker Carlson etc.
Darwinism will save the planet from people like him.
monsense said... Nobody and I mean nobody in Florida want to return to mandatory mask wearing.and lockdowns.
Didn't say I did. But I do have personal knowledge of this as well
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Why do you trumpist lie even about what you posted????????? Sorry sport no you are projecting more BS than Lil Schitty!!!!! Floriduh when compared to blue states in the NE is far behind in vaccination due to DeSantis and fox news misinformation......Your stats at best are interesting but meaningless as long as so many in floriduh remain un vaxed!!!!!!!
The loony toons believe that science is anti Republican
Trump rallies are a thing again, drawing magnitudes more than Biden or Harris could even dream of at any of their events. Trump is in campaign mode and is the GOP kingmaker ahead of both the midterms and next presidential election.
What better way to stop the Trump rallies and distract from unpleasant news than by returning to the COVID glory days of 2020, masking up and locking down. Wait until fall when seasonal influenza kicks in and the calls for masks will become deafening. Tweak the PCR test cycle threshold upward and viola, more cases, more masking and distancing, more mandates. Totalitarianism on demand.
Is LA’s new mask mandate in the interest of public health or shaping and directing the political narrative? Why would it be politically convenient to mask up and lock down again? Do the Democrats have plans that they would prefer to receive little news coverage? George Orwell had a good thought, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.”
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YOU HERE AT COLDHEARTED unTRUTH KEEP DOWNPLAYING THIS VIRUS SITUATION BUT THE WORLD IS LOOKING AT IT DIFFERENTLY
India’s Coronavirus Deaths Likely 4.7 Million July 20, 2021 at 8:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments “India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy,” the AP reports.
“Most experts believe India’s official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount, but the government has dismissed those concerns as exaggerated and misleading.
“The report released Tuesday estimated excess deaths — the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected — to be between 3 million to 4.7 million between January 2020 and June 2021.”
Tokyo Olympics Might Still Be Canceled July 20, 2021 at 7:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments “The head of the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the global sporting showpiece, amid rising coronavirus cases that have presented organizers with mounting challenges,” CNBC reports.
more than 186 million Americans — have been at least partially vaccinated against the virus, and scientists who study data on their reported side effects continue to find that the vaccines are extraordinarily safe.
What troubles me is the lack of transparency and misleading propaganda the government puts out. And the press not challenging.
How can Europe have such different stats on Covid infections from vaccinated people than the US? Is the US taking the whole universe of Covid infections from inception and saying 98.5 % of infections were not vaccinated? That would make sense since no vaccine was available for about that such a long time, though that would be very misleading. Europe is reporting much closer to a 50/50 split. And high profile examples of double vaccinated people in America getting Covid are emerging daily.
Why hide the issues with the vaccine, there have been a lot of adverse event reporting, though I am not sure how much. The government website is murky and hard to navigate, unlike the Covid website was https://vaers.hhs.gov/index.html . Some very prominent people have died right after getting the vaccine including Hank Aaron and Marvin Hagler and some like Eric Clapton had such a severe reaction he thought he would never be able to play guitar again.
We do know there have been thousands of deaths and many, many more adverse effects, even if the government is slow to attribute these to vaccines, unlike how they attribute Covid deaths. If we treat Covid deaths as "with Covid" we should attribute vaccine deaths as "with vaccine". We also know individually our own health status. Clearer and more transparent data could overcome vaccine hesitancy.
Unless the numbers show otherwise.
jmo
I'm glad to see France reversed itself and won't fine/jail people for living their life after 4 days of immense protests. Funny how the state media here was silent on them.
That doesn't help vaccine hesitancy either when you can't trust the press and their reporting.
Floriduh when compared to blue states in the NE is far behind in vaccination due to DeSantis and fox news misinformation...
No state mandates taking a vaccine,
DeSantas nor Fox News never said not to take the vaccine. In fact they are big vaccine boosters. The difference is they respect people personal choices.
Sean Hannity Tells Viewers to Get Vaccinated July 20, 2021 at 6:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Fox News host Sean Hannity suddenly urged his viewers last night to “please take Covid seriously.”
He added: “I can’t say it enough. Enough people have died. We don’t need any more death. Research like crazy. Talk to your doctor… I believe in science. I believe in the science of vaccination.”
WELL, STEP UP CH AND RRB. SAY THE SAME. FOR THE SAKE OF PEOPLE. FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION. FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD.
Media Matters frauds are at it again, selectively editing video to mislead & spread their lies.
Tucker cited data from "a bunch of different countries" after showing the UK Chief Science Advisor saying 40% of hospitalizations are coming from double vaccinated people.
Not only can't you trust the press, you can't trust their "fact checkers" and overseers
Nearly Impossible to Convince the Unvaccinated July 20, 2021 at 6:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new Axios/Ipsos poll finds most Americans who still aren’t vaccinated say nothing — not their own doctor administering it, a favorite celebrity’s endorsement or even paid time off — is likely to make them get the shot.
PARTY OF DEATH: Texas Democrats Put Lives at Risk as Biden’s COVID-19 Body Count Nears 200K
Five (now 6) Texas Democrats have now tested positive for COVID-19 as a direct result of a childish publicity stunt. Their recklessness may even have endangered the life of President Joe Biden, who has presided over nearly 200,000 American deaths from the virus—the equivalent of 83 Pearl Harbor attacks.
The Democratic lawmakers fled the state last week in an attempt to shut down the state legislature and prevent the Republican majority from passing crucial election reforms. Aboard their privately chartered plane to Washington, D.C., the Dems shunned the Biden administration's safety guidelines by refusing to wear masks, a reckless decision that could cost them up to $1.75 million in fines.
More than 50 Democrats made the trip to the nation's capital, where they posted photos on social media and posed as martyrs to a pointless cause. After effectively filibustering the Texas state legislature, the group lobbied congressional Democrats to abolish the Senate filibuster in order to ease the passage of radical left-wing legislation at the national level.
The Texas Dems even met with Vice President Kamala Harris, who described their frivolous antics as an example of "extraordinary courage and commitment." Throwing a public tantrum, she said, was "as American as apple pie." Following the meeting, Harris went to Walter Reed Medical Center for what was described as a "routine" visit.
Biden, who will turn 79 in November, is in the demographic (elderly male) most at risk of dying from COVID-19. Although the president promised to end the pandemic, nearly one third of U.S. deaths from the virus (about 608,000 in total) have occurred on his watch. On average, more than 1,000 Americans have died each day since Biden took office. Many experts believe he is directly responsible.
"Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, who was on the call, seemed to take comfort that the negotiations were limping along. He said the "whole thing falling apart is probably the best thing."
India’s Coronavirus Deaths Likely 4.7 Million July 20, 2021 at 8:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments “India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy,” the AP reports.
Must be Trump's fault or maybe DeSantis' fault?
Obviously Covid deaths in India are the fault of conservatives, huh?
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! You were the one who claimed it was just the flu asshole....now you are toeing the GOP idiocy line of its gone away,,,,,,,,dayum you are a sorry sack of shit!!!!!!!
