All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[JCAll]

Poll: As Coronavirus Spreads, Fewer Americans See Pandemic As A Real Threat

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/81650...-a-real-threat

Here's one that will make your eyeballs explode out of your head. Trump supporters found a new favorite word:
"DEMPANIC"

I have no idea where they picked that up, but that's what we're dealing with. We're so screwed.

[worstblogever]

Glad to see Lipinksi went down. His seat is safely blue and there's no reason he should be representing that district from what we know of it.

Amen to that.

[Steel Inquisitor]

Here's one that will make your eyeballs explode out of your head. Trump supporters found a new favorite word:
"DEMPANIC"

I have no idea where they picked that up, but that's what we're dealing with. We're so screwed.

It's going to hurt the Republicans more than Democrats when it finally come back to voting. More Republicans dying or being too sick to vote gives an advantage to the Democrats.

[Gray Lensman]

Tonight might be my last night of work for a while - the governor of Nevada just ordered non-essential businesses to close for 30 days as of noon on wednesday. Since I work in a plastics factory, I'm pretty sure I can call that non-essential. Only a very little of what we make is for medical or food packaging. Thankfully I have plenty of money in the bank - plenty of other people aren't so lucky.

[Iron Maiden]

Tonight might be my last night of work for a while - the governor of Nevada just ordered non-essential businesses to close for 30 days as of noon on wednesday. Since I work in a plastics factory, I'm pretty sure I can call that non-essential. Only a very little of what we make is for medical or food packaging. Thankfully I have plenty of money in the bank - plenty of other people aren't so lucky.

I hope you will get back to work soon. I'm so glad I retired last year but it's still been precarious with the market bouncing around. I never had seen anything like this and it will really hurt a lot of people and small business owners. Let's see if they get bailed out like the auto industry. But let's remember also that Trump bailed out the farmers that were affected by his stupid tariff wars. But it was mostly corporately owned farms that scored big on that

[Iron Maiden]

So what is the reason that Bernie's voters again didn't show up again? He was trounced in Illinois, Florida, and Arizona. Is it that there aren't as many willing to vote for him as there were in 2016?

[Tendrin]

So what is the reason that Bernie's voters again didn't show up again? He was trounced in Illinois, Florida, and Arizona. Is it that there aren't as many willing to vote for him as there were in 2016?

It isn't fair to draw a conclusion based on current turn out in those states, tbh, but I think we've had enough by now that we can draw those conclusions anyway from before it. :P

This is what happens when you rely on the 'youth vote', and why dealing with voter suppression needs to be the first order of business for an incoming Biden administration. All else will follow from ending the practices Republicans use to deny people the vote, since those very things carry over and impact the dem primary process.

[Gray Lensman]

So what is the reason that Bernie's voters again didn't show up again? He was trounced in Illinois, Florida, and Arizona. Is it that there aren't as many willing to vote for him as there were in 2016?

The Clinton protest vote is gone this year.

Biden has some of the luster from Obama still - like the advancement of LGBT rights, trying to counter the inherent racism in law enforcement, and other stuff.

Young people don't vote as heavily, not merely because they are perceived as not as engaged, but because they move around a lot more and can find navigating multiple jurisdictions confusing, or can find themselves purged from the rolls without their knowledge as a result. Many of the racial suppression tricks catch young voters in the same net.

[worstblogever]

The Clinton protest vote is gone this year.

Biden has some of the luster from Obama still - like the advancement of LGBT rights, trying to counter the inherent racism in law enforcement, and other stuff.

Young people don't vote as heavily, not merely because they are perceived as not as engaged, but because they move around a lot more and can find navigating multiple jurisdictions confusing, or can find themselves purged from the rolls without their knowledge as a result. Many of the racial suppression tricks catch young voters in the same net.

And Biden, of course, has a far more active role in trying to enact gun control over the past decade. One of the few issues he's clearly to Bernie's left.

[worstblogever]

In 2015, in 2016, and in 2017, “Crazy Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of former New Jersey Congressman Scott Garrett, who after taking office in 2002, has advocated for intelligent design to be taught in public school instead of evolution, and claimed that he’s against same sex marriage because he believes children should be raised in two parent households (meaning he might not know gay adoption is a thing). Garrett voted against the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, the Voting Rights Act, and voted to shut down the federal government in 2013. He also publicly agreed with Birther conspiracy theorists that there’s something to President Obama’s birth certificate, and written letters to Obama to demand “the truth about what happened in Benghazi”. Garrett is also noteworthy in that he voted against disaster relief for both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy (the latter hit his own district, so at least there’s no double standard… he just doesn’t care at all). In January 2016, as millions of Americans continued to sign up for health insurance available through the Affordable Care Act, and the percentage of uninsured Americans was reaching appreciably lower numbers, Scott Garrett appears on Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council show, “Washington Watch”, where he claimed only “one or two” people were uninsured prior to Obamacare. The real number was, of course, 17 million people. So he was only off by about 17 million or so. In the 2016 elections, Scott Garrett was defeated by former White House speechwriter, Democrat Josh Gottheimer, and Garrett originally refused to concede the race, in spite of losing by a large margin of over 10,000 votes. His career seems to be finally over.


On this date in 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published its first profile of Gerald Greene, a member of the Georgia House of Representatives who has been hanging around that body since 1982. Yes, for 38 years this man has floated around the Georgia state capitol, with the first three decades of that run as a Democrat before he tucked his tail between his legs against the 2010 Tea Party Wave and became a Republican, content to sell out his principles over further political longevity. Since, he was allowed to run unopposed in 2012, faced only a Democrat whom he defeated with a mere 55% of the vote with Republican momentum in 2014, and in 2016, coasted to victory against a less-well funded GOP challenger in the primary.

