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Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. MISSOURI: THE SCREW ME STATE 13 hours ago · And there is a very real possibility that whoever replaces Sen. Roy Blunt when he retires at the end of next year will be even worse than Josh Hawley.There’s always been a big wackjob element in the state, going back as far as I can remember, but they were never as totally in charge as they are now. THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN Eugene Robinson, Joe Manchin retreats to fantasyland and sticks America with the consequences. “Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has the right to live in a make-believe wonderland if he so chooses. But his party and his nation will pay a terrible price for his hallucinations about the nature of today’s Republican Party. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. THE PATHETIC SHAM THAT IS TRUMP’S DEFENSE The Republican strategy for getting President Donald Trump off the hook in the Senate’s impeachment trial has largely been rooted in the denial of the existence of a little something we, in the reality-based community, call time. The Republicans would like to pretend that the past doesn’t exist, and also that the futurewon’t exist
WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
CLARENCE THOMAS AND STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. Clarence Thomas and Stockholm Syndrome. Posted on May 7, 2014 by maha. Charles Pierce calls Justice Clarence Thomas “ the last Confederate .”. I hadn’t realized the Justice has a “thing” about the 14th Amendment and thinks it has been incorrectly applied to deny states the power to trample on the rights of U.S. citizens. DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
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Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. MISSOURI: THE SCREW ME STATE 13 hours ago · And there is a very real possibility that whoever replaces Sen. Roy Blunt when he retires at the end of next year will be even worse than Josh Hawley.There’s always been a big wackjob element in the state, going back as far as I can remember, but they were never as totally in charge as they are now. THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN Eugene Robinson, Joe Manchin retreats to fantasyland and sticks America with the consequences. “Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has the right to live in a make-believe wonderland if he so chooses. But his party and his nation will pay a terrible price for his hallucinations about the nature of today’s Republican Party. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. THE PATHETIC SHAM THAT IS TRUMP’S DEFENSE The Republican strategy for getting President Donald Trump off the hook in the Senate’s impeachment trial has largely been rooted in the denial of the existence of a little something we, in the reality-based community, call time. The Republicans would like to pretend that the past doesn’t exist, and also that the futurewon’t exist
WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
CLARENCE THOMAS AND STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. Clarence Thomas and Stockholm Syndrome. Posted on May 7, 2014 by maha. Charles Pierce calls Justice Clarence Thomas “ the last Confederate .”. I hadn’t realized the Justice has a “thing” about the 14th Amendment and thinks it has been incorrectly applied to deny states the power to trample on the rights of U.S. citizens. DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. MISSOURI: THE SCREW ME STATE 13 hours ago · And there is a very real possibility that whoever replaces Sen. Roy Blunt when he retires at the end of next year will be even worse than Josh Hawley.There’s always been a big wackjob element in the state, going back as far as I can remember, but they were never as totally in charge as they are now. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE PARK 1 day ago · What Really Happened in Lafayette Square Park. Posted on June 10, 2021 by maha. You may have seen the headlines declaring that an Interior Department’s inspector general report decided that Lafayette Park was not forcibly cleared last year for Trump’s Bible Stunt. Closer inspection of said report reveals that’s not exactlywhat it says.
THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes. CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE Capitalism Left Us Vulnerable. At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchenstaff.
WELL, SO MUCH FOR THE DEBATES I looked up states with the highest positivity rates — the top ten right now are South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa (22.3), Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Alabama, Mississippi, and Utah. And South Dakota’s rate is a whopping 35.2, which I understand may be the highest on the planet. States with the lowest rates, from lowest to highest, areMaine
SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a HOW INSURRECTION BEGINS How Insurrection Begins. Posted on December 1, 2020 by maha. Today a group called The We the People Convention ran a full-page ad in the Washington Times (Sun Myung Moon, founder) calling for Trump to declare martial law and overturn the election. Here’s more from Gateway Pundit. This effort appears to be led by a Georgia attorneynamed Lin Wood.
DEATH BY STUPID
But as of the most recent data, Diagnosed coronavirus cases in the U.S.: 728,293. Deaths: 38,244. I repeat — during the several months of the infamously bad 2017 flu season, there were approximately 45 million infected and 61,000 deaths. During our three months of covid-19 in the U.S., we’ve had 728,293 diagnosed cases and 38,244deaths.
TEXAS — LIKE A WHOLE ‘NOTHER COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY THE POWER Managed by the nonprofit Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, the grid provides 90 percent of the state’s electricity and serves 26 million customers. It draws on a diverse range of power sources in a competitive market. The largest source of electricity in Texas is natural gas, followed by wind and solar, coal, then nuclear. THE MAHABLOGTHE MAHABLOGABOUT MY BOOKCOMMENTING RULESDEMOCRATS ARESPARTACUS
Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. MISSOURI: THE SCREW ME STATE 9 hours ago · And there is a very real possibility that whoever replaces Sen. Roy Blunt when he retires at the end of next year will be even worse than Josh Hawley.There’s always been a big wackjob element in the state, going back as far as I can remember, but they were never as totally in charge as they are now. THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN Eugene Robinson, Joe Manchin retreats to fantasyland and sticks America with the consequences. “Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has the right to live in a make-believe wonderland if he so chooses. But his party and his nation will pay a terrible price for his hallucinations about the nature of today’s Republican Party. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. THE PATHETIC SHAM THAT IS TRUMP’S DEFENSE The Republican strategy for getting President Donald Trump off the hook in the Senate’s impeachment trial has largely been rooted in the denial of the existence of a little something we, in the reality-based community, call time. The Republicans would like to pretend that the past doesn’t exist, and also that the futurewon’t exist
WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
CLARENCE THOMAS AND STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. Clarence Thomas and Stockholm Syndrome. Posted on May 7, 2014 by maha. Charles Pierce calls Justice Clarence Thomas “ the last Confederate .”. I hadn’t realized the Justice has a “thing” about the 14th Amendment and thinks it has been incorrectly applied to deny states the power to trample on the rights of U.S. citizens. DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
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Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. MISSOURI: THE SCREW ME STATE 9 hours ago · And there is a very real possibility that whoever replaces Sen. Roy Blunt when he retires at the end of next year will be even worse than Josh Hawley.There’s always been a big wackjob element in the state, going back as far as I can remember, but they were never as totally in charge as they are now. THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN Eugene Robinson, Joe Manchin retreats to fantasyland and sticks America with the consequences. “Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has the right to live in a make-believe wonderland if he so chooses. But his party and his nation will pay a terrible price for his hallucinations about the nature of today’s Republican Party. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. THE PATHETIC SHAM THAT IS TRUMP’S DEFENSE The Republican strategy for getting President Donald Trump off the hook in the Senate’s impeachment trial has largely been rooted in the denial of the existence of a little something we, in the reality-based community, call time. The Republicans would like to pretend that the past doesn’t exist, and also that the futurewon’t exist
WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
CLARENCE THOMAS AND STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. Clarence Thomas and Stockholm Syndrome. Posted on May 7, 2014 by maha. Charles Pierce calls Justice Clarence Thomas “ the last Confederate .”. I hadn’t realized the Justice has a “thing” about the 14th Amendment and thinks it has been incorrectly applied to deny states the power to trample on the rights of U.S. citizens. DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. MISSOURI: THE SCREW ME STATE 9 hours ago · And there is a very real possibility that whoever replaces Sen. Roy Blunt when he retires at the end of next year will be even worse than Josh Hawley.There’s always been a big wackjob element in the state, going back as far as I can remember, but they were never as totally in charge as they are now. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE PARK 1 day ago · What Really Happened in Lafayette Square Park. Posted on June 10, 2021 by maha. You may have seen the headlines declaring that an Interior Department’s inspector general report decided that Lafayette Park was not forcibly cleared last year for Trump’s Bible Stunt. Closer inspection of said report reveals that’s not exactlywhat it says.
THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes. CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE Capitalism Left Us Vulnerable. At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchenstaff.
WELL, SO MUCH FOR THE DEBATES I looked up states with the highest positivity rates — the top ten right now are South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa (22.3), Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Alabama, Mississippi, and Utah. And South Dakota’s rate is a whopping 35.2, which I understand may be the highest on the planet. States with the lowest rates, from lowest to highest, areMaine
HOW INSURRECTION BEGINS How Insurrection Begins. Posted on December 1, 2020 by maha. Today a group called The We the People Convention ran a full-page ad in the Washington Times (Sun Myung Moon, founder) calling for Trump to declare martial law and overturn the election. Here’s more from Gateway Pundit. This effort appears to be led by a Georgia attorneynamed Lin Wood.
INCOMPETENCE ISN’T TEMPERING THE MALEVOLENCE Incompetence Isn’t Tempering the Malevolence. The Atlantic/Lawfare writing team of Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes coined the phrase “malevolence tempered by incompetence” in January 2017 to describe the beginnings of the Trump administration. Malevolence in the form of racism, xenophobia, and greed formed the basis of Trump’sDEATH BY STUPID
But as of the most recent data, Diagnosed coronavirus cases in the U.S.: 728,293. Deaths: 38,244. I repeat — during the several months of the infamously bad 2017 flu season, there were approximately 45 million infected and 61,000 deaths. During our three months of covid-19 in the U.S., we’ve had 728,293 diagnosed cases and 38,244deaths.
