wv wrote:

No, the Veil has not been lifted. Leftists already knew all this.

The rest of the nation will stay exactly as they were. Dems will blame Reps.
Reps will blame Dems. The game will continue.

The biosphere will continue circling the drain, BT.

There will not be any ‘awakening’. You cant ‘wake up’ when youve been propagandized all your life.

Watch the next Primary election. Watch the next election cycle for Senators.

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And the politicians KNOW this. They know it so well that they don’t even PRETEND anymore. They just come out and say it. You know…”We’re going to come take your social security away, kill Obamacare, gut Medicare…all of it. We’re going to take every fucking cent you have and give it to rich people.” And a quarter of the people cheer this, and a quarter of them say, “Well, we need to put somebody in office who is reasonable and can make some incremental deals,” and the other half of the people stay home and don’t vote at all because it’s boring, or because it’s pointless to vote.

They just took $6,000 from every family in this country and handed it over to corporations that don’t need the money. Boeing is all like, “Well…I dunno if we are gonna take all that money if it has too many strings attached to it.” That’s how desperate they are. “Just give it to us, or no deal.”

Mitch McConnell must be laughing his ass off right now.

GEEEZ. Whadda buncha #@)#$&.

So…$2.2 trillion, and the consensus on the thing is just…not even debatable. The only two points that held it up was the TRIVIAL amount of money given to people who ARE UNEMPLOYED, and the amount of oversight on the corporate slush fund. Those are the only things they argued about. Complete agreement on everything else, including the $500 billion slush fund.

Republicans are worried that a few people might get a couple hundred bucks more than they ordinarily would.

And Democrats fight for the pretense of oversight like they had for TARP which was next to useless.

And the Republicans…I mean…long gone is any pretense that they care about how much money the government spends. The emperor has no clothes on that, even if they cynically play that song come election season. They don’t care about the deficit. Not in real life. That’s obvious.

So…what does that SAY about their quibbling over a hundred bucks? They aren’t motivated by fiscal restraint. So…what actually motivates them to fight over this paltry sum of money?

They. Have. CONTEMPT. For. Poor. People.

Abject contempt. They WANT them to suffer. Even if that isn’t in their conscious thought – and I’m sure they would deny it. But you tell me…play devil’s advocate for me…tell me what other motive could possibly fill in the blank for why they fought over that number. Because it wasn’t about the cost to the government.

They WANT people to go back to work even though they know it’s life-threatening for people to do that, and will overwhelm our health care professionals. They don’t care. They need the engines to keep stimulating their wealth. That is their highest priority.

And Graham! Attacking nurses – NURSES! – during a pandemic!

This is the Great USA. This is Our Country.

And everybody here knows them. I’m screaming at all my friends who already know this. Fuck these people, man.

Okay. I expected worse.

It isn’t good, but I was braced for worse. I was also braced for fans not liking it no matter what.

I also wonder if there is going to be a football season.

Billy_T wrote:

He knew about all of this back in January and did nothing. Hid it from Americans to the extent possible. And now he’s so worried about his own finances and his own chance for reelection, that he wants us to work ourselves to death on behalf of capitalism and capitalists, regardless of how many die.

He does not care.

He sees this pandemic as a personal nuisance, not as a health crisis.

He doesn’t care about other people. He can’t even PRETEND to care.

When Dan Patrick serenely calls for the economy to soldier on even at the risk of his age bracket, he manages to forget that he doesn’t do his own shopping, stand in lines, or pump his own gas like most people his age.

Here’s what Bernie should do. He should say to Biden and the DNC…I will endorse Biden if you guys promise to enact Medicare for All.

M4A was already popular with most people, even Republicans, before the pandemic. 6 weeks from now, people will have shifted from seeing M4A as something we SHOULD have to something we NEED. Say what you will about Italy…nobody is going bankrupt due to hospital charges. 6 weeks from now, M4A will poll higher than ever, and the momentum behind it will be at its greatest peak ever. The DNC will not be able to refuse a public demand for M4A. If Sanders demands that, they have to accept that condition, or the entire party is publicly on record as opposing M4A during the biggest health crisis in anybody’s lifetime, and they will go down in flames…not just Biden…the Senate and House as well. The party will die. They will be forced to swallow M4A, or get beaten up and down the ticket with nothing to show for it, and THEIR name on the rejection of a program people will be starting to demand action on by mid-summer.

If they accept their fate, Sanders will rally his base to support Democrats up and down, and they will win the White House, get the Senate, and expand the House. They won’t really have a choice. They will have to do it. And we will have the first leftist victory since the Civil Rights Act, and we will have finally changed the direction of the country. We might even be able to draft some other legislation to get through, like paid sick leave.

But this would require Sanders to actually use his leverage. And he won’t.

So…Moses got us this far. We now need Joshua.

I got a Fat One Dollar Bill right here that says Robey-Coleman signs with the Saints.

Any takers?

Well, I’m going to have to check my jam-packed workday calendar to see what’s up at that time…………………………………

nothin’.

Should I spend 30 minutes watching a 10-second reveal?

Uhhhh…no.

Although…by Monday…could be ready for some intense action like that. Hard to say.

The worst thing about the revelation that all these politicians knew in advance how bad this could be is that they’ve probably been protecting themselves from getting it. I mean…I have a mental list all prepared for some obituaries I am all ready to read, and these guys probably aren’t going to get it, and if they do, they will have the best medical care in the world (provided by socialist health care).

I am not going to hit Play on that. There is no WAY you can make me watch that. I am offended that you brought this to the board.

wv wrote:

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So schools are not cancelled in Calif?

Schools are closed here.

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Not cancelled. We are doing Remote Learning. Everything is internet-based. That isn’t possible everywhere, obviously. I’m sure in WV, a lot of people don’t even have phone lines, let alone DSL like you do.

I am spending all day at school every day, trying to make the best of this situation. Mostly I am struggling with a never-ending parade of technical difficulties, and learning to do new things with tech toys.

I have been too busy doing that to actually figure out how to change the format of various assignments, and because I teach multiple classes that are completely different, I have to do all that for each class, unlike a teacher who may have 3 sections of the same thing, so they convert their stuff once for the entire lot of kids.