Imagine if people put all this effort that they're using to defy public health orders into demanding the action necessary to make not opening their business manageable
The article doesn't say how many of those are actual positive tests, and how many are quarantined because of possibly coming into contact with one of the positive tests.
> “If Trump were the fascist that they pretend that he is, wouldn’t he have cracked down much, much harder on the unrest in the American streets?” Cortes said on The Steve Cortes Show on June 25, less than three weeks after the incident at Lafayette Square. “To be quite honest, you know, when there were people being bloodied, cops being attacked, businesses being smashed, I could have used a tad bit more of a fascist Trump.”
@TimStone Mentioning this in particular because it's not like the shooter was some unknown rando, it was someone who was on Fox and was clearly a bad person that the response was to shrug off, so idk
Trump Explodes After Nevada Approves Automatically Sending All Voters Mail-In Ballots talkingpointsmemo.com/news/…
> Trump claimed via Twitter that the measure, which aims to protect voters from the COVID-19 pandemic, will make it “impossible for Republicans to win the state,” reflecting his main grievance with vote-by-mail systems: that they supposedly hurt him politically, particularly in a swing state like Nevada.
> The President also claimed the the post office “could never handle the Traffic of Mail-In Votes without preparation,” which could indeed be the case considering that his own administration is implementing extensive procedural changes at the U.S. Postal Service that may jeopardize the agency’s ability to process mail-in ballots.
Trump really likes to say the quiet part out loud, doesn't he?
Or rather, I get it, but I don't get the stance that because God takes care of everything, it absolves them of responsibility of helping their fellow man.
The fact that most churches don't is apparently beside the point. They're supposed to, so the government shouldn't be taxing them as much.
@murgatroid99 He made that argument to. Give someone something, and they're just gonna want more.
Never mind that here, at least, it's cheaper to give a homeless person a basic apartment and food allowance than it is to continue draining the medical system.
But give them a place, and next thing you know, they'll want more. And more. And more. For nothing.
@Frank For Republicans, it's not about what would be cheaper for society. It's about making it or not on your own, and making sure that people suffer the consequences of their "personal failures"
He also believes the American medical system is better than Canada's, because there's no wait time.
@murgatroid99 And that's largely true. Quite a few things are. But pragmatically, allowing those people to be homeless or die just means your tax base shrinks. And that continues the spiral.
@Frank And yet, it's a system that has been fairly stable for a long time. I think it's more complex than just short term thinking.
If you look at things from the left, every instance of poverty, medical bankruptcy, homlessness, etc is a tragedy, and we should fix it, and fixing it will also be beneficial to society at large.
From the right, the economy is still chugging along, and the people who are "supposed" to be benefiting from that are, and what happens to the rest doesn't matter
threat of total misery is the only thing that keeps people working for starvation wages thus generating larger amounts of profit it's not exactly rocket science why the right thinks that it is good and cool that such a threat exists
"if you don't like your job just find a new one oh what's that you'd lose your health insurance if you left to look for a new one wow that sucks"
also I like when people say stuff like "there's no wait times in America!" as if you can just go to the doctor to get something done without insurance preapproval in a lot of cases
The right is kind of two groups. There's the rich, who are benefiting from the situation as Unionhawk describes, and then there's the not-so-rich who have been convinced that this situation is "right". And the latter group has their own rationalizations that don't really match the capitalist reasons
(it is in fact a bad thing and is the primary reason why health outcomes are consistently worse here than in I want to say every other developed country I forget)
> “The reports, including investigations into the president’s wealth and an article on the congressional testimony of his former lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, said that the president may have illegally inflated his net worth and the value of his properties to lenders and insurer,” said the Times.
It also feels like there are plenty more competent grifters to do this with than Jacob Wohl if you really couldn't just bring yourself to not, but here we are
Ah, but the Trump-O-Meter very helpfully points out that this is a BROKEN promise with the same moral value of breaking a promise to not cut medicaid etc
