Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized yesterday with the coronavirus. Now there is nobody left in Donald Trump’s orbit to claim that the election was stolen. Well, nobody but Trump himself. So Trump will go down like the worst losers do, alone and raving, deserted by allies and maybe even family.
I really hope the Dems are able to pull off a miracle and elect two senators from the previously red state of Georgia. The main reason for this is because we desperately need to get rid of Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader.
The Majority Leader gets to decide, unilaterally, which business comes up for a vote in the Senate. Which is why he was able to block Merrick Garland’s appointment to the Supreme Court. McConnell can block any appointment to the judiciary, as well as Biden’s cabinet picks, if he wants to.
Believe it or not, I can understand why some people vote for Donald Trump, more than I can understand why McConnell keeps getting reelected.
Once again we see the pattern of Republicans spending like drunken sailors when they are in power, and then becoming deficit hawks when they lose power. During the George W Bush administration, VP Dick Cheney famously said “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.”
Cheney was talking about the midterm elections, which the GOP had won. Despite prosecuting two expensive wars, the Republicans wanted to cut taxes for the rich, but Treasury secretary Paul O’Neill objected because growing budget deficits posed a threat to the economy. Cheney was saying that the voters don’t care about deficits. He was right, the wealthy got their tax cuts, and O’Neill was fired.
Now, with Biden about to assume the presidency and the coronavirus pandemic completely out of control, the Republicans suddenly care about deficits again. In reality, they want to cripple the Biden administration and then blame the resulting economic problems on the Democrats.
They did that with Obama, after they then handed the new president an economy in freefall. Now, they are doing the same thing with a pandemic that they are continuing to refuse to fight. Will Americans be fooled again?
The NY Times has posted a simple interactive tool “Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line” that will give you an idea of how soon you might be able to receive a vaccine for Covid-19.
For some strange reason, he did it from behind a rather tiny desk. Maybe White House staffers are secretly replacing his desk with a slightly smaller one each day, to nudge him out.
This mini resolute desk will never not make me laugh.
Planning on having multiple people over for a traditional, in-person Thanksgiving dinner? If you are dying to do that, this year that might be literally true.
According to one study “About 40% of Americans plan to attend a Thanksgiving gathering with 10 or more people.” Here’s a sobering map from the Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham.
If you have more than ten people, your odds increase.
I’ll be participating in a Zoomsgiving, where existing households will each have their own Thanksgiving dinners, connected to other households of family and friends over the internet. I’d rather see a few additional turkeys die than any of my loved ones.
The stooges in the White House have gone absolutely insane. The main stooge isn’t Donald Trump anymore, it is Rudy Giuliani, who seems to have gone totally insane. As for the third stooge, I vote for Lindsey Graham, who appears to have committed felony election fraud in his effort to install Trump as dictator for life.
Besides appearing to melt down (literally!) today, Giuliani also seems to have lost his memory when he dropped their Michigan ballot lawsuit, claiming that they had achieved their goal of getting the state to decline to certify the election results, when in fact the state had certified the results. Is he that out of touch?
Jodi Doering is an emergency room Registered Nurse, working in South Dakota.
That’s right, she is seeing patients who are dying of Covid-19, but they believe the propaganda, misinformation, and outright lies spewed by Donald Trump and the right-wing media, that their last words before they die are that the pandemic is a hoax and that they will be fine. Their last breaths are not used to talk to their loved ones, or to get their affairs in order. Instead, they are angry and in denial about being told they have contracted Covid-19.
South Dakota ER nurse Jodi Doering says her coronavirus patients often “don’t want to believe that Covid is real."
“Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real.’ And when they should be… FaceTiming their families, they’re filled with anger and hatred.” pic.twitter.com/OrJnzdr0iw