TEXAS — LIKE A WHOLE ‘NOTHER COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY THE POWER Managed by the nonprofit Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, the grid provides 90 percent of the state’s electricity and serves 26 million customers. It draws on a diverse range of power sources in a competitive market. The largest source of electricity in Texas is natural gas, followed by wind and solar, coal, then nuclear. THE MAHABLOGTHE MAHABLOGABOUT MY BOOKCOMMENTING RULESDEMOCRATS ARESPARTACUS
Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE PARK 3 hours ago · You may have seen the headlines declaring that an Interior Department’s inspector general report decided that Lafayette Park was not forcibly cleared last year for Trump’s Bible Stunt.Closer inspection of said report reveals that’s not exactly what it says. The report documents that a decision to clear the park and surround it with non-scalable fencing had been made prior toTrump’s
WTF, MERRICK GARLAND? SERIOUSLY? 22 hours ago · I was pleased when Merrick Garland was nominated to be Attorney General. I was pleased when his nomination was confirmed. I am not pleased now. First, about a month ago U.S. District for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Continue reading → THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Continue reading → CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19.. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchen staff. These people are among the most essential workers—and some of the THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Continue reading→
SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. THE PATHETIC SHAM THAT IS TRUMP’S DEFENSE Have the John Bolton revelations changed the trajectory of the impeachment trial? Could be. Dahlia Lithwick has a great summation of the Republicans’ defense strategy:. The Republican strategy for getting President Donald Trump off the hook in the Senate’s impeachment trial has largely been rooted in the denial of the existence of a little something we, in the reality-based community,call
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Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE PARK 3 hours ago · You may have seen the headlines declaring that an Interior Department’s inspector general report decided that Lafayette Park was not forcibly cleared last year for Trump’s Bible Stunt.Closer inspection of said report reveals that’s not exactly what it says. The report documents that a decision to clear the park and surround it with non-scalable fencing had been made prior toTrump’s
WTF, MERRICK GARLAND? SERIOUSLY? 22 hours ago · I was pleased when Merrick Garland was nominated to be Attorney General. I was pleased when his nomination was confirmed. I am not pleased now. First, about a month ago U.S. District for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Continue reading → THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Continue reading → CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19.. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchen staff. These people are among the most essential workers—and some of the THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Continue reading→
SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. THE PATHETIC SHAM THAT IS TRUMP’S DEFENSE Have the John Bolton revelations changed the trajectory of the impeachment trial? Could be. Dahlia Lithwick has a great summation of the Republicans’ defense strategy:. The Republican strategy for getting President Donald Trump off the hook in the Senate’s impeachment trial has largely been rooted in the denial of the existence of a little something we, in the reality-based community,call
ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS Ezra Klein: This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take Continue reading → WTF, MERRICK GARLAND? SERIOUSLY? 22 hours ago · I was pleased when Merrick Garland was nominated to be Attorney General. I was pleased when his nomination was confirmed. I am not pleased now. First, about a month ago U.S. District for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Continue reading → HERE’S YOUR FAILED EXPERIMENT, YOUR HONOR Here’s a bit of random background. There is a lot of background to choose from, but I just learned this bit today, so it’s on my mind. In 2019, Megan Montgomery was rushed to a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, with Continue reading → EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN Joe, how much do we hate thee? Let me count the ways. And provide some links. Manchin wrote an op ed headlined “Why I’m voting against the For the People Act. ” Some reactions to this op ed and Manchin’s stated policy of putting “bipartisanship” ahead of everything else follows. CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19.. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchen staff. These people are among the most essential workers—and some of the SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a OH, LEAVE ELLIE KEMPER ALONE I was going to make the same point! Actually, while there is a Khorasan province in Iran (three provinces, actually. About 15 years ago, the Iranian province of Khorasan was divided into the princinces of: North Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan), the name "Khorasan" is an old term for the portion of historical Persia that borders on the Central Asian Steppe. STILL MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT JANUARY 6 Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the commander of the D.C. National Guard, told a Senate committee Wednesday that he had been prevented by then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy from deploying a quick-reaction force or distributing weapons and riot gear before Jan. 6. McCarthy, in turn, was acting on the orders of then-acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller. JOE MANCHIN IS PISSING ME OFF Joe Manchin, in January: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia called for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending over the weekend as Democrats are on the verge of controlling Congress for at least the next two years. “The most important thing? Do infrastructure. Spend $2, $3, $4 trillion over a 10-year period on infrastructure,” he told Inside West Virginia Politics, a news TEXAS — LIKE A WHOLE ‘NOTHER COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY THE POWER The Arctic air has also claimed the life of at least one homeless person in Houston, and a 10-year-old boy died after he fell through ice near Millington, Tenn. A tornado associated with the storm system that helped draw Arctic air to the south struck in North Carolina overnight, killing at THE MAHABLOGTHE MAHABLOGABOUT MY BOOKCOMMENTING RULESDEMOCRATS ARESPARTACUS
Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein: This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take Continue reading → THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. WHY SOME THINGS NEED TO BE “CANCELED” Why Some Things Need to Be “Canceled”. Illustration for Little Black Sambo board game, 1924. I seriously hate the term “cancel culture” and think the whole controversy is bullshit. But now I’m seeing People Who Ought to Know Better wringing their hands over the “canceling” of six Dr. Seuss books and fretting that “canceling WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
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Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. WTF, MERRICK GARLAND? SERIOUSLY? 14 minutes ago · I was pleased when Merrick Garland was nominated to be Attorney General. I was pleased when his nomination was confirmed. I am not pleased now. First, about a month ago U.S. District for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Continue reading → THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE Capitalism Left Us Vulnerable. At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchenstaff.
THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes. SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. WHY SOME THINGS NEED TO BE “CANCELED” Why Some Things Need to Be “Canceled”. Illustration for Little Black Sambo board game, 1924. I seriously hate the term “cancel culture” and think the whole controversy is bullshit. But now I’m seeing People Who Ought to Know Better wringing their hands over the “canceling” of six Dr. Seuss books and fretting that “canceling ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. HERE’S YOUR FAILED EXPERIMENT, YOUR HONOR Here’s a bit of random background. There is a lot of background to choose from, but I just learned this bit today, so it’s on my mind. In 2019, Megan Montgomery was rushed to a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, with Continue reading → EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN 1 day ago · Joe, how much do we hate thee? Let me count the ways. And provide some links. Manchin wrote an op ed headlined “Why I’m voting against the For the People Act. ” Some reactions to this op ed and Manchin’s stated policy of putting “bipartisanship” ahead of everything else follows. LET’S NOT MAKE 2020’S MISTAKES IN 2022 But the analysis suggests that at least part of the problem — in 2020, anyway — was that Democrats failed to rebut those attacks head-on or to effectively make the case that the GOP is genuinely captured by its extremist elements in a way the Democratic Party simply is not.That’s a very different failing than not doing enough to call out leftists. CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE Capitalism Left Us Vulnerable. At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchenstaff.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ANGLO-SAXONS The Truth About Anglo-Saxons. Posted on April 17, 2021 by maha. So this happened: Hard-right House Republicans on Friday were discussing forming an America First Caucus, which one document described as championing “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and warning that mass immigration was putting the “unique identity” of the U.S. atrisk.
RECONCILIATION CAN’T FIX EVERYTHING Reconciliation Can’t Fix Everything. If you missed Rachel Maddow last night, this brief segment is worth a look. What she’s saying here is that because of a law passed during the Nixon Administration, it is possible to use the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster and pass big bills with a 50 percent vote. WELCOME TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF, ARE THEY REALLY THIS STUPID Welcome to Another Episode of, Are They Really This Stupid? Sen. Ron Johnson wants to know why the government is in such an all-fired hurry to get everyone vaccinated. In an interview first noticed by Forbes, Johnson told right-wing Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna on Thursday, “Why is this big push to make sure everybody gets avaccine, to
JOE MANCHIN IS PISSING ME OFF Joe Manchin, in January: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia called for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending over the weekend as Democrats are on the verge of controlling Congress for at least the next two years. “The most important thing? Do infrastructure. Spend $2, $3, $4 trillion over a 10-year period on infrastructure,” he told Inside West Virginia Politics, a news TEXAS — LIKE A WHOLE ‘NOTHER COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY THE POWER Managed by the nonprofit Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, the grid provides 90 percent of the state’s electricity and serves 26 million customers. It draws on a diverse range of power sources in a competitive market. The largest source of electricity in Texas is natural gas, followed by wind and solar, coal, then nuclear. THE MAHABLOGTHE MAHABLOGABOUT MY BOOKCOMMENTING RULESDEMOCRATS ARESPARTACUS
Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein: This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take Continue reading → THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. WHY SOME THINGS NEED TO BE “CANCELED” Why Some Things Need to Be “Canceled”. Illustration for Little Black Sambo board game, 1924. I seriously hate the term “cancel culture” and think the whole controversy is bullshit. But now I’m seeing People Who Ought to Know Better wringing their hands over the “canceling” of six Dr. Seuss books and fretting that “canceling WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
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Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein: This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take Continue reading → THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. WHY SOME THINGS NEED TO BE “CANCELED” Why Some Things Need to Be “Canceled”. Illustration for Little Black Sambo board game, 1924. I seriously hate the term “cancel culture” and think the whole controversy is bullshit. But now I’m seeing People Who Ought to Know Better wringing their hands over the “canceling” of six Dr. Seuss books and fretting that “canceling WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. HERE’S YOUR FAILED EXPERIMENT, YOUR HONOR Here’s a bit of random background. There is a lot of background to choose from, but I just learned this bit today, so it’s on my mind. In 2019, Megan Montgomery was rushed to a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, with Continue reading → EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN 1 day ago · Joe, how much do we hate thee? Let me count the ways. And provide some links. Manchin wrote an op ed headlined “Why I’m voting against the For the People Act. ” Some reactions to this op ed and Manchin’s stated policy of putting “bipartisanship” ahead of everything else follows. LET’S NOT MAKE 2020’S MISTAKES IN 2022 But the analysis suggests that at least part of the problem — in 2020, anyway — was that Democrats failed to rebut those attacks head-on or to effectively make the case that the GOP is genuinely captured by its extremist elements in a way the Democratic Party simply is not.That’s a very different failing than not doing enough to call out leftists. CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE Capitalism Left Us Vulnerable. At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchenstaff.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ANGLO-SAXONS The Truth About Anglo-Saxons. Posted on April 17, 2021 by maha. So this happened: Hard-right House Republicans on Friday were discussing forming an America First Caucus, which one document described as championing “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and warning that mass immigration was putting the “unique identity” of the U.S. atrisk.
