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US PoliEra 2020 |OT4| Disaster Voltron
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Covid-19 in the UK will dwarf Brexit's effects in the UK, at least in the short run. We're forcing ourselves into a temporary depression to contain this thing.
Maddow saying that if it were up to her, she wouldn't be airing the daily WH briefings because they're just all lies.
They're just passing on the message they're getting from the federal government.
The states are on their own, and they're not equipped to handle a crisis of this magnitude.
The virus.
Britain was sinking anyway. Brexit is just another bubble making its way to the surface.
John Hudson on Twitter
“Fashion executive-turned-Trump ambassador Lana Marks dined with someone who had COVID-19 but told subordinates she wasn't at risk because the dinner was outside and she believed the virus could not withstand the Florida heat https://t.co/9lSJWP9gN6”
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Only the best people
This is pretty good! Would make for a great ad come November.
Political Polls on Twitter
“#National @EmersonPolling/@NexstarDigital Poll: Biden 54% Sanders 42% Gabbard 4% (Poll Conducted 3/18-19)”
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Who's wasting their money to poll this?
Honestly, they should just push people to tune into their local or state press conferences. They are more relevant and informative and less likely to crash the stock market...again.
Political Polls on Twitter
“#National @EmersonPolling/@NexstarDigital Poll: Biden 54% Sanders 42% Gabbard 4% (Poll Conducted 3/18-19)”
Who's wasting their money to poll this?
Bernie Sanders
That Emerson poll has Biden 53, Trump 47.
In February they had Trump 52, Biden 48. Onto the pile!
In February they had Trump 52, Biden 48. Onto the pile!
I understand, and the Feds are the ones to shoulder the most blame. But that said the States are not beyond blame. While now is not the time, when this is all said and done there needs to be an examination of leadership and actions of governmental institutions at all levels. Critical days were lost last week when state governments looked around for someone to lead. Why they ever expected leadership from DC I can't fathom. States have done their best, but when days matter they lost critical time because governors weren't ready to lead. Stay at home orders should have been enacted earlier and it may have helped a lot.
I'm just frustrated. I don't think Cuomo or any other governor is guilty of dereliction of duty like the President is, but I wish they had realized earlier that Trump was going to do nothing to help.
but people love baby yoda
again, you gotta work real hard to be this bad, it's not something your born with
I don't believe in public shaming, but someone in this thread said Ron DeSantis is handsome.
In similarly wretched news, we finally know who funded Warren's PAC.
www.fec.gov
Very cool, and totally worth the third place finish in her own state!
In similarly wretched news, we finally know who funded Warren's PAC.
Browse Individual contributions - FEC.gov
Explore current and historic federal campaign finance data on the new fec.gov. Look at totals and trends, and see how candidates and committees raise and spend money. When you find what you need, export results and save custom links.
www.fec.gov
Very cool, and totally worth the third place finish in her own state!
Finally caught up after skimming like twelve pages. Just wanna say that Katie Porter would definitely be an SSS tier senator, especially if she replaces Feinstein (who has apparently done nothing wrong regarding the stocks btw). Also, I saw that DFP poll about a majority of Americans favoring a national VBM election. Here's hoping Klob can corner McConnell with the biggest stapler she can find.
Clyburn has got the right idea if this article is accurate.
the
fuck?
I thought at least in NY the infrastructure for steady and moderate amounts of testing had finally been set up. Man, we're really looking at hundreds of thousands being infected by the end of March, aren't we?
Clyburn has got the right idea if this article is accurate.
what
the
fuck?
I thought at least in NY the infrastructure for steady and moderate amounts of testing had finally been set up. Man, we're really looking at hundreds of thousands being infected by the end of March, aren't we?
