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

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

that’s actually a really effective ad and Democrats would do well to take note.

also, wtf is wrong with her?

Just to clarify, the past six weeks have seen the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the past 100 years, right? https://t.co/PKxBL7qzdq

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 20, 2020

that’s actually a really effective ad and Democrats would do well to take note.

I believe that you believe that.

isn't crut still in GA?

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, April 20, 2020 4:17 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

born & raised in GA but I moved up to TN a couple years ago to be with my then-gf. then we broke up and now i’m stuck here living alone

Looks like we switched places for the similar reasons.

Never thought I’d see GA outdo TN in the chud olympics but here we are.

I believe that you believe that.

crüt where in TN? i grew up in Knoxville

That Pelosi ad is good. Wonder what the Democrats have up their sleeve

i've only seen a handful of trump web ads, and all of them make it look like the apocalypse is happening and democrats are already in prison because of it

Biden's ad on Trump and China is pretty damning on Trump but people are pissed about it because it still comes across as xenophobic. So they're capable of playing dirty, but that shit tends to also piss people off.

if we made an ad mentioning donnie's gold-ass shitter bernie saddos of which i am one would rip it as missing the point is my guess but go ahead do parscale.

and yes i know the point is actually nancy's vote

I just think - there are a dozen effective ways to attack Trump’s pathetic, corrupt response and the horrific consequences and they went with “not tough enough on China! Let in too many of those dirty Chinese when he said he wouldn’t!”

first those Ukrainian militias and now this

hate 2 been seen as coming across as xenophobic. whoopsie! this “communicating my beliefs and position” thing is hard!

If there are a dozen effective ways to attack Trump on his coronavirus decision-making, maybe they won't confine themselves to just that one.

I think the Biden camp is making a mistake if they think they're fighting for the same subset of voters as Trump. #BeijingBiden is probably an effective strategy for attracting the morons Trump is trying to turn out, but I don't think "Trump rolled over on China" is a particularly effective strategy for attracting many of the folks Biden hopes to turn out, whether it's progressives, swing voters, independents, or people who are unplugged from politics in general. "Trump's pandemic response has killed people and will continue to kill people in this country" seems a lot more effective, and as Aimless suggests, hopefully Biden's team will pivot harder in that direction.