It was a good bill, it was also kinda, as you pointed out, antithetical to what his views on healthcare are. Again, though, it's one bill in 30 years. Bernie has no record prior to politics because, by and large, he never worked. Trying to nominate a socialist candidate who voted against the Amber Alert system, who voted against the Brady Bill, who voted to give gun manufacturers near blanket immunity...is not a winning Democratic candidate for president.
Trump will try to make calls tomorrow and make "deals" as only he can, but based on today's presser they don't understand half the aml/kyc or other issues involved. Saying "well we will up the loan rate to 1% from 0.5%" isn't a band aid they can get away with.
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Contrary to popular belief, I don't always want to be a dick to Sanders. I don't care for him, but that's neither here nor there. So, I agree that I think he tried, in his way, to understand it better. The extent to which he was successful is probably subjective. I never felt that he could appreciate my struggle as a gay person because economics play basically zero role in the struggle for acceptance my husband and I face...simply because we're moderately well off white men.
The GOP legislature wouldn't do a damn thing to help Evers.It's largely not smart to have primary voting. Sadly, at the same time, Biden and Sanders don't really have much to do with that process.
Evers, notably a Democrat, is apparently doing so for state and local offices:
Coronavirus crashes the Wisconsin primary
The pandemic has led to a shortage of poll workers, a potential turnout dip and several lawsuits, but the April 7 vote is still going ahead.
So, clusterfuck.
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“👀 this Grisham quote: “Sounds like more palace intrigue to me, but I’ve also been in quarantine. If true, how ironic that the press secretary would hear about being replaced in the press.” https://t.co/SQ99dENU9b”
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“New: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has privately discussed bringing on Pentagon spokeswoman Alyssa Farah or Trump campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany as a new White House press secretary. He met with Farah in recent days. https://t.co/sCKOFye1CN”
The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients. (Published 2020)
“It’s a joke,” said a top hospital executive, whose facilities are packed with coronavirus patients.www.nytimes.com
Only three patients had been transferred to the ship, officials said, even as New York hospitals struggled to find space for the thousands infected with the coronavirus. Another Navy hospital ship, the U.S.N.S. Mercy, docked in Los Angeles, has had a total of 15 patients, officials said."If I'm blunt about it, it's a joke," said Michael Dowling, the head of Northwell Health, New York's largest hospital system. "Everyone can say, 'Thank you for putting up these wonderful places and opening up these cavernous halls.' But we're in a crisis here, we're in a battlefield."The Comfort was sent to New York to relieve pressure on city hospitals by treating people with ailments other than Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.President Trump left a nine-day sequester in the White House last week to travel to Norfolk, Va., to personally see off the ship as it set sail for New York, saying it would play a "critical role." The ship's arrival on Monday was cheered as one of the few bright moments in a grim time for the city.But the reality has been different. A tangle of military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles has prevented the Comfort from accepting many patients at all.On top of its strict rules preventing people infected with the virus from coming on board, the Navy is also refusing to treat a host of other conditions. Guidelines disseminated to hospitals included a list of 49 medical conditions that would exclude a patient from admittance to the ship.Ambulances cannot take patients directly to the Comfort; they must first deliver patients to a city hospital for a lengthy evaluation — including a test for the virus — and then pick them up again for transport to the ship.Hospital leaders said they were exasperated by the delays.
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Ultimately, Mr. Dowling and others said, if the Comfort refuses to take Covid patients, there are few patients to send. And given the pernicious spread of the disease in New York City, where nearly 50,000 were infected as of Thursday, dividing patients into those who have it and those who do not is pointless, he said.The solution, he and others said, was to open the Comfort to patients with Covid-19."It's pretty ridiculous," he said. "If you're not going to help us with the people we need help with, what's the purpose?"Asked about Mr. Dowling's criticisms, the Defense Department referred to Mr. Trump's statements about the Comfort at his daily briefing. The president said only that the ship was not accepting patients with the coronavirus.
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Oh man, haven't heard that term in awhile here. It's still always active in this administration, of course. Double so with Kushner present.
I don't think a spike in births is a given at all. We shall see though. Hardship depresses birth rates usually cause who would want a kid right now? Also, not sure that enough people will want to get all up in each other's mucus membranes with a virus going around even if it's respitory. Not enough to balance out all the horrors anyway. Plus, who wants to have to make regular doctor and hospital visits right now?
This is pretty much a given, though we'll be lucky if any bars still exist in 3/6/9/however many months.
Yeah, it's that easy to put life on hold. It's extremely unrealistic to have such an absolute view on this stuff.
Not having unprotected sex is a pretty easy on/off switch, I'm going to argue.
Not like some couples might have trying for a baby recently..... but whatevs. things are complicated
I'm not going to fault anyone from before the lockdowns started. They can't really have known. Once the scope of this crisis became obvious, though? Eeh... though yeah obviously there's not some magical cutoff date. Certainly by now people should have gotten the message.
No, we will never have that debate.
Just watch, if the liberal candidate wins anyway they'll point to low turnout as a reason to claim her victory was illegitimate, and maybe even try and invalidate the results.
1981 to 1996 or thereabouts is the typical range most folks stick to. So yeah about 23 to 40 or so?