With the likes of fucked up daddy and his vaccine death count mantra......no wonder the US is as fucked up as he is as this survey show.....Millions of doses given and from my research, i death may have happened because of a shot???? Wonder where this misinformation comes from.....the likes or Ron Johnson and Marjorie Greene with fox news sure are culprits!!!!
Sports Games
Unvaccinated Americans say COVID vaccines are riskier than the virus, even as Delta surges among them Yahoo News ANDREW ROMANO July 20, 2021, 5:00 AM 0:01 4:19 CDC: 99.5% of COVID-19 deaths are from unvaccinated individuals we have seen the successes of our vaccination program
When asked which poses a greater risk to their health, more unvaccinated Americans say the COVID-19 vaccines than say the virus itself, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a view that contradicts all available science and data and underscores the challenges that the United States will continue to face as it struggles to stop a growing “pandemic of the unvaccinated” driven by the hyper-contagious Delta variant.
The survey of 1,715 U.S. adults, which was conducted from July 13 to 15, found that just 29 percent of unvaccinated Americans believe the virus poses a greater risk to their health than the vaccines — significantly less than the number who believe the vaccines represent the greater health risk (37 percent) or say they’re not sure (34 percent).
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Of topic but it reminds me of the Reagan era of Welfare Queens and public unions.
The governing ideology in California today is corporate socialism hiding behind the moral imperatives of fighting climate change and combating racism. California today is run by an alliance of special interests—tech monopolies, public-sector unions, leftist billionaires, extreme environmentalists, and social justice warriors—who are crushing the middle class. Their motivations differ, and their intentions may not be so explicit, but their actions share the same goal. Environmentalists believe the middle-class lifestyle is ecologically unsustainable. Social justice warriors believe the middle class is racist and exclusionary. To the extent small businesses are wiped out and consumers are forced to buy green gadgets and pay more for everything, tech monopolies and billionaires accrue even more wealth and power. Public-sector unions share the ideology of the environmentalists and social justice warriors, and use collective bargaining to largely exempt themselves from the worst consequences afflicting the private sector middle class. But it’s all wrong.
Wanting to save the planet and end systemic racism may be legitimate moral concerns. But the policies being implemented in their name are not working. Rationing, redistribution, and retribution are the themes behind current policies.
If you are only down $19 you should owe a lot in taxes - equity and white privilege
Is roger for real ?
If you lured the person who was killed by you, the other person is guilty
still shaking my head over that one
Accessory to murder.
Look it up
Can the Republicans move forward without Trump?
Trump exploited but failed to redress: the effects of mass immigration, global trade, downward social mobility, and diminished opportunity.
What would this alternate vision of conservative politics look like in practice?
The guiding lights of the modern conservative movement have been a muscular anti-totalitarian foreign policy, at once nationalist and internationalist; free markets and limited government at home; and moral traditionalism. Any conservatism worthy of the name must continue to uphold these themes, while being agile about their application in new circumstances.
Some of Trump’s stalwarts deride “zombie Reaganism” on the sensible grounds that the problems of today are markedly different than the problems of a half-century ago, and call for a different set of remedies. There can be no return to the pre-Trump consensus on policy. But not all reforms are equally creditable. Some traditional conservative priorities—especially an emphasis on economic growth and national strength—remain vital to any such forward-looking politics. But that can only be a start. Beyond ensuring a dynamic economy and the material basis of international leadership, a modernized conservative policy agenda would seek to arrest the fragmentation of twenty-first-century America that is causing widespread dislocation, isolation, and alienation from the American dream. It must speak respectfully but firmly to the new Trump stalwarts, in hopes of winning over disaffected Americans of all stripes. Revisiting the “reform conservatism” policy ideas of a decade ago, all but forgotten during the Trump years, could be a one place to start.
Alas, none of this will be possible so long as American conservatism and the Republican party remain in thrall to Donald Trump. No decent political program can be built on the foundation of personal and political corruption that Trump evinced every day of his term in office.
And for the GOP to return to being an enlightened political organ, it must cease to be a vehicle for what the late sociologist Pierre van den Berghe called “Herrenvolk democracy,” the identification of “the people” with the numerically largest racial or religious community in a nation-state. It will need to offer an approach more benign than Trump’s vulgar and abusive demagoguery, and more constructive than the kneejerk adversarialism of today’s right toward the votaries of managerial liberalism. It must be committed to what Benjamin Disraeli called “one-nation conservatism.”
Republicans who hold fast to that older conservative tradition, and have the imagination and fortitude to implement it, should make clear that they are the proper stewards of the national interest that Trump—and Buchanan before him—occasionally lauded but never actually comprehended, much less advanced. For that noble tradition to be revived the right will need not more vapid appeals to “unity” after Trump, but considerably more heat. With any luck, it will bring some illumination to this party enduring a very long night.
Brian Stewart a conservative columnist.
Accessory to murder is a criminal offense whereby the perpetrator helps or assists a murderer before or after the commission of the murder. Normally, the person helping in the murder is not present at the commission of the crime. In most jurisdictions, the crime is a felony offense (as opposed to a misdemeanor) that can result in years in state prison.
Under state criminal laws, accessory itself is an offense where a person aids in the commission of a felony. An accessory after the fact is a person who harbors, conceals, or aids another after that person has committed a felony. An accessory before the fact is a person who aids another before that person commits a felony.
Ten years or more.
https://thebulwark.com/how-the-party-of-reagan-became-the-party-of-trump/
Yes indeed the stock market is down. Here's why:
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CNN
War over misinformation heats up as Covid case counts rise
Stephen Collinson Profile
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Mon July 19, 2021
(CNN)As the coronavirus mounts a fresh US assault, it is again tearing at the nation's political divides in a way that multiplies its own impact and makes clear in a supposed summer of freedom that the battle against the virus is far from over.
President Joe Biden is locked in a showdown with Facebook over vaccine misinformation. His predecessor, Donald Trump, is now weighing in, linking his Big Lie over election fraud to Biden's management of the Covid-19 crisis in a way that could brew even more of the vaccine hesitancy that is causing thousands of Americans to become infected.
Conservative pundits, would-be presidential candidates and Trump proteges have already exploited skepticism of vaccines for political gain. And new fears that a return to masks and physical distancing might be necessary in Covid hot zones, where many people have refused vaccines, are reigniting partisan fault lines.
The rising political discord threatens not only to tarnish and reverse Biden's early success in rolling out vaccines and tamping down the virus -- only two weeks after the President declared partial independence from Covid-19. It could present the White House with severe challenges in the event of a full-scale next wave of infections and deaths in the coming weeks.
Even if many of the people getting sick are anti-vaccine Republicans who are not his voters anyway, any reimposed restrictions and business closures could interrupt the economic recovery that the President is relying on to boost Democrats in next year's midterm elections. The Dow was down more than 700 points Monday morning over virus concerns.
Rampant infection rates would also threaten children who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated — and raise the prospect of disastrous new disruptions to schooling for a generation whose education has been irreparably interrupted. And the pernicious nature of the more infectious Delta variant is a warning of the possibility that dangerous mutations of the virus are more likely when it is widespread. So while vaccine skeptics act on the basis of individual rights, their decisions could end up affecting every American, especially if a variant emerges that is resistant to vaccines.
