??NEW: ?@POTUS? spoke with Governor Abbott conveying his support to the ppl of TX during this trying time (and always), Fed gov will continue to work ?? with TX, and he’ll instruct additional federal agencies to look into immediate next steps for support. #TXlege #TXforever pic.twitter.com/SwRCQwzgEb
— Emmy Ruiz (@emmyruiz46) February 19, 2021
President Joe Biden, who will meet with G7 world leaders for the first time since taking office, will pledge $4 billion to a coronavirus vaccination program for poorer countries https://t.co/aFAcY2EdCx pic.twitter.com/UNNTD0Geso
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 19, 2021
Equality Act introduced in House to provide sweeping LGBTQ protections https://t.co/4tsyaKaAzJ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 18, 2021
"Biden and Dems are operating with confidence because they have finally embraced what has long been true: Progressive economic policies are broadly popular. Many of them are supported by the GOP’s large working-class wing."@EJDionne captures the moment:https://t.co/SIwNFiqanv
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 17, 2021
… Voters always say they like bipartisanship, because most Americans prefer people to be nice to each other and work together. But what they care more about is solving problems and getting things done. If the party in charge fails in that essential duty, endless bend-over-backward negotiations and a big, inclusive “process” won’t save them…
Sure, Republican politicians will probably swing some of their supporters away from Biden’s economic plan, larger than the one tested by Bright Line Watch, by attacking it as a deficit-growing, inflation-threatening monstrosity — although the GOP’s record of bloating the deficit with tax cuts for the rich leaves the party’s credibility lower than this week’s temperatures.
But Biden and the Democrats are operating with confidence because they have finally embraced what has long been true: Progressive economic policies are broadly popular. Many of them (notably those checks) are supported by the GOP’s large working-class wing.
Let’s also recognize that when Republican congressional leaders claim to want bipartisanship, they are not operating in good faith. That’s a strong statement, but it’s rooted in reality, not partisanship. Republicans want nothing like what Biden wants. “Now is the time we should be spending,” the president said in Milwaukee. “Now is the time to go big.” The biggest counter so far, from a minority of Republicans, is only a third the size of Biden’s…
Most Americans are neither anti-government ideologues nor culture-war extremists. They turn to the federal government to act boldly in a time of crisis not because they love government in the abstract but because they understand it as the only entity capable of taking on certain large tasks. That’s why Biden is confident about the course he’s on — and it’s why he shouldn’t back down.
Baud
The key test for me will be whether our policies and our candidates are popular at the ballot box once we’ve righted the ship yet again.
debbie
I trust Biden didn’t tell Abbott he had to be nice to him.
The Thin Black Duke
@Baud: If the Democrats can enact a Voting Rights Act with muscle behind it, I like our chances.
debbie
@The Thin Black Duke:
From what I see, states are working on rules to strengthen voter suppression. I doubt they’ll follow what Congress passes.
satby
And it was nice to read this yesterday: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/democrats-letters-louis-dejoy-usps/index.html
Baud
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: I wonder when Abbott will figure out that all this aid coming their way is just a stealth Jade-Helm.
Baud
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
When it’s too late.
BWAAHAAAHAAAA!
Baud
@The Thin Black Duke:
I hope they can get that done.
debbie
@satby:
I especially like the idea of firing the entire board.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone???
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
rikyrah
Got my first Fauci Ouchi yesterday.?
It was Pfizer.
So far,no problems.
Baud
Baud
@rikyrah: ?
Baud
Baud
satby
@Baud: good. It deserves much more than a beating. I’m thinking an immolation is much more suitable to the moment and circumstances.
Baud
debbie
@Baud:
Three of five white evangelicals say Biden wasn’t legitimately elected. This NPR report also shows that their preachers are preaching Q’Anon fallacies.
Quinerly
@debbie: good one! Morning chuckle here. So much of my daily outrage about Trump is fading away. I feel healthier for it.
Baud
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly: ?
Betty Cracker
From the Dionne column quoted above:
Some Republicans get this too, which is why pre-sedition Hawley jumped on the $2K stimulus check bandwagon, pre-Cancun Ritz Carlton Cruz claimed the GOP was the party of the working class (oops), and Rubio said the GOP has to rebrand as the party of “multiethnic, multiracial, working-class voters” (with Rubio at the helm, one assumes).
