And now rationing.
Doug Ducey is a murderer. He is murdering people.
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But it was Obama who was going to give you death panels!
The incompetence and cruelty is staggering.
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And that “clearer response” is now an explicit (rather than implicit), “¯\_(ツ)_/¯ let’s open up the economy you guys. YOLO!”
I hate this fucking timeline.
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Are these the death panels the Republicans warned us about?
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I like to clean the horse’s stalls right before I go grocery shopping. If you’re bothered, you should have worn a mask.
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The Tucson All Souls Procession is officially cancelled:
(MMOS: Many Mouths One Stomach)
Dear Supporters and Friends:
Due to the rising uptick in COVID cases, MMOS is officially cancelling the physical, public aspects of the event for 2020.
MMOS will NOT be closing streets for foot traffic or facilitating public gathering sites on Grande Avenue and the Mercado District.MMOS will also cancel all Official Pre and After party gatherings.
But all is not lost-
MMOS will be bolstering all digital engagement aspects of the event and keeping the core ceremony alive.MMOS will deliver live stream broadcast and digital public access of the Finale ceremony.
We make this decision with the health and safety of our community foremost in our hearts and minds.
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YOD*O!
*in agony
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I honestly cannot decide if this is hilarious or terrifying,
But Peter Navarro has completely lost it. Is this where Trump gets his talking points?
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Well “desperate” also occurs to me.
But then, that leads back to being confused again about whether I should laugh or be terrified.
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If Peter Navarro comes up in your news feed you’ll know that he never “had it” in the first place.
And yes, Navarro and Kudlow are both doing a lot of “goosing the lizard” when it comes to the administration’s Trumpvirus non-response.
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He’s a lying sack of shit. First off, how many scientists from western countries have already said, in no uncertain terms, that SARS-COV-2 is not man-made. Second, I knew in January that going to international conferences was risky due to coronavirus, and talked to Chinese nationals at conferences who couldn’t go home because of the outbreak and had colleagues who couldn’t attend from areas with the disease.
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Junior’s mistress-turned-girlfriend is one of the many Tulsa rally attendees who recently tested positive.
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my portland friend posted this as well today.
i don’t know if this goes under coronavirus happenings or summer uprising. whole foods workers walked off the job after a co-worker died of covid.
they’re asking for changes to safety protocols and to be allowed to wear clothing, pins, and what not in support of black lives.
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Catastrophe
I seldom think anything good about Donald Trump. I hate what he has done to the country. I hold his enablers even more responsible for what has happened on his watch. But today I feel that stew of emotions in a new deadening way I have seldom experienced. I am baffled and aghast and angry in a way I seldom have been.
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The US is not experiencing a surge. We are back to exponential growth in the virus just as most of the rest of the wealthy, industrialized world is moving on. COVID is not done for them of course. There are masks and mitigation and distancing and people are still falling ill. Some are dying. But most of these countries have beaten Covid down into low enough numbers that they can get about the business of a new form of social and economic life.
More than 57 thousand new cases were reported today. I was dumbfounded by that number even though the trend pointed to it. This is almost triple the number of cases of three weeks ago. This is a national catastrophe and one due almost all to ourselves, to a litany of horrible decisions and even more simple abdications of responsibility. And yes it really all goes to Donald Trump who has tried to deny the problem whenever possible and when he engages it does so through the prism of assigning blame to someone else for anything that goes wrong. The concept of service, responsibility is entirely alien to him.
We’ve watched a ragged, lying, stupid and absurd performance going back five months. Any sense of national integration and unity has come apart like a torn necklace. No wonder the result is so bad and we’re alone in the world.
The White House tonight it’s shifting to a new message: “We need to live with it.” It is this brazen effrontery to point us to their failure and tell us, “deal. That’s just how it is.”
We are often helpless before nature and fate but the different outcomes in so many life parts of the world that it is neither nature or fate which have brought us to this pass.
Being President is a hard job and this was an historic challenge. That’s the job. It’s on you. You may not be at fault but you’re responsible. You can imagine good presidents of the past and bad struggling under the weight of this crisis. He’s done none of that. It’s all been a matter of blaming states for not having enough ventilators or tests, making covid denial a centerpiece of his movement. His whole record in the crisis has been denial and then finding nonsensical arguments that a crisis befalling the country to which he was elected head of state somehow has nothing to do with him. The states have to fend for themselves and the federal government takes care of itself, as though the federal government is anything but the expression of and protector of the people.
And then he just decided he was done. He got bored. It wasn’t fun anymore. He shuttered his largely ineffectual task force and moved on. He wanted rallies. He made masks a sign of being a Democrat and a wuss.
But covid hadn’t moved on.
None of this had to happen. It is a failure of cataclysmic proportions. It has many roots. It has revealed many insufficiencies and failures in our society. But the scale of it, the unifying force is a man who never should have been president, who has abandoned his responsibility to lead and protect the country, making it every state for itself, a chaos only organized by a meandering effort to help himself at all costs at every point.
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Leadership. Must be nice.
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It’s like the mayor from Jaws except the frequency of shark attacks is on a continuous growth curve from one week to the next.
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And the good people of Amity re-elected him.
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