Part Sechs of You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Good post that no rational citizen could disagree with! Unfortunately, its worse than that & another blue wave in 2020 is imperative. Will all depend on all Dems & a decent portion of indys/undecideds uniting behind Biden or whoever is the nominee & vote in much larger #s than '16. The vast majority of repubs wouldn't vote for anyone with a D beside their name no matter who the dem or repub candidate was. Sad times..  

Forcing people go out and voting in long line for many hours amid Covid-19 pandemic crisis, that makes people livid. And it appears back firing the GOP's partisan attempt.  

We were told many, many times by O that elections have consequences. 

I will stand in line with or without a mask this November to cast my vote for President Trump. 

I have no excuse. Again. People of Wisconsin waited in line wearing a gas mask to more than likely vote for a man with dementia. Crazy imo!

They stood in line for the Judge not Joe.

Joe was going to win in a snoozer.

Republicans love capitalism when things are going well for the country but they equally love socialism when things are going poorly for the country.

Farking Hypocrites!

What does this mean?  What exactly are you referring to?

Seriously???

The statement is self explanatory.

Yessir.  Seriously.  

It is an antithetical statement without examples.  

All seven Supreme Court justices voted absentee, even those who hadn't in the past

They had noreason to stand in line and vote for Biden as he will be the nominee. They stood in line to vote for a a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice and guess what happened? 

I hate socialism more than you hate Trump. Why? Because there is real reason to hate socialism, not just because it hurt my feelings or some phony shit. 

For example, what exactly were you thinking about at the time you wrote this?

What Conservative writers have advocated anything like what you imply?

I think he is referring to the way so called republicans complain about millions of dollars used in social programs  by individuals but never say squat about the billions of dollars given to corporations.

And the reason is? (drumroll)

From President Trump at today's presser.

I moved heaven and earth to make sure ventilators were available for anybody that might have needed one!

Let's see if we have any bombshells during today's press conference.

Fascist Trump must be desperate to reopen depressed US economy before November election.  He falsely claims total authority to lift restrictions that governors have imposed to fight pandemic according to Washingtonpost factchecking.  But 10th amendment limits federal power.  Actually, the president can only issue non-binding guidelines.  If states challenge via a lawsuit, legal experts expect Trump to lose.  According to Harvard global health institute, US lacks 3 conditions necessary to end social distancing.  Decline in number of sick cases, excess healthcare capacity and enough testing.  Under Trump lousy leadership, US is still struggling to catch up to other countries.

I think he is referring to the way so called republicans complain about millions of dollars used in social programs  by individuals but never say squat about the billions of dollars given to corporations.

Exactly darkhorse.

Take private equity investors. They take huge risks to make huge profits. Now they are hitting a downside to business but have the government stepping in to assist them.

Basically we have we have capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down. Either you're a capitalist or you are not. You can't have it both ways. 

I've heard it said that corporations are people.

OK; so why are they getting more than $1,200.?

Since Trump is not a legally approved signer of the stimulus checks, his name will be in the "memo" section of the check.

P T Barnum would be proud. 

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, has come under fire in recent weeks for unloading stock holdings right before the market crashed on fears of coronavirus and for a timely sale of shares in an obscure Dutch fertilizer company.

Now the North Carolina Republican’s 2017 sale of his Washington, D.C., home to a group led by a donor and powerful lobbyist who had business before Burr’s committee is raising additional ethical questions.

Burr sold the small townhouse, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, for what, by some estimates, was an above market price — $900,000 — to a team led by lobbyist John Green. That is tens of thousands of dollars above some estimates of the property’s value by tax assessors, a real estate website and a local real estate agent. The sale was done off-market, without the home being listed for sale publicly.

Nothing like cashing in on your way out of office. The Congressional watchdogs are members of  Congress and shining the light on one of them shines the light on all of them. Both sides of the aisle are complicit in this "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" bullshit that has been going on for decades.

I didn’t see anything from you on this yet?  Unless, you are saying all ‘private quote investors’ are Conservative?  Which is easily proven false. 

So, what was originally on your mind as you typed that earlier?

You told me you had a few threads open now and to pick the topic.  I told you when I saw one interesting enough to me I would let you know.  

I pick this one.  

I have heard this a lot from well-versed Liberals.  So, I want to choose this one.  

American medical association criticizes Trump's threat to halt funding to World health organization.  During the worst public health crisis in a century, halting funding to WHO is a dangerous step in the wrong direction that will not make defeating coronavirus easier.  A pandemic requires international cooperation and data.  This move will make Americans less safe.  In January, WHO offered good test kits used in 80 countries but Trump administration refused them. 

Trump's threat is obviously an attempt to deflect blame from his administration's failure to prepare US against pandemic according to Protect our care group.  Key positions are left unfilled that are vital to US response.  No US respresentative at WHO, no pandemic response team in National security council, no pandemic experts in 39 of 49 countries (including China) that are supposed to help detect pandemics early.  Since congress controls spending, the president must spend as directed instead of repeating Ukraine debacle.

Raiders...I already answered. Look at post 2121.