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In an appearance on MSNBC late Wednesday after Senate Republicans once again blocked his attempt to force a vote on $2,000 direct payments, Sen. Bernie Sanders voiced disdain for his GOP colleagues’ argument that the relief checks would be “too costly”—an objection raised by lawmakers who happily voted for massive tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations.
When it comes to “tax breaks for rich people or corporate welfare or bloated military budgets, that’s OK,” said Sanders, deriding the GOP’s position. “But when you stand up and you say that working class families need some help, ‘Oh my god, the world is gonna collapse.'”
“So I am a little bit tired of that hypocrisy,” Sanders continued. “I’m tired of companies like Amazon making billions and billions of dollars not paying a nickel in federal taxes—no one talks about that. But when you’re helping a mom trying to feed her kids, ‘Oh my god, we can’t afford it.’ This is hypocrisy.”
The Vermont senator’s remarks came after a trio of Senate Republicans—Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Sen. Pat Toomey (Pa), and Sen. John Cornyn (Texas)—blocked the Sanders-led effort Wednesday to secure a vote on a House-passed measure that would provide $2,000 direct payments to most Americans, up from the $600 checks approved under the new coronavirus relief law.
As Sanders readily pointed out on the Senate floor Wednesday, outgoing President Donald Trump has backed the demand for $2,000 checks.
The three Republicans claimed that the $2,000 checks would benefit the wealthy and contribute to the growing budget deficit—objections that those same senators did not raise in 2017, when they voted to pass $1.5 trillion in tax cuts that blew a massive hole in the deficit and disproportionately rewarded the affluent.
Contrary to McConnell’s depiction of the direct payments as a gift to “the Democrats’ rich friends who don’t need the help,” the House bill would only deliver the full $2,000 payments to individuals earning $75,000 a year or less and joint filers earning $150,000 annually or less.
“All of a sudden Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans are worried that someone in America might get a $2,000 check ‘who doesn’t need it,'” Sanders tweeted late Wednesday. “Funny. They had no problem giving a $1.4 billion tax break to Charles Koch and his family with a net worth of $113 billion. What hypocrisy!”
While some couples with a combined income in the six figures would receive direct payments under the Democrats’ bill, Matt Bruenig of the the People’s Policy Project has noted that “the poorest people in our society are eligible for survival payments” as well, “even though many are not eligible for [unemployment insurance].”
“Prior to the pandemic, less than 30 percent of the bottom 10 percent of the disposable income distribution were workers. Only 10 percent were full-time workers. The rest were children, disabled people, elderly people, caregivers, and others that are not eligible for UI,” Bruenig explained. “An illustrative case of someone in this situation would be a disabled person who currently lives on $783 per month provided by the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The survival payment will reach them. The UI bonus will not.”
Taiwan Mitchie POS has been getting away with this merde for decades! The yahoo has plenty of craporate white trash company/support throughout government, business and the media. That also includes a bunch of bought-off “Democrats.” Where are the younger public servants who can follow Bernie? He won’t live forever.
never discount what machines can accomplish. perhaps i should quit calling them that and start calling them software and firmware.
that and Amy calls herself a “Trump” Dem. and yet she’s not even a populist. so what part of Trump is she?
phatkhat
Given a choice between a real Republican and a fake one, Republicans will always vote for the real one. Neither candidate was… someone to be enthusiastic about. And Schumer picked Amy to lose. Booker almost threw a monkey wrench in the works, and they had to scramble to screw him over. McConnell is very useful to the DNC. He does what they WANT to do, but SAY they don’t. Then when he does what he does, he can be the asshole, which seems to be a role he relishes.
And With a little help from some friends he can excuse away anything..
It shouldn't be forgotten that @LHSummers, liberal pundits and the editorial board of Jeff Bezos's newspaper played a direct role in helping Mitch McConnell justify blocking $2,000 checks to millions of Americans facing eviction, starvation and bankruptcy. https://t.co/X76ZACcHiipic.twitter.com/1czPd4DwrT
McConnell’s crusade to stop direct aid was abetted not only by Senate Democrats’ surrender, but also by media elites who loyally represent the party’s corporate wing and who began promoting canned talking points to undermine the direct aid.
First came a barrage of attacks on the $2,000 checks initiative from Summers, a former hedge fund executive who as President Barack Obama’s national economic director stymied the push for more stimulus after the 2008 financial crisis.
Then the New York Times’ Paul Krugman pretended the wildly popular initiative is “divisive” and said “the economics aren’t very good.” Timesman Tom Friedman, who married into a real estate empire, called the idea “crazy” and fretted that checks might go to “people who don’t need the help.” The minions of billionaire Michael Bloomberg joined in with a house editorial demanding Congress block the checks.
Meanwhile, only weeks after the Washington Post news page told the harrowing tales of rising poverty and starvation in America, the paper’s editorial board argued against stimulus by insisting that “the economy has healed significantly.”
The Post — which is owned by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos — argued against the $2,000 checks by saying it is unjust that some rich people might in theory end up benefiting from the proposal (this, from the editorial board that still vociferously defends the 2008 Wall Street bailout that financed bonuses for wealthy bank executives who destroyed the global economy). The Post also borrowed spin from Summers, arguing that people probably won’t use the money because “restaurants are closed and air travel limited.”
This isn’t even close to true: Indoor dining was recently shut down in New York City and DC, but restaurants are fully open in most states, and an unfortunate number of people are still flying.
All of this noise was quickly weaponized by McConnell, who in a Senate floor speech directly cited Summers and the Post as justification to stop the $2,000 checks to the two-thirds of households in his own state who would benefit.
“The liberal economist Larry Summers, President Clinton’s Treasury Secretary and President Obama’s NEC director says, ‘There’s no good economic argument for universal $2,000 checks at this moment.’” McConnell said, adding: “Even the liberal Washington Post today is laughing at the political left demanding more huge giveaways with no relationship to actual need.”
Then he concluded by parroting the pundits, declaring: “The Senate is not going to be bullied into rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of Democrats’ rich friends who don’t need the help.” McConnell is worth an estimated $34 million.
McConnell’s absurd attempt to pretend he doesn’t want to help the rich was boosted by Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who also cited the Post editorial and then insisted the legislation to give $2,000 checks to individuals making less than $75,000 “is about helping millionaires and billionaires.”
Neither McConnell nor Cornyn even attempted to substantiate their allegations — but they didn’t have to. Democrats were already in the process of folding, and corporate media was more than happy to run interference.
In the end, millions of Americans struggling to survive will likely be left with just a one-time $600 check, as eighty US senators rubber stamp a bloated defense bill to show they support the troops — and then tell the poor to eat a roll call vote.
37.5 seconds that’s obscene, if humans survive another 150 years and look back at history they might say that’s disgusting and feel some embarrassment for their ancestors to let things get that bad. I suspect the empire will fall long before then.
I’d be getting every tv gig i could and quoting the bunch of them. talking about the people i’d been talking to back home. from when i visited the food banks. the newly houseless.
Six Democratic Senators — Sanders, Markey, Warren, Merkley, Wyden, and Van Hollen — opposed Mitch McConnell’s motion to advance the defense bill *without* considering $2,000 survival checks.
and they may have done it to themselves. by not caring for people during a pandemic, more have seen how necessary a ubi can be. but there is still so, so much organized oppo that i don’t see it anytime soon.
I’m ready to leave the 2020 shit show behind, though early 2021 is gonna suck but light at the end of the tunnel covid wise. Happy new year to all, Yuge plans tonight, just staying home maybe an ole fashion or two and maybe Bennie’s will be open tonight? So close to a new years baby for jcity– happy birthday
The advocates of #ForceTheVote say they’re going to use organized labor pressure as part of their campaign. Yet the biggest union fighting for MA4A, National Nurses United, is pushing for a different parliamentary tactic than a floor vote. Calling them all sell outs doesn’t do it
This is beyond embarrassing. Gray and the others are not helping their cause by sharing space with this lunatic
During this particular freakout, Dore responds to Katie Halper's attempts to moderate by screaming over her, telling her to "fuckoff," then dismissing her words as "claptrap." And she takes it all like an absolute doormat. Just a shocking lack of self respect on display here. pic.twitter.com/VQfLXwcY5q
just got into an argument with a mutual. i’m shaking. he’s telling me i’m being abusive for this.
Everyone attacking Jimmy or abusing people for defending him should really exercise some self-awareness for a few moments. I was blocked by a friend for pointing out how he was treating a woman exactly the way he claims to be mad at Jimmy Dore for treating a woman.
— Chris Richards 🐬🅰️ #UnitedLeft (@EclecticRadical) December 31, 2020
and hasn’t answered this.
how am i abusing people by disagreeing? by saying that as a woman who has been abused in every way, Jimmy's behavior is very abusive.
