“There is particular fear among Republicans in Trump-heavy districts who voted against the GOP’s doomed bid to overturn the election results,” Politico reported Monday. “Many came home last week to find constituents — preachers, school superintendents, churchgoing men and women — cheering on the effort rather than condemning it, according to multiple GOP lawmakers.”
One Republican explained why Trump supporters are more dangerous than activists on the left.
Don’t worry about it. It’s probably another “hoax.”
“’Everyone at the negotiating table—including Senate Rs—has agreed to a compromise. Except one. Mitch McConnell is refusing to bring it to the floor unless it wipes away all COVID-related lawsuits filed that “allege injury or death” due to corporate negligence,’ Porter tweeted.
”’These lawsuits represent the worst of the worst examples of disregard for human life—cases filed on behalf of nursing home patients and grocery store workers who died because the company in charge of keeping them safe prioritized cutting costs over protecting them,’ she continued.
…“The California lawmaker added that McConnell has said that [t]rump is ‘100% within his rights’ to launch legal challenges to the presidential election against President-elect Joe Biden, but the top Republican is now ‘refusing to pass urgently-needed relief unless it strips those same rights from the most vulnerable among us.’”
‘Someone’s gonna get shot. Someone’s gonna get killed. And it’s not right. It has to stop’ — This Georgia elections official called out Trump for failing to condemn the threats of violence against elections workers
They are safe and back to normal life. No more lock downs. No more social distancing. Stores, restaurants, public transportation – all fully reopened. Weddings, graduations, and birthday parties are once again being celebrated. Their leaders are now shifting their focus to economic recovery. And they achieved it with
just 1,504 cases and 22 deaths
reported nationally.
Many have applauded the announcement, including Helen Clarke, a former prime minister of New Zealand, who posted on Twitter: “Clear leadership & an engaged public have produced this result.“
New Zealand had 0.45 deaths per 100,000 people, and a 1.5% fatality among COVID-19 cases. By contrast, the US has had 35.05
deaths per 100,000 people
and a 5.6% fatality among cases. [source] And that’s just so far (6/13/20) – it will get worse, with the pandemic still raging and infections still spiking.
I have seen too many people resigned to this dismal response as unquestionable fact, saying things like ‘there’s nothing to be done’ or ‘we just have to tough it out’ or ‘America’s had the best pandemic response in the world’. One person asked me, ‘they’re doing everything they can, what more do you want?‘
This. This is what I want. Competent leadership that makes fact-based decisions and values expertise. Strong leadership that values human life over money.
Decisive leadership that acts to mitigate a crisis, not inflame it.
[h/t Rex Chapman for the Zoom video above. – eds.]
You’ll never hear this kind of language on Meet the Press.
Ned Staebler, a Wayne County Board Member of Canvassers, called out BY NAME the two election officials who last night tried to erase the votes of Black people in Detroit by refusing to certify the vote in Wayne County. After hours of outrage and turmoil (and a sure sense that the Democratic governor and Secretary of State were going to have none of this) the two relented and certified the vote after all.
These two racists are William Hartman and Monica Palmer. Say THEIR names. Ned Staebler did.
After pointing out that the two Republicans were objecting to the Black district vote but not white district votes which had more discrepancies, Staebler named names and said the word “racist.”
And THIS, my friends, is how you talk about Republicans when they suppress the Black vote, which they always do:
