Labour’s platform has for a long time been strongly supportive of NHS workers, I don’t think that’s changed, but Starmer is not in a position to implement anything right now because of the massive Labour losses in the last election. If you have some explicit thing that he is in a position to do, please name it.
Can we agree that a medal is possibly a bad take? Also does a part yhave to be capable of implementing policy to advocate for it? I’m not attacking the party here. Advocating good policy. Puting up a fight, not settling for a “thank you for your sacrifice” type gesture. Things that he could be doing here. I had no point beyond that.
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Starmer was elected a week ago, to a party not in power. I think it is incredible that anyone is giving him stick for not somehow having done more for the crisis already, especially when managing that crisis is the ongoing responsibility of the other party. Right now he is rightly focusing on getting his house in order.
I don’t see anything wrong with his op-ed in the Mirror, which said things that should be repeated as often as necessary:
In the short-term, the best way we can show our support to our carers is by staying at home this Easter weekend.
It will be hard, but it is by far the best way to help our NHS.
And after this crisis is over, we cannot go back to business as usual.
We have seen who the key workers really are.
For too long, our health and care workers have been taken for granted and poorly paid.
We have heard too many stories of workers sent to the frontline without the right protective equipment.
Yet they continue to give everything to keep our loved ones safe.
They were last and now they should be first.
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oh, fuck
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Well, an editorial and a medal seam more like PR than real work. I’m going to leave it there instead of tying up more of this thread with what was a single niggle.
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So was that Sinophobic bastard arrested?
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As bad as it might be, when you are in an abusive relationship, a divorce is better than the alternative.
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Not arrested at the scene, but charged afterwards.
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In a broadside directed against VOA’s coverage of the pandemic and China on Friday, an official White House publication accused it of using taxpayer money “to speak for authoritarian regimes”
I imagine Orwell’s grave is throwing off smoke at this point.
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“Aww crap, another ref to work!”
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NYT rule #27:
The United States is comprised of New York and adjacent States.
A reminder that Cuomo is mostly doing the right things now, but was extremely sluggish to act. And he will never be a pillar of a party he openly despises in the way Sanders is accused of.
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“Guilty as charged. We do publish several stories about the Trump administration daily.”
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I’d look at a reelection of Trump as THE sign that the differences are, to put it mildly, irreconcilable. I’m not sure “abusive” begins to cover the relationship between, well, the elites and the rest of us, let alone the Republican party and blue states…
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I would say “abusive,” in the context of relationships, covers a lot of ground.
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Epic burn from a professor at the U.S. Naval War College
Even narcissists, we are told by psychologists, have the occasional dark night of the soul. They can recognize how they are perceived by others, and they will at least pretend to seek forgiveness and show contrition as a way of gaining the affection they need. They are capable of infrequent moments of reflection, even if only to adjust strategies for survival.
Trump’s spiritual poverty is beyond all this. He represents the ultimate triumph of a materialist mindset. He has no ability to understand anything that is not an immediate tactile or visual experience, no sense of continuity with other human beings, and no imperatives more important than soothing the barrage of signals emanating from his constantly panicked and confused autonomic system.
The humorist Alexandra Petri once likened Trump to a goldfish, a purely reactive animal lost in a “pastless, futureless, contextless void.” This is an apt comparison, with one major flaw: Goldfish are not malevolent, and do not corrode the will and decency of those who gaze on them.
In his daily coronavirus briefings, Trump lumbers to the podium and pulls us into his world: detached from reality, unable to feel any emotions but anger and paranoia. Each time we watch, Trump’s spiritual poverty increases our own
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The burn is not for Trump, who is no more a sentient moral agent than the virus which bears his name, but for those who continue to obsess over his every word, for whatever motive.
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Hmm, the Trump Virus. Dems gotta start using that.
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