March 16 is day 76 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, Discord 2, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.5.11 by the Mayan Long Count
and/or Debate Open Thread.
Did you hear? Biden is adopting one plan each from his rivals (Sanders and Warren)! There you have it: proof that progressives can have a real impact. We can now rest assured that no matter who wins the Democratic primary contest, we're going to get the most progressive administration ever.
"How are you going to pay for it?" Asks absolutely no one ever when it comes to the big banks.
How things can change in just a couple weeks.
This was the xenophobic headline at the start of the month.
Some local evidence:
Mr. wd called me from Cortez, CO at the beginning of his grocery-shopping misadventure early on Saturday morning. To put it mildly, he was agog, agape, and aghast during his first stop at Walmart. What he found were empty shelves where OTC pain relievers, etc., toilet paper, kleenex, paper towels, and likely paper napkins (he hadn’t checked), should have been. Most canned foods were also absent, and the wage slaves he’s friendly with reported that the meat aisle was likewise…empty. They were all horrified at the mammoth cartloads of shelf-stable foods being tugged about. Meat? Unless the shoppers had large freezers…well, not so stable.
Around the time of the 2016 election it became popular to revive the word "fascism." Trump was a fascist, we were told. No, I argued, Trump isn't a fascist. A fascist would disdain democracy; Trump is bad, but he's not quite there yet, and besides, "fascism" is a word belonging to an earlier period of history, a period of expanding capitalism. Our period is one of declining capitalism.
Hey, guys.
Here's some news that might be useful for people. ACE Inhibitors and ARBs (used to keep blood pressure under control) and everyday ibuprofen (Advil, etc.) seem to make dying from COVID-19 more likely if you happen to get infected:
