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

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.

Tennessee is "reopening" on May 1. We'll see how it goes...

I’m in Georgia. Was in the yard working and Just found out :-/

Good evening!

I'm in Georgia too

I haven't yet seen a list of the restrictions businesses are supposed to comply with in order to re-open ... since there's no obvious means of statewide enforcement, I'm afraid owners will have cover to basically do whatever they want, subject to local ordinances

several qualifying businesses in Athens have already announced they will not re-open

this is a typical "two Georgias" situation in which leadership in cities and leadership in rural communities will make very different decisions, with the rural communities running greater risks, seeing more infections, and then in many cases transporting their critically ill to city hospitals (since Georgia doesn't really have rural hospitals any more)

This Politico article from April 12 does a good job describing some of the context: How Southern Politics are Failing One Town’s Coronavirus Response

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.

This is your daily reminder that a blind trust is totally meaningless.

That sounds right, and like a bet gop state governments may be making en large: dem states will just handle the hospital overflows since they’re kind hearted, and the rich gopers will make bank off their citizens’ labor while offloading most of the risk.

Xp

I haven't yet seen a list of the restrictions businesses are supposed to comply with in order to re-open ... since there's no obvious means of statewide enforcement, I'm afraid owners will have cover to basically do whatever they want, subject to local ordinances

Handout from @GovKemp lists precautions businesses that do reopen must observe. #11Alive pic.twitter.com/ClqgIQSZMh

— Jon Shirek (@JonShirek) April 20, 2020

it’s cruel but fuck em: if this was going to affect tea party part deux cohort to the degree that they’ve earned—and only them—it would be one thing. but that’s not the case.

As appropriates and where possibles doing a lot of lifting there xp

That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia

In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2020

His internal polling list be looking real bad

*must be looking

I love this performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXZO4SILjY

Alison Moyet 2020

Handout from @GovKemp lists precautions businesses that do reopen must observe. #11Alive

I can't believe he wants to turn the page

Open for business! And.... no immigration!

The liberal candidate in Wisconsin’s hard-fought State Supreme Court race this month prevailed in voting by mail by a significant margin, upending years of study showing little advantage to either party when a state transitions from in-person to mail voting.

The gap suggests that Democrats were more organized and proactive in their vote-by-mail efforts in an election conducted under extraordinary circumstances, with voters forced to weigh the health risks of voting in person against the sometimes unreliable option of requesting and mailing in their ballots. Still, it is likely to add to the skepticism President Trump and Republicans have expressed about mail voting, which they worry would increase Democratic turnout at Republicans’ expense.

The liberal jurist, Jill Karofsky, performed 10 percentage points better than her conservative opponent in votes cast by mail than she did in votes cast at Election Day polling places, a gap that powered a surprising 11-point victory over all in a state both parties view as crucial to winning November’s presidential election.

The voting data, collected by The New York Times from 27 Wisconsin municipalities that segregate ballots cast on Election Day from those sent by mail, shows that Judge Karofsky’s advantage in mail ballots over the conservative incumbent, Justice Daniel Kelly, was consistent across communities of varying size, geography and partisan lean. In a state with little history of voting by mail, more than 1.1 million of 1.55 million votes cast came by mail.

Sanders really did hire the very best people.

oh just a former senior advisor to Sanders amplifying and complimenting the chair of the Trump campaign. pic.twitter.com/XjtIRtK0ZL

— Matt Gabriele (@prof_gabriele) April 21, 2020