"WW C"- COVID-19, GLOBAL CASES SURPASS 676 MILLION...Here we go again 2025 are we ready for Trump to fuck this up again?
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That's sad. I've subscribed to the magazine for years. Last year the website went behind a paywall. I fear for the future of historical data if everything is digital. Without physical copies of books, magazines and documentaries, it becomes much easier for someone to erase or alter the past.
Let’s be honest: You have to have someone with deep pockets to finance these newspaper operations. The Washington Post is bankrolled by Amazon. The Atlantic is supported by Job’s widow.
Until you start to educate the masses you will continue to see a decline in news outlet. You get what you pay for. I know the price of knowledge and I pay for it. If others enjoy reading garbage that is on them.
Vox, Ezra Klein’s website is clearly trying to be bought out. However, I think the days ofbusiness deals like that may be well in the past.
Just a cool way to divert the press as we head toward 100K dead. Are you falling for it?
He is sitting beside God right now smiling down at us.
These posts do not make us better. These people gambled with their lives because they were unable to understand the severity of the disease. We shouldn’t laugh at their misfortune.
I see irony, but I don't see what's funny.
This dumbass risked the lives of innocent sheeple for the sole purpose of dollars. If there is a God he’s roasting in hell right now.
Fuck him.
Is this the time for this?
Someone should’ve asked him that.
What independent entity? One thing this administration has exposed to the public is how deep the governmental tree really is.
My family is religious. I can’t go a day without aunts and uncle sending me messages about how these days were predicted in the Bible. However, they understand why they shouldn’t go to church and be around others right now.
Then again they don’t live in a country besieged with this right now.
This administration should be thought of as leeches. Not because of all the grift. In the medical field leeches are sometimes used to treat dead tissue. Our government is dead tissue and the president is allowing us to see exactly the depth of this wound.
Moving forward we need have serious legislative candidates who are truly interested in remedying this dysfunction. The days of resume padding legislators should be well behind us. This is about Civics.
I agree. Well stated and great anonolgy!
The bible supports quarantine. People who were infectious were isolated until a Priest declared them clean. Ask them to find anywhere in the bible where it says to ignore illness or not treat illness. There is benefit to corporate worship, but WE are the Church. Not a building. They can worship anywhere.
I talked about this in another thread.
This seems relevant to add to the conversation. This is a quote from Yuval Noah Harari, he is an Israeli historian . I picked up his book Sapeins after being recommended by both Obama and Bill Gates. I haven't read his work yet but he makes a good point about paying for good information. If information is free, we can become overwhelmed by garbage. I really love this observation:
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘The idea of free information is extremely dangerous’
As his new book is published, the bestselling author talks fake news, meditation and appearing with Natalie Portman
It is amazing to me that places that were weeks behind Europe in terms of the spread/impact of the virus are now reopening at the same time or, in some instances, ahead of Europe.
Minus whale add this to the list
Ohio is not that stupid I see they ain’t taking no chances I am very surprised
I think they still opened hair salons and stuff too soon. We'll see how it works out. They canceled the Ohio State Fair also.
Trump Is Treating Michigan the Way He Treated Ukraine. Well Done, Senate Republicans
Ryan Bort
Rolling StoneMay 20, 2020, 4:29 PM EDT
Click here to read the full article.
A few weeks before President Trump was impeached last December for attempting to blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan warned the House Judiciary Committee of a future in which the president used similar tactics on his own country:
“Imagine living in a part of Louisiana or Texas that’s prone to devastating hurricanes and flooding. What would you think if you lived there and your governor asked for a meeting with the president to discuss getting disaster aid that Congress has provided for? What would you think if that president said, ‘I would like you to do us a favor? I’ll meet with you, and send the disaster relief, once you brand my opponent a criminal.’
Wouldn’t you know in your gut that such a president has abused his office? That he’d betrayed the national interest, and that he was trying to corrupt the electoral process? I believe the evidentiary record shows wrongful acts on those scale here.”
It didn’t take long for Karlan’s hypothetical to sidle up next to reality. Trump has repeatedly criticized Democratic governors throughout the coronavirus crisis, the implication being that there could be repercussions if they fail to cooperate with the administration or show their gratitude to the president. In late March, Trump came pretty close to laying out a quid pro quo during an interview with Fox News. “It’s a two-way street,” the president said while discussing states in need of federal assistance. “They have to treat us well, also.”
On Wednesday, Trump’s demands grew more specific. As part of his morning Twitter movement, he posted that he will withhold funding from Michigan and Nevada, two key swing states, if they expand voter access ahead of the 2020 election.
Trump initially accused Michigan of sending out vote-by-mail ballots to residents, before later posting a corrected tweet (and deleting the earlier one) specifying that they’re sending out vote-by-mail applications. But so are Republican-controlled states like Georgia. Nothing remotely “illegal” is taking place here. But these types of distinctions — or, facts — are immaterial to Trump’s continued effort to restrict voter access and sow doubt in the legitimacy of the electoral process.
Just to be clear: There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, either by millions crossing state lines to vote multiple times, a nonexistent scheme Trump has cited in explaining his popular-vote loss to Hillary Clinton, or through vote-by-mail. According to a recent survey published by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, there’s no evidence vote-by-mail helps Democrats, either. The only thing expanding vote-by-mail means is more people will be able to vote, especially as the coronavirus has heightened the risk of standing in lines.