Rising cases in the United States come at what looks like a grim moment in the exhausting fight against the pandemic across the globe. All remaining Covid-19 restrictions are expected to be lifted in England on Monday — despite soaring infections. The government in London hopes it has broken the link between infections and hospitalizations and deaths as a result of a successful vaccine effort. In Tokyo, public opposition to the Olympic Games, which start on Friday, has been exacerbated by cases identified among a number of athletes. Much of the developing world, meanwhile, remains highly vulnerable due to a lack of vaccines.
Misinformation 'costs lives'
The Biden administration, conscious of the public health and political risks at play, has taken aim at social media companies. US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, defended Biden, who bluntly said on Friday that social media networks were "killing people" by allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on their platforms. Murthy said that while Big Tech had made some efforts, the administration had also made clear to them that "it's not enough."
"We know that health misinformation harms people's health. It costs them their lives," Murthy told CNN's Dana Bash.
Facebook reacted furiously to Biden's call out, which possibly showed frustration on the part of the President that a significant minority of the population refuses to protect themselves with free, safe and effective vaccines.
"President Biden's goal was for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4. Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed," Guy Rose, Facebook's vice president of integrity, wrote in a post on the company's website Saturday.
He accused Biden of blaming a handful of social media networks at a time when Covid-19 cases are rising. This White House has tried to not politicize the pandemic on the grounds that doing so could worsen vaccine hesitancy. But its decision to send teams into hard-hit states to push lifesaving inoculations spurred conservative outrage and false claims that the government was trying to force people to take vaccinations against their will.
Trump, who consistently put his own political goals ahead of properly managing the crisis when he was president, weighed into the issue on Sunday, with an attack on Biden likely to incite his supporters and conservative media propagandists to follow suit.
"People are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don't trust his Administration, they don't trust the Election results, and they certainly don't trust the Fake News," Trump said in a statement.
THEY DON'T TRUST THE VACCINE YOU SO PROUDLY PRIVIDED, AND BRAGGED ABOUT PROVIDING AT WARP SPEED?
The former President frequently lauds his own administration for the genuinely impressive feat of partnering with the private sector to produce Covid-19 vaccines in record time. But he spends far less time trying to convince his supporters to get vaccinated in a way that might help end the pandemic.
SO, "I PROVIDED THIS LIFE-SAVING VACCINE BUT YOU SHOULDN'T TRUST IT?
US surgeon general on tech companie'steps to fight Covid misinformation: It's not enough;
One of the senior architects of the Trump administration's erratic anti-Covid effort, former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, has in recent days been warning that a return to masking in some areas might be necessary. He said that he now regrets advice that he and the government's top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, gave early in the pandemic that masks were not necessary. The guidance was later superseded by evidence that masks could help prevent infections.
"I'm worried the CDC also made a similarly premature, misinterpreted, yet still harmful call on masking in the face of (the) delta variant," Adams tweeted.
But speaking on "State of the Union," Murthy said US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance that told fully vaccinated Americans they did not need to wear masks or socially distance was meant to give flexibility to people in regions with low Covid-19 cases.
"When you see places like L.A. County and other parts of the country, where you see counties making decisions about masks that may be different from other counties, that's OK," Murthy said. "They're doing that based on what's happening in their communities, based on vaccination rates and case counts."
But the idea of masking being reintroduced drew a swift riposte from one visible Republican, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, underscoring how the next phase of the pandemic is likely to be as politically contentious as previous ones.
"No. No. No. Hell NO," Cruz, who is accusing Biden of using Facebook, Google and Twitter to censor views that he doesn't agree with, wrote on Twitter in response to the Adams tweet.
HELL NO! NO MASKS! NO CLOSING DOWN! NO VACCINATIONS. WE CAN JUST PRAY AND WISH EACH OTHER WELL!
US Surgeon General: 'I am worried'
The effects of misinformation are increasingly apparent. Murthy painted a grave picture of what may lie in store in the US, after weeks of positive news on vaccines and a return of something like normal life was undermined by the spread of the Delta variant.
"I am worried about what is to come, because we are seeing increasing cases, among the unvaccinated in particular," Murthy told Bash.
"And while, if you are vaccinated, you are very well protected against hospitalization and death, unfortunately, that is not true if you are not vaccinated."
New Covid-19 cases are rising in 50 states, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The evolution of the virus means it is now attacking younger people. Covid wards are being reopened in many hotspots. New infections are soaring in states as far apart as California and Louisiana. Almost all of the serious illness and deaths are among the unvaccinated, making it all the more important that the slowed inoculation effort picks up pace.
Former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that there is now "an epidemic of the unvaccinated."
"Most people will either get vaccinated or have been previously infected, or they will get this Delta variant," Gottlieb said, laying out a daunting scenario, and adding that the number of new cases of the disease is likely being undercounted because of the lack of testing.
The hope will be that given the fact that 48.6% of Americans are now fully vaccinated, the previous waves of deaths in the pandemic can be avoided. Twenty states — most of them run by Democrats -- have fully vaccinated more than 50% of their population. But many others, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONSERVATIVE SOUTH, have yet to fully vaccinate even 40%, meaning the pool of potential victims of the Delta variant remains significant.
The daily average of new infections is now back up at more than 39,000 per day, after bottoming out at around 8,000 nearly a month ago. Deaths have started to tick up as well but are usually a few weeks behind infection spurts.
MEANWHILE
Biden Gets High Marks for Handling Pandemic
July 19, 2021 at 4:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 20
A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds
66% of Americans approve of President Biden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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OUR people trust Joe Biden to level with them.
Trish Regan
https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1417089244322017282
M2 Money Supply has increased at the largest annual percentage rate since 1943 -- when we were fighting WWII!
The money printing needs to stop. We are robbing future generations.
Biden is destroying America
or at least whoever is controlling him
Pomp ��
https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1416844832107110402
Your cost of living is increasing because your government pumped trillions into the market so stock prices wouldn’t fall.
money does run out
or we will become like Argentina
or even worse
🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1416587608176611330
Let’s talk about (liberal) white privilege.
Too many poor Black people in DC dodge bullets (if they’re lucky) *every night*.
But when it happens to white baseball fans?
National headlines.
If this shooting occurred 6 blocks over, we wouldn’t hear about it.
Sick.
white elite liberals lives matter
in DC
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1415101256834732033
Guess what was not just "potentially a death sentence" but actually a death sentence?
Fauci funding the Wuhan Lab.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
China and Fauci need to pay
I don't blame poor ole F'n for wanting to change the subject.
Rav Arora
https://twitter.com/Ravarora1/status/1416572331095330816
Hey @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @TheAtlantic, @HuffPost etc will you give any coverage to this story?
A group of black Minneapolis residents won a major lawsuit against the city for lack of police protection.
Waiting for more media attention - but not holding my breath.
Since George Floyd's death, homicides have skyrocketed in the city of Minneapolis.
I interviewed Don Samuels, a Jamaican immigrant who sued the city for inadequate policing and recently won his case.
Mainstream media won't cover this story so I had to:
continues in thread from above link...
https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-says-still-thinks-nature-223500774.html
Fauci says we should keep an open mind, but the prevailing evidence still indicates that the virus had an animal, not a lab origin.
