TRUMP WENT TO BEDMINSTER AND EXPOSED STAFF AND FUNDRAISER ATTENDEES WHEN HE ALREADY KNEW HE HAD COVID!?! WHEN HE WAS ALREADY SYMPTOMATIC AND RECEIVING TREATMENT!
NYC is taking after Portland - a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest - this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street
Democrats need to treat this relief package (and their legislative agenda) the way McConnell treats Supreme Court nominations: you do what needs to be done to get it done.
One thing we haven't seen from a *single* Republican as far as I can tell, is coming out and saying " I was wrong about fraud and election integrity. Those were all lies. Biden won."
I'll admit that I kind of lost track of this, but I was genuinely surprised to learn in the last few days that Americans can just fly to Mexico and then fly right back with no mandatory quarantine in the midst of a once-in-a-century global pandemic.
First time illegal entry into the United States is a misdemeanor.
Lying on or omitting materially relevant information from your SF86 (as Jared Kushner did multiple times by his own admission) is a felony.
Guess which one's getting prosecuted?
I am reading these first-hand accounts of mothers who had their children taken from them, with no word of where they were going or how to contact them, and I'm thinking about someone doing that to me and my kids and I feel a rage so powerful I think I'm gonna pass out.
In my absolutely darkest moments right after the 2016 election I could not imagine this moment: thousands of Americans dying a day, an economic contraction to rival the Great Depression and Trump just listing off the names of CEOs while congratulating himself for a job well done
Before RBG was even *in the ground*, the White House staged a super-spreader event to celebrate their nominee in hopes that they could seat her on the court in time to hear their case for why America's entire system health insurance regulation should be destroyed.
If someone shows up at your door to have a "conversation" about a point of disagreement with you and they just happen to be carrying an AR-15, well you're not really having a conversation are you?
Currently, the Trump administration is arguing that its family-separation policy:
- is a deterrent
- is biblically compliant
- is the Democrats' fault
- does not exist.
Omar's family fled the brutal civil war in Somalia when she was 8 and then spent four years in a refugee camp.
I believe she is the only member of congress who has directly experienced war *as a civilian* in her country.
Rep. Ilhan Omar complained she’s “stricken with PTSD” because of recent events in the Middle East.
This is a disgrace and offensive to our nation’s veterans who really do have PTSD after putting their life on the line to keep America safe.
Liberals were right about George W Bush and they’re right about Donald Trump. The Republican Party is a political party incapable of governing the nation without ushering in death, devastation, and national humiliation. Just the facts.
I know the tape is bad, and vaccination is behind schedule and we’re going to pass 400,000 deaths (!) by Inauguration Day, but just remember how high the corporate tax rate used to be and how much lower it is now.
Every single problem we’re dealing with now stems from the fact that we never actually suppressed the virus and then put the infrastructure in place to keep it suppressed. It’s like we’re trying to figure out a way to live in a burning building. It doesn’t work.
Trying to explain asymptomatic transmission and the exponential growth of epidemics to a 5-year-old to explain why he can’t have a birthday party, and it’s...not going well.
The stock market is not the economy
The stock market is not the economy
The stock market is not the economy
The stock market is not the economy
The stock market is not the economy
The stock market is not the economy
The stock market is not the economy
Call me crazy, but it seems to me that to be a good judge, you need to have good judgment? Participating in a super spreader event that contravenes local DC law and CDC guidance doesn't strike me as good judgment.
DACA recipients with arrest records: 53,792! That is a very large proportion of the total.
@LouDobbs
Not good, but we will be able to make a deal with the Dems!
This is a a very obvious point and has been obvious from the beginning but as the global picture fills in over time, there is *absolutely* no fricking way China only had 3300 fatalities from this virus.
HE WILL NOT CHANGE AND IS FUNDAMENTALLY INCAPABLE OF DOING THE JOB.
That's the story. I know it's fun to watch the bouncing ball, but it doesn't change. That's it.
Since the president is lying about this, I'll reiterate that we obtained internal CBP documents that show that ****91%**** of parents whose kids are taken away are being prosecuted for misdemeanor FIRST TIME entry.
Definitely just a weird coincidence that the last two Republican presidencies both featured legacy cases who coasted on their inheritance, didn't win the popular vote to get elected, and then once in power ushered in world-historical catastrophe and suffering.
Tyranny is the government telling you you can't go to a hair salon because there's a plague.
Freedom, on the other hand, is the government telling you you have to go back to work at your plague-stricken pork processing plant alongside workers who might be sick.
