I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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I'm glad to be rid of the Trump gloaters. We visited my mother-in-law this weekend; she lives with dh's sister who couldn't brag enough about Trump in office. But Saturday...crickets. Dh and I don't discuss politics much with others, but I must say, it was wonderful to sit there and feel quietly powerful because WE WERE RIGHT about Trump. We talked about the weather and the kids and football, but we sat there knowing BIDEN WON.
My Trumper neighbor is trying his darndest to put his best foot forward, sort of quietly eating crow. He shoveled our sidewalk twice, knowing dh had appendix surgery at the end of November. Dh doing good, btw, and is back to work. I think neighbor is showing us "no hard feelings, I'm a Christian". But damn, he loved to gloat before the election.
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Trill, right on with your meme:
"Trump stands without any real rivals as the worst American president in modern history.
The lesson of the last four years is that he cannot solve the nation's pressing problems because he is the nation's most pressing problem."
And I would even cross out the word "modern" in the above and say Trump is worst. Worst president. In history.
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I think it's funny that I didn't get the Ossoff Warnock sign until I read it out loud with a southern accent.
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senate will kill the $2k. Need Georgia to vote dem next week!
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Senate may not kill the $2K if enough of them are so wedded to Dear Leader's base that they'll do what he tells them to, lest he endorse their further-right-wing primary opponents next time out. I can see Loeffler & Perdue voting for it if they think doing so will save their seats (in both senses of the word) next week.
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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" (Sir Walter Scott, 1808)
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Divine, that was fun reading about your trip to in-laws last week......hah-hah!!! I'll BET you enjoyed that! Funny how quiet people get when they lose---all except Trump, who just shoots off his mouth and Twitter finger!!! Then again he doesn't think he lost....What an asshole..I'm glad to hear he has fecal incontinence....wish I'd known it these past 4+ years.....glad to hear your dh is doing ok now....
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, and kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. -Moliere
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Yes, this is real pain.
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Ah yes -- the super healthy guy. Just another fat bully.
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And as well several of your cohorts who are vicious hypocrites who will stop at nothing to get what THEY want.
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Love the people around the perp.
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This was quite a read https://bit.ly/2JsqQ4z and I am so glad I read it. It is about a Psychopath for President -- and we sure had one.
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well, bitch mcconnell has rejected the 2k so that's that. I knew it!
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It wasn't a sure thing since Trump was actually pushing it --- and I do think it sounds like the Democrats can keep up the pressure until New Yrs. Day so who knows but of course tax breaks for the wealthy are fantastic, thank you very much. Helping people nearly destroyed by Trump and the economy and pandemic, ho hum. Not my problem. Well, would you have a problem Moscow M. is you got demoted to Minority Speaker.
People who could do something finally ( in an election ) were very much onto Trump. I think by this time many, many are onto those who encourage their misery McConnell, old boy. I would be very concerned about just where I wanted to be. I've heard it both ways -- just as much chance that the Democrats won't get the GA seats as that they will. Still, I think it must be hard right now with a lunatic man in the Oval Ofc. already mad at McConnell, who threw a $2,000.oo monkey wrench at the last minute and so who can be for sure just what will happen. I do think though it would be a great time to ditch Mitch as the head honcho of the Senate. I'd love to see it happen -- and it could. Here's hoping. Then again -- I'm not surprised by What McConnell does. He has had great leeway for many yrs. He likes being a button pusher. The Republicans I think are pretty well falling apart -- at least far more than they are falling together as of late. It must be hard in some cases to know which way to go with the delusional top care who only wants to be somehow installed as king and while waiting is very revengeful, even to those who worked for 4 yrs. to kiss his ring.
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Great memes! The Pence quote sounded so pat, I suspected it was made up. So I googled it. Sure enough, he said it. He actually said it as if it were a bad thing. His intent was "Dems want to make the poor comfortable at the expense of the rich, but we want to make everybody richer!" Then he claimed that the median household income rose as evidence of making "everybody richer". Unfortunately, statistics don't work that way. The median statistic point is the one in the middle. So going from 10-8-6-4-2 to 14-7-7-1-1, technically the median (6 going to 7) rose. But no reasonable person would think that was making "everyone richer".
Mind you, if poor families don't count as actual people, then maybe you can make that claim.
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Reagan, circa 1981: "A rising tide floats all boats."
Reality, circa 2020-21: "A rising tide floods basements."
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A fave-o-rite word of mine:
Today is the PENULTIMATE day of 2020
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Heather Cox Richardson
December 29, 2020 (Tuesday)
There is definitely a feeling of change in the air. For all his continuing insistence that he won the 2020 election, Trump is a lame duck.
Today's complicated fight in the Senate over the one-time stimulus payment of $2000 illustrated that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), not Trump, now controls the Republican caucus. Trump originally refused to sign the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the bill that contains the coronavirus relief measures, because he claimed he objected to its meager $600 stimulus payments. Six hundred dollars was the amount his negotiators had demanded, but he suddenly said he wanted them to be $2000. Democrats in the House jumped on Trump's demand for the higher payment and they passed a measure on Monday to increase the payments.
