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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:41 pm Post subject:
Quote:
"If you want to know why COVID relief is tied up in Congress, one key reason is that Republicans are demanding legal immunity for corporations so they can expose their workers to COVID without repercussions," the progressive lawmaker tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. "Dems don't want you to die for a check. That's what we're fighting over."
Love the way AOC is hammering this message about COVID relief. And the way she's been framing it simply.
She's been doing it since the election. And I hope it continues. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 9:41 am Post subject:
DancingBarry wrote:
For sure. Definitely playing chess with this virus. Fortunate to be able to work from home without issue.
But also Trump and his assault on democracy and total mismanagement of the pandemic has kept me pissed off. It will likely keep me pissed off until 80 million of us have finally escorted him from the White House doors. Definitely been in this thread a lot more lately.
Off thread topic. If you're working at home do something about the slow drag on the site. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Now looks like work starts on the D. j. Trump Presidential Library with it's grand Alt-Right Auditorium, Autocrats Gallery, Felons Cocktail lounge, and rooftop Covid Cemetery/Putting Green.
https://donaldjtrump2024.com/ _________________ I'm On point, On task, On message, and Off drugs. A Streetwise Smart Bomb, Out of rehab and In denial. Over the Top, On the edge, Under the Radar, and In Control. Behind the 8 ball, Ahead of the Curve and I've got a Love Child who sends me Hate mail.
Now looks like work starts on the D. j. Trump Presidential Library with it's grand Alt-Right Auditorium, Autocrats Gallery, Felons Cocktail lounge, and rooftop Covid Cemetery/Putting Green.
That's a brutal wiki. It hammered Trump with a meat tenderizer. When he reads it there may be another suit levied. It describes, in part, what his legacy will be.
TIME LEFT UNTIL TRUMP LEAVES OFFICE _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:49 pm Post subject:
trmiv wrote:
Trump pardons traitor, criminal, Russian spy Michael Flynn.
Next two months are going to be Pardon-Palooza. _________________ “There is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it.” --Amanda Gorman
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:52 pm Post subject:
SweetP wrote:
trmiv wrote:
Trump pardons traitor, criminal, Russian spy Michael Flynn.
Next two months are going to be Pardon-Palooza.
Trump: In case I'm convicted of any crimes when I leave office, I blanket pardon myself. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Trump pardons traitor, criminal, Russian spy Michael Flynn.
Next two months are going to be Pardon-Palooza.
Trump: In case I'm convicted of any crimes when I leave office, I blanket pardon myself.
Trump: "I resign as President on January 19th because he election is rigged and I don't want to attend Joe's inauguration."
Pence: "Thank you Donald. As the new President of the United States for 1 day, I pardon Donald Trump for any acts the democrats will try to convict him of." _________________
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:21 pm Post subject:
kikanga wrote:
Quote:
"If you want to know why COVID relief is tied up in Congress, one key reason is that Republicans are demanding legal immunity for corporations so they can expose their workers to COVID without repercussions," the progressive lawmaker tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. "Dems don't want you to die for a check. That's what we're fighting over."
Love the way AOC is hammering this message about COVID relief. And the way she's been framing it simply.
She's been doing it since the election. And I hope it continues.
It’s a nice sound bite to the people who already get it. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:14 pm Post subject:
Omar Little wrote:
It’s a nice sound bite to the people who already get it.
Tell that to someone in the food lines for Thanksgiving. Or the restaurant workers. Or the 10s of millions who still haven't financially recovered since March and didn't vote.
But you have a point. Those people are too busy trying to survive vs. paying attention to politics.
But that doesn't mean what she's saying isn't worth saying. Politically or otherwise speaking. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:28 pm Post subject:
FernieBee wrote:
I like AOC, but it's probably best to work from the middle, and then, move to the left, gradually.
Isn't that what she's doing? Endorsing Biden. The Squad she's a part of carrying Minnesota and Michigan for Biden in the Electoral College.
Putting all the generalities aside.
Is another round of stimulus checks without compromising workers to Covid considered radical left? That just seems like common sense and empathy to me. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:44 pm Post subject:
kikanga wrote:
FernieBee wrote:
I like AOC, but it's probably best to work from the middle, and then, move to the left, gradually.
Isn't that what she's doing? Endorsing Biden. The Squad she's a part of carrying Minnesota and Michigan for Biden in the Electoral College.
Putting all the generalities aside.
Is another round of stimulus checks without compromising workers to Covid considered radical left? That just seems like common sense and empathy to me.
Sure. But if the relief never comes because the Pols get stuck in a stare down, it doesn't really matter. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
If the Dems control both houses, they should push through everything they can. I dislike the current iteration of the Republikkkan Party, with old Turkey Neck McConnell more interested in blocking legislation than in actually legislating (for the benefit of most Americans).
I don't think the Dems should agree to exempt businesses from being sued if their workers get infected with Covid, but they might have to agree to that, if they want more stimulus money for the rest of us.
I'm a poor Mexican--not all Mexicans are poor, and not all poor people are Mexican--and I could very much use more stimulus money, but I don't want businesses to be free to endanger their workers just so I can get paid. _________________ Garvey, Lopes, Cey, Russell
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:19 pm Post subject:
DaMuleRules wrote:
kikanga wrote:
Is another round of stimulus checks without compromising workers to Covid considered radical left? That just seems like common sense and empathy to me.
Sure. But if the relief never comes because the Pols get stuck in a stare down, it doesn't really matter.
I'm sorry, but i reject that.
Where's the line? What if Mitch said he'll sign a bill for stimulus payments and small business assistance. But the payments and assistance only go to people and small business owners he personally gets to throw a rock at.
If the Dems (including AOC) said. NO. Just give them the $, it's a pandemic. Would it still be a political "stare down". _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:38 pm Post subject:
kikanga wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
kikanga wrote:
Is another round of stimulus checks without compromising workers to Covid considered radical left? That just seems like common sense and empathy to me.
Sure. But if the relief never comes because the Pols get stuck in a stare down, it doesn't really matter.
I'm sorry, but i reject that.
Where's the line? What if Mitch said he'll sign a bill for stimulus payments and small business assistance. But the payments and assistance only go to people and small business owners he personally gets to throw a rock at.
If the Dems (including AOC) said. NO. Just give them the $, it's a pandemic. Would it still be a political "stare down".
Reject it all you want. But yes, it's stare down and no one gets stimulus as a result. That's not a criticism, just an acknowledgement of the screwed up political impasse. That's the sad reality even if it is one that neither of us like. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Quite simply, Obama won in a landslide in 2008 with the promise of hope and change. Not only did he not deliver, he brought upon right wing policies such as extending the Bush tax cuts, passed the Affordable Care Act (a right wing plan with no public option), continued drone strikes in the middle east, and was willing to enact a grand bargain with the the Republicans and cut Social Security and Medicare.
Trump was always going to carry the swath of ignorant minority blaming block of voters, but what he had in his back pocket was the being the vague façade of an economic populist pointing to, and maybe rightfully so, Obama's failures. This is what won him the Rust Belt in 2016 and thus the presidency.
For sure the sharpe-augmented hurricane map should be on display.
Remember a Modern Marvels on the LOC. Manuscript Div at Library Of Congress has a Presidential section filled with all and any writings of every President. Anything from legal to academic to letters to Washington's daily weather notebook to TR's personal diary where he put a large "X" on the day that his wife and mother both died on. I can't imagine what Trump would even have in his, but he'll have a place marker with his name on it at least.
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