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Yup, Tinhip did it again, listing cherrypicked ...ah... "facts" free of reliable sources. This time, it looks like he plagiarized verbatim passages directly from some extremely biased right-wing thread over at Political Forum.com, which in turn was citing similarly biased articles where Republicans were squealing like stuck pigs.

It suddenly dawned on the stooges à la teabaggers in the reinvented "Freedom Caucus" that they'd be forced to do the right thing for once and provide more assistance for the financial and physical health (Yes, children, climate destruction does lead to more deadly diseases and financial ruin.) of the little people and slightly less for the fat-cat moneybaggers adept at legal political bribery. Not surprisingly, we're the only Western democracy that makes corruption more legal than illegal. Go figure.

Nancy dared to exercise her mandated duties, as she is wont to do, and introduced her own legislation when Moscow Mitch's lopsided bill failed the laugh test. After all, the House, which is the closest political body to the People due to elections every two years instead of four, is still in charge of spending. You can bet yer ass that Senate Republicans absolutely hate that central role in the constitutional balance of power. Simply put: Pelosi is a better poker player than McTurtle.

BTW, voting provisions were inserted to make it easier and safer for more people to cast their votes without having to physically bunch up in long lines during a pandemic inside and outside of different buildings scattered throughout communities -- the best possible environment for a highly contagious virus millions of years in the making that isn't really alive but kinda pretends to be.

Okay, that could sound a little Republican, I suppose, but these non-digital virus bots aren't really too political even though it's in character for Hannity, Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson, et al. to entertain the paranoid thought. Nothing should surprise anyone this late in America's modern incarnation of the Great Game.

Wait a damn minute! Make voting easier? OMG, we can't have more people voting; that would "rig" the election in favor of Democrats! Except maybe a monkey in a swamp (Sorry, just a cool gif.), pretty much any person paying the least bit of attention, recognizes that Republicans' chances go way down if more people vote and that they could never win a majority of the electorate in a fair fight for all voters. Facts are stubborn things.

While cruisin' the Swampnet like a happy dog off his leash (Pardon again.), Tinhip also neglected (on purpose?) to list Republican largesse for their pet socialistic bailouts of their largest donors atop America's great bubble machine.

Here are a few examples to get you started on your own list, gentle reader:

• $425 billion socialism loan and loan-guarantee program that Trump initially wanted ($500 billion) as his own personal, freewheeling super slush fund to reward his tax-wasting, tax-cheating, big-monopoly buddies and compliant, Trump-friendly cult members who happen to be right-wing governors and mayors. Maybe even some for his own hotels and golf courses. Who knows, wink, wink? (Democrats inserted heavy oversight much to his chagrin.)
• $50 billion socialism for passenger airlines who blew their previous socialistic tax breaks on stock buybacks for their top-dogs instead of on sound business practices.
• $8 billion socialism for cargo airlines who blew their previous socialistic tax breaks on stock buybacks for their top-dogs instead of on sound business practices.
• $17 billion socialism for war-mongering defense contractors who blew their previous socialistic tax breaks on stock buybacks for their top-dogs instead of on sound business practices.
• $367 billion socialism for all small businesses -- deservedly -- with six months free of loan payments.
• $50 billion socialism to bail out farmers ...again! Remember Trump's disastrous trade war that screwed over American farmers "bigly" and still is? How so very patriotic of the little dirt people, along with every sap who is paying import taxes tacked onto the price of goods, to sacrifice themselves for megalomaniacal ego and idiocy. Trump to this day still does not fully comprehend or accept just how badly his dumb trade war impacts U.S. consumers as well as U.S. family farmers. (Will they still vote for him next time? Do they hate Democrats that much to go bankrupt under Trump again?)
• Oh yeah, and here's this not-so-little, in-your-face factoid of Trump's unadulterated, knee-jerk corruption, pure and simple: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/24/massive-scandal-trump-fda-grants-drug-company-exclusive-claim-promising-coronavirus

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-white-house-reach-dollar2-trillion-stimulus-deal-to-blunt-coronavirus-fallout/ar-BB11Dj7d

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/488334-democratic-senators-introduce-bill-to-promote-mail-in-voting-during

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e7b77a6c5b62a1870d62d83

If he gets away with convincing millions of good citizens to put their lives at risk to juice his economic numbers for the political season, he will be directly responsible in the history books for the hundreds of thousands, very possibly well over a million extra deaths as hospitals, medical staff, and suppliers are hopelessly overwhelmed. Those are genocidal numbers.

As gruesome as it is, we may need to repeatedly broadcast the powerful images of the bodies stacking up at hospitals, morgues, and graveyards to drive the point home, to strengthen the public's wavering will that is thanks to Trump and his obtuse propagandists.

Sometimes mortal fear is a good thing if the will to survive instinctively drives people to the ground despite what the Mad King decrees. At this point on the graph of the United State's pandemic trajectory, extreme social distancing is the only proven way to fight the spread of the virus effectively regardless of all the wishful thinking.

Thom lays out the possible reasons and guesses as best as anyone can. It is reasonably all of the above. But without inhabiting the dark recesses inside Trump's skull (Oh, the horror!) for the innermost reasons that even he probably doesn't fully understand, we can only assess his outward actions and words that would strongly suggest what caused them to bubble up to the surface for all to suffer.

I would hazard a guess that it's more feeling than thought with Trump's lizard brain. Or lack of feeling. Because it sure seems that he just doesn't have the normal human emotional capacity that would preclude caring more about money than human life. And the omnipresent cloud of reptilian Wall Street whisperers swirling around his ear like hungry mosquitoes are typically taking full advantage of this ugly aspect of his already bizarre personality. The body of evidence that he has presented against himself openly after several news cycles seems pretty clear for that suspicion to bear weight.

In other words, we all know it because we can see it and hear it for ourselves in plain friggin daylight! No extra layer of punditry to explain further is really needed, is it? He's a blithering psychopath! And he has surrounded himself with shameless sycophants basking in the fleeting glory of his raw power eager to please or to manipulate.

And he's "in charge" of one of the worst pandemics in over a 100 years?!!! Good God Almighty, dear Lord, sweet Jesus, Mary, and Joesph! Put religious wacko Pence in charge; pray out the virus; put those troublemaker governors in charge; sprinkle a few experts and doctors around the podium but don't let 'em speak too much. "No, I'm not responsible!" Just playing "war president" in name only for the cameras.

But we will get the crowds of worker bees to fill up all those tight offices, schools, movie theatres, cruise ships, restaurants, and hotels. (Ahem, they say the Old Post Office hotel in DC is very nice, and you can order all you can eat à la carte influence.) What? Hospitals will need how many new workers when the pandemic rages out of control? That sounds like socialism, ya damn commie!

...And Jesus wept, as the Irish would say.

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/24/21192947/doctors-treating-coronavirus-twitter-thread

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/24/21192528/coronavirus-social-distancing-economy-deaths

Tom, as a long-time subscriber, you forgot the first two reasons. Election fraud, caging of voters by the democratic establishment and downright vote flipping. Read the TDS research polls which show some of the most egregious election fraud since the republicans.

You need to stop ignoring this. Exit polls are the gold standard all over the world, by the UN and the US State Department except in one place - The United States!

This was mentioned in Thom's show a couple of days ago. Well worth watching. Too bad nobody listened. http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

Tinhip:

My, my, aren't you the busy little troll today. What, have you quarantined with nothing better to do than to slouch on the couch, eating snacks with Fux News programming your brain at high decibels, filling up on the big-lies-and-half-truths du jour? And now you come here to enlighten us with the pregnant contents of a fading memory bursting to get out before it's lost forever in all the confusion? Your time would be spent more wisely on that dust-laden elliptical hidden in the basement. Cardiovascular exercise does wonders for the old brain.

Legend nailed you: "Once again a Trumpster cannot reference a source. I wonder why?" Do you even understand why someone would naturally ask that?

That's the problem with purveying Republican lies; the usual sources are just more wingnuttery and lies. Here, let me help you remember where such strange and just plain weird thoughts came from that you have dutifully regurgitated onto this blog:

The usual robotic mouthpieces on Fux News, Winger Radio, and the Swamp Net happily mischaracterized Biden's overall point, which was a correct assessment rooted in truth. And members of the cult who flaunt a nutjob who has seriously lied to them almost 17,000 times since inauguration (15 a day) and who can't string two thoughts together without contradicting himself and his staff on a regular basis, should be more self-aware of their wretched yet nonetheless laughable hypocrisy of criticizing the way Biden happens to speak.

I read a lot and had no problem understanding exactly what he said and meant. Are you having trouble digesting the give and take of long conversation? You know that's a worrying sign, don't you? If your reading comprehension is still somewhat intact, here's the record:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-urges-trump-americans-listen-doctors-fauci/story?id=69748296

As for post #4, it is of course filled with inaccuracies, but consider your source (Tom Cotton, one of the biggest liars in the Senate):

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/24/tom_cotton_democrats_willing_to_risk_your_life_and_your_job_for_radical_left_wing_wishlist.html

Note: The Post Office debt was largely incurred because Republicans hate guvmunt-run anything and also passionately desire to destroy one of the biggest employee unions left standing in the bloodbath of anti-unionism (anti-workerism), and so they mandated that the PO must fund their pension out 75 years, which no other company anywhere is required to do ...because it's so stupid:

https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/

The United States Post Office -- one of the longest, most reliable and venerable public institutions for the common good in the history of civilization -- will also be mandated to prioritize medical supplies, as the cheapest, most efficient distributor of all carriers, public or private. Does that even need to be referenced?!