Of course, perhaps Greene’s re-election chances took a hit for 2018 after he was shot in the leg in an armed robbery attempt in his district, where someone tried relieving Greene of several thousand dollars of storm relief donations to the Red Cross while he was reportedly at a convenience store. Sympathies turned to mockery after it was revealed that Greene was sitting with thousands of dollars in cash outside of a local adult cinema, the Foxy Lady Lounge where patrons can watch sex shows from behind glass. After initially claiming his presence at the adult cinema at the time of his shooting was a coincidence, Greene eventually admitted to being inside prior to the shooting.

Anyway, Gerald Greene, since becoming a Republican, has been supposedly championing “family values” as he votes for religious freedom legislation, and unconstitutional bills to place Ten Commandments monuments at the state capitol, and the other bit of hypocritical comedy is that the NRA give him a 93% rating, which I’m sure he feels great about with that bullet hole in his leg. We would comment more on the hypocrisy of Greene’s voting record, but he’s absent a great deal of the time, and that was before he was going to be recuperating from a gunshot wound.

Greene’s bizarre forays towards hanging out by porn stores probably are why he only narrowly won re-election in 2018. At this point, we’re wondering if this shady character manages to stick around all the way to 2022, and end up with a four decade career. Because if the scandal prior to 2018 and Blue Wave momentum didn’t end his career, we don’t know what will.

[Tazirai]

Poll: As Coronavirus Spreads, Fewer Americans See Pandemic As A Real Threat

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/81650...-a-real-threat

But Kevinroc, Dana Bash PRAISED Trumps "TONE", and this is why the media is a danger to the public good. He was the leader we all needed in this time of crisis.
Here's what's gonna happen Democrats better learn, and they won't. Now that they have their horses, they'll promote it, and then Tone police it.
They will turn this into a farce, and promote the underdog, so they can keep the race going.
This is why I despise how the Democrats Bend the knee so much to the GOP, Their TONE isn't correct.

Which is why I know many of you are hopeful that the Democrats will "Get Things done" lol. But I don't see it.
Your party is afraid of the GOP and the Media, they will bend and break quick on anything financial. But they will do the identity politics.

I hope Bernie stays in longer to get some concessions, but either way Good luck in November.
I'm still undecided on whether or not to vote Biden, but if I do or don't you guys can keep the "Democratic" party. I'm going back to Independent permanently, and I'm done with your party.

Their Corruption is too strong.

The Democratic party learns nothing and the American people are poorer for it.

Many here were so concerned about Bernie "hurting" Biden. I hope y'all say the same about what the media is about to do.

This wasn't aimed at you Kevinroc, just funny how the media sets the narrative, and the American people, as dumb as we are fall for anything.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Meanwhile, with real assholes screwing everything up for everyone that we should REALLY focus on, here's Rand Paul being a dick.

I'm starting to believe there's a gentlemen's agreement in place in the GOP that someone has to say no to each and every bill that comes up for a vote. Last night was Paul's turn to be the bad guy. Next time around, it'll be someone else's turn.

Poll: As Coronavirus Spreads, Fewer Americans See Pandemic As A Real Threat

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/81650...-a-real-threat

And those idiots who refuse to believe the truth will be among the first to die from COVID-19.

Tonight might be my last night of work for a while - the governor of Nevada just ordered non-essential businesses to close for 30 days as of noon on wednesday. Since I work in a plastics factory, I'm pretty sure I can call that non-essential. Only a very little of what we make is for medical or food packaging. Thankfully I have plenty of money in the bank - plenty of other people aren't so lucky.

Good luck to you, man!

[jetengine]

But Kevinroc, Dana Bash PRAISED Trumps "TONE", and this is why the media is a danger to the public good. He was the leader we all needed in this time of crisis.
Here's what's gonna happen Democrats better learn, and they won't. Now that they have their horses, they'll promote it, and then Tone police it.
They will turn this into a farce, and promote the underdog, so they can keep the race going.
This is why I despise how the Democrats Bend the knee so much to the GOP, Their TONE isn't correct.

Which is why I know many of you are hopeful that the Democrats will "Get Things done" lol. But I don't see it.
Your party is afraid of the GOP and the Media, they will bend and break quick on anything financial. But they will do the identity politics.

I hope Bernie stays in longer to get some concessions, but either way Good luck in November.
I'm still undecided on whether or not to vote Biden, but if I do or don't you guys can keep the "Democratic" party. I'm going back to Independent permanently, and I'm done with your party.

Their Corruption is too strong.

The Democratic party learns nothing and the American people are poorer for it.

Many here were so concerned about Bernie "hurting" Biden. I hope y'all say the same about what the media is about to do.

Bernies lost. Take your bile elsewhere.

[SquirrelMan]

This really is just another way of saying not Trump though. And sure, we do need to get rid of Trump, to put an end to the things you mentioned. But Democrats tried this approach four years ago with Clinton and it didn’t work. I think Biden will have the same issue, especially in key states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

What Biden is proposing is just not going to change much, people need healthcare, they need affordable education, they need a living wage, they need affordable housing.

How will Biden face the same issues? Misogyny? A private email server? A spouse inappropriate in the #metoo era?

[Tazirai]

Bernies lost. Take your bile elsewhere.

You can always ignore me. Like don't respond to my posts.
Also, how silly of you to literally ignore the video of CNN praising Trump, and then saying nothing of substance.
Or is your Centrism so blind and biased, that you ignore the Media and their shiite?

People like you just don't get it do you?