US Politics, April 2020 -- Where's the Vax Returns?

The governor of NC and they mayor of Charlotte (both Democrat) might have something to say about that.

it almost seems inevitable. the GOP leadership doubtlessly knows that too. why revise your own convention plans when you can instead let your opponents cancel it for you and fan the flames of grievance politics? it gets their voters fired up, and also contributes to the idea that if they do lose the election in Nov, it's because democrats cheated. win-win!

I guess that's better than nominating Shalala (older than Biden!) for VP, which is what Thomas Friedman recently proposed.

wow! i completely missed that, even though i did hate-skim the piece when it came out. i like how his alternative to Shalala is Gina Raimondo (governor of RI), whose entire pre-politics career was venture capitalism

Just remember we are talking about the contents Thomas Friedman's brain. This explains much.

Read Dayen's follow-up tweets:

Katie Porter actively lobbied for this job
8:20 PM · Apr 17, 2020

The key committees that prep you for this oversight panel would be Oversight and Financial Services. Porter is on both.
Shalala is on Rules and EdLabor.
8:54 PM · Apr 17, 2020

Grancy doesnt want to be 'too divisive'

Apparently Trump called himself "the King of ventilators" today (got that second-hand from CNN, so I don't know). That does kind of go along with his The Wiz huckster persona.

The Producers 2, featuring opening number, "The King of Ventilators".

“Working class” used interchangeably with foaming white people example No. 45,890.

Does Baker have evidence these people are working class? Remember the Tea Party—which this mirrors—was disproportionately wealthier. The Tea Party, like this, is mostly racist bourgeois petulance https://t.co/78HkVgqDYO

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 18, 2020

Posted today...sorry, I really do like this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdITIipYfOI

"A lot of our history, to be honest."

Somebody did some extremely basic WHOIS searching and found that the person who set up all the "reopen $STATENAME" protest web sites is in fact one guy in Jacksonville.https://t.co/ZG1to014QI

So, most of what's going on here is an organized astroturfing campaign.

— Colin McMillen (@mcmillen) April 18, 2020

you know i wish i could still feel shock

easily one of the funniest pictures i've ever seen https://t.co/9SeUv7FSAU

— california guy now (@InternetHippo) April 18, 2020

The only emperor is the emperor of ventilators

love how all these protesters in different places have the same fonts for their signs

New: Senate Republicans just held a conference call with President Trump, Mnuchin and Meadows. McConnell said that Democrats won't get the money they asked for for state and local governments or SNAP funding. Final haggling down to money for testing

Republicans just wanted money for the small business fund, Dems wanted $ for testing, state & local governments, & snap funding. Dems has previously given up on absentee voting for all, and some other things. All Dems may get now is $ for testing, unless they can somehow get another bill later for the items left out. Ugh.

New: Senate Republicans just held a conference call with President Trump, Mnuchin and Meadows. McConnell said that Democrats won't get the money they asked for for state and local governments or SNAP funding. Final haggling down to money for testing

Republicans just wanted money for the small business fund, Dems wanted $ for testing, state & local governments, & snap funding. Dems has previously given up on absentee voting for all, and some other things. All Dems may get now is $ for testing, unless they can somehow get another bill later for the items left out. Ugh.

New: Senate Republicans just held a conference call with President Trump, Mnuchin and Meadows. McConnell said that Democrats won't get the money they asked for for state and local governments or SNAP funding. Final haggling down to money for testing

Republicans just wanted money for the small business fund, Dems wanted $ for testing, state & local governments, & snap funding. Dems has previously given up on absentee voting for all, and some other things. All Dems may get now is $ for testing, unless they can somehow get another bill later for the items left out. Ugh.

New: Senate Republicans just held a conference call with President Trump, Mnuchin and Meadows. McConnell said that Democrats won't get the money they asked for for state and local governments or SNAP funding. Final haggling down to money for testing

Republicans just wanted money for the small business fund, Dems wanted $ for testing, state & local governments, & snap funding. Dems has previously given up on absentee voting for all, and some other things. All Dems may get now is $ for testing, unless they can somehow get another bill later for the items left out. Ugh.