This sets them on a collision course with their donors, who fund the culture war bullshit as cover for lawmaking that advances the plutocratic agenda. May they tear themselves apart over that schism while punching each other senseless over T***p at the same time.
Quinerly
@rikyrah: wonderful news!
OzarkHillbilly
Floriduh! woman comes thru again:
Baud
ETA: OH got there first.
debbie
@Baud:
Wait till those people see the Recovery Relief Worksheet. ?
Baud
TIL there are working members of the royal family.
John S.
@Baud: Speaking of which, anyone see what’s going on with Facebook in Australia?
Because of a pending law governing how social platforms would need to compensate news outlets, Facebook turned off all news sources — creating a giant vacuum being filled by misinformation, Qanon, white supremacy and other bullshit.
Fuck Zuck.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Nya nah nanya nah.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: I read that yesterday and thought the public speculation that they were “in their 20s” probably made getting busted worth it to the pair. :)
But seriously, bonnets? Do they know any real grannies? That’s not a thing anymore.
OzarkHillbilly
Damn, and I spent extra for the “Granny KIt” with a bonnet.
Baud
I’m glad Gary Peters pulled it out in MI.
ETA: He’s on MJ.
Baud
Hahahaha.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Ever see “Meek’s Cutoff” ?
It’s a very interesting film about a lost wagon train and it was filmed in 4×4 too give the sense of what it was like for the women who wear bonnets and basically see a square world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhNrz2hX_o
Booger
@Baud: …He did WHAT NOW??? …ON MJ???
topclimber
@Baud: I had no idea.
Ken
That’s where you sell the government to the highest bidder?
Amir Khalid
@Baud: The Royal Family’s official work, such as it is, is largely ceremonial: officiating/being guest of honour at various functions around the country, being royal patrons of certain charities, and the like. It’s not exactly the most physically or mentally strenuous work in Britain. The monarch has head of state duties, which for the current one include having to waste her Wednesday mornings listening to BoJo (the Prime Minister’s briefing). That is probably the hardest job anyone in the Royal Family has to do.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
How the phuck are you denied the second shot?
Makes no sense ?
rikyrah
I miss Kay ?
NotMax
Couple of things which crossed the mind.
1) Has anyone seen any reports about how the ongoing debacle is impacting the undocumented people Dolt 45 stuffed into tents and cages in Texas?
2) Although I’ve seen nothing to confirm it, there almost must be some sewage plants releasing who knows what quantity of untreated or undertreated outflow.
topclimber
@rikyrah: You mean Chicken Little Kay, the one who kept talking about how GOP denialism about election results would become a big problem? Yeah, that one, who I miss too.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Funny you should ask. I missed it entirely but had my interest piqued just recently when reading an article about it. Now on the list.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: The Queen earns every penny (pence?) with that awful duty.
debbie
@rikyrah:
Seconded. Especially since 2022 in Ohio will be so interesting.
Betty Cracker
@debbie: Thirded. She has taken a break and returned before, so I hope she will again.
satby
blech
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Zoe Kazan is in it and her role in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Gal She Got Rattled” was awesome.
Immanentize
@rikyrah: Probably fraud on the front end as revealed by fraud on the back end. It’s Florida. I have no confidence anyone there, except the wealthy, will get their second shot on time. They will just make the two cool their heels for a bit before the second shot.
And congratulations on your shot!!
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Easily. If cheaters get caught, they shouldn’t be rewarded for it.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker:
I lost any remnant of respect for the hateful old git when she refused to use her platform on BREXIT, and didn’t exercise her vestigial power on the prorogue of Parliament. She did her country a grave disservice at a time when they needed her to step up to the plate for once in her worthless, entitled life.
Her not lowering the boom on the family over how Markle was being treated just confirms it.
gvg
@Immanentize: False ID’s is usually a crime in itself.
Ken
@Betty Cracker: Everything you never wanted to know about the Royal finances. Meeting with the PM is part of official duties, so falls under the “Sovereign Grant”. That’s a huge amount, but also has to cover upkeep of Buckingham Palace and other estates, travel expenses, and payments for staff and the rest of the Royals.
