Political fall out from Covid-19 pandemic

As before:

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https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN21L1DW

Remember, “capitalism” creates efficiency.

The dairy industry’s woes signal broader problems in the global food supply chain, according to farmers, agricultural economists and food distributors. The dairy business got hit harder and earlier than other agricultural commodities because the products are highly perishable - milk can’t be frozen, like meat, or stuck in a silo, like grain.

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Ohhh, THAT is why all the Republicans in Georgia were fighting this so hard. They already pushed our presidential primary to May (early voting had already started for the presidential primary but the actual date was March 24). We already had some other statewide primaries that happened in May so there was already an election going on that day. The GOP has been fighting to get that May election day pushed back again, but the SoS (who I believe is a Republican) said he simply does not have any legal standing to do so. His office mailed every registered voter in Georgia an application for an absentee ballot, I got mine today.

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a lot of the comments are “It’s too dark…”

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https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1246280136615485441

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GOP worries about Trump killing their voter base.

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Solution: make sure the “other people” number is higher. Now do you understand the federal “response”?

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I think we covered the whole “thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the test” thing in another thread, but some dis not get the message.

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In a similar vein:

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-up-with-the-feds-seizing-ppe-shipments-to-states-and-hospitals

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And also Islam:

Do you know who else suggested good hygiene and quarantining during a pandemic? Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, over 1,300 years ago.
He would encourage people to always seek medical treatment and medication: “Make use of medical treatment,” he said, “for God has not made a disease without appointing a remedy for it, with the exception of one disease—old age.”

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Democrats can’t even hold their feet to the pavement.

Media: The president shat himself.
GOP: Completely false and slanderous. The president absolutely did not shit himself.
Trump: I TOTALLY SHAT MYSELF.

Every. Goddamned. Day.

Anything about that map look familiar?

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Oh. Great. Thanks for that.

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Although Captain Brett Crozier wasn’t discharged, he did lose his command. Given how much his crew clearly love him, I sorta pity the next CO who has to take command of the Roosevelt.

Crozier, meanwhile, deserves to be decorated, promoted and given a commander-in-chief who isn’t an incompetent crook.

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Firstly, from sourcewatch itself, which admits that it “cannot guarantee the validity of the information found [on the site]”

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch:General_disclaimer

Additionally, the site is marred by hypocrisy in that it attacks center-right organizations and networks for taking anonymous funds it calls “dark money” while its parent organization has received a large portion of its budget from left-wing dark money interests.

But the thing is, this kind of us v them politicking is increasingly pointless, and only serves to soak up oxygen that should be used on developing meaningful bipartisan policy — if not now, then when?