JamesNewLeaf said...
I don't blame poor ole F'n for wanting to change the subject.
Me ?
You posted multiple times off topic to this thread here and I am just following suit
You probably have no idea what the thread topic even is
At least my first few posts were on topic
ROFLMFAO !!!
What a fucking idiot and a POS "pastor"
": Democrat ‘Infrastructure’ Bill to Cost $5.4 Trillion"
Biden said his spending will suffocate inflation.
Biden Economic Theory
😂the virus had an animal, not a lab origin😂🤣😆😂😀🤣
Can you show us you know what the thread topic is "pastor"
ROFLMFAO !!!
obviously not
he's clueless
and I'm his daddy
Newsmax
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1415285109498933249
63% of Americans believe China should pay reparations for the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Center for Security Policy/TIPP poll.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-reparations-coronavirus-us/2021/07/13/id/1028465/
And Fauci should be held to account too
The US Markets over reacted.
The problem for Bidenomics is a lack of business and consumer confidence.
Fauci says we should keep an open mind, but the prevailing evidence still indicates that the virus had an animal, not a lab origin.
Of course, Fauci will not provide any of that evidence....
Which is part of why he has lost pretty much all credibility with the public.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Can the Republicans move forward without Trump?
Alky,
The question is - Can YOU move forward without Trump.
The MSM has shown that it can't. Since Trump left their ratings have fucking CRATERED. Which Trump publicly predicted by the way.
Smart Trump supporters have left the GOP. Left it to Romney, Sasse, Cheney... you know, all the democrat "valet's."
We'll be fine. You guys on the other hand, have bet the farm on on a drooling imbecile and a $10 whore. And Peloshee has announced her retirement. That should tell you something.
Here's where we're at alky -
Our voices are silenced, we have no institutional advocates; the institutions designed to vindicate our rights won't. That limits our options going forward to opting for submission -- that's the aptly-named David French solution -- or opting to burn it all down.
I say flick the Bic.
We'll be told we hate democracy. Yet, for all the performative anguish about the perilous peril posed by selfie-snapping grandmas in the Rotunda -- the best thing ever are the media blue checks insisting the sight of a faux Viking and some elderly tourists so traumatized them that they must see therapy--- the elite sure hates democracy. Well, to be precise, it hates democracy when we attempt to participate in it. There's a high fuss factor out there right now over how uppity we peasants are getting, and the message is clear.
Stop complaining, racist.
Stop complaining, insurrectionist.
Stop complaining, Jesus gun people who like the flag.
Obey.
But people aren't obeying, and the usual suspects are mortified. How dare we say "No," but dare we do, and the ruling class can�t even.
So the elite fight back, aided and abetted by the surrender caucus of formerly relevant conservagrifters who take a break from thinking about their pool boys and their wives to come out and explain why True Conservatism(TM) means absolute submission to whatever the establishment wants.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/07/12/the-coming-of-strong-man-populism-and-the-power-of-no-n2592291
Yes, they want democracy to die in darkness, preferably painfully.
But when the ordinary ways to have our voices heard are closed off to us, we'll find extraordinary ones. Trump was one. He was a warning. But he was, despite the mass-micturition of the elite, no radical. He had no desire to lay waste; he wanted to rule, but as a member of what he did not understand was a terminally ill ruling caste. Remember how he was caught up in institutional prestige -- this college was great, that company was respected? This, as well as the fact that he showed up without a Rolodex and needed to rely on a bunch of establishment acolyte-kissers, made him too weak to truly use his power. Yet even with his limitations, he did many amazing and consequential things.
The Strong Man Populist coming soon will not have that weakness. He will not hesitate to use his power to clean house, to prosecute the criminals, to defeat our enemies, both foreign and domestic. Some Republicans will recoil in horror at the idea of us actually winning. "We can't abandon our fundamental norms," they will fret, and that's literally true. We can't abandon our fundamental norms because the establishment these shills flack for already abandoned our fundamental norms over the last five years. Zombie norms will not restrain the Strong Man Populist.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/07/12/the-coming-of-strong-man-populism-and-the-power-of-no-n2592291
RRB, THANK YOU.
For giving us all.the heads up on the looming Sept, 2021 meltdown , when rent deferred payments ends.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
RRB, THANK YOU.
For giving us all.the heads up on the looming Sept, 2021 meltdown , when rent deferred payments ends.
Thanks KD, but that was the easiest prediction to make in the history of predictions. The bums who rode the free rent face eviction, especially since most of them did not squirrel away the back rent - which they'll owe. Homeless encampments like the ones we already see in democrat-run cities will explode.
It'll be interesting to see how the stock market reacts. If you can predict THAT, then you're smart. I won't make a guess on that front. Too many variables. suffice it to say it'll be interesting.
40% of people being admitted to hospital with #COVID19 in England have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the government's chief scientific adviser.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-60-of-people-being-admitted-to-hospital-with-coronavirus-have-been-double-jabbed-says-vallance-12359317
they originally said 60 % but had reversed the numbers.
Still a very big number of vaccinated people are catching Covid...
and that is real close to the 47% posted from a different source.
makes you wonder....
It will be interesting IF, Joe's economic team which James called "The Economic ALL-STAR TEAM".
A Federal judge has ruled that Indiana University may require its students to submit proof of Covid-19 vaccination before returning to campus this fall, dealing a setback to a brewing legal effort against vaccination requirements in higher education.
In a 101-page decision handed down Sunday, U.S. District Judge Damon R. Leichty said the university system acted reasonably to protect public health when it required all of its students, faculty and staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by July 1, with limited medical and religious exceptions.
In saying so, the judge denied an injunction sought by eight college and graduate students who claimed the university’s vaccine policy unconstitutionally infringes on their bodily autonomy and medical privacy.
The case is among the first to tackle the constitutionality of Covid-19 vaccine requirements at public universities.
Or other requirements.
This is a great idea from the "ALL-STAR Team"
"WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers on Monday will make public a plan to raise as much as $16 billion annually by imposing a tax on imports from China and other countries that are not significantly reducing the planet-warming pollution that they produce.
The tax would be levied regardless of whether Congress passed new laws to reduce emissions created by the United States. It would be designed to be approximately equivalent to the costs faced by American companies under state and federal environmental regulations.
Experts said a border carbon tax would almost certainly provoke America’s trading partners and could create serious diplomatic challenges ahead of United Nations climate negotiations set for November in Glasgow."
Come on man do it.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
A Federal judge has ruled that Indiana University may require its students to submit proof of Covid-19 vaccination before returning to campus this fall, dealing a setback to a brewing legal effort against vaccination requirements in higher education.
Your papers, now Juden
Maybe they can just put stars on their clothes
Drugs and alcohol will kill a ton more students than Covid.
as will the high cost of a mediocre education from overpaid teachers and staff.
We are now living in the dark ages
hopefully we can overcome
but it's not a certainty
The government and the media blocked a great guy
Radical right-wing conspiracy hero and End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles used his “TruNews” program Friday to call for a civil war to put down the “communist revolution” supposedly being carried out by the Biden administration.
