Godfuckingdammit, that’s not how that works, even in the fantasy world where it works sort of, that’s not how it works.
It’s true that you’re a poorly reanimated corpse with a banana slug for a brain Rudy, but you could at least keep your pathetic misinformation straight.
I keep forgetting he once was the mayor of NYC.
they were pulling in record profits before the virus. if they weren’t prepared for a rainy day, that’s on them.
we should be supplementing furlowed workers directly like some countries in the eu have been doing. barring that, more direct payments and supplemental unemployment.
money given to those out of jobs or at the lowest rungs of wealth will be immediately spent into the economy, keeping the whole system running. money given to the airlines directly will get eaten up by administration, and get stuffed into bank accounts and stock.
i keep thinking about this lately:
“I’m a cautious optimist but also a firm believer in the power of being positive,” Trump said back in 1989
‘Positive Thinking’ didn’t lift the Pentagon building up off the ground for Abby Hoffman, and it sure as fuck isn’t going to make 45 ‘strong & healthy,’ no matter how hard he may wish it so.
i still like to believe that building flew 
but, in this case - i just meant there’s a sort irony/word play in positive thinking meaning a positive coronavirus test.
maybe mcconnell is a practitioner of “positive” thinking too.
Ah; derp on my part.
As Obergefell v. Hodges goes, so will go Bostock v. Clayton County , and so will go Lawrence v. Texas and so will go Romer v. Evans .
Bingo. It’s reverse-trickle down.
and don’t forget loving v. virginia
“Pissing up a rope,” I believe. 
well… it would help if i told better jokes. lol.
i’ll set this here–
Yeah. One of the things we got right was the Pandemic Unemployment Payment. It was a flat rate of €350 and it was set up and being paid weekly in just over a week. It was backed up by a wage support for jobs that were still going but in industries effected by the shutdown (half of them) so that people didn’t get laid off as it’s often hard to get them back working. It at least delays recovery from recession. Technically we haven’t had many of the markers of recession yet.
I mean they got it right straight out of the box but they went and messed with it recently and put in a tiered system so low wage workers got less. It annoyed conservative arseholes that some people were better off on universal basic income than in their old shitty low paid jobs. And they let the UBI genie out accidentally too. And nationalised the private health system by accident. Which was nice.
54-41 Biden in PA isn’t enough. The leadership of the Republican-controlled state legislature has already hinted that the legislature is going to appoint the electors. (And the 2020 election of legislators won’t change that - it’s the outgoing legislature that will do it.)
Of course, the governor will veto the appointment and certify the popular vote, so there will be contested electors which will have to be decided in the House. But that process is Treaty of Westphalia-style, one state, one vote. Anything about the election that gets thrown into the House gets decided for Trump because it’s the large states that have Democratic representatives. A clear majority of states have Republican-majority delegations, and that’s unlikely to change.
Yes - it is enough. And I hope it will get better still.
Same for over here in the US.
I believe it’s the first time in ever that independent workers have been allowed to collect unemployment without ties to corporate or government work, and the $600 weekly addition from the fed really pissed off the conservatives. That’s why we’re having such a difficult time getting a second round passed through the Senate.
ETA: This is the first time in my life I’ve ever come close to earning more than $3k/month, and for the 4 months I was granted the $600 extension, I wiped out debt I couldn’t surmount even while working two jobs in previous years.