Twitter definitely has its uses but it can often get too toxic for me. Sorry you had to endure that. I don’t know what people like that think they are accomplishing.
oldtown61
Thank you Briahna Joy Gray! Thank you Cornel West! Thank you Nick Brana! Thank you Jimmy and Stef! I encourage you to take the time to listen to Jimmy’s whole livestream once in a while. I love his righteous anger and humor. It sustains and fuels me.
I am 66 years old with a chronic health condition. I have Medicare now, but I had good health insurance prior to turning 65. Nevertheless, I have spent about $20,000 out of pocket the last 6 years.
I watch Dore frequently I dont have anything against a vote, but bullying and berating the people who took the time to show up on the forum is not the way to go about it.
I also think Alex Jones deserves being spit on but would never do it myself or encourage anyone to the themselves. Dore has his uses and some good moments, I think his filterless commentary often hits on very good points.. but once again, would never tolerate being treated that way by a boss, politician, etc. Let alone an ally for progressive causes. We cant even get Dems to have a backbone for 2k checks, despite the good intentions of everyone foghting for m4a.. a vote would only tell us what we already know about the lack of appetite to help actual people who need it.
yes, and the virulent reaction to people asking Jimmy to not cuss and yell at people for asking him to let someone else talk for a change is amazing! and tbh, for his sometimes outright lying about the squad.
oldtown61
Wishing the best for all of you in 2021.
We already know who does and does not support M4A, but most Americans do not. #forcethevote
@SavageJoyMarie1 Hey, @ryangrim -I’d appreciate if you didn’t try to speak for me – Did you watch my segment? Did you listen to my pain? My facial expression while @JimmyDoreShow + @miserablelib were talking is not “what have I gotten myself into”, it’s “listening intently + with empathy”-Try it
Quote Tweet Ryan Grim@ryangrim The “what have we gotten ourselves into” faces of his guests
i also went into big debt paying over $30,000 in medical bills on credit and am now in danger of losing my home. and i’m old.
i also text and donate for M4A and for any candidate that supports it.
Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death
Sounds like Jimmy Dore should run for president 🤔- tRump style take my side or I’ll destroy you, even if you’re on my side
Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death
My regard and respect for Briahna Joy is slowly diminishing. I heard Jimmy has a 1.9 million dollar home. Did he tell them about that? Did he use his home to finance his medical treatment? He’s a despicable grifter.
he is absolutely losing it and someone close to him needs to help him see how his behavior is honestly way out of bounds. he needs help.and if he won’t get it, they should shun him until he calms down and treats people with respect. It’s one thing to say snarky or things that are “bold” on twitter, it’s a whole ‘nuther to berate and yell over people.
yeah. i’m sorry i said that more personal stuff, but my “ally” caught me off guard comparing my disagreement with abuse. He later said it wasn’t personal. 🤷🏻♀️
( ProPublica) – Nurse Kristen Cline was working a 12-hour shift in October at the Royal C. Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, when a code blue rang through the halls. A patient in an isolation room was dying of a coronavirus that had raged for eight months across the country before it made the state the brightest red dot in a nation of hot spots.
Cline knew she needed to protect herself before entering the room, where a second COVID-19 patient was trembling under the covers, sobbing. She reached for the crinkled and dirty N95 mask she had reused for days.
In her post-death report, Cline described how the patient fell victim to a hospital in chaos. The crash cart and breathing bag that should have been in the room were missing. The patient wasn’t tethered to monitors that could have alerted nurses sooner. He had cried out for help, but the duty nurse was busy with other patients, packed two to a room meant for one.
“He died scared and alone. It didn’t have to be that way. We failed him — not the staff, we did everything we could,” she said. “The system failed him.”
The system also failed her. Since the pandemic’s early weeks, Cline had complained that the Department of Veterans Affairs, which runs the nation’s largest hospital system, wasn’t doing enough to protect its front-line health care workers. She had filed complaints about inadequate personal protective equipment with the agency’s inspector general and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, but they had done nothing. Many months into a pandemic, they were still having to ration masks and being asked to reuse them for as many as five shifts.
From Cline’s perspective and that of other health care workers I spoke with from the VA hospital in Sioux Falls, the lack of masks was a symptom of larger failures at the agency overseeing the medical care of 9 million veterans. The hospitals lacked staff and scrounged to find gowns, medical supplies, ventilators — everything needed to battle COVID-19.
What source of knowledge leads these nursing home staff to make this decision? Fox News? Trump? Can relatives inquire about the vaccination status of the staff?
Life is strange here in OH
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Ed Yong writes for Atlantic
If the best prepared hospital in US says things are out of control, what can be hoped for long term facilities?
