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Sep 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Only 5 states have lower death rates than Germany, Maine, VT, WY, Hawaii, and Alaska. (3 Blue and 2 Red)
This will be waaay over Donnie Boy's head, but the reason states like NY, MA, and IL have high death rates is because they lots of international travel and Trump did nothing to prevent people from Europe from coming here and spreading the pandemic in February.
It is also important that the people in MN, WI, MI, NV, PA, and NC know that Donald Trump doesn't give a damn that they die.
Since some of the Trumpers don't like me comparing his track record with that of Angela Merkel's, red states like Florida and Texas have more than 30 times the death rate of Japan and 50 times the rate in South Korea. Trump has done a good job like the captain of the Titanic.

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Apr 8
This list of reasons from Damon Linker, on why the nation is unhappy, is fascinating for what it says about the nature of thinking in elite circles. Image
Note that some of these items are things in people's lives that they are likely to see themselves or through friends and family.
Those are things like rising rates of depression, suicide, chronic illness, and obesity.
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Mar 26
Ah yes, the good old days. I remember when Biden told Governor DeSantis that he wouldn't help Florida after Hurricane Idalia unless he said nice things about him whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Of course, Biden didn't do that. He did everything he could to help the victims in Florida as quickly as possible as any president should. Biden would have been impeached in a second if he tried in any way to make aid contingent on DeSantis praising him, as he should have been.
But applying the affirmative action standard for lazy sons of billionaires, we just accepted it as normal that Trump would extort praise from mayors and governors as a condition of getting pandemic assistance.
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Mar 17
@David_Charts They should require everyone reporting on the presidential campaign to read this. Reporters should know that the inflation the U.S. saw was not due to Biden, it was a worldwide story due to the pandemic and Russia's invasion.
@David_Charts I know reporters always say that people don't care about inflation in Germany and France, they care about inflation here. That may be true, but they should be constantly confronted with the fact that it was a worldwide pandemic, not Biden policies.
@David_Charts The current coverage would be like reporting on the housing shortage in New Orleans in 2006 without mentioning that the city had been devastated by Katrina.
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Mar 9
Your periodic reminder that the major media outlets are owned and controlled by people who will pay lower taxes with Donald Trump back in the White House
nytimes.com/2024/03/09/us/…
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Why does the NYT think it will be "challenging" for Biden to have to run on his record? He had record job creation, the longest streak of below 4.0 percent unemployment in half a century, by far the best growth of any major economy.
He also passed a major infrastructure bill that Trump bumbled with for his whole presidency. He passed the most important climate legislation ever. He made student loan repayment affordable for almost everyone, reduced drug costs for seniors,extended health insurance to millions.
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Mar 5
Just to quickly point out why some of us would be very happy to see Biden back in the White House, apart from keeping the dictator out, let's recount the record.
Biden's recovery act quickly boosted the economy back to full employment. We know Trump has problems with numbers, but employment growth had slowed sharply by the end of his term.
Biden's recovery package, which passed with zero R votes and over the yells and screams of many Democratic economists, quickly boosted the economy back to full employment.
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Feb 18
Since the Trump family and CNN commentators seem to have difficulty the nature of his fine in his fraud case, let me lay out the issues as simply as possible.
They claim since the loans were repaid with interest, no one was harmed. Let’s take a similar situation that would be closer to people’s ordinary lives to make the point.
Suppose someone applies for a mortgage who is unemployed and has no money in the bank. The bank then does their due diligence and calls a company that the person claims to work for, and demands a bank statement.
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