If you have what Joe McCarthy called "fellow travelers" as your Facebook friends, you've heard this narrative: "Omigod we all have to vote for Joe Biden because Donald Trump is a FASCIST!" I wrote a diary about this topic back in April: "The Trump-As-Dictator narrative." In this old diary, I wrote:
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America is on life support.
In a matter of hours, the Democrats and Republicans are going to end expanded unemployment insurance benefits and pull the plug.
Incomes will crash 52-72%. This is uncharted territory, foljs. #EvictCongress#coronavirus pic.twitter.com/QBmZSb1zhd
— Nick Brana - #PeoplesParty (@nick_brana) July 25, 2020
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi against temporary extension to enhanced jobless benefits
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday she was not considering a temporary extension to enhanced unemployment benefits, which expire on July 31, while Congress continues work on a new coronavirus relief bill.
These two tweets, just a few hours apart, speaks volumes about the sad state of journalism and politics in America today. I personally really like David Sirota.
NEWS: @JoeBiden just explicitly promised his Wall Street donors that he will not push any legislation to change corporate behavior.
Some are castigating Trump for his crackdown on protesters in Portland while excusing Obama for his crackdown on the Occupy Movement in 2011. They have apparently forgotten just how evil Obama's actions were. Here's an excellent reminder by Naomi Wolf from The Guardian's December 29, 2012 issue.
Looking at the coming landslide for Sleepy Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, I have been ruefully trying to sort through the thought process of people who imagine that there is a meaningful difference between the Blue and the Red, and it occurred to me that American politics has abandoned the mundane and the corporeal and moved on to metaphysics.
Minnesota lawmakers pass sweeping package of police accountability measures. Note: this was bipartisan. https://t.co/alolKzGU3e
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) July 21, 2020
The Mask, The Real Mask and Nothing but the Mask
It’s not just the mask, it’s the fit. Again we are faced (no pun intended) with conflicting information, much of which changes from day to day as new studies appear. There is a lot more science on masking up. Here’s what I could find that is recent and relevant.