Often have to go to yesterday because partial results come in during the day
Their global meter has data for 2 days back – I guess because of varying time zones around the world
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Ed Yong posted a long article today. During the pandemic these articles are outside the paywall
This Dr Jha is a regular guest on democracynow
On the Fourth of July, Ashish Jha wants to host a barbecue at his house in Newton, Massachusetts. By then, the state expects to have rolled out COVID-19 vaccines to anyone who wants one. The process will be bumpy, but Jha is hopeful. He thinks that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus will still be spreading within the U.S., but at a simmer rather than this winter’s calamitous boil. He expects to keep all his guests outside, where the risk of transmission is substantially lower. If it starts raining, they could come indoors after putting on masks. “It won’t be normal, but it won’t be like Fourth of July 2020,” says Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. “I think that’s when it’ll start to feel like we’re no longer in a pandemic.”
Many of the 30 epidemiologists, physicians, immunologists, sociologists, and historians whom I interviewed for this piece are cautiously optimistic that the U.S. is headed for a better summer. But they emphasized that such a world, though plausible, is not inevitable. Its realization hinges on successfully executing the most complicated vaccination program in U.S. history, on persuading a frayed and fractured nation to continue using masks and avoiding indoor crowds, on countering the growing quagmire of misinformation, and on successfully monitoring and countering changes in the virus itself. “Think about next summer as a marker for when we might be able to breathe again,” said Loyce Pace, the executive director of a nonprofit called the Global Health Council and a member of Biden’s COVID-19 task force. “But there’s almost a year’s worth of work that needs to happen in those six months.”
The pandemic will end not with a declaration, but with a long, protracted exhalation. Even if everything goes according to plan, which is a significant if, the horrors of 2020 will leave lasting legacies. A pummeled health-care system will be reeling, short-staffed, and facing new surges of people with long-haul symptoms or mental-health problems. Social gaps that were widened will be further torn apart. Grief will turn into trauma. And a nation that has begun to return to normal will have to decide whether to remember that normal led to this. “We’re trying to get through this with a vaccine without truly exploring our soul,” said Mike Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota.
Wendell Potterm @wendellpotter As a former health insurance exec, I can tell you my old colleagues are gearing up for the mother of all propaganda campaigns to keep @JoeBiden & Congress from enacting a public option (or any reform for that matter). Don’t believe me? Let’s take a trip down memory lane… (1/7) 1:56 PM · Dec 29, 2020·Twitter Web App
When I was an insurance industry spin doctor, I helped plan & execute the playbook to keep much-needed reforms from seeing the light of day. The playbook is old, but it works like new. In the 1990s, we kept the Clinton reform plan from even getting a final vote in Congress. (2/7)
Our disinformation campaign weaponized terms like “government-run healthcare” & “socialized medicine” to scare Americans about the Clinton plan. In 2001, we deployed similar tactics to kill the bipartisan Patients’ Bill of Rights Act. (3/7)
Why? It would’ve enabled Americans to sue insurers for refusing to pay for care their doctors say they need. We won that fight too. My old industry was 2-0. (4/7)
By 2008, insurers had a proven recipe for success. In an effort to stymie the Affordable Care Act, the industry’s trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) funneled $100 Mil+ to the US Chamber of Commerce to finance the Chamber’s anti-ACA fear-mongering campaign. (5/7)
And now at the end of 2020, the new front group protecting health insurer profits (The Partnership for America’s Health Care Future) is resurrecting the same time-tested fear-mongering tactics against reforms that @JoeBiden & most Americans support. (6/7)
President-elect @JoeBiden , 12 million+ Americans have lost their employer-sponsored health coverage since #COVID19 began. Don’t let health insurance industry BS (aka, malarkey) stop Washington from doing what is right. The American people are depending on you. (/END
Don midwest
Paul Jay, who used to be, and possibly started, Real News Network, is now on his own
propaganda on Russian hack — ongoing scare tactics to maintain military budget
Many expressed their support for Sanders on social media.
Newsweek included the following tweets in their story. Tweets do make a difference sometimes?
Bernie Sanders should be president and it’s honestly hard as hell to forgive the establishment party and figureheads for what they did to him. He wanted to balance this countries wealth and give everyone the American dream. Instead, the rich can keep ruling. That hurts like hell.
The kind of leadership we saw from @SenSanders and @EdMarkey today shouldn’t be an exception. We need more leaders willing to fight for everyday people. If your elected officials aren’t fighting for people during this historic crisis, then who exactly are they working for?
