There is a diary on here which is very good about Betsy No nothing and it is good. http://www.dailykos.com/… I am a parent, grandparent and great grandparent. I know kids. I have raised enough of them to know them. We know we have a shortage of teachers and we do not need to lose anymore…
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Trump: “The country is in very good shape, other than if you look South and West.”
Yesterday’s Trump presser only needed a whiteboard and a Sharpietm to draw the path to a quarter-million US deaths. x The U.S. has now confirmed 4 million coronavirus cases — just 15 days after hitting 3 million. Federal health officials have said the actual number of cases is likely 10 times higher than the number of confirmed…
RW extremists find affinity in FB groups because Facebook helps them find each other
“…Facebook right now continues to host boogaloo groups who are getting around just the basic level of content moderation they’re doing for these groups….” — MSNBC reporter Brandy Zadronzny “[DemocracyNow.org]…we have seen the boogaloo movement congregating on Facebook for several months now…. they’ve been organized really since the outbreak of the coronavirus,… they think this could…
FUNNY: Watch MSNBC Host call Trump by his other name: Drumpf
I thought I was hearing wrong but I did not. MSNBC host Chris Jansing called Donald Trump by his ancestral name Drumpf. It was kind of amusing as she did not blink. Yes, I know it is silly but it is a good laugh on an otherwise somber day. Don’t you think? Please join our YouTube…
GA-Sen A: Georgia's Other Corrupt Stock Dumping Senator Is Trying To Cover His Ass
Nothing to see here: U.S. Sen. David Perdue, after seeing his portfolio scrutinized and criticized, says his advisers will no longer trade stocks in individual companies. The Friday evening announcement coincided with the filing of a report that outlined trading on his behalf over the previous month. “As you can see from the April report,…
Trump thinks he's done more for Black people than all other presidents combined
Um, okay. Nice to see that Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, at least gets a shout-out. But Abe, JFK (proposed the Civil Rights Act), LBJ (signed the Civil Rights Act), and Barack Obama (broke barriers and inspired millions) still don’t add up to one DJT, who once occupied the White House during a period…
CDC/FEMA draft plan ignores swab shortages and other failures in the “free-market” for testing.
A leaked CDC/FEMA draft plan tries to triage mitigation efforts, commodifies immunity without testing, and attempts to divert attention from Trump’s missteps. In the interim, swab and PPE shortages may be contributing to a decline in testing by commercial labs, which (of course) has nothing to do with keeping the case numbers down. Trump’s “cutie-pie” capitalism attempts…
Trump: U.S. has done more testing than any other nation 'by far'; reality: uh, no …
This is a little like Exxon saying it’s scrubbed crude oil off far more ducks than all the wind turbine manufacturers in the world combined. x Just reported that the United States has done far more “testing†than any other nation, by far! In fact, over an eight day span, the United States now does more…
How is it that Facebook had 750,000 facemasks lying around and other Trumpian absurdities
We are now beginning to see the dimensions of the crisis as Trump in his presser continued to not actually implement the DPA but rather use it as a threat to encourage corporate volunteerism, as if getting a Pernod distillery to produce 1,000 gallons of hand sanitizer was a big accomplishment. There’s unfortunately going to…
GOP strategist: 'We built this moment. And then we looked the other way'
This Washington Post op-ed from Stuart Stevens, an author and Republican political consultant, is the mother of all mea culpas. (He’s plugging a book, so maybe some of this will seem a bit convenient and self-serving. Then again, the title of the book is It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.)…
‘The Trump jobs slump’ and other slogans we can use to drive Trump bonkers and win over voters
If there’s one thing Donald Trump is good at, it’s shouting the same outrageous lies over and over again. As a former reality show host whose most discernible skill was fake-firing people who weren’t actually employees, Trump understood the value of a catchphrase. “You’re fired!” may have been the “What you talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” of the…
Did it ever occur to people that calling other people Bernie Bros is high level bullying
I am ashamed to say, though I never use the term, that I did not recognize this earlier. I had the realization from a comment on another thread in which the individual said their adult children became angry and hurt when they heard this term. The same thing is true of my children. It is…
James Carville on 2020: “Wish in one hand, (___) in the other. See which one gets filled first.”
MSNBC had James Carville on to opine on the Iowa caucuses, and he cited a Marine Corps saying as a critique of the Democratic party not providing a winning strategy for winning in 2020. I will be setting my TV on something other than the SOTU. We’ve had three years of (___) in tiny hands. x…
“operator error” but what if nine other planes weren't fired on before Ukraine flight 752
Six of nine earlier flights were in the same flight path prior to the decision to shoot at least one Tor missile at Ukraine International Air flight 752. x “FlightRadar24 showed the flight following its normal route and travelling at just over 500 kmh–far slower than a cruise missile. Nine flights had left Tehran’s ……
if Mike Bloomberg is using prison labor, what do other campaigns do
Probably the perfect example of the abuse of free-market capitalism: to use prison labor below minimum wage in general, but even more perfect exploitation to have such labor do boiler room work in call centers for political campaigns. Easy to imagine what GOP subcontractors do in an age of NRA money laundering and Ukrainian shakedowns. And…
Iowa Newspaper Calls on Gov. Reynolds to Enfranchise Felons, Like 49 Other States
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/… The Des Moines Register is calling on Republican Governor Kim Reynolds to end Iowa’s disenfranchisement of felons for life. Iowa became the only state that does so after Kentucky’s new governor, Andy Beshear, signed an executive order that returned voting rights to 140,000 in the Bluegrass State. She says she’s interested in restoring voting…
Steele investigated other salacious Trump stories beyond the infamous pee tape
If you believe, as I do, that Donald Trump is an ineluctably expanding blob of id that would swallow up the solar system if we let him, this won’t come as a surprise. Nor should it. The alleged pee tape incident, it seems, wasn’t the only salacious story Christopher Steele investigated on his way to…
No, Joe: One party is pro-America, the other is pro-Russia, and we don't need both
Former Vice President Joe Biden voiced a unique concern about the 2020 election results at a campaign event in Iowa on Friday. The presidential hopeful stated that “he's concerned about what would happen if the Republican Party were totally “clobbered,” BuzzFeed News reports, adding that he’s “really worried that no party should have too much power,” and…
Giuliani could be prosecuted under the Logan Act, among other things
The pushback from Trumpists is beginning with much disinformation and noise. The coming weeks will unfortunately be far too interesting because the latest episode with Ukraine is one clearly created while Trump has been POTUS*, even as its foundation was laid by Paul Manfort, among others, like Rudy Giuliani. x Opinion | Mimi Rocah: “Giuliani…
Whistle-blower: “There are other witnesses to (a pattern of) disturbing conduct”
Even if a sitting POTUS* cannot be indicted, plenty of others are coming into view after the rough memo of the Trump conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky. Now that the whistle-blower complaint has reached the Congressional committees, new questions will emerge for the IC IG about the involvement of other figures like AG Barr and…