Wiles, a virulent anti-Semite, bigot, and conspiracy theorist whose TruNews network regularly received White House press credentials from the Trump administration, has in recent years openly and repeatedly advocated for violence against his perceived political enemies. Outraged by the administration’s efforts to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitation and the spread of right-wing disinformation about the vaccines, Wiles declared on Friday that if conservatives don’t fight back, they will soon “end up in a concentration camp, and after that, you’re going to end up in a grave.”
“Let’s stop being nice about these people,” Wiles said. “These are not good people. They’re not good people. They’re evil, and they’re wicked, and they want us dead.”
“Let’s meet at Gettysburg [and] get this over with,” he added. “That bunch of sissified lefties would never come out and meet real men. Never. They’re cowards. They’re a bunch of cowards that never would come out and face real men. They’ll never do it. They’re nothing but stinking cowards. I’m fed up with putting up with their crap.”
“I’m a free man. I live in a free country,” Wiles continued. “We ought to be ashamed that we’re allowing these cowards to take our country. We don’t want to be inconvenienced with putting down a communist revolution. It’s here, and if the people don’t do something very, very soon, you’re going to end up in a concentration camp, and after that, you’re going to end up in a grave.”
Auschwitz next month!
GPS chips in the immunization vaccines?
??????
Whaaa??
In saying so, the judge denied an injunction sought by eight college and graduate students who claimed the university’s vaccine policy unconstitutionally infringes on their bodily autonomy and medical privacy.
It’s no longer, “My body, my choice”, unless we’re doing abortions.
BTW I’m vaxed
4th street Alky has you beat CUT.
HE lost $0.00.
Loony toons loony toons
Jim Jordan among 5 House Republicans selected by McCarthy for January 6 select committee
By Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN
Updated Jul 19, 2021
(CNN) - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has made his selection of five Republicans to join the select committee investigating January 6, ensuring that Republicans will have input in the investigation run by Democrats.
Republican Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota and freshman Troy Nehls of Texas have been selected by McCarthy, the minority leader confirmed to CNN.
Banks was selected to be the ranking Republican, though Jordan is perhaps the most well-known of the five, given his history of clashing with Democrats at high-profile hearings on Capitol Hill.
Of the Republicans McCarthy has put forth for the committee, Banks, Jordan and Nehls were among the 139 House Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential results in Arizona and Pennsylvania. Davis and Armstrong voted to certify the presidential election.
Banks and Jordan were also part of the group of Republicans to sign onto the Texas lawsuit that sought to invalidate the ballots of millions of voters in four battleground states, but was swiftly blocked by the Supreme Court.
Under the House's resolution, Pelosi appoints eight members to the commission and McCarthy has five slots "in consultation" with Pelosi -- meaning the House speaker could ultimately veto his selections.
The select committee, which will investigate the deadly January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, is slated to have its first hearing next week. Committee members will hear from Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell as well as Metropolitan Police Department officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges about their experiences on January 6.
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi serves as chair of the committee and is also the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
The five Republicans chosen by McCarthy are not the only GOP members of the committee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming among her eight choices to serve on the panel.
Pelosi's office told CNN on Monday evening they too had just learned of the names and that Pelosi is reviewing the picks.
This story has been updated with additional developments Monday.
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China threatens to begin World War III'We will use nuclear bombs continuously'
By Bob Unruh
Published July 19, 2021 at 5:24pm
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A video has appeared online that reportedly is circulating among Chinese Communist Party channels in which the repressive regime on the mainland there threatens to unleash a "continuous" nuclear war on the world.
"When we liberate Taiwan, if Japan dares to intervene by force, even if it only deploys one soldier, one plane and one ship, we will not only return reciprocal fire but also start a full-scale war against Japan," the statement threatens.
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"We will use nuclear bombs continuously until Japan declares unconditional surrender for the second time. What we want to target is Japan's ability to endure a war. As long as Japan realizes that it cannot afford to pay the price of war, it will not dare to rashly send troops to the Taiwan Strait.
"In 1964, when our first atomic bomb was successfully detonated, we promised the world that we would not use atomic bombs against non-nuclear countries and that we would not be the first to use them. Nearly 60 years have passed. Although the strength of our nuclear deterrent has been somewhat affected this decision has been a success, and has safeguarded our peace when we built our country."
https://www.wnd.com/2021/07/china-threatens-begin-world-war-iii/
Insanity squared….
Have fun in your room, Alky you’ve killed the internet again
Roger, 600 square feet coffin.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With the state's Covid-19 cases roughly doubling each week, Florida has become one of the country's biggest hot spots for the latest surge fueled by the highly contagious delta variant, as well as vaccine skepticism.
UF Health in Jacksonville said it broke its record for most hospitalized Covid patients Monday. At the start of Sunday, the hospital had 86. At one point Monday, the number reached 126, an increase of more than 40% in just one day.
Red state successful in killing people!
Roger, the online video of where you are warehoused made my day.
I have never posted a video of where I live now.
The May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis ignited protests for racial justice and an end to police discrimination and brutality. Yet Trump sought to exploit the simmering divisions for personal political gain, quickly declaring himself “your president of law and order” and relentlessly pressuring Pentagon leaders to deploy active-duty troops against Black Lives Matter protesters. The worsening climate crisis, meanwhile, was almost entirely ignored by Trump, who earlier in his term had rolled back environmental regulations and withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement. The president was instead preoccupied with stoking doubts about the legitimacy of the election. After he lost to Joe Biden, Trump fanned the flames of conspiracies and howled about fraud that did not exist. His false claims of a “rigged election” inspired thousands of people to storm the Capitol in a violent and ultimately failed insurrection on January 6, 2021. The year 2020 tested the republic. Yet the institutions designed by the Founding Fathers were still standing by the time Trump left office. America’s democracy withstood the unrelenting assault of its president. Trump’s cries summoned tens of thousands of angry citizens to Washington to overturn the election, but Vice President Mike Pence and scores of lawmakers followed their constitutional duties.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Roger, 600 square feet coffin.
God's waiting room.
A student of history, Milley saw Trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. He described to aides that he kept having this stomach-churning feeling that some of the worrisome early stages of twentieth-century fascism in Germany were replaying in twenty-first-century America. He saw parallels between Trump’s rhetoric of election fraud and Adolf Hitler’s insistence to his followers at the Nuremberg rallies that he was both a victim and their savior. “This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told aides. “The gospel of the Führer.” — After states certified their election results on December 14, they sent their electoral college votes to Congress to be counted and affirmed on January 6. This event had long been a ceremonial formality, officiated by the vice president, acting in his or her capacity as president of the Senate. In this case, Vice President Pence was set to certify Biden’s victory. As painful as that might be, there was precedent: Vice President Al Gore had certified George W. Bush’s win in 2001 and Vice President Walter Mondale had done the same for Ronald Reagan in 1981.
But Trump imagined a different scenario.
Roger your Landlord out up a video.
They need to fill vacancies as people die.
Rrb, at 70 Roger "rents".
@ $2,200 a month for 600 square feet.
He said he going to "buy" a home.
Pipedream.
But Trump imagined a different scenario.
Republicans in those state legislatures could maneuver on his behalf to somehow overturn the election results, or at least delay the ultimate outcome. Most lawyers and constitutional scholars believed this would be illegal; the vice president had no such authority. But not Trump’s lawyers. Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell told the president that this junk legal theory was no slam dunk but had potential. A litany of other outside voices, whom Meadows put on the phone with the president or invited into the Oval Office for meetings in late December and early January, echoed their agreement. They included Flynn, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, and Mark Martin, a former chief justice of the State Supreme Court in Meadows’s home state of North Carolina. One after another, they told Trump that Pence not only had the power but the duty to take this drastic step. The vice president was the guy to right this wrong. Other senior administration officials blamed Meadows for neglecting his gatekeeper role. “The president was exposed to crazy people spouting lunatic theories about the election and his ability to overturn it. That is all Meadows,” one of them recalled. “He’s going to pick up the phone and call people, or crazy people are going to call him, but you can limit that. You’ve got to get him exposed to the right people, the right dissenting voices, and channel it. Meadows did none of that. He reinforced [Trump’s] instincts.”
The year 2020 tested the republic. Yet the institutions designed by the Founding Fathers were still standing by the time Trump left office. America’s democracy withstood the unrelenting assault of its president. Trump’s cries summoned tens of thousands of angry citizens to Washington to overturn the election, but Vice President Mike Pence and scores of lawmakers followed their constitutional duties.
The former President Trump is fucking insane.
LOL. Having to hide the fact that you're running as a democrat. Fucking priceless...
A growing swath of House Democratic candidates says the party needs to radically improve its heartland appeal to have any hope of keeping power in Washington.
Why it matters: With control of the House and Senate on the bubble, many ambitious Democrats — from the South to the Midwest to the Rockies — are running against their own national party's image.
What's happening: After four years of listening to President Trump, many rural voters are reflexively distrustful of progressive solutions to everything from the pandemic to infrastructure.
In a 3-min. ad for his Senate campaign, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio never says he's a Democrat.
What we're hearing: Democratic strategists are advising candidates in states like these to refrain from "fancy" language, and focus on populist economic policies.
https://www.axios.com/rural-democrats-2022-midterms-fbdb6804-e24c-4c81-9ea4-57f4df489c01.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
The former President Trump is fucking insane.
Says the aging drunk locked down in a shoebox who rants about Trump 24/7.
Psychological projection much alky?
LOL.
Trump fucking OWNS your ass like a BOSS.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Rrb, at 70 Roger "rents".
@ $2,200 a month for 600 square feet.
It's probably double that. Assisted living facilities ain't cheap. If he had any brains he would've done a Medicaid asset transfer with his tranny daughter (son?) Char-Lee so we the taxpayers pick up his tab like we did with his liver transplant when he drank THAT fucker to death.
The alky's life is a steaming pile of shit fully engulfed in flames.
If CH ever shuts down this blog the alky is dead in 30 days, tops.
Wall street journal mocking Bidenomics.
"Joe Biden’s Inflation Guide He says more spending lowers prices by . . . well, you figure it out..."
Biden Economic Theory, that the US government can smoother inflation with unbridled spending.
Pass the 6.5 Trillion, let's find out.
Old and busted: Liberals think we can tax our way to prosperity.
New hotness: Liberals think we can inflate our way to prosperity.
New hotness: Liberals think we can inflate our way to prosperity.
And trumpists believe you can go through life with your head stuck up your old white ass and do nothing......BWWWWWWWWWWWW
Biden Economic Theory, that the US government can smoother inflation with unbridled spending.
And the goat fucker thinks posting bullshit here will make things better......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
DeSantis may have his bubble busted as more start to realize how little he has done....Now the fuck is selling T Shirts with Don't Fauci My State!!!!!! Brilliant PR campaign to a dedicated Dr who has given his life for doing good for the country!!!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/florida-rep-claims-fox-news-and-ron-de-santis-are-responsible-for-states-covid-surge-
Yahoo TV
Florida congresswoman claims Fox News and Ron DeSantis are responsible for state’s COVID surge
Stephen Proctor
Mon, July 19, 2021, 2:28 AM·2 min read
In this article:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared on CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown Sunday, where the Florida Democrat blamed Gov. Ron DeSantis for the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in the state. Florida currently accounts for roughly 20 percent of new cases in the U.S.
“What I think explains high infection rates is that we have a governor who has not taken COVID seriously from the very beginning,” Wasserman Schultz said. “You know, he’s essentially right now treating it like a joke.”
DeSantis recently passed a law prohibiting local jurisdictions from imposing new COVID restrictions, and is selling anti-vaccine merchandise, like t-shirts that read “Don’t Fauci My Florida.”
“I would rather see us Fauci our Florida than have people go through death by DeSantis, and that's what we're facing now,” Wasserman Schultz said. “He actually had a law passed in Florida to prohibit local governments from being able to enact measures like mask requirements and social distancing to keep people safe. You just can't make this stuff up. So that's where the blame lies, at his feet.”
I completely agree with this op ed from LA.......Kinda amusing all these talking vax deniers screaming you can't tell me what to do with my body as they all sit in unison telling what women can and cannot do with theirs....The GOP the party of hypocrisy!!!!!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-time-tough-covid-vaccine-100031244.html
Nobody and I mean nobody in Florida want to return to mandatory mask wearing.and lockdowns.
Ron DeSantas was one of the best Governors to handle the pandemic.
The Democrats are scared of him. He's odds on the favorite to trounce any Democrat opponent in 2022 and is a real threat to win it all in 2024 (providing Trump doesn't run)
“I would rather see us Fauci our Florida than have people go through death by DeSantis, and that's what we're facing now,” Wasserman Schultz said.
Meanwhile, up here in NY, Killer Cuomo engaged in a wholesale slaughter of the elderly in nursing homes, and the Feds have determined that he undercounted Covid deaths by at least 10,000.
But it's DeSantis that sends liberals to the fainting couch.
Mean while in NY.....rat is still alive and breathing stupidity in every possible way!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!! Yep...it is all cuomo's fault for covid....the mantra of dumb fucks who support trump!!!!
ommonsense said...
Nobody and I mean nobody in Florida want to return to mandatory mask wearing.and lockdowns.
Most amusing that you are speaking for every single floriduh resident.....Wth DeSantis doing nothing but selling anti fauci shirts....who knows how bad this siege of virus will get???? Really sucks to be you cramps and your hate of science!!!!! If everyone in floriduh got the shot, we sure wouldn't be worrying about masks would we.....LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! It is your side driving the BS and the low intellect idiots who are failing freedom from getting sick...... Ron D 's great leadership is leading Floriduh to be #1 in new infections......yep great job Ron!!!! You can't argue with such a record of success like his!!!!
Readout of White House Listening Session with Cuban American Leaders
JULY 19, 2021STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Today, Senior Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Cedric Richmond and Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere for the National Security Council Juan Gonzalez met with Cuban American leaders to listen to their policy recommendations and concerns in light of the recent, unprecedented demonstrations unfolding across Cuba. Administration officials underscored that the White House is monitoring the situation in Cuba closely and that addressing the moment and ongoing situation in Cuba is a top priority for the Administration. They also affirmed what the President said last week: that the demonstrations are the direct result of a failed communist government, and reminded the leaders that the President stands firmly with the people of Cuba. Stakeholders shared what they’ve done over the last week to help elevate the voices of demonstrators in Cuba and provided their recommendations for how the U.S. government can help. Today’s was the latest event in ongoing work the White House has done to reach Cuban American leaders following the historic demonstrations.
This leads us to one of the trickiest long-term trends of all: the future of work. The pandemic has sped up the digitalisation of everything. I think that’s going to create a major disinflationary force in the global economy. Corporate investment in “intangible” goods such as intellectual property and software rose sharply during the pandemic. An executive survey last year by McKinsey, the consultancy, found that three quarters of respondents in North America and Europe expected to accelerate such investments over the next four years. That is up from 55 per cent between 2014 and 2019. These kinds of investments increase productivity but at the cost of jobs, and fewer jobs translates into less demand. Combined with digitisation, this could drive down the prices of goods, plus services such as healthcare and education. Alongside housing, these services are generally the most inflation-generating categories among OECD countries, including the US. Such technology-driven productivity would therefore be deflationary. So too if there were more workers able to leverage these new technologies in their work. Ideally, government investment in reskilling will do just that. By converting low paid care work into higher skilled middle income jobs, consumption could rise even as prices might fall in sectors such as healthcare. Demand for that is rising sharply as boomers age, yet the jobs currently on offer are neither productive nor well paid. Such investment in the “caring economy” is the focus of much of Joe Biden’s administration’s proposed stimulus. Let’s hope it gets through. Otherwise, if nothing changes, we may see more digitalised businesses employing only a few highly paid people — and the cost of consuming the goods and services that constitute middle class living will continue to rise.
rana.foroohar@ft.com
Middle income disparity will be reduced by President Biden's infrastructure plan and again a path forward.
It's far too complex for rrb and kputz etc.
Otherwise, if nothing changes, we may see more digitalised businesses employing only a few highly paid people — and the cost of consuming the goods and services that constitute middle class living will continue to rise.
https://www.ft.com/content/2e6cc67e-0ae3-488d-834b-b84625d103b5?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9
Most amusing that you are speaking for every single floriduh resident.
Didn't say I did. But I do have personal knowledge of this as well as statistical backup from the latest polls. Any attempt to reestablish mandatory face mask or lockdowns will face wholesale resistance in Florida.
everyone in floriduh got the shot, we sure wouldn't be worrying about masks would we.
Currently 47% of Floridians have been fully vaccinated and 55% have one shot. Witch means in about 3 weeks 55% will be fully vaccinated.
Since Florida's demographics are older and more at risk from the disease, you don't have a significant anti-fax movement.
In fact 95% of the people who are at risk have been fully vaccinated.
When asked which poses a greater risk to their health, more unvaccinated Americans say the COVID-19 vaccines than say the virus itself, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a view that contradicts all available science and data and underscores the challenges that the United States will continue to face as it struggles to stop a growing “pandemic of the unvaccinated” driven by the hyper-contagious Delta variant.
The survey of 1,715 U.S. adults, which was conducted from July 13 to 15, found that just 29 percent of unvaccinated Americans believe the virus poses a greater risk to their health than the vaccines — significantly less than the number who believe the vaccines represent the greater health risk (37 percent) or say they’re not sure (34 percent).
Over the last 18 months, COVID-19 has killed more than 4.1 million people worldwide, including more than 600,000 in the U.S. At the same time, more than 2 billion people worldwide — and more than 186 million Americans — have been at least partially vaccinated against the virus, and scientists who study data on their reported side effects continue to find that the vaccines are extraordinarily safe.
Dumbfuckers believe Tucker Carlson etc.
Darwinism will save the planet from people like him.
roger said:
Darwinism will save the planet from people like him.
Amazing you are still alive.
Though your daily word salad postings show you're not living very lucidly
Why are the homeless and the mentally challenged always preaching to others ?
A completely failed life ?
Try enjoying the remaining moments
monsense said...
Nobody and I mean nobody in Florida want to return to mandatory mask wearing.and lockdowns.
Didn't say I did. But I do have personal knowledge of this as well
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Why do you trumpist lie even about what you posted????????? Sorry sport no you are projecting more BS than Lil Schitty!!!!! Floriduh when compared to blue states in the NE is far behind in vaccination due to DeSantis and fox news misinformation......Your stats at best are interesting but meaningless as long as so many in floriduh remain un vaxed!!!!!!!
The loony toons believe that science is anti Republican
Trump rallies are a thing again, drawing magnitudes more than Biden or Harris could even dream of at any of their events. Trump is in campaign mode and is the GOP kingmaker ahead of both the midterms and next presidential election.
What better way to stop the Trump rallies and distract from unpleasant news than by returning to the COVID glory days of 2020, masking up and locking down. Wait until fall when seasonal influenza kicks in and the calls for masks will become deafening. Tweak the PCR test cycle threshold upward and viola, more cases, more masking and distancing, more mandates. Totalitarianism on demand.
Is LA’s new mask mandate in the interest of public health or shaping and directing the political narrative? Why would it be politically convenient to mask up and lock down again? Do the Democrats have plans that they would prefer to receive little news coverage? George Orwell had a good thought, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.”
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Though your daily word salad postings show you're not living very lucidly
No kidding.
The alky can't even plagiarize worth a shit. At least Biden* could do THAT much.
YOU HERE AT COLDHEARTED unTRUTH KEEP DOWNPLAYING THIS VIRUS SITUATION BUT THE WORLD IS LOOKING AT IT DIFFERENTLY
India’s Coronavirus Deaths Likely 4.7 Million
July 20, 2021 at 8:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
“India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy,” the AP reports.
“Most experts believe India’s official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount, but the government has dismissed those concerns as exaggerated and misleading.
“The report released Tuesday estimated excess deaths — the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected — to be between 3 million to 4.7 million between January 2020 and June 2021.”
Tokyo Olympics Might Still Be Canceled
July 20, 2021 at 7:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments
“The head of the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the global sporting showpiece, amid rising coronavirus cases that have presented organizers with mounting challenges,” CNBC reports.
more than 186 million Americans — have been at least partially vaccinated against the virus, and scientists who study data on their reported side effects continue to find that the vaccines are extraordinarily safe.
What troubles me is the lack of transparency and misleading propaganda the government puts out. And the press not challenging.
How can Europe have such different stats on Covid infections from vaccinated people than the US? Is the US taking the whole universe of Covid infections from inception and saying 98.5 % of infections were not vaccinated? That would make sense since no vaccine was available for about that such a long time, though that would be very misleading. Europe is reporting much closer to a 50/50 split. And high profile examples of double vaccinated people in America getting Covid are emerging daily.
Why hide the issues with the vaccine, there have been a lot of adverse event reporting, though I am not sure how much. The government website is murky and hard to navigate, unlike the Covid website was https://vaers.hhs.gov/index.html . Some very prominent people have died right after getting the vaccine including Hank Aaron and Marvin Hagler and some like Eric Clapton had such a severe reaction he thought he would never be able to play guitar again.
