In clear language, @andrewcuomo's health department directed nursing homes to admit covid-positive patients. They protested - at least one asked if they could be moved to Javitz, or the Navy ship. Request denied. Cuomo is now engaging in the most incandescent gaslighting...
Did he say that the Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House rejected Rick Scott's plan and similar statements by a handful of Republicans? Nope - that's not "what Biden said tonight." What Biden said was what his administration and Dems have been saying for months,...
...that "Republicans want to take away your Social Security and Medicare and we won't allow it." Despite the Herculean efforts of Dems and media to spin it as a brilliant display of negotiation by Biden, what actually occurred was the Republicans in the chamber rose up against...
...the lie that the party intended to cut SS & Medicare and ruined Biden's scripted rant promising to veto the imaginary legislation. He didn't negotiate - he got publicly rebuked for trying to tell that lie in front of the entire party and pretended their refusal to allow him...
This, my friends, is what we call a lie of omission. It's of a piece with "I created 11 million jobs." Both statements are attempts to spread disinformation - the same disinformation Biden and his party claim to be the biggest threat to Democracy and ascribe exclusively to...
..."far-right ultra-MAGA Republicans." Every time Biden or anyone in the Dem party say he created 11 million jobs but fail to acknowledge that 90 or more percent of those jobs were simply re-filling the jobs temporarily lost during the pandemic shutdown and reclaimed once...
...businesses re-opened, they're systematically spreading disinformation. This tweet by Biden omits the obvious context that would ruin the "Republicans want to make you 30% poorer" narrative - that the increase in sales tax would follow the elimination of income, payroll, SS &
Halfway through the Ray Epps interview transcript and holy shit @RepKinzinger and @RepAdamSchiff need to explain what motivated them and staff to question him like defense lawyers questioning their client. If the reason ISN'T that he was working for a government agency then...
...whatever the other reason is must be a fucking doozy, because they repeatedly lead him away from danger and into the most implausible excuses and explanations of his actions. Once they lead him to the answer they need on the record to keep him out of trouble, they...
...immediately accept it, however implausible and begging for objective follow-up, and move on to the next "right wing talking point" they need him to find a way to rebut. Epps out on the street Jan 5th telling everyone he may get arrested for saying it but everybody needs to...
You said that about $190 billion ago, @rweingarten. Give me and 10 of my colleagues the $190B and I guarantee you we would have resolved your imaginary testing, mask, ventilation, vaccine and booster excuses and had every school in America open in 3 months. With real teachers.
It's like saying, "Woe is me - I can't get to work because I don't make enough money to fix my car - I need the government to help me" and the government gives you 30 cars and two years later you still haven't made it into work.
I've got 3.8 billion per state, if divided equally. For Florida, that's 51.3 million for each of their 74 school districts. With about 4300 K-12 schools, that's about 880,000 per school. Now think about what it'll cost to meet the @rweingarten imaginary threshold for opening.