As I've said before, yesterday my wife and I had a COVID scare and I watched the system buckle in real time. When my wife called to schedule an appointment at 4pm she got right through. They told her they would process her report and call back with a time to test. When I called 30 minutes later I was met with a "60 - 70 minute" wait. I ended up on hold for more than 2 hours. When I finally got through I was told "you don't meet the criteria, there's nothing we can do." While that was a fair point, my concern was if she was getting tested, then wouldn't it make sense for me to get tested? Then late last night it was announced they were stopping all community testing.
NYS has gotten a lot of credit over the last few days, but the testing was never going to be able to keep up. Once we heard that there was a sick person who had been riding the train into NYC from the Hudson Valley for a week, everyone knew that there was no stopping it at that point. Apparently the hospitals up where I am are reporting that they are still well supplied, but who knows how long that will last. I'm shocked the governor hasn't shut down the Thruway and barred all non essential travel like we do during snowstorms. I'm not sure how that later idea would work or be enforced, but the Thruway seems like a no brainer.
In similarly wretched news, we finally know who funded Warren's PAC.
Browse Individual contributions - FEC.gov
Explore current and historic federal campaign finance data on the new fec.gov. Look at totals and trends, and see how candidates and committees raise and spend money. When you find what you need, export results and save custom links.
Very cool, and totally worth the third place finish in her own state!
Just because I know this is going to get traction, I think we should nip this in the bud before it does. It was not Warren's PAC. It was a pro-Warren PAC. When Warren asked them to divulge their donors, they refused, and when Biden started winning the PAC abandoned Warren and left her high and dry which is probably why she dropped out when she did.
rich people just donate to whoever
rich people just donate to whoever
the fuck. joe arpaio and jessica cisneros? honestly i do not understand how even sowing money to both R and D works in this instance....
rich people just donate to whoever
Yep. Would love to hear the rationale for that considering she seemed to be mostly for dems otherwise.
Could be the fact Arpaio was seen as a big spoiler for the Republican chances in 2018. Arpaio had his base of support in Maricopa County that had shrunk enough to kick him out of the Sheriffs office. There was no way in hell On its way to Purple Arizona as a whole would elect Arpaio. Arpaios run caused a lot of grief for republicans in 18.
That said it could be for reasons of how shitty he was in treatment of Hispanic Americans and Immigrants
I don't believe in public shaming, but someone in this thread said Ron DeSantis is handsome.
In similarly wretched news, we finally know who funded Warren's PAC.
Browse Individual contributions - FEC.gov
Explore current and historic federal campaign finance data on the new fec.gov. Look at totals and trends, and see how candidates and committees raise and spend money. When you find what you need, export results and save custom links.
Very cool, and totally worth the third place finish in her own state!
Look I was strictly speaking from an evil Republican graded on the Trump scale. There's not a deep lineup.
Her Wiki page is completely fascinating and the Arpaio donation sticks out like a sore ass thumb:
It looks more and more like it was Strategic boosting. She went all in for Sinemas election. During the Republican Primary McSally was by no means a lock with a serious threat from Kelli Ward who would have rallied the republicans alot more in AZ but Arpaio ate a ton of Wards support which let McSally get the Republican Nomination. Strategic boosting can backfire but in a case like Arpaio it certainly helped Sinema get the weaker GOP opponent.
This throwing of Warren, one of the icons of Progressivism under the bus is absolutely a no go by me. I'm really losing opinion of Bernie and his people, and its clear Progressive politicians are sliding away from him as well.
I mean fuck, this is Elizabeth Warren for crying out loud. why are they selling her down the river....i dont understand it....
I mean fuck, this is Elizabeth Warren for crying out loud. why are they selling her down the river....i dont understand it....
Wow this thread moved so slow for a Friday.
It's crazy how the testing system broke before we could even come close to testing a meaningful portion of the population. NY gave it the good ole' college try, but it seems like they buckled too.
And the majority of the current positive test results were infected roughly 10 days ago or more, so while Trump was doing all this happy talk and the government spinning in cycles, COVID-19 was spreading like absolute wildfire across the country.