Stanley Johnson, the father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has said that he intends to obtain French citizenship — his comments coming just hours before the UK’s final transition out of the European Union.
I have followed Brexit since before it was approved. I still don’t get how the Brits were so rooked by the same PR sh1t that the FRighties invented here.
Xenophobia, nationalism, propaganda, and I honestly don’t think it helped when Obama stuck his big nose into it. Obama has a patronizing streak that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
President Obama on Friday defended his controversial op-ed in a London newspaper urging the British to vote to stay in the European Union, saying he was merely offering his thoughts — and that he didn’t consider it hypocritical to do so.
“First of all, let me repeat: this is a decision for the people of the United Kingdom to make. I’m not coming here to fix any votes,” Obama said in a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, who supports staying in the EU. “I’m not casting a vote myself. I’m offering my opinion. And in democracies, everybody should want more information, not less, and you shouldn’t be afraid to hear an argument being made. That’s not a threat.”
Obama also answered critics’ charge that Obama would never endorse the United States joining anything similar to the EU. He argued that America has already sacrificed some sovereignty by being part of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and NATO.
Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) joined the Vermont senator in opposing the motion. Six Republicans also voted no.
In total, 41 Democrats — including Schumer and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris — voted for the motion, paving the way for an override of Trump’s NDAA veto and effectively killing the prospect of a vote on $2,000 direct payments before the next Congress. View the full roll call here.
A final vote on the NDAA veto override is expected by January 2. Sanders made clear following the motion’s passage Wednesday that he plans to continue pushing for a vote on the direct payments.
“The sheer scale of Wednesday’s Democratic surrender was truly a sight to behold,” wrote The Daily Poster’s David Sirota and Andrew Perez. “And it probably ended the chance for more immediate aid to millions of Americans facing eviction, starvation, and bankruptcy… Democratic senators in fact provided the majority of the votes for the measure that lets the defense bill proceed without a vote on the $2,000 checks.”
It was always a possibility that Democrats would get too scared to halt a major Pentagon bill in order to help millions of Americans get $2,000 survival checks — in fact, as we wrote earlier this week, it was very likely that they would back down the moment any bad-faith critic so much as waved a flag and said “support the troops.”
And capitulation became even more likely when Clinton-era Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, corporate Democratic pundits and billionaire-owned elite media outlets began parroting a series of eerily similar let-them-eat-cake talking points against the survival checks — which McConnell promptly used to bludgeon proponents of the bipartisan initiative.
But even appreciating all of this — and also knowing that many Democratic leaders still cling to an outdated austerity ideology — the sheer scale of Wednesday’s Democratic surrender was truly a sight to behold. And it probably ended the chance for more immediate aid to millions of Americans facing eviction, starvation and bankruptcy.
The day began with Sen. Bernie Sanders following through on his promise to deny unanimous consent for the Senate to advance a $740 billion defense authorization bill, until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell allows an up-or-down vote on legislation that would send $2,000 survival checks to individuals making less than $75,000 and couples making less than $150,000.
Sanders’ move forced McConnell to ask the Senate to pass a formal motion to proceed on the defense bill, which would let Republicans move forward on the Pentagon priority without a vote on the $2,000 checks. The motion created the moment in which Democrats could have stood their ground and cornered the GOP leader.
Instead, as Republicans saber rattled about the need to pass the defense bill, 41 Democrats obediently voted with McConnell, allowing him to move the defense bill forward without a vote on the checks. That included “yes” votes from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and vice-president elect Kamala Harris, the lead sponsor on a bill to give Americans monthly $2,000 checks during the pandemic. One day before her vote to help McConnell, Harris had called on the Republican leader to hold a vote on her legislation.
Only six members of the Senate Democratic Caucus mustered the courage to vote against McConnell’s maneuver — Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, Jeff Merkley, Ed Markey and Ron Wyden. Democratic senators in fact provided the majority of the votes for the measure that lets the defense bill proceed without a vote on the $2,000 checks.
“I think more than any point in history, and I don’t want to be overly dramatic … part of the job of the White House press secretary is to rebuild trust with the American people,” Psaki told National Public Radio in an interview released on Thursday.
“My goal every day will, of course, be to be truthful and transparent and to help peel the curtains back for not just the media and reporters, of course, those are the people in the room, but for the American people,” she said.
Why did she say that being truthful and transparent will be her “goal”, why couldn’t she have simply said, ‘I will be truthful and transparent’?
One other key difference from Trump administration press relations, Psaki noted, will be a significant reduction in anonymous leaks coming from inside the White House. Reporters over the past four years have feasted on leaks from sources close to Trump, many of whom spoke to reporters to settle internal political scores or, in some cases, to shine a light on what were perceived to be the dangerous shattering of norms.