The money comes from the “Crown Estate”, which consists of a lot of property scattered through the UK. I think it’s what the monarch used to directly control, but since (as Charles Stross put it) King Charles got his extra-short haircut, the income goes to the Treasury and a portion becomes the Sovereign Grant.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Betty Cracker: Even gloves are a bit far fetched.
Immanentize
Some morning lightness:
Dorothy A. Winsor
@gvg: I had to produce a photo ID to get my shots. I wonder what they used.
pluky
@debbie: And the Courts are no longer a reliable back-stop.
Ken
They seem to be making a comeback around here, albeit instead of silk they’re latex.
Amir Khalid
@Immanentize:
Does Ted realise how skeevy he looks with those whiskers?
Ken
It’s Florida, so I’ll guess a combination of bribery and cocaine. Don’t really see how to fit an alligator into the mix.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Ken: True! And I wear thick wool gloves when I leave the house, but I pictured white gloves on these dodos.
Betty Cracker
@Dorothy A. Winsor: You’re right, unless there happened to be a cold snap and they were regular gloves.
My great-grandma, who died when I was a teenager, used to wear white gloves and a hat (not bonnet, more like a pillbox thingie) to church, but her fashion sense seemed wildly anachronistic in the 1980s, let alone now.
She also had a fox stole that had the foxes HEAD on one end with fake eyes and spring-loaded jaws that clamped to the tail to keep in around her shoulders. (This was in Florida, mind you!). When GG wasn’t looking, my sister and I used to take that stole and clamp the jaws to our butts and run around the house screaming. Poor great-grandma. God rest her martyred heart.
Baud
jonas
Awww. I was looking forward to Biden going down to Texas, calling the governor an incompetent buffoon, whining about how Texas didn’t turn out to vote for him, and lobbing paper towels into a crowd of people at a shelter. Now *that’s* distributing disaster relief!
HinTN
@rikyrah: Mrs H and I are scheduled for next Friday. Woo hoo
The Thin Black Duke
If anybody is still interested in how Gina Carano canceled herself, my newest essay on Medium breaks it down. Karma never sleeps.
HinTN
@debbie: It is good to see them willingly take the road to perdition.
Josie
I’ll use this open thread to report from Houston. My son and I got power back yesterday after being without power and water since Monday. Roads super icy, so we were stuck in our town home, which is luckily pretty well insulated. Still no water, since a pipe burst over the kitchen. We did save lots of the water that dripped down for the once a day flushing of the toilets. Always look on the bright side, right? We are camping out in a very large city, along with so many others. What a fucked up situation. I have pledged to do all in my power to take down Cruz, Abbot and every other Republican that stands for reelection. Anyone else who is interested can join Beto’s Powered by People. That is one determined young man.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Meanwhile, in Texas, an 11 year old freezes to death in an unheated mobile home.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/19/texas-boy-death-winterstorm-pavon/
Immanentize
@gvg: Also, Florida is a crazy first come get served State. They must have tried to get into an elderly persons only clinic. Dopes.
HinTN
@Betty Cracker: hear here
Immanentize
@gvg: Also, Florida is a crazy first come get served State. They must have tried to get into an elderly persons only clinic. Dopes.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: In Florida? Gloves?
Immanentize
@Ken: If the bribes don’t work, the alligator is the muscle.
sab
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I wear white cotton gloves whenever I go oit into the Covid infested world now. Vermont Country store lotion gloves. They’re washable.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Ken:
As memory serves, most of central London – the most valuable part – is Crown property.
Baud
@The Thin Black Duke:
You’re becoming quite prolific!
Immanentize
Hmmmm. I am getting odd repeating comments. Sorry folks!
OzarkHillbilly
Can’t you just smell the freedom emanating from free market forces?
The Thin Black Duke
@topclimber:
I thought Kay was an invaluable voice in the BJ community and I miss her, but hey, YMMV.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@raven:
Also now on my list.
sab
@Betty Cracker: My grandmother ( born 1895) had one of those fox stoles. I think they were for women who couldn’t afford fur coats. I wonder what happened to it.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Funny how all those socialism-hating GQPers all come pleading for that there socialism when a natural disaster strikes. “Funny” in the “hypocritical, douchebag, asshole GQPers” sense of the word.
topclimber
@The Thin Black Duke: If it wasn’t clear, I was hammering those who mocked her, not her. We are both on the Kay team.