Trump had attacked the bill largely because he is angry at McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-SD) (a whip keeps party members in line behind the party leader) for acknowledging Biden's victory in November. He was trying to illustrate his power by refusing to sign the bill at all. But Sunday night he gave in without winning anything. Yet, he continued to say he wanted higher payments. The House was happy to give him what the Democrats had wanted all along; today, Trump lost the showdown in the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced the measure, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) killed it. This enabled the two embattled Republican Senate candidates from Georgia both to support Trump and to claim they wanted higher payments, all without actually having to vote for the higher payments. McConnell bested Trump all around: he had no intention of raising those payments no matter what Trump tweeted... and he didn't.
Trump's influence in Washington is waning in other ways, too. Yesterday, the House repassed the National Defense Authorization Act over Trump's veto. Trump claims to object to the bill for a number of reasons, including that it will require that military bases currently named for Confederate generals be renamed, but this is the measure into which Congress put the Corporate Transparency Act I wrote about a few days ago. It will undercut the country's plague of so-called shell companies, which enable money laundering and other criminal activity because they are owned and operated in secret. The new measure will require that all owners and operators of such companies be clearly identified.
This will likely impact the Trump family, which uses shell companies.
There were other rumblings today that Trump's post-presidential life might have some sticky places. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has hired forensic accountants to help investigate Trump and his businesses. This investigation is a criminal investigation. New York Attorney General Letitia James is in charge of a civil investigation into Trump's businesses.
But the big thing which showed momentum is moving away from Trump is that President-Elect Joe Biden is forcefully criticizing the Trump administration for its failure to plan for distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.
With more than 330,000 Americans dead of Covid-19 and infections spiking, Biden today noted that the Trump administration has fallen behind on vaccine distribution. The effort got off to a poor start as the administration delivered fewer doses than it had promised and initially blamed Pfizer for a "miscommunication," only to have Pfizer state that it had "millions of doses" in a warehouse but had received no information about where to send them.
The administration promised to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of December, but yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that it had administered just 2.1 million doses in two weeks, although that number is likely somewhat low because of lag times in reporting. At the current rate, Dr. Leana S. Wen writes in the Washington Post, we can expect to achieve herd immunity in 10 years.
The administration at first refused to share information with the Biden camp about distribution, claiming there was a plan, even though, when finally part of discussions in early December, Biden said "[t]here is no detailed plan that we've seen, anyway, as to how you get the vaccine out of a container, into an injection syringe, into somebody's arm."
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar responded that Biden's claim was "nonsense." "[W]e have comprehensive plans from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working with 64 public health jurisdictions across the country as our governors have laid out very detailed plans that we've worked with them on. We're leveraging our retail pharmacies, our hospitals, our public health departments, our community health centers." Azar said the distribution process was being "micromanaged and controlled by the United States military, as well as our incredible private sector. We do hundreds of millions of vaccinations a year. We're leveraging the systems that are known, and that work here in the United States." Azar assured Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that, as soon as the vaccines were approved, the government would be shipping them "to all of the states and territories that we work with. And within hours they can be vaccinating,"
It turns out Biden was more right than Azar. The administration planned simply to get the vaccines to the states, and then leave to them the problem of actually getting the vaccines into people's arms. But state Departments of Health are strapped for money after trying to manage the pandemic for nine months, and had been allotted only $6 million apiece to make the distributions happen. (The new Consolidated Appropriations Act that Trump just signed has significantly more money in it for distribution.)
"The Trump administration's plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind, far behind," Biden said today. "As I long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should."
Finally stung, Trump tweeted tonight that "It is up to the States to distribute the vaccines once brought to the designated areas by the Federal Government. We have not only developed the vaccines, including putting up money to move the process along quickly, but gotten them to the states. Biden failed with Swine Flu!" (Biden was not in charge of the Obama Administration's response to H1N1 in 2009, which broke out three months after Obama took office.)
Biden promised to invoke the National Defense Production Act, a law that permits the president to require companies to produce goods at the same time that it guarantees them a market for those goods, to speed up the production of supplies necessary to distribute the vaccine quickly. "I have directed my team to prepare a much more aggressive effort, with more federal involvement and leadership to get things back on track," he said.
But he warned that we are behind and, breaking with the Trump administration, warned that things are going to get much worse before they get better. The spike in infections along with the fallout from holiday gatherings means we will see high case numbers in January and high death tolls in February. It will be mid-March, he warns, before we see improvement. "The next few weeks and months are going to be very tough, a very tough period for our nation — maybe the toughest during this entire pandemic," Biden said. "I know it's hard to hear, but it's the truth."
"We are going to get through this. Brighter days are coming," Biden said. "But it's going to take all of the grit and determination we have as Americans to get it done."
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