RECONCILIATION CAN’T FIX EVERYTHING Reconciliation Can’t Fix Everything. If you missed Rachel Maddow last night, this brief segment is worth a look. What she’s saying here is that because of a law passed during the Nixon Administration, it is possible to use the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster and pass big bills with a 50 percent vote. WELCOME TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF, ARE THEY REALLY THIS STUPID Welcome to Another Episode of, Are They Really This Stupid? Sen. Ron Johnson wants to know why the government is in such an all-fired hurry to get everyone vaccinated. In an interview first noticed by Forbes, Johnson told right-wing Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna on Thursday, “Why is this big push to make sure everybody gets avaccine, to
JOE MANCHIN IS PISSING ME OFF Joe Manchin, in January: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia called for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending over the weekend as Democrats are on the verge of controlling Congress for at least the next two years. “The most important thing? Do infrastructure. Spend $2, $3, $4 trillion over a 10-year period on infrastructure,” he told Inside West Virginia Politics, a news TEXAS — LIKE A WHOLE ‘NOTHER COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY THE POWER Managed by the nonprofit Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, the grid provides 90 percent of the state’s electricity and serves 26 million customers. It draws on a diverse range of power sources in a competitive market. The largest source of electricity in Texas is natural gas, followed by wind and solar, coal, then nuclear. THE MAHABLOGTHE MAHABLOGABOUT MY BOOKCOMMENTING RULESDEMOCRATS ARESPARTACUS
Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein: This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take Continue reading → THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. WHY SOME THINGS NEED TO BE “CANCELED” Why Some Things Need to Be “Canceled”. Illustration for Little Black Sambo board game, 1924. I seriously hate the term “cancel culture” and think the whole controversy is bullshit. But now I’m seeing People Who Ought to Know Better wringing their hands over the “canceling” of six Dr. Seuss books and fretting that “canceling WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
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Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein: This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take Continue reading → THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes. TEN GOP SENATORS, SITTING IN A TREE … Of course, in the past the Democratics did bargain against themselves, so being unreasonable has worked for Republicans. Oh, and Bai thinks the “G” stands for “grumpy” or “geriatric.” All this might have made sense if it were really just the kind of strategic feint Republican leaders used during the Obama years: Offer something obviously untenable and then gleefully blame the SCOTUS REALLY MIGHT OVERTURN ROE THIS TIME The SCOTUS announced today it will hear Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that outlaws elective abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation.There is real concern that this could be the Big One that overturns Roe v.Wade, mostly because now that Amy Comey Barrett is on the court, the conservatives don’t need Chief Justice John Roberts’s vote to make a ARE THE TRUMPS ENGAGED IN PROFITEERING? According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump Administration is buying up a lot of the medical supplies being produced in the U.S. right now, but it’s not clear where these supplies are going.. The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it first — ahead of states, hospitals or foreign countries. WHY SOME THINGS NEED TO BE “CANCELED” Why Some Things Need to Be “Canceled”. Illustration for Little Black Sambo board game, 1924. I seriously hate the term “cancel culture” and think the whole controversy is bullshit. But now I’m seeing People Who Ought to Know Better wringing their hands over the “canceling” of six Dr. Seuss books and fretting that “canceling WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS 1 day ago · Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. HERE’S YOUR FAILED EXPERIMENT, YOUR HONOR Here’s a bit of random background. There is a lot of background to choose from, but I just learned this bit today, so it’s on my mind. In 2019, Megan Montgomery was rushed to a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, with Continue reading → EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN 1 day ago · Joe, how much do we hate thee? Let me count the ways. And provide some links. Manchin wrote an op ed headlined “Why I’m voting against the For the People Act. ” Some reactions to this op ed and Manchin’s stated policy of putting “bipartisanship” ahead of everything else follows. LET’S NOT MAKE 2020’S MISTAKES IN 2022 But the analysis suggests that at least part of the problem — in 2020, anyway — was that Democrats failed to rebut those attacks head-on or to effectively make the case that the GOP is genuinely captured by its extremist elements in a way the Democratic Party simply is not.That’s a very different failing than not doing enough to call out leftists. CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE Capitalism Left Us Vulnerable. At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchenstaff.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ANGLO-SAXONS The Truth About Anglo-Saxons. Posted on April 17, 2021 by maha. So this happened: Hard-right House Republicans on Friday were discussing forming an America First Caucus, which one document described as championing “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and warning that mass immigration was putting the “unique identity” of the U.S. atrisk.
RECONCILIATION CAN’T FIX EVERYTHING Reconciliation Can’t Fix Everything. If you missed Rachel Maddow last night, this brief segment is worth a look. What she’s saying here is that because of a law passed during the Nixon Administration, it is possible to use the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster and pass big bills with a 50 percent vote. WELCOME TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF, ARE THEY REALLY THIS STUPID Welcome to Another Episode of, Are They Really This Stupid? Sen. Ron Johnson wants to know why the government is in such an all-fired hurry to get everyone vaccinated. In an interview first noticed by Forbes, Johnson told right-wing Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna on Thursday, “Why is this big push to make sure everybody gets avaccine, to
JOE MANCHIN IS PISSING ME OFF Joe Manchin, in January: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia called for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending over the weekend as Democrats are on the verge of controlling Congress for at least the next two years. “The most important thing? Do infrastructure. Spend $2, $3, $4 trillion over a 10-year period on infrastructure,” he told Inside West Virginia Politics, a news TEXAS — LIKE A WHOLE ‘NOTHER COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY THE POWER Managed by the nonprofit Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, the grid provides 90 percent of the state’s electricity and serves 26 million customers. It draws on a diverse range of power sources in a competitive market. The largest source of electricity in Texas is natural gas, followed by wind and solar, coal, then nuclear. THE MAHABLOGTHE MAHABLOGABOUT MY BOOKCOMMENTING RULESDEMOCRATS ARESPARTACUS
Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey HOW INSURRECTION BEGINS How Insurrection Begins. Posted on December 1, 2020 by maha. Today a group called The We the People Convention ran a full-page ad in the Washington Times (Sun Myung Moon, founder) calling for Trump to declare martial law and overturn the election. Here’s more from Gateway Pundit. This effort appears to be led by a Georgia attorneynamed Lin Wood.
RECONCILIATION CAN’T FIX EVERYTHING Reconciliation Can’t Fix Everything. If you missed Rachel Maddow last night, this brief segment is worth a look. What she’s saying here is that because of a law passed during the Nixon Administration, it is possible to use the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster and pass big bills with a 50 percent vote. STILL MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT JANUARY 6 Still More Questions About January 6. Most of the major news outlets are tip-toeing around an obvious fact expressed in this Buzzfeed headline: Trump’s Pentagon Blocked Troops From Getting to the Capitol Riots For Hours, DC National Guard Commander Said. Something really funky was going on in the Pentagon on January 6. THE VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA As I understand it, no one is taking responsibility for the church bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 200 people. Suspicions are pointing to a radical Islamic group called National Thowheeth Jama’ath, but I don’t know what evidence Continue reading → WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
WHY I DON’T GIVE MONEY TO NARAL NARAL is a case in point. The National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws was founded in 1969, when the fight to legalize abortion was being fought state-by-state. When the Roe v. Wade decision struck down most state laws in 1973, the organization changed its name to National Abortion Rights Action League. THE MAHABLOGTHE MAHABLOGABOUT MY BOOKCOMMENTING RULESDEMOCRATS ARESPARTACUS
Beneath the civic boosterism, there are hints that the original VPO had some less noble purposes. This Atlantic article — which, I warn you, is partly fact and partly bullshit — associates the founding of the VPO with anti-unionism. The organization was also largely about promoting the leadership and privilege of the city’s old, elite moneyed families, which obviously it was. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. THE MISSOURI SENATE PRIMARY FROM HELL, 2022 The Missouri Senate Primary from Hell, 2022. Posted on May 19, 2021 by maha. Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring after his current term, which ends in January 2023. This leaves an open seat. There are three declared candidates so far, all running for the Republican nomination: Mark McCloskey. You must remember Mark and Patricia McCloskey HOW INSURRECTION BEGINS How Insurrection Begins. Posted on December 1, 2020 by maha. Today a group called The We the People Convention ran a full-page ad in the Washington Times (Sun Myung Moon, founder) calling for Trump to declare martial law and overturn the election. Here’s more from Gateway Pundit. This effort appears to be led by a Georgia attorneynamed Lin Wood.
RECONCILIATION CAN’T FIX EVERYTHING Reconciliation Can’t Fix Everything. If you missed Rachel Maddow last night, this brief segment is worth a look. What she’s saying here is that because of a law passed during the Nixon Administration, it is possible to use the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster and pass big bills with a 50 percent vote. STILL MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT JANUARY 6 Still More Questions About January 6. Most of the major news outlets are tip-toeing around an obvious fact expressed in this Buzzfeed headline: Trump’s Pentagon Blocked Troops From Getting to the Capitol Riots For Hours, DC National Guard Commander Said. Something really funky was going on in the Pentagon on January 6. THE VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA As I understand it, no one is taking responsibility for the church bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 200 people. Suspicions are pointing to a radical Islamic group called National Thowheeth Jama’ath, but I don’t know what evidence Continue reading → WHITE PEOPLE ARE NEANDERTHALS White People Are Neanderthals. Apparently this isn’t really news, but I’m just now hearing about it — Neanderthal Man died out about 30,000 years ago, but he left some of his DNA behind, especially in people scientists are delicately calling “non-African.”. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, but apparently didn’t get toAfrica much.
DONALD TRUMP, JR.: HOW STUPID IS HE? President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it. The meeting was also attended bythe
WHY I DON’T GIVE MONEY TO NARAL NARAL is a case in point. The National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws was founded in 1969, when the fight to legalize abortion was being fought state-by-state. When the Roe v. Wade decision struck down most state laws in 1973, the organization changed its name to National Abortion Rights Action League. ABOUT TIME FOR THE PITCHFORKS Ezra Klein:. This is a moment when an implicit but ugly fact of our economy has been thrown into unusual relief: Our economy relies on poverty — or at least the threat of it — to force people to take bad jobs at low wages. WELCOME TO CRAZY WORLD It's not about Trump being crazy, which is irrelevant. He is the consummate con-man. Getting people to buy his reality is what he's done his whole life, culminating in the last four years. EVERYBODY HATES JOE MANCHIN 22 hours ago · Joe, how much do we hate thee? Let me count the ways. And provide some links. Manchin wrote an op ed headlined “Why I’m voting against the For the People Act. ” Some reactions to this op ed and Manchin’s stated policy of putting “bipartisanship” ahead of everything else follows. THE ROOTS OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The Roots of U.S. Support for Israel. Juan Cole asks, Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism? He points out that “Israel has a 75 percent favorability rating, versus 30 percent for the Palestine Authority, according to Gallup,” Professor Cole writes.ABOUT MY BOOK!
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CAPITALISM LEFT US VULNERABLE Capitalism Left Us Vulnerable. At Washington Monthly, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain How Mistreating Nursing Home Staff Helped Spread Covid-19. By the end of May 2020, half of all cases among the elderly were brought in by “direct care workers,” such as nurses, nursing assistants, physical therapists, maintenance and kitchenstaff.
INCOMPETENCE ISN’T TEMPERING THE MALEVOLENCE Incompetence Isn’t Tempering the Malevolence. The Atlantic/Lawfare writing team of Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes coined the phrase “malevolence tempered by incompetence” in January 2017 to describe the beginnings of the Trump administration. Malevolence in the form of racism, xenophobia, and greed formed the basis of Trump’s THE PANDEMIC, THE CONSTITUTION, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES The Pandemic, the Constitution, and Civil Liberties. Posted on April 13, 2020 by maha. The truth is, there’s little about the pandemic restrictions that are new; they are just new to most of us, because they haven’t been used for a long time. During the 1918-1920 flu pandemic, for example, many U.S. cities closed schools, churches,theaters
REASONING WITH ANTI-MASKERS? Sen. Briggs (R-Knoxville) is a longtime heart and lung surgeon with expertise in the medical field in addition to his knowledge as a lawmaker. Harris said the answer is clear-cut when questioned whether a requirement to wear masks is a violation of anyone’s constitutional rights. “No,” answered Harris. “It’s just not. WELCOME TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF, ARE THEY REALLY THIS STUPID Welcome to Another Episode of, Are They Really This Stupid? Sen. Ron Johnson wants to know why the government is in such an all-fired hurry to get everyone vaccinated. In an interview first noticed by Forbes, Johnson told right-wing Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna on Thursday, “Why is this big push to make sure everybody gets avaccine, to
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FROM HOOVERVILLES TO TRUMPVILLES? Posted on May 17, 2020by maha
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Herbert Hoover / Donald Trump https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-hoover-white-house-c5b08e12-b2e6-4669-b6ee-992f9136a1e0.html A lot of people are remembering FDR’s New Deal these days. But Kevin McDermott, a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, looks back a bit further at Herbert Hoover: Facing another Great Depression, conservative thought is stuck in 1929.
> When, for example, Congress sent Hoover a $2.3 billion plan that > included public works programs and loans to small businesses and > individuals, he derided it as “pork” and vetoed it> .
> “Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action,” he> once declared.
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> Hoover opposed direct government aid to individuals, leaning instead > on tax cuts, import tariffs> (which
> backfired, prompting devastating retaliatory tariffs from > America’s trading partners) and repeated assurances to the nation > that, as he put it in 1930, “The worst is behind us.”>
> Is any of this sounding familiar? For decades conservative propagandists have insisted the New Deal did not work at all, and that the Great Depression was ended by World War II; the New Deal, they say, had nothing to do with it. The truth is that the economy did grow after FDR became president in 1933 — The time series of real GDP during the period 1929 through 1940. HERSHSHEFRIN
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hershshefrin/2020/04/12/great-depression-economics-101-what-historical-numbers-and-charts-from-the-great-depression-foretell-about-the-economy-and-stock-market/#536e761b1e3c It’s believed that dip in 1938 happened because FDR scaled back New Deal programs and spending in 1937. When the
economy sagged, the spending was cranked up again. See Paul Krugman,New Deal economics
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who explains the New Deal better than I can. And conservatives don’t ask themselves how it is a war ended a depression. The answer is, the military build up necessitated by World War II was the New Deal on steroids — massive government spending that created jobs and put a lot of money in the hands of ordinary people, who then went out and bought new stuff. Again, Paul Krugman explains this better than I can. The
problem with the New Deal, Krugman argues, is that it didn’t go big enough until pushed into more spending to take on the Axis Powers. Back to Kevin McDermott: > Congressional Democrats last week unveiled a $3 trillion proposal > that goes beyond bandages. It addresses the havoc individual > Americans face in areas like health care, rent and mortgage payments > and student loan debt, while providing almost $1 trillion to state > and local governments to prevent additional waves of layoffs. Other > big ideas are out there as well, some from within the GOP. Missouri > Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposal to mostly cover > small-business payrolls for sheltered workers could be a far better > use of federal dollars than waiting until those workers are> unemployed.
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> Mitch McConnell is having none of it. “We have not yet felt the > urgency of acting immediately,” the Republican Senate majority > leader told reporters>
> last week. “That time could develop, but I don’t think it has> yet.”
>
> What is he waiting for? Pearl Harbor? The recently passed House bill is the HEROES Act.
> The 1,800-page HEROES Act is an opening offer of Democratic > priorities, starting with nearly $1 trillion in direct aid to state > and local governments dealing with the fallout of the coronavirus > pandemic. It would also include another round of $1,200 stimulus > checks for eligible Americans (those making less than $75,000 per > year). The HEROES Act provides $75 billion in mortgage relief, $100 > billion for rental assistance, and $75 billion for coronavirus > testing. In addition to expanding unemployment insurance, it would > also forgive some student loan debt and provide more pay to > essential workers. The bill has been criticized from the Left for not being generous enough, and from the Right for containing provisions that aren’t directly related to the pandemic. However, I’ve yet to see a list of what those provisions are. For all his cheerleading to open up the economy again, I haven’t found a quote attibuted to Trump himself expressing an opinion on the HEROES bill. However, “the White House” says that if passed, the bill would be vetoed. In this, Trump truly is reinacting Herbert Hoover. Ironically, back in 2018 Mike Allen wrote at Axios that Trump feared being turned into Herbert Hoover by the inaction of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell. Powell, you might remember, has an aversion to lowering interest rates to goose the economy when the economy doesn’t need goosing. But now Trump is doing a grand job of turning himself into Hoover without Powell’shelp.
The shutdown is doing huge economic damage. Hale Stewart explains thedamage here
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Paul Krugman has been arguing that as bad as the damage is, to re-open and then experience a second wave would be even worse.
Healing the economy depends on addressing the pandemic, which means testing and tracing, which Trump doesn’t want to do because too much testing makes him look bad.
And we really could be looking at an all-out depression. So there weare. Screwed.
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STUFF TO READ ABOUT INSPECTORS GENERAL Posted on May 16, 2020by maha
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Just some links today; more tomorrow. Aaron Blake, Trump’s slow-motion Friday night massacre of inspectorsgeneral
WaPo Reporters, Trump ramps up retaliatory purge with firing of State Department inspector general Charlotte Klein, “Dangerous Pattern of Retaliation”: Trump Escalates War on Government Oversight With Late-Night Purge Peter Wade, Watchdog Fired by Trump Was Investigating Pompeo, House Foreign Affairs Chair Says Nathalie Baptiste, Trump Fires State Department Watchdog Who Provided Ukraine Documents to CongressTwitter Share
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A GUIDE TO OBAMAGATE-GATE Posted on May 15, 2020by
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This exchange made news a few days ago. Whatever Obamagate is, it’s still a big deal on Trump’s Twitter feed. This is from today. So, what the bleep is he talking about? What is Obamagate? Fortunately, the definitive guide to Obamagate was written for the Washington Post by Alexandra Petri, and you should go there and read her column to fully appreciate what we’re talking about.
Then come back.
Back now? Good. Now that we’re all clear about what Obamagate is, we need to consider what it represents to Donald J. Trump. Because he clearly is very worked up about it. David Graham at The Atlantic explains how it all began:
> On May 9, CNN reported> that
> Obama had labeled Trump’s pandemic response “an absolute chaotic > disaster” the day before, on a call with alumni of his > administration. Early the next morning, as part of a long string of > Mother’s Day tweets—as these rants exceed themselves, it’s > become more and more difficult to find superlatives to adequately > describe them—Trump retweeted> a
> user who had mentioned “Obamagate.” The term has quickly become > part of Trump’s vernacular, with 13 subsequent uses, including two> yesterday.
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> Precisely what Trump is alleging against Obama is obscure, and > probably beside the point. Trump isn’t really interested in > alleging any particular crime. The point of “Obamagate” is to > try to recapture the force that propelled Trump to political > prominence—questioning the legitimacy of the first black president> —as
> he heads toward a difficult reelection campaign in the midst of a> global crisis.
Graham calls Obamagate an extension of birtherism. Just as actual proof, including newspaper birth announcements and a long-form birth certificate, could not quell the belief that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii, Obamagate needs no support except the desperate belief that it must be true, whatever it is. As near as any of us not living in the Trump universe can tell, Obamagate may have started out having something to do with themuch-debunked
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claim that President Obama personally ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower.
But now it is appears to be mostly tied in to the Michael Flynn prosecution and the “unmasking” of Michael Flynn in intelligence reports back in the late days of the Obama Administration. That Obama Administration officials did not know the identity of the person they wanted “unmasked” — the point of the “unmasking” was to see who was being talked about in the reports — kind of eludes the Trumpers. And such “unmasking” is a legal and even routine thing to do when intelligence agencies report hinky activity.
But Trump has twisted this around into a conspiracy against _him_. Susan Glasser in the New Yorker tells us that Obamagate makes perfectsense, to some
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> To outside observers, the charges—like Trump’s original > political sin, lying about> the
> easily provable fact of Obama’s birth in the United States—seem > so absurd as to be the mere caricature of a conspiracy, as sketched > by a con man who couldn’t even bother to offer convincing details. > The point, though, is not to convince those who aren’t already in > the know. “Obamagate” is niche programming for the Trump > superfan audience. If you don’t get it, that doesn’t matter; > you’re not supposed to. It’s a slogan, a rallying cry. Details > are all but irrelevant. At 8:57 _p.m._ on Wednesday, Trump sent > out an all-caps tweet. The message consisted solely of the word > “OBAMAGATE” followed by an exclamation point. To those not > following Trump as a daily soap opera, it might seem like a > desperate diversionary tactic from a floundering President. To his > supporters, it made perfect sense. Which is why, when Trump followed > up on Thursday morning with an equally angry and cryptic demand that > Obama be called to testify before the Senate—about what was > entirely unclear—news organizations mostly ignored him in favor of > the morning’s testimony by the recently fired head of vaccines at > the Department of Health and Human Services, or, as the Drudge > Report called Richard Bright, the “whistleblower of doom.” > Except for Fox News, that is, which obliged the President with a > banner headline. The lack of details is a feature, not a bug. If no facts are claimed, no facts can be disproved. David Frum:
> The “Obamagate” that Trump tweets about—like the comic-book > universes on which it seems to be modeled—is a tangle of > backstories. The main characters do things for reasons that make no > objective sense, things that can be decoded only by obsessive > superfans on long Reddit threads.>
> _So you’re saying that the deep state set up this whole elaborate > plot to entrap Trump, but instead of using any of that material, it > instead sabotaged Hillary Clinton 10 days before the election?_>
> _No, no, you don’t get it. You’ve gotta go back to the Benghazi > episode four seasons back. Well, really to Troopergate, but that’s > only available on DVD …_ Now, you might wonder what good it does Trump to promote a scandal that only one’s superfans believe, when the majority of voters are not superfans. Throughout his “presidency,” Trump has shown total disinterest in expanding his base. Those other people don’t count. He may not understand that his base alone can’t re-elect him. It has to be said that promoting baseless conspiracy theories worked for him _before_. Birtherism built his political base, and “but her emails” won for him in 2016. However, the endless congressional investigations and news coverage of the damn emails probably hurt Clinton more than anything Trump said. And it’s possible James Comey, not Trump, cost Clinton the election.
On the other hand, some elements of the press don’t seem to have learned the lessons of 2016. Greg Sargent: > The latest developments in the Michael Flynn case> should
> prompt us to revisit one of the most glaring failures in political > journalism, one that lends credibility to baseless narratives pushed > for purely instrumental purposes, perversely rewarding bad-faith > actors in the process. > News accounts constantly claim with no basis that new information > “boosts” or “lends ammunition” to a particular political > attack, or “raises new questions” about its target. These > journalistic conventions are so all-pervasive that we barely notice> them. …
>
> …For instance, the Associated Press ran> this
> headline: “Flynn case boosts Trump’s bid to undo Russia probe > narrative.” Axios told us> :
>
>> _Biden’s presence on the list could turn it into an election >> year issue, though the document itself does not show any evidence >> of wrongdoing._>
> CNN informed us> that
> this is “the latest salvo to discredit the FBI’s Russia > investigation and accuse the previous administration of> wrongdoing.”
>
> But here’s the problem: These formulations do not constitute a > neutral transmission of information, even though they are supposed > to come across that way.>
> The new information _actually does not_ “boost” Trump’s > claims about the Russia investigation or “discredit” it. And if > there is “no evidence of wrongdoing,” then it > cannot _legitimately_ be “turned into an election issue.” There will be no House investigations, since Democrats control the House. But Trump has a corrupt Bill Barr and a compromised Justice Department at his disposal to at least engage in investigation theater. And, of course, Republicans still have the Senate. At least Miz Lindsey shot down Trump’s call to have President Obama testify before Congress. In the end, we may have to hope that the American people will understand that Trump is just trying to change the subject from his pandemic failures. In 2016, Trump dominated election coverage. Now he has to share the stage with a virus.Twitter Share
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BLEEPITY BLEEP MICROSOFT Posted on May 14, 2020by
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My PC was treated to one of those automatic updates first thing this morning, and I spent the rest of the morning and a chunk of the afternoon trying to make it work again. It’s back to normal now, andI need a nap.
Dr. Rick Bright testified to the House Health subcommittee today. Bright used to be head of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. He says he was demoted because he criticized the administration’s “response” to the pandemic. Among other things he pointed out that the administration has no plan,
as I said yesterday. Trump doesn’t do plans.
Here’s another analysis by Mona Charen that’s worth reading — All He Does Is Fight . Charen writes that Republicans decided to support Trump because he was such a dogged fighter. But it turns out that fight is all he does. > Since January, we have witnessed a vivid lesson in the limits of > fighting. There were ample reasons before now to recoil from > Trump’s style of combat. It is so consistently cruel, witless, > below-the-belt, and unhinged (e.g. his recent> tweets
> implying
> that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is guilty of murder), that it > tainted by association any reasonable arguments that might be > advanced for conservative ideas. But in his handling of the > coronavirus pandemic, we’ve witnessed that even when a dire > emergency calls for traits other than bellicosity, fighting is all > he knows how to do. This is proving to be a catastrophe for the > nation, and also for Trump’s own self-interest. He honestly doesn’t know how to address a problem to _solve_ it. All he does is _react in self-defense._ > While the situation cried out for competent coordination and > planning, for calm briefings with experts, he looked only for foils. > He fought with Democrats, exclaiming> on
> February 28 that “this is their new hoax.” He tangled with > insufficiently “grateful” governors> who
> asked for supplies. “I say . . . don’t call the governor of > Washington. Don’t call the woman from Michigan.” He disparaged > frontline medical professionals, wondering> on
> March 29 whether they were stealing masks (“Are they going out the > back door?”). He had a spat with congressional leadership in late > February when they proposed an initial coronavirus package more than > three times the size of Trump’s request (“Pelosi’s> incompetent.
> ”
> He’s “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer> ”).
> He reversed his previous gushing praise and began to blame China for > the virus, encouraging the use of nicknames like “Wuhan virus.” > He picked a fight with the Postal Service, poured out tweetstorms > about his predecessor> ,
> whom he accused of dark crimes, and above all, from before dawn till > after dark every single day, he battled the press> .
In other news — Michigan closed down its capitol building today and canceled a legislative session rather than risk a confrontation with more armed protesters. Seriously, this has got to stop. It’s nothing but terrorism. At The Atlantic Adam Serwer has a historical retrospective onbirtherism
that’s fascinating and relevant. See also Jonathan Last and The Curious Case of the People Who Want to “Reopen” America—But Not Wear Masks.
The people opposed to pandemic restrictions harbor a collection of wildly contradictory conspiracy theories. > You might think that these disparate factions would be at war with > one another as much as they are against Anthony Fauci. After all, if > the coronavirus is a bioweapon that has been unleashed on America by > the ChiComs, then some batty old lady claiming that it’s the > inevitable consequence of giving kids MMR shots is part of the> coverup.
>
> And, conversely, if you’re an anti-vaxxer, then the bioweapon > story is also part of a coverup: Anyone who believes it is trying to > alibi Big Pharma just as surely as Fauci is.>
> Yet _in vivo_, these groups all seem to be holding hands.>
> Which suggests that not one of these people actually believes what > they’re selling. The one thing they all have in common is that _they don’t blame Donald Trump for the mess we’re in_. That probably tells you all youneed to know.
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TRUMP DOESN’T DO PLANS Posted on May 13, 2020by maha
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People are noticing that Trump still doesn’t have a plan. From Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic:
> It’s been more than 100 days since the first reported case of the > coronavirus in the United States, but Donald Trump still doesn’t > seem to have a plan. Instead, the president, my colleague David A. > Graham points out, is returning to the “breezy language” he > employed “in the earliest days of the pandemic” and holding on > to “a blithe faith that the disease will simply disappear of its > own accord, without a major government response.” …>
> …HE APPEARS TO BE AT A TOTAL LOSS.> “His
> plans have often been derided by skeptics as unwise, unrealistic, or > simplistic,” David, who’s covered the president’s responses to > an assortment of natural> and political
> crises,
> notes. “This situation is different, though: Grappling with a > multifront crisis, Trump seems to have no plan at all.” It’s not “seems to have no plan.” Trump just plain doesn’t have a plan. All he does is react to what’s happening, whether it’s to boast or blame or sign some piece of paper that makes it seem he is doing something. But there is no plan. And I question whether he ever has plans. He has ideas, many of them nonsensical; he has intentions; he knows what he wants. He appears to be perpetually scheming. But plans, not so much.David Graham
:
> It’s been 111 days since the first reported case of the > coronavirus in the United States. It’s been 57 days since > President Trump issued social-distancing guidelines, and 12 days > since they expired.>
> Yet the Trump administration still has no plan for dealing with the > global pandemic or its fallout. The president has cast doubt on the > need for a vaccine or expanded testing. He has no evident plan for > contact tracing. He has no treatment ideas beyond the drug > remdesivir, since Trump’s marketing campaign for > hydroxychloroquine ended in disaster. And, facing the worst economy > since the Great Depression, the White House has no plan for that, > either, beyond a quixotic hope that consumer demand will snap back > as soon as businesses reopen.Ezra Klein
:
> It is shocking. More than 60 days after President Trump declared a > national emergency> over
> the novel coronavirus, there is still no clear national plan for > what comes next. “The lockdown is not meant to be a permanent > state of affairs; it’s intended to be a giant pause button that > buys you time to get ready for the next phase,” Jeremy Konyndyk, > of the Center for Global Development think tank, says> .