Granted it's tough comparing charts because different countries have been testing differing percentages of their population.And because testing in the US has been horrendous so far. But the charts look scary where we do look much worse than Italy. I'm sure our daily infections include a backlog of people who should have been tested earlier, but for everyone of those people are I'm sure there's about ten others who have been getting infected in just the last few days and can't be tested. So while the daily new infections count may not be accurate, it's probably much worse than what's reported, especially when you add in DisneyWorld and the Florida beaches insanity from the past week. If a business conference in Boston caused a major outbreak, imagine would DisneyWorld will produce 10 days from now when we already know there were positive individuals there.
I'm in California and everything pretty much officially shutdown today so the long night begins. And I have a feeling COVID-19 is going to crawl through more of Congress, which is just going to further slow down legislation to provide relief.
If our government continues to be incompetent and our healthcare system overwhelmed, I imagine the balance of the equation in a couple of months will shift from "Lives to Livelihoods" and A LOT of people's lives will be sacrificed in order to preserve the Livelihoods of the rest the country. Because at the moment it feels like we're on track to lose both Livelihoods and Lives. I'm willing to bet in two weeks, the new phrase around the world will be, "Let's be like South Korea and not the USA".Because even if Italy has a higher mortality rate, we're on track to exceed both infections and deaths just by the sheer numbers of people with the virus.
It's crazy how the testing system broke before we could even come close to testing a meaningful portion of the population. NY gave it the good ole' college try, but it seems like they buckled too.
And the majority of the current positive test results were infected roughly 10 days ago or more, so while Trump was doing all this happy talk and the government spinning in cycles, COVID-19 was spreading like absolute wildfire across the country.
Granted it's tough comparing charts because different countries have been testing differing percentages of their population.And because testing in the US has been horrendous so far. But the charts look scary where we do look much worse than Italy. I'm sure our daily infections include a backlog of people who should have been tested earlier, but for everyone of those people are I'm sure there's about ten others who have been getting infected in just the last few days and can't be tested. So while the daily new infections count may not be accurate, it's probably much worse than what's reported, especially when you add in DisneyWorld and the Florida beaches insanity from the past week. If a business conference in Boston caused a major outbreak, imagine would DisneyWorld will produce 10 days from now when we already know there were positive individuals there.
I'm in California and everything pretty much officially shutdown today so the long night begins. And I have a feeling COVID-19 is going to crawl through more of Congress, which is just going to further slow down legislation to provide relief.
If our government continues to be incompetent and our healthcare system overwhelmed, I imagine the balance of the equation in a couple of months will shift from "Lives to Livelihoods" and A LOT of people's lives will be sacrificed in order to preserve the Livelihoods of the rest the country. Because at the moment it feels like we're on track to lose both Livelihoods and Lives. I'm willing to bet in two weeks, the new phrase around the world will be, "Let's be like South Korea and not the USA".Because even if Italy has a higher mortality rate, we're on track to exceed both infections and deaths just by the sheer numbers of people with the virus.
All i'm going to say is that policies are a secondary issue to the people attacking Warren.
I'm getting angrier about Warren being smeared. That woman has been leading Progressive policies, passing legislation, who continues to promote, legislate progressive policies in Congress (right now!) and these people are calling her centrist and a Republican are insane.
I know the majority of Progressives still love her and would applaud if it ever occurred, but if Biden actually chose her as VP, i really really wanna look into the future and see if these twitter Bernie people would still call her a centrist.
I know the majority of Progressives still love her and would applaud if it ever occurred, but if Biden actually chose her as VP, i really really wanna look into the future and see if these twitter Bernie people would still call her a centrist.
Biden needs to hire a good digital team though. This election is going to be fought on social media even more with this pandemic
How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders (Published 2020)
The Sanders campaign appeared on the brink of a commanding lead in the Democratic race. But a series of fateful decisions and internal divisions have left him all but vanquished.
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