Oops

Ugh.

unless they can somehow get another bill later for the items left out.

If the reopening of America goes sideways, like it most likely will, they'll get another shot.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/04/former-white-house-press-secretary-blames-china-after-getting-bamboozled-over-bootleg-ps4-controller/

I thought the real punchline of his stupid tweet was that it came from “Twitter for iPhone”

The famous american-built smartphone

I only buy PS4 that are made right here in Detroit

I was adamant at the time that Pelosi would be a terrible Speaker. But I actually underestimated how ruthless she’d be in shutting out progressive members of her caucus. At some point you have to blame them for continuing to play nice. This is egregious.https://t.co/i5Rpo9HFKe pic.twitter.com/zhZJxy9ZTj

— Sam Sacks (@SamSacks) April 18, 2020

the facts, ma'am

https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-donna-shalala-selection-bailout-oversight-panel/

i don't think your people know how to make a revolution

yeah it’s times like these that you can’t really explain away Nancy’s decisions as caucus-wrangling or whatever. she’s an active impediment to Better Things

US Politics, 4/20/20

White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway on Monday jabbed at the governors overseeing stay-at-home orders that have sparked Trump-approved protests.

Conway admitted to Fox News host Sandra Smith that the protesters were violating the governors’ social distancing guidelines, backed by the White House, aimed at halting the spread of COVID-19.

“But at the same time, some of these governors have physically distanced from common sense,” she added.

The adviser asserted that the protesters were “not fomenting domestic rebellion.”

“I look at those people and I see the forgotten men and the forgotten women economically,” she told Smith.

How can they be forgotten when they never shut the fuck up.

otm

Really trying to forget them

Maybe the Times should send a reporter to a folksy diner.

That will help us coastal elites understand what things are like in the heartland, where things are real and it's full of real people doing real things. Things with, like, mud, and trucks.

Maybe us urban liberals just don't understand the problems of real Americans in real America, because we don't have trucks, we just sip lattes and eat arugula.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSVN_dgio8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAOYMhlt4Xc

Miami Democratic Rep. Donna Shalala is creating a blind trust and selling most of her individual stock holdings as she prepares to oversee the Trump administration’s handling of $2 trillion in taxpayer funds to fight the effects of the coronavirus.

Shalala’s office told the Miami Herald Monday that she began selling individual stocks immediately after filing to run for Congress in March 2018 to eliminate any potential conflicts of interest between her public office and her private business interests.

And shortly after she took office in January 2019, she began working with the House Ethics Committee to set up a blind trust for her assets and transfer her individual stock holdings into diversified investments like mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, according to Shalala’s chief of staff.

The process of doing a blind trust in the House of Representatives is a complicated one, and she was in constant contact with the Ethics Committee,” said Jessica Killin, Shalala’s chief of staff. “In the meantime, in a complete abundance of caution, she divested and sold almost all of her individual stock holdings, and transferred them to mutual funds and [exchange-traded funds.]

Shalala’s acknowledgment of the financial steps she’s taking came three days after she was appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the congressional panel tasked with overseeing the Treasury Department’s work to distribute $500 billion to large corporations affected by the coronavirus.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article242132321.html

"blind trust" hasn't gotten a workout since Bush/Quayle

beatin' Florida to the punch

BREAKING: Governor Brian Kemp says gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, beauty shops and salons, barbershops, body art studios, and more will be able to open across #Georgia this Friday, April 24 with restrictions.

— Courtney Bryant (@CourtneyDBryant) April 20, 2020

good luck I guess

fairly sure The Lickspittle in Tallahassee will follow suit.

have we any Georgia ilxers?

eth4n p4dge77?

The news that prompted my post on the outbreak thread. I genuinely think the calculation they've made is that yes, people will die, but mostly not their people.

and twat!

isn't crut still in GA?

Cankles iirc

Am I right in assuming that Mississippi never shut down in the first place?

Mississippi, my birth state, has been shut down since 1876.

According to the Financial Times (scroll to near the bottom) Mississippi did issue a "stay at home" order. About eight states still haven't.