Tuesday, April 28, 2020

The Biden Trap

This doesn't look good for Biden...but not voting for him would only help Trump--someone with some 60 allegations of sexual assault and rape, and whose other behavior and policies toward women are deplorable:

https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/the-biden-trap-woman-vice-president.html

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Our love of the cloud is making a green energy future impossible

This is going to be a big problem if we want to fight climate change:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/25/our-love-of-the-cloud-is-making-a-green-energy-future-impossible/

Kentucky’s gravy train is now in danger, thanks to Mitch McConnell’s heartless greed

We need to keep making it clear that blue states subsidize red states:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/25/1940305/-Kentucky-s-gravy-train-is-now-in-danger-thanks-to-Mitch-McConnell-s-heartless-greed

Why people stick with Trump and Fox News—even when hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19 lies do harm

Doubling down on stupid out of spite:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939713/-Why-people-stick-with-Trump-and-Fox-when-the-lies-on-hydroxychloroquine-and-COVID-19-do-them-harm

White House reporters kept their cool and kept demanding answers despite Trump's bullying meltdown

Calling out his narcissism:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/20/1938833/-During-daily-press-bashings-Donald-Trump-s-deadly-failures-take-center-stage

Maryland agency receives more than 100 disinfectant use calls

Because of Trump's thoughtlessness and stupidity, people are actually considering ingesting disinfectants:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-updates-china-reports-covid-19-deaths-9th/story?id=70324535

and

https://www.miamitimesonline.com/covid-19_hub/man-drinks-a-bottle-of-rubbing-alcohol-for-covid-19/article_0a2a9cfa-8626-11ea-a76a-07f198b5e75f.html

Four possible post-coronavirus futures

Well, at least a couple aren't too bad:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-d7e4942f-d939-48b1-9204-f6a51b78c1bf.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1

It's way worse than feared

A reality check for how long this will be the new normal:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-83d3b863-c263-4d32-a5f2-eb2de052a75f.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

Friday, April 24, 2020

Republicans rail against 'Blue State Bailouts' while Red America bleeds the country dry

More Republican hypocrisy:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939763/-Republicans-rail-against-Blue-state-bailouts-while-Red-America-bleeds-the-country-dry

Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion

Just to put the daily routine of incompetence into perspective:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html

Trump Spent Years Undermining Global Charities Now Crucial To Fighting Coronavirus

Some garnish on Trump's pudding of evil:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-global-health-coronavirus-pandemic_n_5ea08e65c5b6a486d0834dda

Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon

Well, he keeps claiming Biden is beholden to China, and whatever he accuses others of being guilty of doing is inevitably something he himself is guilty of doing:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475

Trump Ponders Whether Light Or Disinfectant Injections Can ‘Cure’ Coronavirus

How can anyone be so utterly stupid? He HAS to know a lot of his followers believe everything he says, and some of them WILL try drinking bleach, right? And some of them will die. Not that we'll miss them, but their blood is on his hands:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-suggests-injecting-disinfectant-light-fight-coronavirus_n_5ea218a0c5b6d376358c7711

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Monday, April 20, 2020

We are Living in a Failed State

The Democrats aren’t perfect, but they are not so deeply evil and ignorant as the Republicans:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/

What the protesters want, and what will happen if they get it

Something to show idiot protesters who are demanding a stop to social distancing and other interventions:


In 'Everything Trump Touches Dies,' Few Are Spared

This is an older story, but an example of yet another prominent Republican--Rick Wilson--trashing Trump:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/07/635978021/in-everything-trump-touches-dies-few-are-spared

House Democrats propose $2,000 monthly payments to Americans

Perhaps an actual universal basic income is indeed on its way:

Piers Morgan Says Trump Is Failing America With Self-Serving Briefings

And ANOTHER prominent Republican (Trump's FRIEND, no less) speaking out against Trump:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-piers-morgan-failing-america-cnn_n_5e9d092cc5b63c5b5870ba66

Florida’s economy is collapsing under COVID-19, and only Republicans are to blame

Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis are a couple more Republican assholes who need to be voted out of office:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/18/1929884/-Rick-Scott-s-78-million-unemployment-website-was-designed-to-fail-but-that-s-not-the-worst-of-it?detail=emaildkre

This is how Trump supporters treated nurses in downtown Denver

This is why it's perfectly reasonable to consider Trump supporters to be both stupid and evil:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/19/1938740/-This-is-how-Trump-supporters-treated-nurses-in-downtown-Denver?detail=emaildkre

This Is Trump’s Fault

Another prominent conservative eloquently tears Trump a new one. This excellent article walks through the timeline of Trump's truly terrible response to the pandemic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/americans-are-paying-the-price-for-trumps-failures/609532/

Monday, April 13, 2020

Fox News host hits back at Trump over Chris Wallace criticism: 'Enough'

I just love seeing stuff like this. And The Hill is a conservative website, too:

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/492446-fox-news-host-hits-back-at-trump-over-chris-wallace-criticism-enough

How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

He's still ahead, but his allies are getting angry with him and his challenger has a good shot:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief

Op-Ed: Get ready for the recovery of the 1%

The government protects the already wealthy, not so much those who are struggling:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/op-ed-get-ready-for-the-recovery-of-the-1percent.html

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

Democrats MUST make use of this info in the elections:

California declares (rhetorical) independence from the undemocratic Trumpian States of America

It's nice living in a state with so much clout:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/10/1934848/-California-declares-rhetorical-independence-from-the-undemocratic-Trumpian-States-of-America

Putting the various pandemics into perspective

NOTHING compares to the Spanish flu:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fxucds/for_everyone_asking_why_i_didnt_include_the/

Could the Pandemic Wind Up Fixing What’s Broken About Work in America?

Some possible things to look forward to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-future-work-america.html

Monday, April 6, 2020

Interactive Media Bias Chart® 5.0

Here is a much better version of the Media Bias Chart, since it's interactive and allows you to select just the media source you want:

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/?v=402f03a963ba

The Coming Red-State Coronavirus Catastrophe

Well, well. There's a possibility the pandemic will take out a lot of Trump voters simply because of their stupid culture wars and stupid politics:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2020/04/the-coming-red-state-coronavirus-catastrophe/

How biased is your favorite news source? This chart will tell you.

This is where to check to see if your media source of choice is biased:

https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/media-bias-chart

America needs to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House

And this is horrifying, showing how evil Republicans can get:

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/america-needs-to-plan-now-in-case-trump-loses-in-november-but-refuses-to-leave-the-white-house/

‘It's a shit sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump

This is very encouraging for showing voters how incompetent Republicans are:

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/03/its-a-sh-sandwich-republicans-rage-as-florida-becomes-a-nightmare-for-trump-1271172

Robert Reich: 12 Myths About Taxing the Rich

Of course these are spread by Republicans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnoLAMHwf2I&feature=youtu.be

Instead of just flattening the COVID-19 curve, can we 'crush' it?

If only humanity could organize better:

https://www.livescience.com/can-covid-19-be-crushed.html