The Evening Blues - 12-20-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 12/20/2019 - 3:55pm

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) today announced formal articles of impeachment against President Bernard "Bernie" Sanders. The articles passed the Republican-majority House of Representatives in a non-partisan vote, with all Republicans and fifty-five Democrats voting for while a handful of Democrats voted against.
‘House approves Trump’s flagship US-Mexico-Сanada trade deal, day after impeachment vote’, 19 Dec, 2019, RT.com
“The US House of Representatives has given the green light to a trade deal between the US, Canada and Mexico that would replace NAFTA, known as the USMCA, passing the bill on to the Senate for another vote.
The sweeping trade deal was passed in the House on Thursday 385-41 and is set for a Senate vote sometime after the new year. If signed into law, the deal would establish new rules for commerce between the three countries, supplanting the longstanding North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

To combat global warming, Amy Klobuchar wants to build a 'fridge to the next century', presumably to cryogenically freeze the Dem establishment and preserve its uselessness well past the 2100 primaries.

Today diary is a little depressing. It was not the intention when I started writing, As computer technology continues its expansion into our healthcare system and personal care choices our privacy continues to decrease.
The CVS is closing. January 2; last day. It didn’t burn. But first it had to wait for the town to reopen. Then there was the water problem. Too, it was yellowtagged; though the building itself didn’t burn, the fire burnt trees out back black, and these had to be cleared, before the doors could open. The CVS people did that. Put in all new landscaping.
But corporate, it had set quotas. And the town, reduced from 25,000 people, to something like 2000, these quotas: the Paradise CVS, could not meet. And so, now. It is over.
This is the story of how Heather opened the town. Because it's kind of like a Christmas story.

The Trump Administration's War On The Poor has been extremely successful.
His full-court press against poor children getting health care was a resounding victory (818,000 fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP).

Something to keep in mind…
Bernie’s Climate plan:
• is the most comprehensive in scale & mechanisms
• costs $16 trillion over 15 years
• pays for itself
• promises to take on the fossil fuel billionaires
to whom we have been paying $642B/yr in subsidies
• costs $16T over 15 years (a bit over $1T/yr) minus $642B/yr fossil fuel subsidy yields a cost of $450B/yr