The Thin Black Duke
@topclimber: Oh. I apologise. Obviously I need another cup of coffee.
Immanentize
@The Thin Black Duke: thanks for that. I really have been puzzled by her. Did she really think she was an untouchable big deal? A Brad Pitt, not a Russell Crowe? Even Mel Gibson has worked his way to be persona no grata. It is really an odd mystery to me. Suicide bomber whose only target was herself. Like a Buddhist monk?
Immanentize
@Josie: I feel for you. My in-laws in Richmond were in the same boat but got their power back after about 60 hours. Hand in there!
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: Texans are going to be pissed! Their freedom will be expressed in their refusal to pay the usurious rates. Guns will be involved.
Betty Cracker
@Josie: Yikes — stay warm!
@sab: I wonder what happened to my great-grandma’s fox stole too. As the eldest of my generation, it should have come to me eventually! I would have given it a proper Christian burial. (It spent way more time in church than I ever did…)
The Thin Black Duke
@Immanentize: What’s odd is Carano’s ignorance of what a limited skill set she had. Sure, Carano looked good in action sequences, but she certainly wasn’t good when it came to the acting part of the job. And when actresses are going to the gym to bulk up for roles, Carano didn’t really have the leverage to be a Diva. Can you imagine Carano playing Harley Quinn? Trinity?
OzarkHillbilly
Ken
@The Thin Black Duke: I am also somewhat amused at reports that a number of “fans” who originally decried her casting as “SJW libs ruining our show”, are now complaining about her removal on the same grounds.
Immanentize
@The Thin Black Duke: Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal who is becoming a “star” praises his sister for coming out as trans. In the Hollywood world of Pedro v. Gina, I know who looks better in action scenes!
Betty Cracker
@The Thin Black Duke: I haven’t followed the Carano story closely, but I did see Jon Chait’s reflexive defense. One of the Carano tweets Chait used in making his case contained an image that seemed obviously anti-Semitic to me, but Chait said it’s vague enough to get a pass.
Basically, his argument was that we can’t expect actors to be capable of sophisticated imagery analysis. Okay, fair enough (though I don’t think it required any sophistication to identify that image as anti-Semitic). But like you said, they should have enough care for their own employment prospects to avoid being wildly offensive. WE ALL HAVE TO DO THAT!
scribbler
@rikyrah: In addition to having interesting and valuable insights, Kay’s writing style is unmistakable. Clear and concise, and no BS.
Even if you didn’t see her name, you’d know within a sentence or two that it’s Kay. I miss her too, and hope she returns.
BlueNC
@Betty Cracker: I liked her physical presence. Seeing her, you realize how waifish 99% of female presence is on-screen. Nice to see a non-waif body.
BUT…perhaps we could find a non-Holocaust denying non-waif…
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@The Thin Black Duke:
You’d think that her handlers would have had the financial incentive to lean on her about incendiary shitposting.
Soprano2
If the power is out, and the sewers are gravity, then this is most certainly happening to some degree. they try to do controlled release. Under those circumstances it’s unavoidable, since the sewage keeps coming in and there isn’t anywhere to store it. Just wait until all that snow melts and leaks into the sewer pipes, the flows will be epic. I’m dreading that here next week, we’ll probably be getting calls about sewer backed up in up people’s basements because of it.
The Thin Black Duke
@Immanentize: I have a feeling that Pedro went to Disney and said, “It’s either me or Gina”, because there were stories about Pedro trying to educate Gina about how harmful her remarks were to the transgender community.
OzarkHillbilly
I was a union carpenter. Being wildly offensive is a job requirement.
Mokum
@Baud: Today I learned what TIL means. Useful knowledge, no?
Ken
One of the community theater groups I’ve been involved with had a director like that. Our joke was that he thought of actors as props that moved around.
Betty Cracker
FWIW, I do believe that “cancel culture” can go too far and be a real problem that affects blameless (or mostly blameless) individuals, and I hate pile-ons to that effect. But IMO, it’s not even a top 100 problem, let alone the most pressing issue of our time.
Ken
@Soprano2: In flatter terrain, sewage systems also have lift stations at intervals, since you can’t have a gravity drain all the way to the treatment plant. When the power goes out those sumps start filling, and backing up toward the sources.
