“A rally is just exercising freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.”
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we’re creating settings where people can choose to participate in the political process
This would have been SO MUCH WORSE than Benghazi. But it was Trump, so they’ll either ignore it, praise him for showing restraint, or just assert that he’s really tough, even though he never does anything.
Just because you CAN hold a rally in the middle of a raging epidemic doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
DC will not become a state because Republicans do not want a majority black state that will never vote for them. If 90% of DC had voted for Trump instead of Clinton it would have been made a state sometime in January 2017. But the same party that screeches about the tyranny of the Federal government is perfectly happy…
There was also this, today.
OMG I just had this discussion with my MIL last night. She’s refusing to wear a mask (she lives in Texas) because she said Jesus and God will take care of her.
When you’ve convinced people to leave their estate to the church (which I’m sure most assume they’ve done), them dying just means more money for you now. Why wait?
The Lt. Governor of TX has argued multiple times that we need to just let the virus spread and get used to people dying to lessen the effect on the economy (read: so the state doesn’t have to pay unemployment, and so wealthy business owners and investors and churches can continue to make money). The state has also…
As often, I thought the Daily did a great job in giving context to the utter failure at Texas. What was really shocking, even if it perhaps shouldn’t have been, was how central the conflict between the red state government and the blue city leadership was in this. Especially because the state leadership felt they…
Adopt stupid policies, win stupid prizes, Governor. And the worst part is, everything about this was predictable. We knew from China and Korea how the disease was spread, and how you beat that disease. We knew from China and Korea that by the time you knew that there was an outbreak in your city, that you already had…
Even if TX goes blue (and FL too, by the looks of it) and Biden wins, the mainstreaming of the far right will plague us until the republic is toast. 200+ Dump judges...if we take all three branches hopefully we learned from 2009-10. No room for complacency this time around. Terminate, repeal, indict. The transition…
“Coastal elites”
Who is going to tell him that being from North Carolina also makes him “coastal”.
What can you say to someone like this? It sounds like he got a C- in Econ 101 and that is the extent of what he understands about how markets work. How does he think “more competition” would work for medical care? After suffering a sudden, catastrophic injury, he would have shopped around for the cheapest care? Like,…
The cognitive dissonance of both being vehemently against “socialized medicine” whilst having had someone else pay his medical bills is astounding.
My (70-something super-Republican) former boss told me our city shouldn’t fund libraries any more at all because “people can just buy books, and not that many people read hard copy books any more anyway.” Usually I kept my mouth shut when he said this sort of thing, because I needed the job. This time, having once…
My boss gave me a diatribe once as if free healthcare, free college, longer vacations, and cleaner air and water were bad things.
Florida is also quietly fudging the numbers and deleting covid-19 deaths to meet those reopening thresholds.
The other day a customer came to the restaurant wearing no mask and also had his fly unzipped, which really feels like a whole mood.
“It’s Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the so-called Squad running the show!”