And then more nakedly political things.
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Hello. Would you like to examine a trove of documents published by the daughter of a Republican gerrymandering strategist, so that you can, if you would like, get a greater picture about how one party uses voting district maps to ensure they will have guaranteed seats and majorities in the legistlature and win elections that they very clearly lost?
Since it's still happening, and likely to happen even more,rushthatspeaks offered more direct actions on what can be done to get people out of the concentration camps at the border.
The Current Administrator would like you to believe he has done sufficient good in the world toward peace that Alfred Nobel's legacy should have been awarded to him.
Evangelical Christianity supports the Current Administrator because they believe he will do what they desire to bring about their vision of a country ruled by their interpretation of a religion. And they are entirely willing to sacrifice whatever principles they would claim to have in complaining about liberals and their behavior while they are at it, since the Current Administrator is, to put it mildly, exactly the kind of person they would rail against and use as an example of "liberal values" if he were anything like the sort.
But if you keep feeding those evangelicals proof that they can turn the world back into what it was when abortion was illegal and underground networks existed for getting women to the procedures, they will keep supporting you, regardless of what other behaviors you have that might otherwise repulse them.
More than eight in ten black United States voters say both that the Current Administrator is a racist, and that he has made racism a bigger problem in his tenure. More than nine in ten disapprove of his performance as Administrator, so there's a suggestion that the missing percentage points may have thought that he didn't do things to make it worse (possibly because they couldn't have gotten worse than they already were), or they are the rare Black voter that approves of what is being done.
Stacey Abrams lost the race for governor and is trying to make sure that those who are least enfranchised are not lost, overlooked, or uncounted, in politics and in the Census. And possibly, in the future, will also be able to enjoy the view from the White House.
The Iowa caucuses had a disaster of technology and reporting. They were sold an app that was all flash and no substance, and they bit on it.
In relation to the COVID-19 issue, the Current Administrator tried to do something ineffective that sounded tough, but ended up doing something that was tough and needed to be backtracked to something ineffective.
If they tell you that they couldn't have predicted this situation, remind them that a simulation run in the previous administration had a situation very close to what happened, and it said the country was ill-equipped for dealing with this kind of situation, and then ask them why they kept closing pandemic response and preparedness parts of the government.
They're also asking states to bury their unemployment figures so as not to give official confirmation that things are bad.
Said Administrator also tried to purchase exclusive rights to a potential vaccine for the United States, drawing a significant of criticism over the move.
In case anyone was wondering, places with a strong social safety net and a government that works for the people to make sure they're provided for has a remarkably robust ability to respond to pandemics, mostly because they've garnered trust from all the people who live there. Elsewhere, Taiwan has made an effective cooperation between government and private citizens that is backed by an insistence that things get done effectively first and foremost. So, from these two countries, it seems that the best thing to do is go single-payer for health care and toss out every obstructionist currently in office. Then we can get to funding necessary government services correctly and taxing the rich and ensuring they actually pay up, as well as making sure they pay their workers sufficiently, in wage and time off, so that we don't have this level of inequality in our communities. Wouldn't that be nice?
It also helps if you have a leader willing to face the hard truths and address them head-on, as Angela Merkel did, rather than run away from them or perpetuate nonsense and lies because you are afraid that admitting something bad has happened might hurt your political chances or your investments. Eventually, being confronted with some frightening math got some leaders to change their opinions of the matter, but even then, I don't think it stuck as much as it needs to.
The case against bailing out the cruise ship industry, even though the people who are the bottom of the chain deserve to make sure that they are kept in their housing and food while they cannot work.
Despite the stated policy and the likelihood of infection or worse, the Vice-Administrator decided to forego masking while visiting the Mayo Clinic, thinking that the optics of being able to see and talk to people without a mask was more important than sound medical advice. Which is yet another big middle finger to a useful response to the pandemic. The places that let the scientists take center stage and followed their messages have less cases and less deaths, while those that ignored or slow-walked the advice have more. That's what the analysis seems to be.
