Do you want guillotines?! Because that’s how you get guillotines!
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One more time, Senator Harris: You could have put this thieving, lying, rotten bastard Mnuchin in prison, but you did not.
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Right; almost all the actual social distancing measures were enacted at the state and local level in part because there was so little leadership coming from Washington on the issue.
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Thanks, I knew someone would come through!
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Save it, we may need it again later 
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I do want guillotines. 
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Well, you say that now
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The 1% will not allow the 99% this amount of time to protest and organize again until 2020 is a distant memory.
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Often forgotten in the debate about “reopening the economy” is that the economy had largely shut down even BEFORE all the mandatory lockdown measures because most people DIDN’T WANT TO GET SICK. For example, restaurant business was down something like 70% before anyone was actually legally forbidden from eating in restaurants.
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Or a Nattering Nabob of Negativity neither!
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Like anyone in the Federal Government has jack shit to say on the subject. When the president chickened out of his obligations as the national leader in a national crisis, he gave up the right to be taken seriously here.
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Or until the economy is totally nuked because there aren’t enough healthy people to keep anything running, at which point ‘allow’ will have disappeared from the discussion.
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Mammon?
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Yep - it’s only now hitting most of the country, really. The cases were picking up even before the lockdown ended. The problem is, the Trump administration is now “so over” responding to it and wants it to be history (so we’re going to see a repeat of the initial, horribly bungled non-response, but worse) and Republican states are increasingly hostile to the very idea of responding to it (e.g. even wearing masks).
I don’t even want to think about what the second wave is going to be like. So fucked…
Well, that’s not entirely true. Technically it is, but states are heavily reliant on federal funds in order to actually fund their shut downs. Without that federal aid, states have limited abilities to respond (because they have to have balanced budgets, and Republican states have hugely diminished tax rates and no surplus funds for emergencies like this). And that’s leaving aside the willingness of Republican toadies to follow the president’s lead… even if it’s off a cliff.
Yep, the virus itself - and people’s response to it - will be shutting things down regardless of what politicians decide…
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What a conundrum for Trump. The stock market is reacting negatively to the latest reports of large spikes in covid cases, with the spikes being driven by the recent relaxations in lockdowns. What to do. What to do. Oh, yeah. Lie-spin-lie-spin-lie-spin…
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But they do. They have a whole lot of influence over Republican governors. The governors then override the communities’ precautions. In Texas, the cities and counties who tried to implement measures more restrictive than the governor’s office wanted were warned they would be sued and forced to capitulate. It’s why Austin and Harris County can’t mandate masks. Trump signaled he didn’t like masks, the Texas governor followed along, getting the attorney general to declare it was illegal to impose fines for not wearing a mask and that the local governments are not permitted to mandate mask wearing.
We residents of republican controlled states are seriously fucked.
Edited for grammer and typos. Damned phone.
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