Soprano2
Yep, this is a big problem in places like Florida after hurricanes. You probably don’t know that I’ve worked for city sewer where I live since 1993. LOL I know more about the sewer than I ever thought I would. People get mad about those sewage plant releases, but a lot of the time they’re unavoidable. Lots of houses have lift pumps in the basement, and when the electricity stops they don’t work, which causes problems too. Luckily for most people their sewer operates with gravity, so as long as they can get some water and a bucket they can flush the toilets and it’ll go down. Like I said, the real sewer problems will start when all that snow melts, and the sewers fill with water. Especially where they have combined storm/sanitary sewers, it’ll be a problem, but even separated systems have problems because they all leak to some extent.
Low Key Swagger
@Soprano2: Would that make you the number 1 man in the number 2 business?
WaterGirl
@topclimber: That was not clear at all, but glad to know it now.
Ken
Oh, sorry, hope I didn’t come off mansplaining. I’m only aware of the lift stations because I live near one that’s in the middle of a suburb, disguised as a single-family house. It’s kind of fun walking past the place, knowing what’s inside.
Immanentize
@Soprano2: Basement toilets always need backflush valves — especially in the rare basements in Texas.
gvg
@Immanentize:
I don’t know what you mean by first come state. You have to be in an eligible group and make an appointment. there are no walk ins that I know of. The health departments are phoning and testing people on lists. Internet savvy people are getting the quickest appointments. It is 65 and older. Healthcare workers were offered the shots first. Doctors have to call for specific patients under 65 with concerning medical conditions, those patients can’t do it themselves. Its pretty much the same as every other state that I have heard of.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: Who/what are you subtweeting in that comment? I think everyone would agree that ganging up on innocents is bad, but I genuinely do not know what people mean by “cancel culture.”. Is it just tribal identity marking? Is it the replacement for the now useless pejorative “political correctness?” I’m serious about not understanding the phrase at all. What do you mean when you use it? I feel like it is some short hand squiggle and I missed that class.
Immanentize
@gvg: People are getting shots flying in from South America. Maybe age is a limitation? but it seems there is a ton of slippage in the Administration. Age and co-morbidity can at some places be self reported. I know people in Miami who are younger than 65 and in good health, who have already received their second shot. Right neighborhood? Lucky? Know someone? Yes and yes and yes.
eclare
@The Thin Black Duke: Good essay, thanks.
gwangung
Given what happened to Obama, there’s only a 50/50 chance (and only that because Biden’s a white man).
sdhays
@Betty Cracker: Considering it’s Florida, they should have just dressed up as rich suburban housewives with MAGA gear and gone to a DeathSantis stronghold and they would have been waved on through.
gwangung
@The Thin Black Duke: Folks gotta remember…Pedro Pascal has a sister who just came out, and Pedro’s talked repeatedly to Carano.
Add 2 and 2….
sdhays
@gwangung: It’s not all on Biden or Obama. Congressional Democrats know what happened back then, so they are changing how they approach their agenda and how they prepare for 2022 (i.e. they’re already preparing), and the Democratic electorate is different too – I have to hope that the visceral horror of the Dump debacle will remain fresh for Democrats a bit longer than the W debacle did, especially since W basically vanished from public and was disappeared from Republican politics after 2008, thus facilitating the Republican rebranding effort.
Dump will not similarly oblige, even if he kicks the bucket tomorrow, because they’re much more of a Dump cult than political party now.
The Thin Black Duke
@Immanentize: In the past, when women, people of color and other marginalized groups told the bastards to “Stop. Please”, they wouldn’t. “Cancel Culture” means that that political landscape has changed, and people have more leverage than before and can push back. Sure, there’s going to be collateral damage, but maybe those bigoted idiots should listened when folks said “Stop. Please.”
Immanentize
@The Thin Black Duke: I love this version.
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: I’m not subtweeting anyone in particular, but there are (rare!) incidents where people were unjustly hounded out of jobs because someone perceived them as failing to toe the line on a particular orthodoxy and ginned up an online mob to take them down. David Shor is one example.
I think upwards of 99.9% of what Republicans would call “PC” are actually social mores that decent people follow so as not to be hurtful assholes to vulnerable groups. The “cancel culture” problem, such as it is, is mostly located within the conservative movement, which successfully canceled the career of Colin Kaepernick, for example, and goes after its own for being insufficiently loyal to Trump.
