⏰ Now is the time to question everything - Day 4 ⏰
1/3 Sadly, fed regulatory agencies, courts, safety analysts & more have monetized the value of a life. Agency values, around $10M. Now, 53,931 Americans are dead fm #COVID. Crudely put, a $549B loss. #LiberateAmerica my ass.
2/3 As a #veteran, it's no surprise to me the value of a service member who dies on active duty is unconscionably low--$100K. The Death Gratuity aka a "tip" is given to next of kin.
Survivors of dead vets get a $300-$2,000 Burial Benefit.
Thank you for your service, my ass.
3/3 I'd like to think my family and friends would say I am priceless.
1/7 Yes, of course you're right @JoeBiden. But WTH was that?!?
*Insert Trump Tornado emoji ---> 🌪️
I'm retired #Military, sir. USA & AF w/WH duty.
Well done. But know that I about crossed the 4th Wall here:
🌪️#TrumpChaos Debate: Vet's Take - 2/7
POTUS-elect #Biden: And speaking of my son & the way you talk about the military; the way you talk about them being losers & being suckers. My son was in Iraq-spent a year there. He got the Bronze Star. He got the Distinguished SVS Medal...
2/5 JP has COVID. Thankfully, he's well enough to still be at home but we can see our friend is struggling. ~ Realizing that life & love is precious, he & Regina chose to wait no longer to join their lives. Need a lift? Witness their love here:
1/4 I was born & raised in Corning, NY. Ya know like, Corelle Ware, Pyrex, Steuben Glass? That “Little Blue Flower & a Whole Lot More?” Flood of ‘72? During the holidays, an @Corning building reads, NOEL. Now it reads:
2/4 My brother is now Mayor of Corning & so is called upon to unite its residents & help keep them safe. Here, an excerpt of his message to the city, printed in the @TheNewsLeader1. The same paper for which my dad was a reporter & City Editor.
3/4 The Mayor of Corning, aka, brother Billy, is also a pointillist artist. Check out this piece he did way back in 2004. It’s called “Martian Flowers.” Remind you of anything?
*enter Twilight Zone 🎶🎵
Thanks @NBCNightlyNews@maddow and @AP for telling the resistance story. Our #CloseTheCamps action in Buffalo called out the real estate moguls who are renting office space to ICE & DHS, thus profiting from state-sponsored child abuse. I’m a #veteran. I got arrested.
As the Buffalo 9 occupied an intersection at the ICE field office until arrested, we wore on our backs the name of a child who died in custody, at the hands of the U.S. gov’t. And so, 7-year old Jakelin Caal Maquin stood with me to say, #CloseTheCampsNow ! @Lights4Liberty @Rosie