There was a full national freakout because Bill Clinton had a convo on the plane with the AG and now we've got the President, and multiple senators putting on a full court press to get a Republican election official to basically throw out the results of a race they lost!
I remember basically every conservative either losing their mind or pretending to lose their mind because Bill Clinton was briefly on a plane with the Attorney General.
The two most flagantly lawless presidents of the last 60 years have both been the most insistent on "law and order," which shows how little it has to do with law and how much it's about maintaining a specific "order."
The Trump "plan" to re-open the economy is similar to the Trump "plan" to have drive-thru testing in every Wal Mart parking lot. It's...not a plan. It's just an announcement.
As I watch a conservatives by and large shrug their shoulders or simply ignore the mass death around us, I'm starting to get this weird, nagging suspicion that the 10 investigations over 4 years into the deaths of 4 Americans in Benghazi was maybe not undertaken in good faith.
Here's the ugly truth at the core of all of this: the president actually can do whatever he wants - rob, cheat, steal, murder - if he can hold 34 senate votes.
Have you noticed that when the president unilaterally directs $16 bn in bailout payments to agricultural interests, no one says: but how will you pay for it?
So Doug Jones, a lifelong prosecutor who convicted the monsters that murdered four little girls is "soft on crime," but Roy Moore, the district attorney alleged to have molested a child and sexually assaulted a 16yo is not.
Got it.
It's a lifetime ago, but it used to be an extremely common conservative talking point to complain about frivilous lawsuits and people that sued everyone over every damn thing.
I've said this a ton before but remember *the second* a Democrat is elected president the entire GOP will oppose large Federal rescue and recovery spending, start demagoguing the deficit, and calling for austerity.
The sheer entitled whininess on display here. We ask every citizen to serve on juries! And this is literally your job, to just show up and listen. I’m so sorry this is so hard for you. Go get another gig.
It is true that police in the US also kill a lot of white people which is...not really necessarily a super awesome debating point in the police’s favor?
Backstory: this girl had been in prison for the last three years, after being prosecuted by the Obama administration for saying Merry Christmas at age 4.
Something I just keeping back to over and over is the tremendous continuity between the last two Republican presidents, both of whom left the country in ruins, amidst historic catastrophes. The entire party and movement are rotten to the core and unfit to govern.
I would pay good money to see all those people complaining about Obama’s FCC chairman voting to repeal
#NetNeutality
actually explain it in detail. I’d also bet most hadn’t heard of it before this week.
#outrage
Will reiterate my point from yesterday, which is that there is zero reason to believe anything they say and there’s good reason to believe the President was diagnosed Wednesday and they covered it up while exposing hundreds of people.
No choice but to conclude that seven months into this they're actually all just too stupid, collectively to understand "incubation period," "test sensitivity" and "test specificity"
The whole debate is a microcosm of our national nightmare. A complete sociopath barking at everyone as everyone tries do their best to kind of work normal.
So here's what appears to be chain of events:
The Trump administration repatriated infected Americans over the objections of the CDC.
HHS then sent federal workers to interact with the infected population without adequate training or protection
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills but Donald Trump by law does not own the documents at issue, and also is no longer "the executive" so how can he possibly hold any privilege that would allow him to retain them?
For so long the theory was that Republicans were acting like they were because they were afraid of a Trump tweet. And I kept arguing, no they are acting like they are because they are *invested in the same project as Trump*. I think that's more evident now than ever.
Look at the absolute cowardice on display here. Not one of these men -
@VP
,
@LindseyGrahamSC
,
@SenMikeLee
@SenThomTillis
-have the moral courage or common human decency to actually walk up to the human beings on the other side of the fence and talk to them.
A pathetic display.
New video shows severe overcrowding of men in cages at Texas detainment facility during VP Pence's visit Friday.
A group of men detained behind chain link fencing shouted to news cameras, "No shower, no shower!"
The first thing Justice Barrett did was to participate in a campaign event at the White House for the president, eight days before an election that he has explicitly said he expects will turn on her vote.
This point by
@ewarren
is really important: 40% of people with student loan debt don’t have a college degree. They’ve basically got the worst of both worlds. Canceling a big chunk of debt would be *huge* for them.
Stupendously obvious, but the number one thing that would help "unity" would be for the President to give a speech in which he admits all the voter fraud/stolen election stuff was a complete lie and tells his followers that he lost to Joe Biden. Obviously this will never happen