We do know there have been thousands of deaths and many, many more adverse effects, even if the government is slow to attribute these to vaccines, unlike how they attribute Covid deaths. If we treat Covid deaths as "with Covid" we should attribute vaccine deaths as "with vaccine". We also know individually our own health status. Clearer and more transparent data could overcome vaccine hesitancy.
Unless the numbers show otherwise.
jmo
I'm glad to see France reversed itself and won't fine/jail people for living their life after 4 days of immense protests. Funny how the state media here was silent on them.
That doesn't help vaccine hesitancy either when you can't trust the press and their reporting.
Floriduh when compared to blue states in the NE is far behind in vaccination due to DeSantis and fox news misinformation...
No state mandates taking a vaccine,
DeSantas nor Fox News never said not to take the vaccine. In fact they are big vaccine boosters. The difference is they respect people personal choices.
That's what you can deal with.
DOES EVEN SEAN HANNITY HAVE A CONSCIENCE?
Sean Hannity Tells Viewers to Get Vaccinated
July 20, 2021 at 6:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Fox News host
Sean Hannity suddenly urged his viewers last night to “please take Covid seriously.”
He added: “I can’t say it enough. Enough people have died. We don’t need any more death. Research like crazy. Talk to your doctor… I believe in science. I believe in the science of vaccination.”
WELL, STEP UP CH AND RRB. SAY THE SAME. FOR THE SAKE OF PEOPLE. FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION. FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD.
Arthur Schwartz
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1417286073248538627
Media Matters frauds are at it again, selectively editing video to mislead & spread their lies.
Tucker cited data from "a bunch of different countries" after showing the UK Chief Science Advisor saying 40% of hospitalizations are coming from double vaccinated people.
Not only can't you trust the press, you can't trust their "fact checkers" and overseers
Nearly Impossible to Convince the Unvaccinated
July 20, 2021 at 6:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new Axios/Ipsos poll
finds most Americans who still aren’t vaccinated say nothing — not their own doctor administering it, a favorite celebrity’s endorsement or even paid time off — is likely to make them get the shot.
YOU CAN'T HELP THE DETERMIDLY STUPID.
TRUMP HAS FRIED YOUR BRAINS.
PARTY OF DEATH: Texas Democrats Put Lives at Risk as Biden’s COVID-19 Body Count Nears 200K
Five (now 6) Texas Democrats have now tested positive for COVID-19 as a direct result of a childish publicity stunt. Their recklessness may even have endangered the life of President Joe Biden, who has presided over nearly 200,000 American deaths from the virus—the equivalent of 83 Pearl Harbor attacks.
The Democratic lawmakers fled the state last week in an attempt to shut down the state legislature and prevent the Republican majority from passing crucial election reforms. Aboard their privately chartered plane to Washington, D.C., the Dems shunned the Biden administration's safety guidelines by refusing to wear masks, a reckless decision that could cost them up to $1.75 million in fines.
More than 50 Democrats made the trip to the nation's capital, where they posted photos on social media and posed as martyrs to a pointless cause. After effectively filibustering the Texas state legislature, the group lobbied congressional Democrats to abolish the Senate filibuster in order to ease the passage of radical left-wing legislation at the national level.
The Texas Dems even met with Vice President Kamala Harris, who described their frivolous antics as an example of "extraordinary courage and commitment." Throwing a public tantrum, she said, was "as American as apple pie." Following the meeting, Harris went to Walter Reed Medical Center for what was described as a "routine" visit.
Biden, who will turn 79 in November, is in the demographic (elderly male) most at risk of dying from COVID-19. Although the president promised to end the pandemic, nearly one third of U.S. deaths from the virus (about 608,000 in total) have occurred on his watch. On average, more than 1,000 Americans have died each day since Biden took office. Many experts believe he is directly responsible.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/party-of-death-democrats/
see how that works...
JamesNewLeaf said...
YOU CAN'T HELP THE DETERMIDLY STUPID.
I think you meant determinedly.
stupid.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Wall street journal mocking Bidenomics.
"Joe Biden’s Inflation Guide He says more spending lowers prices by . . . well, you figure it out
The traderous leftist
"Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, who was on the call, seemed to take comfort that the negotiations were limping along. He said the "whole thing falling apart is probably the best thing."
Not how adults act.
WELL, STEP UP CH AND RRB. SAY THE SAME. FOR THE SAKE OF PEOPLE. FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION. FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD.
My body, my choice.
If it's good enough for the infanticide crowd it's good enough for me.
Go fuck yourself pederast. And shove your totalitarian attitude up your child molesting ass.
LMAO -
So Mr. Biden thinks that cradle-to-grave government subsidies with no obligation to work will somehow cause more people to work.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/president-joe-biden-remarks-inflation-federal-reserve-11626732122
India’s Coronavirus Deaths Likely 4.7 Million
July 20, 2021 at 8:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
“India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy,” the AP reports.
Must be Trump's fault or maybe DeSantis' fault?
Obviously Covid deaths in India are the fault of conservatives, huh?
Marxist
James
BLM
Roger
The Squatters
Antifa
China Wuhan Laboratory Covid Virus
Be clear on that.
KansasDemocrat said...
China Wuhan Laboratory Covid Virus
Be clear on that.
sponsored by Dr. Fauci
sponsored by Dr Fauci!!!!!
BWAAAAAAA!!!! Another lie and fake news that the idiot GOP keeps spreading......Why are you such an asshole???
Must be Trump's fault or maybe DeSantis' fault?
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! You were the one who claimed it was just the flu asshole....now you are toeing the GOP idiocy line of its gone away,,,,,,,,dayum you are a sorry sack of shit!!!!!!!
With the likes of fucked up daddy and his vaccine death count mantra......no wonder the US is as fucked up as he is as this survey show.....Millions of doses given and from my research, i death may have happened because of a shot???? Wonder where this misinformation comes from.....the likes or Ron Johnson and Marjorie Greene with fox news sure are culprits!!!!
Sports
Games
Unvaccinated Americans say COVID vaccines are riskier than the virus, even as Delta surges among them
Yahoo News
ANDREW ROMANO
July 20, 2021, 5:00 AM
0:01 4:19
CDC: 99.5% of COVID-19 deaths are from unvaccinated individuals
we have seen the successes
of our vaccination program
When asked which poses a greater risk to their health, more unvaccinated Americans say the COVID-19 vaccines than say the virus itself, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a view that contradicts all available science and data and underscores the challenges that the United States will continue to face as it struggles to stop a growing “pandemic of the unvaccinated” driven by the hyper-contagious Delta variant.
The survey of 1,715 U.S. adults, which was conducted from July 13 to 15, found that just 29 percent of unvaccinated Americans believe the virus poses a greater risk to their health than the vaccines — significantly less than the number who believe the vaccines represent the greater health risk (37 percent) or say they’re not sure (34 percent).
VERY lo iq said:
from my research, i death may have happened because of a shot???? Wonder where this misinformation comes from.....
not sure where your research came from or if "i death" meant you are now dead.
Definitely brain dead.
according to the VAERS statistics, 3,362 people died after receiving a COVID vaccine in the United States between December and April 23.
That was early on numbers VERY lo iq
Can't fix stupid
or your idiotic "research"
again
Drudge Report
"US CASES UP 224%"
LOCK IT DOWN.
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