But I think we’re fooling ourselves if we don’t acknowledge that illiberal impulses to squelch dissent and shutdown conversation exist on our side too. I see it sometimes.
Feckless
I thought based on Republican rules that Biden was allowed to not give FEMA money to Texas because they didn’t vote for him, Abbott in the whole Republican party had no trouble when Trump did it to California?
Why isn’t a single reporter asking any Republicans about this?
Miss Bianca
@satby: Count me as one of those Democrats who wants Biden to fire the entire Board of Governors. And then roast DeJoy’s chestnuts over a long open fire of Congressional hearings. Either just before or just after the new Board shit-cans him.
Miss Bianca
@Betty Cracker: My mom had an entire stole made of sables, same thing. I got in big trouble for snipping one of them off and making it into a kind of pet. She did let me keep it, tho’. ; )
VOR
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Sign of things to come. I predict that when the immediate crisis is over, the authorities in Texas will find a significant number of people who quietly died in their homes during the storm. May need to go house to house to check.
Bill Arnold
@John S.:
I don’t know the motives for the people pushing this through the Australian legislature.
The concern is that it’s a mandatory fee payable to news providers for linking news content. Skimming, the legislation looks horrifying and pretty much every provider of news links (don’t know about user-supplied like twitter or here) would be wise to block Australian IP addresses; e.g. the requirement that any changes to algorithms be described 14 days in advance in comprehensible fashion to all news providers means that AI curation like Google News automated story aggregation (for breaking stories) is forbidden, as currently written. Facebook and google are doing the right thing here, IMO, until the legislation is fixed, and perhaps after it is “fixed”.
Media Bargaining Code amendments include a more ‘streamlined’ algorithm change notice – Australian government intends to introduce a number of clarifications and technical amendments to the Bill, aimed at improving the workability of the code. (Asha Barbaschow, February 16, 2021)
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r6652_third-reps/toc_pdf/20177b01.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf
PJ
@Betty Cracker:
It used to seem like, once certain people reached a certain level of stardom, they could get away with a lot more in terms of offensive statements or bad behavior. (If you were a nobody and you did something the studio didn’t like or didn’t want publicized, you’d just be fired and replaced and no one would hear about it.) But, as public expectations have changed, there is a lot more onus now on employers both to make sure that their shoots are congenial work environments and to not drive away their audiences (which is mostly good but has some negative aspects, as with the deference to the wishes of the CCP).
As you say, this is the case with any employer. Unless you are a really big rainmaker, you can and will be shitcanned for things you do and say that generate public opprobrium. Gina Carano clearly has drunk the Rush Juice and believes that she can and ought to publicize whatever offensive thing crawls into her head. But she is not a big rainmaker. I have no doubt that Disney warned her about this in the past, she ignored it, so they didn’t renew her contract.
Because she is a special snowflake, she and right wing media will cry about this for years to come, but she knew what she was doing and continued to do it, so what’s the big deal? Tant pis.
The Thin Black Duke
@PJ: Well said.
burnspbesq
@debbie:
Abbott can be nice. He has a multitude of Republican office holders available to be the assholes.
burnspbesq
@debbie:
‘Then it’s DOJ’s turn.
Geminid
@scribbler: I thought Kay was a very valuable contributor generally, and especially in her perspective on Ohio Republicans that was based on astute observation. She and I tangled early on the first thread the day she left, but I hope I was not disrespectful, certainly did not mean to be. Kay will have a lot to contribute if she returns.
rikyrah
@gvg:
Last week, our Governor opened it up to those with underlying conditions. I’m a walking underlying condition. So, I got to get an appointment.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Been reported from Florida how many White areas are getting the shots at far higher rates than non-White areas.
Viva BrisVegas
The conservative Federal government here is beholden to Rupert Murdoch in a big way. Not least for their narrow wins in the last couple of elections. News Corp publications essentially act as the publicity and PR arms of the ruling party.
This legislation is Rupert’s access to a new cash stream as revenues have been declining in his PayTV and newsprint arms.
At the moment it’s Evil Corp vs Evil Corp, with the Feds coming in on the side of their Evil Corp. I’m rooting (rude word here) for injuries.