In the UK, Brexit happened. Almost as soon as it did, a certain class of thumb-headed racists thought it a good idea to post racist screeds demanding the furrners conform to their funhouse-mirror idea of the Past That Never Was. The residents called it in as a hate crime and would love for those particular racists to take their own advice and leave. Emboldened by the nativist turn of Brexit, others are committing racist acts against anyone they perceive as speaking a foreign language.
There was an opportunity, announced on television and everything, for the UK to join in the EU's ventilator procurement ideas, but the Johnson government claims they didn't get the e-mails.
Elsewhere, there's a number of local police departments that have gotten quite zealous about enforcing stay-inside orders and trying to keep people appropriately distanced.
More people look at the idea of the UBI and think it's a good idea.
And, in a proper issue of a speck-plank problem, the Current Administrator decided to criticize the occupant of Number 10 about his first approach to the novel virus. Given that the Current Administrator is likely to be to blame for any and all delays and the ensuring clusterfuck where he demonstrated quite clearly that he was uninterested in anything other than his public image, one can only hope that the consequences of his inability will redound unto him. Which requires the people of the States to not only remember this when the time comes, but to exercise their rights to change in such large numbers that all the attempts to suppress the vote, to make sure people who won't vote for him never get the opportunity, and to otherwise make sure that the oligarchs and plutocrats are the only ones who can do anything at all, end up failing because they can't actually suppress that many people in all the places they would need to.
The same administrator, the one who looks directly at solar eclipses, said he was uninterested in following the guidelines suggesting wearing a mask in public, rather starkly making it a "for thee, but not for me" situation. Which is basically the top of knowing that naive trust in any institution that is political is not a good idea.
British Columbia, Canada, may be thanking Doctor Bonnie Henrys for making difficult, but correct, data-driven decisions about how fast to react to the novel virus, and catching and stopping many of the vectors that other provinces and places in the United States hadn't in their attempts.
Not to leave it on a down note, so there's also how one can oust an autocrat, which involves, often times, breaking bread with people who are aligned with you, even if you wouldn't otherwise be able to stand them, because the alternative is that the autocrat and his followers remain in power and continue to cause misery.
Hello. Would you like to examine a trove of documents published by the daughter of a Republican gerrymandering strategist, so that you can, if you would like, get a greater picture about how one party uses voting district maps to ensure they will have guaranteed seats and majorities in the legistlature and win elections that they very clearly lost?
Since it's still happening, and likely to happen even more,
rushthatspeaks offered more direct actions on what can be done to get people out of the concentration camps at the border.The Current Administrator would like you to believe he has done sufficient good in the world toward peace that Alfred Nobel's legacy should have been awarded to him.
Evangelical Christianity supports the Current Administrator because they believe he will do what they desire to bring about their vision of a country ruled by their interpretation of a religion. And they are entirely willing to sacrifice whatever principles they would claim to have in complaining about liberals and their behavior while they are at it, since the Current Administrator is, to put it mildly, exactly the kind of person they would rail against and use as an example of "liberal values" if he were anything like the sort.
But if you keep feeding those evangelicals proof that they can turn the world back into what it was when abortion was illegal and underground networks existed for getting women to the procedures, they will keep supporting you, regardless of what other behaviors you have that might otherwise repulse them.
More than eight in ten black United States voters say both that the Current Administrator is a racist, and that he has made racism a bigger problem in his tenure. More than nine in ten disapprove of his performance as Administrator, so there's a suggestion that the missing percentage points may have thought that he didn't do things to make it worse (possibly because they couldn't have gotten worse than they already were), or they are the rare Black voter that approves of what is being done.
Stacey Abrams lost the race for governor and is trying to make sure that those who are least enfranchised are not lost, overlooked, or uncounted, in politics and in the Census. And possibly, in the future, will also be able to enjoy the view from the White House.
The Iowa caucuses had a disaster of technology and reporting. They were sold an app that was all flash and no substance, and they bit on it.
In relation to the COVID-19 issue, the Current Administrator tried to do something ineffective that sounded tough, but ended up doing something that was tough and needed to be backtracked to something ineffective.