>
> But the Trump administration wasted the pause. Over the past two > months, the US should have built the testing, contact tracing, and > quarantine infrastructure necessary to safely end lockdown and > transition back to normalcy — as many of our peer countries did. > Instead, Trump has substituted showmanship for action, playing the > president on TV but refusing to do the actual job. He has both > dominated the airwaves and abdicated his duties. As a result, > America’s progress against the coronavirus has stalled, even as > the lockdown has driven the economy into crisis. Part of the issue here is that Trump is deeply and profoundly stupid. I doubt that he has a clear understanding of how anything happens. He’s spent most of his life faking his way through situations that were over his head, I suspect, and he got away with the act only because he’s a bully with a lot of money. By now he probably does believe he’s brilliant. And now he’s in a situation that requires complex planning. Such a thing is way beyond his capabilities, and it appears there is no one left in his circle who can pick up the slack, including his dimwit son-in-law. Even if there were a plan, he wouldn’t understand it and wouldn’t follow through on it. And we know this because he’s ignoring the closest thing he came to a plan, the White House guidelines for reopening the economy. Ezra Klein: > The guidelines are not quite a plan, but they are at least a > framework: They call for states to reopen when caseloads have fallen > for 14 days, when hospitals can test all health care workers > continuously, when contact tracing architecture is up and running.>
> President Trump, however, shows neither familiarity with, nor > support for, his own guidelines. He routinely calls on states to > reopen though they have not met the criteria his administration > suggests. For instance, his series of tweets> calling
> on right-wing protesters to “LIBERATE!” Michigan, Virginia, and > Minnesota from stay-at-home orders contradicted his own > administration’s guidance and created a distraction for state > officials trying to manage a crisis. There is an argument out there that not having a plan _is_ the plan.Jay Rosen
:
> The plan is to have no plan> , to
> let daily deaths between one and three thousand> become
> a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is > responsible— by telling the governors they’re in charge without > doing what only the federal government can do, by fighting with the > press when it shows up to be briefed, by fixing blame for the virus > on China or some other foreign element, and by “flooding the zone> with shit,
> ”
> Steve Bannon’s phrase for overwhelming the system with > disinformation, distraction, and denial, which boosts what > economists call “search costs” for reliable intelligence. …>
> …“The plan is to have no plan” is not a strategy, really. Nor > would I call it a policy. It has a kind of logic to it, but this is > different from saying it has a design— or a designer. Meaning: I > do not want to be too conspiratorial about this. To wing it without> a plan
> is
> merely the best this government can do, given who heads the table. > The manufacture of confusion> is
> just the ruins of Trump’s personality meeting the powers of the > presidency. There is no genius there, only a damaged human being > playing havoc with our lives. “The manufacture of confusion is just the ruins of Trump’s personality meeting the powers of the presidency.” Exactly. Sowing bullshit and confusion is all Trump knows how to do, so that’s what is done. And, unfortunately, he is suspicious of what he can’t understand, possibly because if he can’t understand it he might not be able to control it. This is no doubt why the White House blocked publication of a re-opening plan drafted by the CDC. The White House called the CDC plans “overly prescriptive.” Translation: More details than Trump had the patience to try to grasp. So, there is no plan. And we need a plan. There is a book that I have read about but not actually read that may provide a clue to why Trump is especially averse to plans. According to reviews and interviews, in _The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning_, Northwestern University psychologist Dan P. McAdams proposes that Trump lacks the continual internal narrative that most humans maintain through their lives. This narrative is an ongoing story that connects and contextualizes day to day events and helps us make sense of them. But McAdams thinks Trump doesn’t workthat way
.
> Trump, McAdams argues, can’t form a meaningful life story because > he is the “episodic man” who sees life as a series of battles to > be won. There is no connection between the moments, no reflection > and no potential for growth when one is compulsively in the present.>
> Donald Trump is a “truly authentic fake,” writes McAdams, > professor of human development and social policy at the School of > Education and Social Policy. “Trump is always acting, always on > stage — but that is who he really is, and that is all he really > is. He is not introspective, retrospective or prospective. He does > not go deep into his mind; he does not travel back to the past; he > does not project far into the future. He is always on the surface, > always right now.>
> “In his own mind, he is more like a persona than a person, more > like a primal force or superhero, rather than a fully realized human > being,” McAdams adds. It makes sense that if you relate to life as a series of unconnected episodes, the whole concept of planning would elude you. In another interview, McAdams said,
> He is certainly the “Disrupter in Chief.” He wakes up every > morning ready to do battle with his enemies, and he wins by > developing tactics that are unprecedented and completely audacious. > He did this in the real estate industry in the 1980s, and he does it > today. Because he has no story for his life in his own head, Mr. > Trump approaches each day as a new episode, with a new battle to > win. All that matters is winning the episode. The episodes do not > build from one to the next. There is no narrative flow to Donald > Trump’s life, at least not in his own head. This is why he is > able to lie with such shameless abandon, and why he is unpredictable > from one moment to the next. All tactics, no strategy. That actually explains a lot, especially the many easily verifiable lies and his incessant flip flops. It’s often said that if you want to change Trump’s mind, be the last person to talk to him.
If he has no internal convictions other than in his own greatness, one policy idea is as good as another. This also explains why he’s such a terrible business man. Most of his businesses have flopped, and if you look closely you see a lot of impulse but probably not much market testing or, well, planning. So don’t expect him to plan. Planning requires thinking out a number of steps to be carried out over a period of time. Not going to happen. At this point, he seems to have entirely given up on addressing the pandemic itself and is focused only on mitigating the political fallout. So he’s thrashing around blaming Democrats and anyone in media he thinks isn’t on his side. Oh, and he’s pressuring the CDC to revise down the death counts.
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REPUBLICANS ARE ALREADY UNDERMINING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION Posted on May 12, 2020by maha
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There’s a lot going on today. I was listening to the Senate hearings with U.S. health authorities. At the same time, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether Donald Trump can ignore a number of subpoenas and keep his tax and other financial records secret. Staytuned.
Yesterday Paul Waldman wrote a post called Republicans have already decided Trump is going to lose.
Republicans seem monumentally uninterested in economic stimulus right now, Waldman says. Why would that be? > Despite the urgent need for more action, Republicans are in no hurry > to pass another rescue package, leaving it to House Democrats> to figure out
> what
> the economy needs. What you get from the Republican side is mostly > resignation. The government has done what it can, they say> ,
> and now we just need to remove the stay-at-home orders and let the > economy heal itself. > You can explain Trump’s own lack of interest> in
> more spending by the fact that he has no idea what’s good for him > and seems to think that if he puts on a show> about
> how great the economy is doing, he can make it a reality. But other > Republicans are not so deluded. So, why not no stimulus? It should be obvious to most people that the economy isn’t going to bounce back any time this year. We’re marching into the November elections with a lot of unemployment and closed business. WTF? > This is something that Republicans, like everyone else, are coming > to understand. So some of them may be looking ahead to when Trump is > no longer president.>
> That means, perhaps above all, resuming the deficit fear-mongering > that was such an effective tool to hamstring Barack Obama’s > presidency. It also means adjusting their policy and spending agenda > to the defensive. They aren’t bothering to talk much about new tax > cuts or anything else they’d like to pass. Instead, the focus is > shifting to cutbacks and constraints. “Automatic spending cuts as > the economy improves” is something a Republican would want only if > there’s a Democrat in the White House. It shows that that’s > precisely what at least some of them are anticipating. > Meanwhile, Republicans are encouraging and amplifying> the
> still-small movement to defy stay-at-home orders, with all the same > deranged rhetoric about “tyranny” that we heard in 2009 when > conservatives rose up in rage at Obama. Any work they do now will > make it easier to ramp up the new version of the tea party if Joe> Biden wins.
That’s not something I had considered before Waldman wrote this. I have been assuming that we were dealing with the usual corruption, stupidity, and ideological blindness. But this puts another spin onit.
On the other hand, maybe it really is just the usual corruption, stupidity, and ideological blindness. Charles Pierce: > In the annals of Not Missing A Trick, using the pandemic to squeeze > out full-time workers and replace them with prison labor ranks right > at the top, up there with using the pandemic to fulfill your > decades-long goal of demolishing Social Security. In New Orleans, > the former play is nearly complete. …>
> …Meanwhile, in Washington, there’s a pincer movement closing in > on the most successful social-welfare program in the country’s > history. The administration* has dug in on a payroll tax cut, which > would drain money from the Social Security system, and now we’re > hearing a proposal to let people draw down their own future Social > Security payments now. Both SS and Medicare will be stressed if the > oncoming pandemic-fueled recession is as bad as it is predicted to > be, but it would be wrong to interpret anything coming from the > administration*—or from the Republican Senate—as anything but a > few more miles in the long march against these programs. Last week Paul Krugman wrote,
> Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on workers. The economy has > plunged so quickly that official statistics can’t keep up> , but
> the available data suggest that tens of millions > of Americans have lost > their jobs through no fault of their own, with more job losses to > come and full recovery probably years away> .
> But Republicans adamantly oppose extending enhanced unemployment > benefits — such an extension, says Senator Lindsey Graham, will > take place “over our dead bodies> .”
