As always, please go to the links for the full articles/ op eds.
We always knew what they were, but the "debate" over the coronavirus relief bill has flushed out those
hypocritical, sociopathic Republicans:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Friday that more than a third of Republican senators will
not vote for any coronavirus relief package, underscoring division with
his caucus.
"I think there are 15-20 of my guys that are not
going to vote for anything. ... It's a statement of the obvious that we
will not have everybody on our side," McConnell told WHAS, a Kentucky radio station.
McConnell's
estimate comes as congressional Democrats and the administration are
struggling to reach an agreement after days of talks about a potential
fifth coronavirus package as cases climb across the country and an
economy bludgeoned by the pandemic. [snip]
McConnell, asked why a sizable portion of his conference is opposed to
another bill, noted the growing size of the country's debt after
Congress has already appropriated nearly $3 trillion in the previous
four coronavirus bills. (our emphasis)
The "
debt"!?!? Where was their concern when they were shoveling a trillion dollars into the pockets of their oligarch donors in 2017?
Peter Principle princeling
Jared "Mr. Ivanka Trump" Kushner and
Princess Ivanka have done quite well for themselves while
performing botching their White (Supremacist) House duties. Seems a little swampy:
Ivanka
Trump and Jared Kushner earned at least $36.2 million as they served in
the White House last year, reporting a boost in income from some
companies they own that hold residential and commercial properties, new
disclosures released Friday show.
President
Trump’s daughter and her husband, who serve as top advisers to him,
reported a minimum combined income that was at least $7 million higher
than in 2018, when they reported making at least $29 million, according to their personal financial disclosures, which they are required to file annually.
Their
minimum income was lower last year than it was in 2017, the year they
entered government service, when they reported earning at least $82 million, the disclosures show.
However,
it is impossible to determine the exact amount that the couple earned
or their net worth, because documents they are required to file with the
Office of Government Ethics require administration officials to only
report the worth of assets and liabilities in ranges.
Still, the filings, which were submitted last month and released Friday,
show that the couple continue to collect huge sums from their outside
businesses even as they work inside the administration. Their combined
income last year ranged from $36.2 million to $157 million, according to
a Washington Post analysis of the disclosures. (our emphasis)
Not that any of this accumulated wealth resulted from their practice of leveraging their names or positions to
get bailouts or
favored treatment. Oh, no, no!
Paul Krugman writes about the
"nightmare boss" Trump is for the country, and why he'll be "fired":
Thanks to Republican inaction, millions
of unemployed workers have seen their last checks from the Pandemic
Unemployment Compensation program, which was meant to sustain them
through a coronavirus-ravaged economy; the virus is still raging, but
their life support has been cut off.
So
Trump has completely botched his job, bringing unnecessary pain to
millions of Americans and unnecessary death to thousands. He may not
care, but voters do. So he should be trying to turn things around, if
only as a matter of political and personal self-interest.
But
here’s the thing: Even if Trump were the kind of guy who could learn
from his mistakes, it’s too late. If we had found ourselves in our
current situation a year ago, there might still have been time for Trump
to get the virus under control and turn the economy around. But the
election is just around the corner.
Suppose that the numbers on deaths and
jobs were to get somewhat better over the next three months. How much
would that improve voters’ views of the denier in chief? How much
credence would the public give, even to genuinely good news, after the
false dawn this past spring? At this point Trump is simply a failed
president, and everyone except his die-hard supporters knows it.
But as I said at the beginning, Trump is one of those nightmare bosses who can’t do the job but won’t step aside. (our emphasis)
ProPublica explores
the problems with reporting coronavirus data, especially after the Trump regime decided to intrude in the process:
In
mid-July, the Trump administration instructed hospitals to change the
way they reported data on their coronavirus patients, promising the new
approach would provide better, more up-to-the-minute information about
the virus’s toll and allow resources and supplies to be quickly
dispatched across the country.
Instead,
the move has created widespread confusion, leaving some states in the
dark about their hospitals’ remaining bed and intensive care capacity
and, at least temporarily, removing this information from public view.
As a result, it has been unclear how many people are in hospitals being
treated for COVID-19 at a time when the number of infected patients
nationally has been soaring.
Just as under the guise of "reform and streamlining" the Trump regime is
bollixing USPS mail delivery to impede mail- in voting, so too are they attempting to bottleneck data medical professionals need to address the spread of the pandemic for the short- term, self- defeating purpose of downplaying the threat of the virus.
As always,
Infidel 753 has compiled a link round-up of scores of interesting topics from around the Internet. Additional prodding should not be necessary at this point.
