All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[InformationGeek]

Tennesse is looking to get kids killed it seems.

SCOOP: Tennessee Department of Health halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not just for COVID-19, but all diseases – amid pressure from GOP. Staff ordered to remove the agency logo from any documents providing vaccine info to the public, per internal dox.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Tennesse is looking to get kids killed it seems.

But hey, Tennesseans can always make more kids, so, no big deal (said with tongue in cheek). So much for the GQP being the "Party of Life".

[Kirby101]

Tennesse is looking to get kids killed it seems.

The GOP really is a death cult.

[Robotman]

With absolutely zero sense of irony, Ted Cruz slams Texas Democrats for fleeing the state.

[Tami]

'We all quit': Burger King staff leaves note to management on store sign

A Burger King sign has gone viral after employees of one of the chain's restaurants left a notice to management that they were "all quitting," according to "TODAY" Digital.

Rachael Flores began working at a location in Lincoln, Nebraska, in August and was promoted to general manager just a few months later after the departure of a previous manager. Flores has worked in restaurants before, including other Burger Kings, and she was familiar with the environment, but she was unprepared for the behavior she experienced from upper management, she told "TODAY."

"We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience," read the message posted on the sign outside the restaurant after Flores and at least six other employees decided to put in their two weeks' notice.

[Tendrin]

I responded to a question by Malvolio about providing specific examples of Republicans being okay with a public school curriculum proposal that goes in depth on the realities of slavery in America. I noted what the Florida bill passed by DeSantis covered.

If you think DeSantis is especially flawed, it's an example that even this guy supports teaching middle and high school students "The history of African Americans, including the history of African peoples before the political conflicts that led to the development of slavery, the passage to America, the enslavement experience, abolition, and the contributions of African Americans to society. Instructional materials shall include the contributions of African Americans to American society."

Coby Burren was reading his textbook, sitting in geography class at Pearland High School near Houston, when he noticed a troubling caption. The 15-year-old quickly took a picture with his phone and sent it to his mother.

Next to a map of the United States describing "patterns of immigration," it read that the Atlantic slave trade brought "millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations."

Pretty sure DeSantis would count this as 'teaching about the history of African Americans and Slavery'. Dude is not an idiot. He knows how this will play out on a district by district basis, with apologists like yourself standing by the sidelines and crying, 'don't be hysterical!', same as it ever was.

[worstblogever]

The GOP really is a death cult.

They're arguing against gun control when 20,000 people die a year to gun violence.

They're arguing against vaccine promotion which could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths, when already studies show misinformation and a desire for the virus to spread to suspend the 2020 election killed hundreds of thousands. At this point, they are literally asking their followers to die for Trump rather than get a life-saving vaccine... when it would be fiscally responsible/cheaper versus the medical costs of getting sick.

They've argued for decades against environmental protections to prevent climate change when if it's not addressed, could result in the deaths of millions globally.


Death cult is becoming more and more accurate, yeah.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

With absolutely zero sense of irony, Ted Cruz slams Texas Democrats for fleeing the state.

I would've been greatly surprised if Fled HADN'T stuck his nose in this situation.

They're arguing against gun control when 20,000 people die a year to gun violence.

They're arguing against vaccine promotion which could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths, when already studies show misinformation and a desire for the virus to spread to suspend the 2020 election killed hundreds of thousands. At this point, they are literally asking their followers to die for Trump rather than get a life-saving vaccine... when it would be fiscally responsible/cheaper versus the medical costs of getting sick.

They've argued for decades against environmental protections to prevent climate change when if it's not addressed, could result in the deaths of millions globally.


Death cult is becoming more and more accurate, yeah.

The thing is, Qpublicans either don't understand, or don't care that it's THEIR constituents that are kicking the bucket, especially when it comes to anti-vaxxers in predominantly red states.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published a profile on Russell Pearce, the man who sponsored Arizona’s SB1070 law who was recalled for office after repeatedly making inflammatory racist accusations about illegal immigrants, “accidentally” sent out Neo-Nazi fliers in the mail, and who openly associated with militia groups who patrolled the border in their spare time. One such close ally of Pearce was J.T. Ready, a potential protégé of his who just so happened to also be a Neo-Nazi who ended up mass-murdering his girlfriend and her family. At that point, Pearce tried lying his ass off and pretending he didn’t know who Ready was, but no one was buying it. The fact that Pearce was also a Birther who claimed President Obama was “waging jihad” against Arizona seems like an afterthought to his other dickery. Last we hard, Russell Pearce was working in talk radio in Arizona while serving as a member of the state GOP, when on air, he made a policy suggestion that women who receive government assistance should be sterilized. And, the idea that maybe eugenics is a solution to the poor was not taken kindly, and Pearce was forced to resign from any party position, going forward.


In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, who was one of the favorites going in to the 2016 GOP presidential primary to win the nomination. This in spite of his embarrassing 2013 State of the Union rebuttal where mid-speech, he lurched off-camera to grab a teeny-tiny bottle of water. This attempt at seeking the highest office in the nation also occurred even though Rubio was found to have lied about his parents' heroic flight from Castro's Cuba (they emigrated years before the revolution). Rubio, once considered a "moderate" Republican also fled from his previous positions on immigration and the environment, respectively, moving to become a climate change denier on the former, and on the latter, defended Arizona's SB 1070 law while criticizing the DREAM Act. And for a social moderate, it's interesting that Rubio not only has argued against same-sex marriage, but also gay adoption, while showing support for "religious freedom" laws and accusing those critical of his stance on those issues of being intolerant of HIS beliefs. Rubio also has accused President Obama of being a socialist, voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown (and voted against re-opening government when the time came), was among the "47 Traitors" in the U.S. Senate who tried to meddle in negotiations with Iran, violating the Logan Act, and accused Sec. of State John Kerry and the Obama administration of "letting ISIS win to appease Iran" during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2015 (which is stupid, because ISIS followers supposedly are followers of radicalized Sunni Islam, and Iran's citizenry, by and large, are Shia Muslims). On abortion, Marco Rubio leans hard right, and in live interviews has claimed that there’s an entire “abortion industry” that profits off of performing the procedure, and that Planned Parenthood does so to turn profits. He isn’t try and retroactively re-write history for partisan purposes, saying 9/11 happened on the Clinton’s administration’s watch (ignoring that it was 9 months into the Bush administration), and claimed that the Benghazi hearings had “proven Hillary Clinton was a liar” which, they did nothing of the sort. During his failed attempt to get the 2016 GOP nomination, Marco Rubio had a stretch of almost a year and a half where he was derelict of duty as a Senator, missing 35% of the votes in Washington, D.C. And it’s not like that failed campaign did any favors to his image, as he was exposed as “Marcobot” by Chris Christie, who noted how Rubio just recites the same few canned lines in debates, before in the waning days of his campaign, Rubio using the phrase, “You know what they say about a guy with tiny hands?” to insinuate that Donald Trump had a tiny penis. Because THAT’S healthy discourse for American politics (and we really needed to hear Trump use a later debate to relitigate his penis size).

This waste of a U.S. Senate seat got a second term in 2016 after breaking his promise to not run for re-election if he didn’t win the presidency, running and winning again in Florida against Democrat Patrick Murphy. The man who Donald Trump mocked and called “Little Marco” went back to work doing things like approving every single member of his Cabinet of Horrors. Every. Single. One.

And he’s gone out of his way to lie to the citizens of Florida about how negatively impacted they will be from the proposed version of Trumpcare in the Senate. He’s been more concerned about who’s giving information to the press about the Trump administration trying to cover up their ties to Russia than the coverup itself. And that last part is even more remarkable, because Rubio has acknowledged that during the 2016 GOP Primary, he got hacked by the Russians, too.

Rubio defies medical science with how he can walk upright without the presence of a spine. In this update, we have to discuss the fallout from the shooting in Parkland, Florida. See, when CNN wanted to host a town hall to have the families of the victims, survivors of the shooting, and other citizens from the community to create a productive discussion about how to create solutions to the problem of gun violence in our country, particularly in a big uptick in shootings in schools… for whatever reason, Marcobot and his tendency to not be able to improvise and only have tree sound bites to repeat thought he was the guy to represent gun rights in the room full of people who were demanding action.

And boy, did he embarrass himself again. Between having the father of one of the victims tell him he was “pathetically weak”, he also rhetorically asked the audience who really would want gun control and was dumbfounded when almost every hand in the room went up, and was booed after Cameron Kasky called on him to stop accepting political donations from the NRA and he refused. His only real concession was that he would be willing to raise the age to purchase firearms from 18 to 21. In the days that followed, fellow survivor Sarah Chadwick posted on Twitter:

”We should change the names of AR-15s to ‘Marco Rubio’ because they are so easy to buy.”

And, like the invertebrate he is, Marco Rubio flipped on his support of raising the age requirement within a few weeks of that town hall, and went on to criticize their organization of “The March for Our Lives”, because how dare they exercise their First Amendment rights to protest getting shot at.

Rubio has continued to make himself look like an idiot, only hours before the Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis, he managed to put his foot in his mouth, and complain about how he felt the media was responsible for “biased reporting” that left “a lack of trust” in creating an environment where Americans can’t even agree of facts. He got called out for participating on the attacks on the media spearheaded by the Trump GOP, and that the sort of thinking he chose to promote was a motivating factor for the shooter.

From 2017-2020 we saw Rubio continue to vote for every Trump nominee, provide empty words and no action as immigrant children continue to be separated from their parents and locked in inhuman conditions, and as a revolution broke out in Venezuela, gave some not-so-sutble hints on Twitter that he’d like for a violent coup to end up in the death of dictator Nicolas Maduro.

[worstblogever]

Sen. Rubio's blood lust and sway towards supporting authoritarians has continued:

• October 21st, 2019: Marco Rubio chastises Kurdish citizens who were protesting are insulting Americans for abandoning them to the mercies of Turkish forces.
• January 31st, 2020: Sen. Rubio votes against witnesses being allowed in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, effectively making it a “trial”.
• February 5th, 2020: Marco Rubio votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump, in spite of the mountain of evidence showing that he solicited foreign assistance in the 2020 elections.
• February 25th, 2020: Rubio co-sponsors and votes for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, an insane piece of anti-choice legislation that would ask abortion providers to try to admit aborted fetuses to a hospital if they were “alive” after the procedure, which is medically impossible given the age that abortions can be performed at.
• March 23rd, 2020: Sen. Rubio defends Donald Trump and Republicans who are trying to rename Coronavirus “Wuhan Virus” or “Kung Flu” or other racist nicknames.
• March 29th, 2020: Rubio posts video on Twitter from himself while driving, chastising the media for reporting that the U.S. surpassed China in total number of Covid-19 infections, and intimated they were gleeful about the rising death toll.
• November 1st, 2020: Marco Rubio appears at a Trump rally to support the re-election of the man who festooned the moniker “Little Marco” upon him, and while speaking, Rubio gives beaming praise to Trump supporters who tried to run a Biden campaign bus off the road in Texas, saying, “We love what they did, but here’s what they don’t know… we do that in Florida every day”. Because he’s a spineless fascist, of course.
• January 26th, 2021: Rubio throws a tantrum about the impeachment of Donald Trump, claiming, “impeachment isn’t about accountability, it’s about vengeance from the radical left and a new show for the Political Entertainment Industry.”
• February 13th, 2021: Marco Rubio votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, looking the other way about the fact that Trump incited an angry, violent mob to attack the Capitol building with the intent of murdering members of Congress and Vice President Pence.
• June 20th, 2021: Sen. Rubio, unprompted, posts one of the most bizarre sexist posts on Twitter, declaring, “Every major social problem in America can be linked to fatherlessness Wherever involved fathers are rare,crisis is certain to follow And billions in government spending is no substitute for fatherhood.” The comments are brutal, and suffice to say, Rubio is a tw*t that got ratio’ed.

Marco Rubio is up for re-election in 2022, and his likely opponent is Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings. Demings is no cream puff, and were it not for Republican voter suppression efforts in Florida currently ongoing, we think she would pummel the empty suit that is Rubio in a walk. But, y’know… voter suppression will make it a lot closer than it deserves to be for a man who has done virtually nothing in twelve years for his constituents.

[GOLGO 13]

Tennesse is looking to get kids killed it seems.

Tennessee ranks No. 1 in the U.S. for largest increase in new COVID-19 cases

We're #1! In your face blue states losers!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Tennessee ranks No. 1 in the U.S. for largest increase in new COVID-19 cases

We're #1! In your face blue states losers!

This is going to sound absolutely insane, but, I can't help wondering if there's actually a concerted effort among Qpublican governors to let their citizens die from COVID, with the goal being to hamper President Biden's efforts to curtail the virus, and then blame him for a spike in cases and deaths. I mean, it's pretty much common knowledge the GQP is the Party of Death, so, why not sacrifice a few thousand clueless rubes, most of whom would be willing to die for The Former Guy anyway. Like I said, insane.

[Jack Dracula]

Never mind. WPP sort of answered my question.

[Tami]

This is going to sound absolutely insane, but, I can't help wondering if there's actually a concerted effort among Qpublican governors to let their citizens die from COVID, with the goal being to hamper President Biden's efforts to curtail the virus, and then blame him for a spike in cases and deaths. I mean, it's pretty much common knowledge the GQP is the Party of Death, so, why not sacrifice a few thousand clueless rubes, most of whom would be willing to die for The Former Guy anyway. Like I said, insane.

It does not sound like an insane thought, it is what they are trying to do. The GQP still believe that making Biden look bad will make them look good by comparison. Thing is, it didn't work when Obama was President, and it won't work this time either. Still, people will die as a result,and they don't care.

[skyvolt2000]

Tennessee ranks No. 1 in the U.S. for largest increase in new COVID-19 cases

We're #1! In your face blue states losers!

Texas respectfully say "hold my beer-"

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/gove...andating-masks

Governor Greg Abbott today issued an Executive Order prohibiting governmental entities in Texas — including counties, cities, school districts, public health authorities, or government officials — from requiring or mandating mask wearing.

Beginning May 21, local governments or officials that attempt to impose a mask mandate or impose a limitation inconsistent or conflicting with the Executive Order can be subject to a fine of up to $1,000.

We can continue to mitigate COVID-19 while defending Texans' liberty to choose whether or not they mask up."

Exempt from the Executive Order are state-supported living centers, government-owned or operated hospitals, Texas Department of Criminal Justice facilities, Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities, and county and municipal jails.

So the criminals can be protected but not the public?

Yesterday we just had 6K new cases.