Political fall out from Covid-19 pandemic

Bit of a juxtaposition.

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Send Trump to Mars? He’ll blend in fine.

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So she had a good doctor. You may have a legal “right to try” (I am actually not at all sure about that in a case like this) but you have no right at all to force any doctor into performing an unethical act. Ever. Go fuck yourself, you self-righteous piece of shit.

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Prepare to be shocked, shocked.

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Referencing:

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Yep. After 4 fucking years, this master manipulator is STILL getting us dogs to look at another damn squirrel.

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Narrator: it’s not us, and the news media aren’t being cunningly manipulated against their will.

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This tweet is, to me, pretty shocking. Part of the reason that people working the dangerous jobs have been so poorly prepared for this is neoliberalism. They are poorly paid, often immigrants, and utterly ignored by the system that chews them up and spits them out (denies citizenship to them and their children, leaves their employment precarious etc.)

I speak only for North Western Europe here.

Here is the British government saying that they won’t publish a report on BAME workers dying disproportionately. Due to the BLM protests ongoing. In other words: we won’t print what we know because IT WILL MAKE YOU RIOT WITH RAGE!

And this isn’t a dig at England, because they are at least having that question discussed.

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This is…

black-books-fran-english-bollocks

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black_books_-_this_is_fantastic

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I was born and still live in England, but I refuse to identify as English. Dig all you want at our government, they deserve it.

This too will pass.

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Fucking hell!

Disenfranchising MPs is something I hoped I would never see.

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You can’t make this stuff up:

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I do, loudly and persistently the scum!

I just meant that being smug because we don’t have extremely open fascists running the place is worthless, how bad they look just make ours look good. But ours are not decent. They’re awful.

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-pulls-rnc-out-of-nc-after-trying-to-force-guv-to-allow-full-attendance-at-event

Giving up on NC?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-germany-saved-its-workforce-from-unemployment-while-spending-less-per-person-than-the-us

But neither Hamann nor anyone else in her group lost their job. Instead, they were kept on and, even while having zero clients, received 60% of their normal pay. As about half her clients gradually started to return in recent weeks, she began making 80% of her usual pay (including compensation for the clients who had not come back). And she was able to do so without having to negotiate any paperwork or online bureaucracy; she and her co-workers simply signed a form from their employer.

Been hearing about how our and other organizations have been dealing with the “stimulus” package, and it sounds like a byzantine nightmare (by design, no question).

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Yep - they’ll lose NC. But also their convention will crash.

They’ve been working on that for at least two years. It’s going to be a cluster fuck to move it on two months notice. The conventions rely on heavy hitter local fundraisers to pull together the money, volunteers, logistics- police plans.

This will be a disaster - televised in prime time.

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