And Tulsi has at long last dropped out and supporting Biden. I'm sure her two delegates are heartbroken.
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My big article on Mariko Tamaki's Hulk & She-Hulk runs, discussing the good, bad, and its creation.
My second big article on She-Hulk, discussing Jason Aaron's focus on her in Avengers #20.
Jimmy Dore and Secular Talk praise Trump’s response to the pandemic, claiming they are outflanking the Democrats and addressing working class people better.
Meanwhile, Republicans and the White House leverage their power and push against paid sick leave and family leave provisions Democrats successfully included in their original bill.
Great! The crappy version of the bill is going to pass because Republicans stalled the bill long enough that Democrats are desperate to just get something out the door. And then folks like Dore are going to claim it is another example of the Democrats not doing enough—when their bill was stronger and they had assurances that that was what would get the president’s signature.
With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
There is an unpeer reviewed article using temperature/climate data from Wuhan that show that the virus spreads better in drier conditions and colder temperatures and that it does badly in more humid and hotter areas. So Florida has that advantage. But then there is also indoor air conditioning. So really it's a toss up.
This whole 'they outflanked the dems on the left!' stuff is *completely* stupid and untrue.
Also, here's a good thread from Alexandria Erin, even if I don't agree with her take completely here: https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/st...36793432821765
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"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
https://twitter.com/alexwagner/statu...16287602118656
Yikes.This secret recording of
@SenatorBurr
suggests some in the GOP fully grasped how serious COVID 19 would be, but refused to say so publicly -- putting American lives at risk to maintain allegiance to the Trump WH:
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/81819...ts-on-covid-19
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus, according to a secret recording obtained by NPR.
The remarks from U.S. Sen. Richard Burr were more stark than any he had delivered in more public forums.
On Feb. 27, when the United States had 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19, President Trump was tamping down fears and suggesting that the virus could be seasonal.
"It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle. It will disappear," the president said then, before adding, "it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We'll see what happens."
On that same day, Burr attended a luncheon held at a social club called the Capitol Hill Club. And he delivered a much more alarming message.
"There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."
The point is not that the Republicans newfound willingness to provide relief during the virus makes them somehow good, it's that it shows that the GOP never did and never will care about how to pay for social programs if it is politically expedient to do so, and that Democrats could maybe take a lesson or two from that.
Meanwhile Local officials are doing it anyway.