Psaki said. “Our goal is for there to be a return to policy processes and policy briefings and policy experts who are going to be out there explaining what a COVID package may look like or what we’re going to do about immigration.”
Again with the “Our goal” thing, why not just say, ‘we will be out there explaining what we’re doing’?
While many reporters are welcoming Psaki and the promise of a return to the less outwardly combative pre-Trump relationship between the White House and the press, others are raising red flags. Some are pointing out that Biden, as well as the previous Obama-Biden administration, do not have the best track record regarding transparency or even their treatment of the press.
Crips, Baghdad Bob was more credible than anyone Trumpcorp trotted out as Press Secy. a slug could slime over the bar that was established by Trumpcorp’s people. Psaki has a low bar to maintain
Multibillion-dollar project is unnecessary and damaging to wildlife, say scientists
Australia is planning to build Antarctica’s biggest infrastructure project: a new airport and runway that would increase the human footprint in the world’s greatest wilderness by an estimated 40%.
The mega-scheme is likely to involve blasting petrel rookeries, disturbing penguin colonies and encasing a stretch of the wilderness in more than 115,000 tonnes of concrete.
The government in Canberra says the project on the Vestfold Hills of Princess Elizabeth Land is necessary to provide year-round access for scientists and emergency teams to Davis research station, Australia’s most southerly base in Antarctica. Strategic concerns are also a consideration; Australia is keen to counter China’s growing presence on the frozen southern continent.
Why not, icebreakers and the melting Antarctica go so well together after all.
Shipping the materials from Hobart is expected to take more than a decade and about 100 icebreaker voyages.
phatkhat
And then they’ll build a hotel and eateries, hoping for tourism. I hope the ice shelf they build it on falls off.
wpDiscuz
Also my 65th birthday today. Welcome to senior discounts!
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/31/tired-hypocrisy-sanders-blasts-gop-claiming-2000-checks-are-too-costly-after-passing
The mis-characterization by McConnell of the $2,000.00 relief checks as “Gifts to the Democrats rich friends” is breathtaking.
Only adults with incomes below $75,000 per year will get the full $2000.
If the Democrats actually want to win this fight they can.
That “If” is a Big “if.”
Taiwan Mitchie POS has been getting away with this merde for decades! The yahoo has plenty of craporate white trash company/support throughout government, business and the media. That also includes a bunch of bought-off “Democrats.” Where are the younger public servants who can follow Bernie? He won’t live forever.
I lay all the blame for the turtle on Kentuckians, Even Wi had enough of Walker after 2 terms
I hear ya, but the choice was simply awful in the general.
never discount what machines can accomplish. perhaps i should quit calling them that and start calling them software and firmware.
that and Amy calls herself a “Trump” Dem. and yet she’s not even a populist. so what part of Trump is she?
Given a choice between a real Republican and a fake one, Republicans will always vote for the real one. Neither candidate was… someone to be enthusiastic about. And Schumer picked Amy to lose. Booker almost threw a monkey wrench in the works, and they had to scramble to screw him over. McConnell is very useful to the DNC. He does what they WANT to do, but SAY they don’t. Then when he does what he does, he can be the asshole, which seems to be a role he relishes.
Unfortunately. McConnell has complete control of whether it gets a vote and he is unshameable.
And With a little help from some friends he can excuse away anything..
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/senate-democrats-mitch-mcconnell-relief-checks-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR00ivcBR-sdGO9V64434g0WYW50O-WCAbCStYBrnZ4l3J0yssFZxBiu4ws
As bad as this year has been I think 2020 is just a warmup for 2021. Would like to be wrong.
I’m afraid you are right.
No sh1t. Happy New Year.
When you look up bought and paid for politician the turtle gotta be first, How many seconds does it take for Bezos to make 75K?
Bezos is prancing around announcing he will be King of Earth. No kidding. Who will stop him and the rest of the sewer?
He’s got so much money I wouldn’t be surprised if he figures out how to attach his head onto a young body when his finally starts breaking down.
implant man. lol
He makes over $2K per SECOND.
37.5 seconds that’s obscene, if humans survive another 150 years and look back at history they might say that’s disgusting and feel some embarrassment for their ancestors to let things get that bad. I suspect the empire will fall long before then.
I’d be getting every tv gig i could and quoting the bunch of them. talking about the people i’d been talking to back home. from when i visited the food banks. the newly houseless.
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Happy Birthday jcitybone!! 🍾☕️🍫🎀🎉💝
Thank you for everything you do XO
jcb: Happy Birthday! 🙂 You are a youngster compared to me. 🙂
Bernie is way under McConnell’s skin on this. Way to go Bernie! Illustrate those situational values, that the GOP seems to hold so dear.
Hey Beto, you could have run against this clown, and won.
heard the siren call of the DNC
More like they were bought off.
i think Durbin’s biggest donor is General Dynamics.
The discussion turned into a big plate of ratio’ed. LOL.
https://theweek.com/articles/957862/are-pandemic-relief-checks-making-ubi-inevitable
An Idea Whose Time Has Come? UBI looks plausible now.
Enter Andrew Yang.
and they may have done it to themselves. by not caring for people during a pandemic, more have seen how necessary a ubi can be. but there is still so, so much organized oppo that i don’t see it anytime soon.
T and R, jcb!! 🙂 A very Happy and Healthy New Year to you and your whole family krewe including the pups. 🙂
Thanks and right back at cha, obf.
I’m ready to leave the 2020 shit show behind, though early 2021 is gonna suck but light at the end of the tunnel covid wise. Happy new year to all, Yuge plans tonight, just staying home maybe an ole fashion or two and maybe Bennie’s will be open tonight? So close to a new years baby for jcity– happy birthday
I often like that Dore says things that need to be said but this ‘style’ is an absolute no go for me.
This is beyond embarrassing. Gray and the others are not helping their cause by sharing space with this lunatic
I’ll take a lot of stuff but would never sit through being berated like that from an ‘ally’. Im guessing thats not water in his cup.
Dore could of if he wanted tried running for office, winning and forcing a vote.
But of course it’s easier to attack those actually doing the most for progressive causes.
Does Dore drink on his show? I’ve read several reliable reports about it.
just got into an argument with a mutual. i’m shaking. he’s telling me i’m being abusive for this.
and hasn’t answered this.
this guy left several. making my point. never answered the same question.
Twitter definitely has its uses but it can often get too toxic for me. Sorry you had to endure that. I don’t know what people like that think they are accomplishing.
Thank you Briahna Joy Gray! Thank you Cornel West! Thank you Nick Brana!
Thank you Jimmy and Stef! I encourage you to take the time to listen to Jimmy’s whole livestream once in a while. I love his righteous anger and humor. It sustains and fuels me.
I am 66 years old with a chronic health condition. I have Medicare now, but I had good health insurance prior to turning 65. Nevertheless, I have spent about $20,000 out of pocket the last 6 years.
#forcethevote
@PeoplesParty_US
I watch Dore frequently I dont have anything against a vote, but bullying and berating the people who took the time to show up on the forum is not the way to go about it.
I also think Alex Jones deserves being spit on but would never do it myself or encourage anyone to the themselves. Dore has his uses and some good moments, I think his filterless commentary often hits on very good points.. but once again, would never tolerate being treated that way by a boss, politician, etc. Let alone an ally for progressive causes. We cant even get Dems to have a backbone for 2k checks, despite the good intentions of everyone foghting for m4a.. a vote would only tell us what we already know about the lack of appetite to help actual people who need it.
Happy New Year!
yes, and the virulent reaction to people asking Jimmy to not cuss and yell at people for asking him to let someone else talk for a change is amazing! and tbh, for his sometimes outright lying about the squad.
Wishing the best for all of you in 2021.
We already know who does and does not support M4A, but most Americans do not. #forcethevote
@SavageJoyMarie1
Hey, @ryangrim
-I’d appreciate if you didn’t try to speak for me – Did you
watch my segment? Did you listen to my pain? My facial
expression while @JimmyDoreShow + @miserablelib
were talking is not “what have I gotten myself into”,
it’s “listening intently + with empathy”-Try it
Quote Tweet
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
The “what have we gotten ourselves into” faces of his guests
i’m for forcing the vote, not for Jimmy’s abuse.
i also went into big debt paying over $30,000 in medical bills on credit and am now in danger of losing my home. and i’m old.
i also text and donate for M4A and for any candidate that supports it.
Sounds like Jimmy Dore should run for president 🤔- tRump style take my side or I’ll destroy you, even if you’re on my side
My regard and respect for Briahna Joy is slowly diminishing. I heard Jimmy has a 1.9 million dollar home. Did he tell them about that? Did he use his home to finance his medical treatment? He’s a despicable grifter.
she is, at least, starting to RT segments of the show without jimmy speaking. and i heard that he apologized. but yeah, it’s been a disappointment.
he is absolutely losing it and someone close to him needs to help him see how his behavior is honestly way out of bounds. he needs help.and if he won’t get it, they should shun him until he calms down and treats people with respect. It’s one thing to say snarky or things that are “bold” on twitter, it’s a whole ‘nuther to berate and yell over people.