If they tell you that they couldn't have predicted this situation, remind them that a simulation run in the previous administration had a situation very close to what happened, and it said the country was ill-equipped for dealing with this kind of situation, and then ask them why they kept closing pandemic response and preparedness parts of the government.
They're also asking states to bury their unemployment figures so as not to give official confirmation that things are bad.
Said Administrator also tried to purchase exclusive rights to a potential vaccine for the United States, drawing a significant of criticism over the move.
In case anyone was wondering, places with a strong social safety net and a government that works for the people to make sure they're provided for has a remarkably robust ability to respond to pandemics, mostly because they've garnered trust from all the people who live there. Elsewhere, Taiwan has made an effective cooperation between government and private citizens that is backed by an insistence that things get done effectively first and foremost. So, from these two countries, it seems that the best thing to do is go single-payer for health care and toss out every obstructionist currently in office. Then we can get to funding necessary government services correctly and taxing the rich and ensuring they actually pay up, as well as making sure they pay their workers sufficiently, in wage and time off, so that we don't have this level of inequality in our communities. Wouldn't that be nice?
It also helps if you have a leader willing to face the hard truths and address them head-on, as Angela Merkel did, rather than run away from them or perpetuate nonsense and lies because you are afraid that admitting something bad has happened might hurt your political chances or your investments. Eventually, being confronted with some frightening math got some leaders to change their opinions of the matter, but even then, I don't think it stuck as much as it needs to.
The case against bailing out the cruise ship industry, even though the people who are the bottom of the chain deserve to make sure that they are kept in their housing and food while they cannot work.
Despite the stated policy and the likelihood of infection or worse, the Vice-Administrator decided to forego masking while visiting the Mayo Clinic, thinking that the optics of being able to see and talk to people without a mask was more important than sound medical advice. Which is yet another big middle finger to a useful response to the pandemic. The places that let the scientists take center stage and followed their messages have less cases and less deaths, while those that ignored or slow-walked the advice have more. That's what the analysis seems to be.
In the UK, Brexit happened. Almost as soon as it did, a certain class of thumb-headed racists thought it a good idea to post racist screeds demanding the furrners conform to their funhouse-mirror idea of the Past That Never Was. The residents called it in as a hate crime and would love for those particular racists to take their own advice and leave. Emboldened by the nativist turn of Brexit, others are committing racist acts against anyone they perceive as speaking a foreign language.
There was an opportunity, announced on television and everything, for the UK to join in the EU's ventilator procurement ideas, but the Johnson government claims they didn't get the e-mails.
Elsewhere, there's a number of local police departments that have gotten quite zealous about enforcing stay-inside orders and trying to keep people appropriately distanced.
More people look at the idea of the UBI and think it's a good idea.
And, in a proper issue of a speck-plank problem, the Current Administrator decided to criticize the occupant of Number 10 about his first approach to the novel virus. Given that the Current Administrator is likely to be to blame for any and all delays and the ensuring clusterfuck where he demonstrated quite clearly that he was uninterested in anything other than his public image, one can only hope that the consequences of his inability will redound unto him. Which requires the people of the States to not only remember this when the time comes, but to exercise their rights to change in such large numbers that all the attempts to suppress the vote, to make sure people who won't vote for him never get the opportunity, and to otherwise make sure that the oligarchs and plutocrats are the only ones who can do anything at all, end up failing because they can't actually suppress that many people in all the places they would need to.
The same administrator, the one who looks directly at solar eclipses, said he was uninterested in following the guidelines suggesting wearing a mask in public, rather starkly making it a "for thee, but not for me" situation. Which is basically the top of knowing that naive trust in any institution that is political is not a good idea.
British Columbia, Canada, may be thanking Doctor Bonnie Henrys for making difficult, but correct, data-driven decisions about how fast to react to the novel virus, and catching and stopping many of the vectors that other provinces and places in the United States hadn't in their attempts.
Not to leave it on a down note, so there's also how one can oust an autocrat, which involves, often times, breaking bread with people who are aligned with you, even if you wouldn't otherwise be able to stand them, because the alternative is that the autocrat and his followers remain in power and continue to cause misery.