> (Actually, over other people’s dead bodies.)>
> They apparently want to return to a situation in which most > unemployed workers get no benefits at all> ,
> and even those collecting unemployment insurance get only a small > fraction of their previous income. > Because most working-age Americans receive health insurance through > their employers, job losses will cause a huge rise> in
> the number of uninsured. The only mitigating factor is the > Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, which will allow many though > by no means all of the newly uninsured to find alternative coverage.>
> But the Trump administration is still trying to have the Affordable > Care Act ruled unconstitutional; “We want to terminate health> care
> under
> Obamacare,” declared Donald Trump, even though the administration > has never offered a serious alternative. Given that we have a crisis unprecedented in most of our lifetimes, and given that the job losses are no one’s fault, one would think that Republicans might just temporarily put aside their zombie ideology and respond to people’s needs. “But no; they’re as determined as ever to punish the poor and unlucky,” Krugman writes. > For example, you still hear complaints that spending on food stamps > and unemployment benefits increases the deficit. Now, Republicans > never really cared about budget deficits; they demonstrated their > hypocrisy by cheerfully passing a huge tax cut in 2017, and saying > nothing as deficits surged. But it’s just absurd to complain about > the cost of food stamps even as we offer corporations hundreds of> billions
> in
> loans and loan guarantees. > But what’s even worse, if you ask me, is hearing Republicans > complain that food stamps and unemployment benefits reduce the > incentive to seek work. There was never serious evidence for this > claim, but right now — at a time when workers _can’t_ work, > because doing their normal jobs would kill lots of people — I find > it hard to understand how anyone can make this argument without> gagging.
A lot of those people out of work and struggling are _Republican voters_. It’s also the case, however, that poor whites receiving benefits have a wonderful capacity to see themselves as _deserving_ of those benefits, while those less white people getting the same benefits are _not deserving_. Hey, I’m from the Ozarks. I’ve seenit.
Peter Nicholas writes at The Atlantic that Trump’s people recognize that they cannot allow the November election to be a referendum on Trump’s handling of the pandemic. The plan is, then, to persuade people that _Joe Biden would do evenworse_.
> Trump is betting that he can stoke enough doubts about Biden’s > leadership that his own record looks preferable by comparison. Trump > wins if voters view the race as a clear choice between Biden and > him, but if “the election becomes a referendum on Trump, it’s a > much closer call,” one senior Trump-administration official told > me. “This race _has_ to be a contrast,” says John McLaughlin, a> Trump pollster.
Well, good luck with that. One of their major talking points is that Joe Biden said something about avoiding air travel during the 2009 swine flu pandemic that was considered stupid at the time. I don’t think that’s going to do the job for them. And might Republicans be willing to cut Trump loose as he continues to flounder? They’ve been protecting him on the theory that his re-election will help them with congressional elections. But now they are concerned that if Trump goes down he will hurt down-ticket races and give the Senate to Democrats. See Republicans grow nervous about losing the Senate amid worries over Trump’s handling of the pandemic and Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him.
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ONLY LITTLE PEOPLE HAVE TO MAKE SACRIFICES Posted on May 11, 2020by maha
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There is some kind of pathology at work here,
but I can’t pin down exactly what kind it is. > Four CEOs of food companies and the president of the American Farm > Bureau Federation were told to remove their face masks before a > meeting in Iowa Friday > with Vice President Mike Pence > , a startling video>
> posted by The Intercept>
> reveals.
> Pence — also without a mask — appeared a short time later at the > headquarters of the Hy-Vee grocery chain in West Des Moines for a > roundtable discussion with the men in front of an audience. And this, from three days ago:
> Two dozen House Republicans gathered with Trump and other > administration officials in the State Dining Room at the White House > on Friday afternoon to discuss the country’s economic recovery > from the pandemic. None of the attendees wore a mask.>
> “I do want to advise our media friends before they write stories > about how we didn’t wear masks and we didn’t possibly socially > distance adequately, that you saw to it that we had tests, and that > nobody in here had the coronavirus unless it’s somebody in the > media,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, during the meeting.>
> “So the only reason we would wear masks is if we were trying to > protect ourselves from you in the media. And we’re not scared of > you. So that’s why we can be here like this,” Gohmert continued. Putting aside the very real possibility of false negatives, this is not the traditional way American leaders have behaved during times of deprivation. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you President Franklin Roosevelt’s ration book: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. I assume FDR didn’t use the coupon book personally, but at Eleanor’s insistence the White House adhered to the same rationing during World War II expected of everyone else.
The White House chef served up gourmet items like “noodles and mushrooms with chicken scraps.” Eleanor also planted a victory garden on White House grounds. Of course, this was the same war that featured Princess Elizabeth engaged in auto mechanics. I can’t imagine Ivanka doing this. But the Roosevelts were old-school aristocrats with genuine class. Trump has less class than a carnival sideshow. Clearly, in Trump’s World only the little people suffer ill effects from disasters. Lead by example? Are you kidding? Last Friday we learned that Mike Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller — also the wife of distilled banality of evil Stephen Miller — tested positive. There was a quick flurry of news stories saying the vice president would self-quarantine, quickly followed by another flurry saying he wouldn’t. And he’s not. (However, the Governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, is doing a “modified self-quarantine,” whatever that is, as Mrs. Miller was present at a White House meeting the governor attended recently. Where is her _faith_?) Another administration might have insisted on setting an example by quarantining. Not this one. Clearly, the message they are trying to send is that only the _little_ people — not Trumpers — have to put up with inconveniences because of the pandemic. But let us go back to the testing Louie Gohmert spoke of in the quote above. Everyone around Trump gets tested daily now, we are told, and their contacts are traced to check infection spread. That’s the sort of test-and-track procedure used by all the other countries that are getting the pandemic under control now. But not the U.S., because Trump doesn’t want widespread testing, because the numbers would make him look bad. So he’s letting the quickly rising death toll (officially 81,225 as of this morning) make him look bad, instead. I’ll come back to this.Greg Sargent writes
,
> The news that the novel coronavirus has invaded President Trump’s> inner circle
> —
> and that the White House is implementing aggressive testing and > tracing to combat it — is a devastating story on an obvious and > immediate level, but also on a deeper and longer-lasting one. > Most palpably, it has revealed the sort of glaring double standard > that’s catnip to political media: The White House is taking > extensive steps to protect Trump and his top advisers with resources > that are largely unavailable to the rest of us, in part due to his > own dereliction. …>
> … The problem isn’t just that this story is revealing that Trump > and his advisers benefit from testing and tracing that the rest of > us mostly do not enjoy, though that’s damning enough.>
> It’s also that this shatters the larger illusion Trump is trying > to weave with his magical reality-bending powers — that> the coronavirus
> has
> been so tamed by his stupendous leadership that it’s now safe to > reopen the country, setting the stage for an equally spectacular > Trump-marshaled comeback. I don’t think the illusion is shattered just yet, but if someone closer to Trump — one of his offspring, Jared Kushner, Melania, or Pence — came down with covid-19, that would put some cracks in it. I suspect it would take Trump himself becoming seriously ill to reallyshatter it, though.
Back to the death count. Jonathan Chait wrote last week that Trump has gone into death-denier mode,
claiming the official count is inflated. > The next step, reports Axios> ,
> will be to begin publicly questioning the listed totals of > coronavirus deaths. “Trump has vented that the numbers seem > inflated,” it reports, as have several people around him who > believe the same.>
> This is not just a matter of public spin, like Trump’s campaign to > pressure the news media into reporting that his tiny inauguration > crowd was larger than it was. The news source he trusts, Fox News, > has been running hours of programming questioning the death totals.> One Fox theory
> has
> seized on changes to official tabulation by the CDC. > Another misinterprets> the
> categorization of pneumonia deaths. Axios reports that Trump himself > has repeated yet another theory, which raises questions about an > increase in previously uncategorized nursing-home deaths in New> York.
>
> All of these theories are pure crankery. Indeed, the official > recorded death count is lower, not higher, than the actual > coronavirus death toll. People who die at home from the virus > without receiving medical attention have not been included in the > official totals. But the fact that Trump and his allies have > developed so many different pseudo-statistical objections shows how > desperate they are to cast doubt on the official numbers.>
> The propaganda campaign has worked. The percentage of frequent Fox > News watchers who believe that the official coronavirus death counts > are exaggerated has risen from 45 percent last month> to
> 61 percent this month> .
You might recognize that all this follows yesterday’s post, about
how less-educated whites, especially those who live outside of urban areas, still believe the pandemic is mostly a hoax and that there is no sensible reason they can’t all return to life as normal right now. And that follows the post from the day before,
on how a disproportionate amount of the pain of the pandemic in America has fallen on nonwhites. Bobbleheads on the teevee keep saying _we’re all in this together_. We may all be in this, but we’re nottogether
.
Oh, and today Illinois Governor JB Pritzger and his staff are working from home after a colleague tested positive.MORE STUFF TO READ
Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, The Folly of Trump’s Blame-Beijing Coronavirus Strategy Gabriel Debenedetti, New York, Biden Is Planning an FDR-SizePresidency
Robert Shapiro, Washington Monthly, The Real Unemployment Rate Is Worse Than Trump Will Tell Us David Atkins, Washington Monthly, Republicans Want to Sacrifice Your Social Security But Not Their Tax Cuts David Atkins, Washington Monthly, Trump Was Never on a Glide Path to Re-Election Even Before the VirusTwitter Share
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WHITE, POOR, AND RESENTFUL Posted on May 10, 2020by
maha
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Here’s a curious thing — In the past few weeks, 671,288 Kentuckians filed for unemployment benefits.
That’s equal to a third of the workforce in the state. In itself, that’s not surprising. Kentucky is not famous for white collar telecommuter-type jobs. The biggest employers are manufacturers, especially auto makers. After that the state’s economy mostly rests on mining, agriculture, and tourism. These are not economic sectors doing especially well right now. Even horse racing is shut down. Further, Kentuckians on the whole are not a wealthy lot to begin with. The state ranks 45th in household income among the 56 U.S. states and territories. In 2018 , median household income in Kentucky was $48,392, and per capita income was $26,948. So one imagines that a large portion of Kentuckians live from paycheck to paycheck. Now, here’s the curious part. One would think, in a sane world, that a senator from Kentucky would be working hard right now to get some relief benefits to his constituents. This is especially true if that senator were up for re-election this year. But here in Bizarro World, Kentucky’s Senator Mitch McConnell is leading Republican efforts to quash any further relief packages that might benefit ordinary folks.