Dore is full of crap. I have never listened to his show, and won’t now.
yeah, MPP brought him onto some kind of advisory board. ugh. tiring and can say his stuff on his own, bit platform.
he does make a good point. are progressives willing to go on the MSM but not on Brie’s podcast? or others? i understand not going on Jimmy’s. lol
big platform.
Wow! I couldn’t force myself to listen to it. But sounds like quite a grifter to me.
yeah. i’m sorry i said that more personal stuff, but my “ally” caught me off guard comparing my disagreement with abuse. He later said it wasn’t personal. 🤷🏻♀️
“Those of Us Who Don’t Die Are Going to Quit”: Facing Piled-up Patients, lack of Gov’t PPE, Nurses Losing Hope
What source of knowledge leads these nursing home staff to make this decision? Fox News? Trump? Can relatives inquire about the vaccination status of the staff?
Life is strange here in OH
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Ed Yong writes for Atlantic
If the best prepared hospital in US says things are out of control, what can be hoped for long term facilities?
Hospitals Know What’s Coming
“We are on an absolutely catastrophic path,” said a COVID-19 doctor at America’s best-prepared hospital.
ED YONG
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
that was a while ago and things have gotten worse. Didn’t realize that there were 3800 deaths reported yesterday
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Often have to go to yesterday because partial results come in during the day
Their global meter has data for 2 days back – I guess because of varying time zones around the world
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Ed Yong posted a long article today. During the pandemic these articles are outside the paywall
This Dr Jha is a regular guest on democracynow
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
from twitter on single payer
Paul Jay, who used to be, and possibly started, Real News Network, is now on his own
propaganda on Russian hack — ongoing scare tactics to maintain military budget
No Evidence of Massive Russian Hack – Larry Wilkerson
jcitybone posted the Gravel Institute tweet up top, but I couldn’t resist sharing this Newsweek headline as well:
Bernie Sanders Uses Trump Tweet to Bash GOP on Senate Floor: ‘President Is Right!’
Newsweek included the following tweets in their story. Tweets do make a difference sometimes?
Good stuff.
Oh DRAT! That wasn’t the headline, not sure what happened there (operator error!), too late to edit.
Here is the correct headline that, coming from Newsweek, was worth posting I thought:
Bernie Sanders Dubbed ‘National Treasure’ After $2,000 Stimulus Appeal
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-stimulus-donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-national-treasure-1558219
You can’t make this stuff up:
Boris Johnson’s father says he’ll seek French citizenship, hours before Brexit
Dr. Drew Pinsky, who apologized for downplaying coronavirus, says he has Covid-19
I have followed Brexit since before it was approved. I still don’t get how the Brits were so rooked by the same PR sh1t that the FRighties invented here.
Xenophobia, nationalism, propaganda, and I honestly don’t think it helped when Obama stuck his big nose into it. Obama has a patronizing streak that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
Obama Warns Britain on EU ‘Brexit’ Vote: ‘No Man Is an Island’
PBO as in bad odor. Raygun groupie which helped him get elected.
Only Six Senate Democrats Voted Against Advancing $740 Billion Pentagon Bill
https://www.dailyposter.com/p/senate-democrats-motion-to-concede?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy
Biden spokeswoman promises pivot from Trump-era press relations
Why did she say that being truthful and transparent will be her “goal”, why couldn’t she have simply said, ‘I will be truthful and transparent’?
Again with the “Our goal” thing, why not just say, ‘we will be out there explaining what we’re doing’?
It’s like “access” to healthcare instead of providing actual care.
Her goal thingy is a Hedge.
Screw her and Byedone.
Crips, Baghdad Bob was more credible than anyone Trumpcorp trotted out as Press Secy. a slug could slime over the bar that was established by Trumpcorp’s people. Psaki has a low bar to maintain
WTH
‘A real bad precedent’: Australia criticised for Antarctica airport plan
Multibillion-dollar project is unnecessary and damaging to wildlife, say scientists
Why not, icebreakers and the melting Antarctica go so well together after all.
And then they’ll build a hotel and eateries, hoping for tourism. I hope the ice shelf they build it on falls off.
there should only be an international presence for true science there and the rest should be off limits to all countries.gd