Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Quote:And yet democrats did literally nothing to change the numbers of people going bankrupt for lack of, or underwhelming, medical insurance; of people dying from manageable diseases like diabetes and hypertension; of people dying from opioid addiction; of greenhouse gas emissions; of people in poverty; of jobs lost to foreign competitors; or the federal deficit ... democrats are no better on any metric I can find.
The voters in some states, not all, gave it to the GOP. Until those particular voters stop giving the GOP power with their votes, the wealthy GOP "elite" will continue strangling and squeezing out money.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
So - show me the money - or the proof - that democrats are a viable alternative. Show me ONE metric where democrats reversed a trend.
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‘China poisoned our people,’ says campaign ad from Houston candidate for Congress Kathaleen Wall
April 2, 2020 3:39 p.m
Republican congressional candidate Kathaleen Wall is using the coronavirus outbreak as the centerpiece for a new campaign ad airing in the Houston media market.
“China poisoned our people,” a narrator says in the ad, which then lauds President Donald Trump for calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus.”
“Wall will cut off trade, aid, and support to China,” the narrator says. “China is a criminal enterprise masquerading as a sovereign nation.”
Wall is hardly alone in trying to place blame for the coronavirus outbreak on China. Other Texas Republicans including U.S. Sens John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have pinned blame on China for their mishandling of the virus at the start of the outbreak.
“It’s no coincidence China’s been the source of most of these contagions breaking out — SARS, MERS, the swine flu — because of some of the cultural practices there,” Cornyn said in mid-March in which he pinpointed exotic markets in China where bats and snakes are served.
Cornyn’s statement was rated False by the independent fact-checking group PolitiFact.
During an interview on KFYO radio in Lubbock, Cruz made clear China “bears enormous responsibility” for letting the pandemic get out of control.
“For months they tried to keep it secret,” Cruz said.
Wall’s ad is airing as she donates portable hand sanitizers to the Houston Police Officers Union. In a picture of the donation posted on her Twitter page, the hand sanitizers have a “Made in China” label on them.
Wall is running for the 22nd Congressional District, which includes most of Fort Bend County and portions of Brazoria and Harris counties. She and former Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls are battling in a Republican Primary runoff now scheduled for July 14.
Nehls won 40 percent of the vote during the March 3 Republican primary to Wall’s 19 percent. The race was forced into a runoff because no candidate hit 50 percent of the vote.
Democrat Sri Preston Kulkarni will face the winner in November in the general election. He was quick to blast Wall’s ad.
“Irresponsible, race-baiting comments like these from Kathaleen Wall are unacceptable and dangerous to TX-22’s large Asian American and Pacific Islander population, who are intimately aware of the FBI warning about the recent surge of hate crimes against their community,” Kulkarni said.
The candidates are battling to replace U.S. Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, who announced in 2019 he would not seek re-election. In 2018, Olson won re-election but by just 5 percentage points, leading Democrats to make the race one of their top targets in the 2020 elections.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/China-poisoned-our-people-says-c
ampaign-ad-15174600.php
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Just read comrade kiki's last post demeaning democrats. What a fucking liar.
Shoo troll, slither back under your rock.
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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
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And yet democrats did literally nothing to change the numbers of people going bankrupt for lack of, or underwhelming, medical insurance; of people dying from manageable diseases like diabetes and hypertension; of people dying from opioid addiction; of greenhouse gas emissions; of people in poverty; of an increasing GINI; of jobs lost to foreign competitors; or the federal deficit ... democrats are no better on any metric I can find.
So - show me the money - or the proof - that democrats are a viable alternative. Show me ONE metric where democrats reversed a trend through their policies.
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Bullshit comrade kiki. And if you repost it again, I'll post it in the garden thread.
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Show me the money.
Show me what it was that democrats did better than republicans IN TERMS OF RESULTS.
Anyone can whine and dissemble, and democrats do it better than most. What I don't see are results.
Meanwhile, keep racking up the libel!
(BTW, I hope you realize that SECOND sees you as no more than expendable cannon fodder, eager to do something he himself won't risk. Just fyi.)
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Originally posted by THG:
Bullshit comrade kiki. And if you repost it again, I'll post it in the garden thread.
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Quote:The good news is that the $2 trillion CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) Congress passed last week does, on paper, provide a lot of economic life support. The bad news is that it looks as if it could be weeks, maybe even months, before serious amounts of money flow to those who need aid right now.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Show me the money.
Show me what it was that democrats did better than republicans IN TERMS OF RESULTS.
Anyone can whine and dissemble, and democrats do it better than most. What I don't see are results.
Meanwhile, keep racking up the libel!
(BTW, I hope you realize that SECOND sees you as no more than expendable cannon fodder, eager to do something he himself won't risk. Just fyi.)
Journalists keep referring to the CARES Act as a “stimulus package,” but mainly it’s disaster relief. The best piece of the legislation — which, by the way, Democrats forced unwilling Republicans to include — is a major enhancement of unemployment benefits. Not only will laid-off workers get much more than they normally would, but many workers who weren’t previously covered by unemployment insurance, such as freelancers and independent contractors, are supposed to receive full benefits.
www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/coronavirus-economy-stimulus.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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America Is On Lockdown—Except in the South
Based on cellphone location data, the New York Times was able to draw a map of where and when people started complying with coronavirus stay-at-home orders. The answer is infuriating:
The map doesn’t look this way because people in the South are idiots. It’s almost certainly because they’re conservative and they watch a lot of Fox News. They also listen to President Trump. And Rush Limbaugh. And what they heard was that the coronavirus was “just a bad cold.” That “within a couple of days it’s going to be down to close to zero.” That the hysteria was nothing but a “new hoax” from Democrats who want to bring down the president.
For weeks that’s what they heard. And they believed it. And so they resisted taking it seriously. That’s starting to shift now that Trump and the conservative noise machine have changed their tune, but it’s several weeks too late. What a shameful performance.
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/04/america-is-on-lockdown-except-i
n-the-south/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Do Right, Be Right. :)
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