McConnell wants to wait and see if the first round of $1200 checks have any stimulating effects on the economy before considering another round. But those checks were mostly relief, not stimulus, meant to let people buy food and pay bills. McConnell is also said to be (suddendly) worried about the deficit, even though running it up by cutting taxes on the wealthy was just grand with him. Oh, and Kentucky’s other senator, the even more worthless Rand Paul who has recovered from covid-19, appears to have voted against nearly all of the stimulus-relief bills that have gone through the Senate this year. He missed some votes while he was ill, or he might have voted against all of them. How do these bozos get elected? Well, Kentucky is about 88 percent white and is also one of the least educated states, ranking 45th out of 50 states in educational attainment. And
less-educated white people are loyal Republican voters.
At WaPo, Jonathan Capehart has a column/podcast up called ‘Dying of whiteness’ during the coronavirus pandemic.
Capehart interviews Jonathan Metzl, the director of Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health and Society, who wrote a book called _Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland_. > “It was kind of a warning of the lengths to which white working > class voters could either have underlying racism or be manipulated > to vote in support of wealthy donors and corporations, but against > their own lifespans,” Metzl told me in the latest episode of> “Cape Up.”
> “And
> it’s just been on steroids since this pandemic started.” At a moment like this, says Metzl, when people are desperate, they fall back on more extremist ideologies. And Trump has been masterful at exploiting their resentments and fears. Some non-urban whites also might feel invicible to the coronavirus, because the teevee news shows us deaths in big cities and also deaths among black and brown people, as I wrote in the last post.
So they aren’t afraid of the virus and believe they are being forced to suffer economic deprivation because it’s hurting _those other people_, and they resent it. The government is forcing them to wear masks and shelter in place and go without a paycheck for something that isn’t their problem, as they see it. Protesters near Kentucky state capitol last month. Kentucky is about average in per capita infections and deaths, and so far the virus spread has been mostly in the urban areas. Rural Kentucky has been barely touched. And, maybe
rural Kentuckians will be spared, in part because of the mitigation policies they resent. We’ll see. But we can’t necessarily count on a big poor white backlash against Mitch McConnell’s stinginess. The one bright spot in this mess is Democrat Andy Beshear’s win over incumbent Matt Bevin in last year’s gubernatorial election. Yeah, that was just last November. Seems like years. Bevin campaigned by wrapping himself in Trump, so to speak. But as I wrote last year,
Beshear won not only in the cities and suburbs; he also won some rural counties. And that was mostly because Beshear promised to let people stay on the state’s expanded Medicaid program, while Bevin had vowed to pull the plug on Medicaid. So, rural Kentuckians don’t always vote against themselves. Oh, and chip in to help Amy McGrath build the grassroots team that can defeat Mitch McConnell.
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INCOMPETENCE ISN’T TEMPERING THE MALEVOLENCE Posted on May 9, 2020by maha
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The Atlantic/Lawfare writing team of Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes coined the phrase “malevolence tempered by incompetence” in January 2017 to describe the beginnings of the Trump administration. Malevolence in the form of racism, xenophobia, and greed formed the basis of Trump’s policies, but fortunately the incompetence of his White House team blunted much of the damage that could have been done. What might loosely be called Trump’s “response” to the pandemic is likely shot through with the same malevolence. But the incompetence is exacerbating the the malevolence.
The incompetence is vast, and deep, and nearly inexplicable. Every day brings new evidence. For example, the Washington Post just reported that in the early days of the pandemic the administration turned down an offer from an American medical supplies company to manufactureN95 masks
.
And this was a company already manufacturing N95 masks, filling orderfrom overseas.
> “We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t > ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I > can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really > bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”>
> In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even > today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million > masks a month sit dormant. Trump himself ignored the virus even after a Washington state man was diagnosed with covid-19 on January 20.
After, apparently, some nagging from public health professionals, Trump imposed partial and porous restrictions on travel from China onJanuary 31
.
These were particularly Trumpian restrictions that allowed _U.S. citizens_ to re-enter the country from China. Only non-U.S. citizens who had recently been in China were blocked from entering the country, as if only foreigners carried infection. Notice that the guy diagnosed in Washington eleven days earlier was a citizen recently returned fromChina.
And then Trump and his administration did pretty much nothing about the pandemic until it began to mess with the stock market on February 21. That was a Friday; the following Monday, noises about appropriating money to do _something_ about pandemic response began to emanate from the White House. This was followed by a lot of haggling in Washington about what exactly they should be doing and how much money they would have to spend to do it. The issue of testing came up a lot. On March 4,
Mike Pence promised that 1.5 million test kits would be shipped to whoever needed them “this week.” By March 6, he had upped the promise to 4 million.
These tests failed to materialize anywhere, as far as I can tell. Private labs picked up the pace somewhat, but as you
know we still are falling far short of tests. On March 3 the White House issued the first of its social distancingguidelines
.
By mid-March professional and college sports were cancelling the remainder of their seasons, or postponing the beginning of seasons. Cities and states closed schools and churches and turned restaurants into carryout-only operations. Finally, we were getting serious, many weeks later than we should have gotten serious. And now, as the deaths keep coming faster and faster — we’ll be at 80,000 by tomorrow — Trump is apparently bored with the whole thing and wants to end the restrictions. This is partly, I think, coming from his justifiable fear that the ruined economy will kill his re-election chances. He also possibly resents the virus for making him look stupid, especially after the train wreck ending of The Trump Show,
so he wants to go back to ignoring it. But another reason is coming vividly into view, especially after many reports that black and brown Americans are being disproportionately hit hard by the pandemic.
Adam Serwer:
> Over the weeks that followed the declaration of an emergency, the > pandemic worsened and the death toll mounted. Yet by mid-April, > conservative broadcasters were decrying the restrictions, small > bands of armed protesters were descending on state capitols, and the > president was pressing to lift the constraints.>
> In the interim, data about the demographics of COVID-19 victims > began to trickle out. On April 7, major outlets began reporting> that
> preliminary data showed that black and Latino Americans were being > disproportionately felled by the coronavirus. That afternoon, Rush > Limbaugh complained> ,
> “If you dare criticize the mobilization to deal with this, > you’re going to be immediately tagged as a racist.” That night, > the Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced> ,
> “It hasn’t been the disaster that we feared.” His colleague > Brit Hume mused that> “the
> disease turned out not to be quite as dangerous as we thought.” > The nationwide death toll that day was just 13,000 people; it now > stands above 70,000, a mere month later. But if you’re white and/or have a white-collar sort of job that allows you to work at home or in a reasonably secluded studio, there’s a better chance the virus hasn’t touched you or anyone you know, than if you are non-white and/or at work processing meat or checking out groceries. There are exceptions, of course. The pandemic is starting to remind me of the early days of the spread of HIV, when Reagan administration officials dismissed it as a “gayplague
.”
Research into AIDS was conducted at a snail’s pace.
According to ACT UP , Reagan himself didn’t say the word “AIDS” publicly until 1987, and that was in the context of denying the need for sex education in schools. In other words, as long as the disease is only speading among _those other people_, we don’t need to bother ourselves about it.Back to Serwer:
> That more and more Americans were dying was less important than who> was dying.
>
> The disease is now> “infecting
> people who cannot afford to miss work or telecommute—grocery store > employees, delivery drivers and construction workers,” _The > Washington Post_ reported. Air travel has largely shut down, and > many of the new clusters are in nursing homes, jails and prisons, > and factories tied to essential industries. Containing the outbreak > was no longer a question of social responsibility, but of personal > responsibility. From the White House podium, Surgeon General Jerome > Adams told “communities of color” that “we need you to step up > and help stop the spread.”>
> Public-health restrictions designed to contain the outbreak were > deemed absurd. They seemed, in Carlson’s words> ,
> “mindless and authoritarian,” a “weird kind of arbitrary> fascism
> .”
> To restrict the freedom of white Americans, just because nonwhite > Americans are dying, is an egregious violation of the racial > contract. The wealthy luminaries of conservative media have sought > to couch their opposition to restrictions> as
> advocacy on behalf of workers, but polling shows that those most> vulnerable
> to
> both the disease and economic catastrophe want the outbreak > contained before they return to work. The business with meat-packing workers is especially egregious. Theseare low-wage jobs
with notoriously bad working conditions. In many plants immigrants make up a large part of the workforce. And in many states meat-packing plants have turned into coronavirus hot spots. No one seems to be keeping a count of how many have died. Trump’s ordering meat-packers back to work without mandating better and safer working conditions is one of the most callous things a president has done in my lifetime.
It’s not just Trump. Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard a challenge to the state’s pandemic restrictions. Chief JusticePatience Roggensack
interrupted oral arguments about infections in Brown County and said, “Due to the meatpacking, though, that’s where the Brown County got the flare. It wasn’t just the regular folks in Brown County.” I guess if the virus spread is emanating from the meat packing plant itdoesn’t count.
It gets worse. This past week the governor of Nebraska issued a “gagorder”
that prohibits release of information on the infection in Nebraska meat packing plants. Trump probably figures the immigrant and nonwhite workers he’s putting at risk aren’t going to vote for him, anyway. But rural poor whites are a big part of his voter base, also, and these “regular folks” work in risky jobs. Polls tell us that college-educated whites — more of whom can work from home — tend to prefer Biden by about a 15 percentage point margin. Trump needs to take care he doesn’t kill part of his own base. In this April 2020, photo provided by Tyson Foods, workers wear protective masks and stand between plastic dividers at the company’s Camilla, Georgia poultry processing plant. Tyson has added the plastic dividers to create separation between workers because of the coronavirus outbreak. (Tyson Foods via AP)In this April 2020, photo provided by Tyson Foods, workers wear protective masks and stand between plastic dividers at the company’s Camilla, Georgia poultry processing plant. Tyson has added the plastic dividers to create separation between workers because of the coronavirus outbreak. (TysonFoods via AP)
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