Also, note that the airlines would have to, hopefully, cut their emissions by 2050, not "2025" and not merely "offset" them, as you so carelessly posted. Sadly, for one of the biggest polluting industries in the world, this does not go far enough to reign in these climate-destroying bastards, especially after they squandered their big taxpayer-funded tax-cut giveaways to buy back their own stock to enrich the already fabulous rich and lucky few born with silver spoons in their hog lips. Rapacious executives never even consider a rainy-day fund, because they know from long experience that the guvmunt will bail them out. Ain't corporate socialism just f*cking great! Lots and lots of free sh*t!

Here's a pithy outline of the Democratic proposal. Although much superior to the Republican slush-fund funny book for billionaires and their fat cash cows (also referenced below), it sure ain't perfect by a long shot but is still a fairer compromise with the moneyed class on the other side of our hopeless political divide -- political goons infused with so much fat-cat donor cash stuffed in big pockets that their half of the body can no longer function as an independent democratic institution. They're tethered neither to reality nor the spirit of the Constitution (Hello, Moscow Mitch!):

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/23/house-democrats-stimulus-senate-coronavirus-145388

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/03/23/trump-coronavirus-senate-economic-stimulus/

What the hell; that's just politics. Please let the damn process work out before packing it full of troll lies and bile on Thom's Blog. To their credit, DC politicians are actually working hard and fast -- this time around anyway -- to hammer out an all-important stimulus package to get urgent help to the businesses and people who are affected so disastrously by the pandemic. All of the people!

As your fellow troll-buddy doorknobs said, "We'll get this through this together." It certainly does not help to lie and spread disinformation. Such miscreant behavior is either plain stupid or criminally insane. It's no doubt a good chunk of both. So why is King Trump the Orange Liar doing that when so many people are suffering and dying and looking for real leadership?

The answer is in the question.

Can't get in on the phone today. You're asking "Why?" is Trump not doing what's necessary, what's his agenda?

We are at the endgame of the Libertarian ideology. Since their ideology is predicated on "Government is the problem; government can't do anything right", or, in Norquist's vernacular, "government should be small enough to drown it in a bathtub", then ANYTHING that the government does that is effective, that shows that ONLY the government can solve a problem -- especially a crisis like this pandemic -- completely undermines if not shreds that ideology.

They can't make the government to work effectively partly because, in Trump's case, he's spent all of his time in office wrecking the ability of our government to function effectively. But, it's really been a 40+ year project of the wealthy class. If government fails at this great test -- and he's doing everything he can to make it fail -- then they will proclaim that only Business can solve problems like this.

This is why he's left it to the States to handle without Federal help. Anything to wreck the Federal government's ability to show that it is the only resource that we have to handle a crisis like this. Which put him between a rock and a hard place, because he's being upstaged by the effective governors, especially Cuomo.

Unfortunately, it does look like he's willing to let millions die to confirm their destructive ideology. I suspect he's getting a lot of pressure from the likes of the Kochs and Mercers to let it fail, too.

Basically what was said tonight is Trump is ignoring the success in other countries and is willing to let this Covfefe-19 virus win. He is also willing to ignore the highly trained epidemiologits advice. We will be banned from the rest of the industrial world while a good part of our senior citizens die off. Not to mention some under 60. It will start next Monday. Watch the charts for a few weeks after. Percentage compared to population we are all ready well past China. We had weeks of warning they had none.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Volunteers?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/texas-lt-governor-suggests-elderly-should-risk-lives-save-economy-050531075.html

Floating the plan to get poll numbers. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pence-says-u-coronavirus-guidance-200046551.html

BTW, Willie is exactly right that it's time to tax the super-rich their fair share since they have the lion's share of the nation's wealth, which should be a helluva lot more than they're paying now. It's way past time for the masters of greed to start giving back instead of taking it all. America can no longer afford to carry billionaire freeloaders on the backs of the workers.

Tinhip and Worn out doorknobs are sitting on top of a mountain of lies and are using Thom's blog to disseminate them. When the trolls are called out, as they must be, they resort to sophomoric ad hominem attacks, because that's all they got, emulating Trump who "thinks" just like them.

Sadly, closed minds filled with hate and pettiness usually don't improve with age. Trump is the poster boy for that dysfunctional behavior and should be removed from office before he divides our country any further. The next ten months until Inauguration Day will be interminable ...and dangerous.

Seems a guvment 'bean counter' decision like some >+100.000 human dead is cool just as long as billionaires keep getting covid tested and making dosh whilst living in their bunkers... isn't Emurica just great for all us christians?

In US human life is worth less than fiat paper money

Shameful!