Lambasting the practice has nevertheless become a tent pole of Trump’s 2020 campaign, the goal being to ensure as few Americans as possible are able to make it to the polls. Trump believes that the more people who vote, the worse his chances are. He said as much while discussing Democrats’ efforts to increase funding for absentee ballots and vote-by-mail in the coronavirus relief package. “They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” he told Fox News on March 30th.
Now, Trump is trying to blackmail crucial swing states into suppressing their vote-by-mail initiatives. One of them, Michigan, is not only struggling with COVID-19, but with historic floods in the center of the state. How could Trump be so brazen? Well, he already got away with trying to blackmail a foreign nation into interfering in the 2020 election. Why wouldn’t he do it again?
Karlan tried to warn the House of Representatives that this could happen. After Trump was impeached, Democrats issued similar warnings to the Senate Republicans voting on whether to remove him from office. “The president solicited a personal political benefit in exchange for an official act,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said during the impeachment trial. “If this Senate were to say, ‘That’s acceptable’ … [this] could take place all across America in the context of the next election, with grants allocated to cities or towns or municipalities all across the country.”
But Senate Republicans did indeed deem it acceptable, many of them arguing that Trump having to endure the impeachment process was punishment enough. “I believe that the president has learned from this case,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told CBS News after Trump was acquitted. “The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
Three months later, the lesson appears to be that that even if Trump flagrantly abuses his office, Senate Republicans will vote to protect him.
Ryan Bort
Rolling StoneMay 20, 2020, 4:29 PM EDT
Click here to read the full article.
A few weeks before President Trump was impeached last December for attempting to blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan warned the House Judiciary Committee of a future in which the president used similar tactics on his own country:
“Imagine living in a part of Louisiana or Texas that’s prone to devastating hurricanes and flooding. What would you think if you lived there and your governor asked for a meeting with the president to discuss getting disaster aid that Congress has provided for? What would you think if that president said, ‘I would like you to do us a favor? I’ll meet with you, and send the disaster relief, once you brand my opponent a criminal.’
Wouldn’t you know in your gut that such a president has abused his office? That he’d betrayed the national interest, and that he was trying to corrupt the electoral process? I believe the evidentiary record shows wrongful acts on those scale here.”
It didn’t take long for Karlan’s hypothetical to sidle up next to reality. Trump has repeatedly criticized Democratic governors throughout the coronavirus crisis, the implication being that there could be repercussions if they fail to cooperate with the administration or show their gratitude to the president. In late March, Trump came pretty close to laying out a quid pro quo during an interview with Fox News. “It’s a two-way street,” the president said while discussing states in need of federal assistance. “They have to treat us well, also.”
On Wednesday, Trump’s demands grew more specific. As part of his morning Twitter movement, he posted that he will withhold funding from Michigan and Nevada, two key swing states, if they expand voter access ahead of the 2020 election.
Trump initially accused Michigan of sending out vote-by-mail ballots to residents, before later posting a corrected tweet (and deleting the earlier one) specifying that they’re sending out vote-by-mail applications. But so are Republican-controlled states like Georgia. Nothing remotely “illegal” is taking place here. But these types of distinctions — or, facts — are immaterial to Trump’s continued effort to restrict voter access and sow doubt in the legitimacy of the electoral process.
Just to be clear: There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, either by millions crossing state lines to vote multiple times, a nonexistent scheme Trump has cited in explaining his popular-vote loss to Hillary Clinton, or through vote-by-mail. According to a recent survey published by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, there’s no evidence vote-by-mail helps Democrats, either. The only thing expanding vote-by-mail means is more people will be able to vote, especially as the coronavirus has heightened the risk of standing in lines.
Lambasting the practice has nevertheless become a tent pole of Trump’s 2020 campaign, the goal being to ensure as few Americans as possible are able to make it to the polls. Trump believes that the more people who vote, the worse his chances are. He said as much while discussing Democrats’ efforts to increase funding for absentee ballots and vote-by-mail in the coronavirus relief package. “They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” he told Fox News on March 30th.
Now, Trump is trying to blackmail crucial swing states into suppressing their vote-by-mail initiatives. One of them, Michigan, is not only struggling with COVID-19, but with historic floods in the center of the state. How could Trump be so brazen? Well, he already got away with trying to blackmail a foreign nation into interfering in the 2020 election. Why wouldn’t he do it again?
Karlan tried to warn the House of Representatives that this could happen. After Trump was impeached, Democrats issued similar warnings to the Senate Republicans voting on whether to remove him from office. “The president solicited a personal political benefit in exchange for an official act,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said during the impeachment trial. “If this Senate were to say, ‘That’s acceptable’ … [this] could take place all across America in the context of the next election, with grants allocated to cities or towns or municipalities all across the country.”
But Senate Republicans did indeed deem it acceptable, many of them arguing that Trump having to endure the impeachment process was punishment enough. “I believe that the president has learned from this case,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told CBS News after Trump was acquitted. “The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
Three months later, the lesson appears to be that that even if Trump flagrantly abuses his office, Senate Republicans will vote to protect him.
The flu seasons starts in September. It’s almost June. Let’s say the country was not prepared for this, what preparations is the administration making for the corona virus in the next 3 months?It is amazing to me that places that were weeks behind Europe in terms of the spread/impact of the virus are now reopening at the same time or, in some instances, ahead of Europe.
So let’s say we at 150k dead by the end of June with experts predicting a gross increase in death numbers during the upcoming flu season, ...You already know the answer to that: absolutely none.
Talking about the economy, unemployed and the stock market seems trivial right now.
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