[Aptorian]

Don't kink shame the governor.

[amphibian]

This article is the reason why Cuomo should not be president: https://gothamist.co...coronavirus-aid

The basic thrust of it is that in the middle of this pandemic, he is actively trying to cut Medicaid funding - which essentially means healthcare funding - by $6 billion dollars while at the same time rejecting approximately $6.5 billion from the federal government for this purpose.

Look at Jay Inslee of Washington - who is doing his fucking job very well - for a better example of how a governor should be responding to this pandemic.

[Malankazooie]

#cuomosexual

[King Lear]

amphibian, on 01 April 2020 - 12:44 AM, said:

This article is the reason why Cuomo should not be president: https://gothamist.co...coronavirus-aid

The basic thrust of it is that in the middle of this pandemic, he is actively trying to cut Medicaid funding - which essentially means healthcare funding - by $6 billion dollars while at the same time rejecting approximately $6.5 billion from the federal government for this purpose.

Look at Jay Inslee of Washington - who is doing his fucking job very well - for a better example of how a governor should be responding to this pandemic.

I saw it called Giuliani-ing Cuomo and I thought that was quite apt.

[Malankazooie]

What's been going on with the 2020 election process? Have some of the states yet to vote for the democratic nominee, are they still a go? I believe Biden pretty much had it wrapped up, but Bernie hadn't suspended his campaign yet, yeah?

[amphibian]

Malankazooie, on 03 April 2020 - 05:32 PM, said:

What's been going on with the 2020 election process? Have some of the states yet to vote for the democratic nominee, are they still a go? I believe Biden pretty much had it wrapped up, but Bernie hadn't suspended his campaign yet, yeah?

The NY primaries have been pushed back to June. Some level of "mail in ballot" has been discussed for NY and other states, but in places like Georgia the Republican Speaker of their House are against mail in ballots bc they would result in big Republican losses due to increased turnout.

https://thehill.com/...-be-devastating

Bernie is statistically unlikely to win and has just about focused the entirety of his campaign and resources to raising funds to help people hit hardest by COVID-19. This is generous and a truly good thing to do.

One thing I am keeping my eye on is that a credible claim of sexual assault by Biden and occuring in the 1990s has come up.

https://www.vox.com/...ault-allegation

I think that the majority of American voters do not care if their preferred candidate actually did stuff like this, much less are accused of doing it. That's a sad thing to say, but look at the gotdang President.

In a better world, this would be taken with the utmost seriousness. This may not happen and I'm sad that Biden may be the person I have to back against Trump instead of Sanders, who has a much more humane and powerful set of policy planks.

COVID-19 is showing us how strong nationalized healthcare is and how much better countries like Canada are handling the impacts of people getting extremely sick, losing their jobs, having to pay rent or the mortgage, having to deal with childcare, frantic grocery shopping etc.

And Hillary Clinton is fucking talking about opening up the health insurance for millions without jobs to buy their health insurance. With what money, you rich dumbass?

[stone monkey]

Oh man, you guys are in so much trouble. This is deeply disturbing.

[amphibian]

stone monkey, on 04 April 2020 - 12:25 AM, said:

Oh man, you guys are in so much trouble. This is deeply disturbing.

It's worse than that.

The Trump/Kushner led feds are now seizing supplies ordered by the states (Massachusetts is the most recent example), then giving it to private contractors to sell on to other states at inflated prices.

https://www.wcvb.com...w-york/32021700

This confiscation of supplies is what led to the headlines involving the billionaire Robert Kraft using his private plane to go to China and bring N95 masks to Massachusetts.

The problem is that the journalists covering the latter aren't connecting the dots easily to the seizures ordered by Trump and others.

Now we're moving into a hold being put on selling masks to Canada - where all the wood pulp used to make the masks come from. It's complete jackassery and it's already killing thousands. A few months ago I was maintaining that GW Bush was a worse president for the hundreds of thousands that died in the Middle East, but Trump has a legit shot at eclipsing that death total without launching a war.

[stone monkey]

There's also this I guess there's never a bad time to take the opportunity to piss off your allies.

[amphibian]

And make your friends richer: https://twitter.com/...246751318802437

https://twitter.com/...247552430870528

[Terez]

amphibian, on 04 April 2020 - 01:36 AM, said:

A few months ago I was maintaining that GW Bush was a worse president for the hundreds of thousands that died in the Middle East, but Trump has a legit shot at eclipsing that death total without launching a war.

Don't forget Hurricane Maria. More loss of life than Katrina (which I lived through), and most deaths preventable.

[amphibian]

Terez, on 04 April 2020 - 02:13 AM, said:

amphibian, on 04 April 2020 - 01:36 AM, said:

A few months ago I was maintaining that GW Bush was a worse president for the hundreds of thousands that died in the Middle East, but Trump has a legit shot at eclipsing that death total without launching a war.

Don't forget Hurricane Maria. More loss of life than Katrina (which I lived through), and most deaths preventable.

I am shamefully admitting that I clean forgot about a million plus people being displaced, almost 2k deaths, and so much fumbling by the administration then. Damnit.

[Slow Ben]

To be fair, with constantly stacking fuckups and bullshit, it’s a lot to keep track of.

[Aptorian]

Trump apparently removed the watch dog overseeing the two trillion USD earmarked for Corona relief

https://www.politico...ht-panel-171943

I feel like we just entered Act 3 of the heist movie.

[Malankazooie]

It's some troubling shit. DJTJ and Eric gonna have one helluva hunting Safari (aka kill the last animal on endangered list vacation) soon.

[Macros]

how is that even allowed?

[Aptorian]

When you're a star they let you do it.

[Malankazooie]

Stephanie Grisham out as White House Press Secretary. She replaced Sarah Huckabee-Sanders. Grisham is unknown to most because she never held a WH press briefing. Which is, I don't know, the totality of the job.

Only the best people.

[Cause]

One more month of us politics and I’m going back to South Africa

Acting secretary of the navy resigned. What percentage of people are now acting, and how many people are the second round of acting heads.

[Lady Bliss]

If you go back to South Africa, take me with you.