Rand Paul is outraged by the distribution of $600 he considers unearned, and the death of 300,000 people he considers unworthy is to him an acceptable price to pay to avoid distribution. No death rate could be too steep, any relief would be too high. He’d like to talk about soul.
We've seen conservative morality unmasked. Its prime principle is the belief that some people matter, the rest do not, and to spend a single dollar on someone who doesn't matter is a mortal sin, whereas using those deaths as pretext to further enrich people who matter is virtue.
Ask yourself: what would such people do in a larger emergency? What contingencies have they already devised for such an event?
What will they do as the earth warms and oceans rise? As water becomes scarce?
Any serious look at mid 19th century American history recognizes that Robert E Lee fought a treasonous war against his own country to preserve chattel slavery. I’m sorry if a generation raised on revisionist history and Rush Limbaugh doesn’t recognize that.
The funniest thing about dudes like this is the way they pompously assume we haven’t heard the bullshit apologist version of the Robert E Lee for our entire lives, and that our rejection of it is a result of lazy ignorance rather than earned awareness.
The Robert E Lee who abhorred slavery and only took up arms against his count with a great but honorable reluctance is literally the dominant cultural version of his story over the last century, and a cornerstone of white supremacist strategic rehabilitation of the Confederacy.
They're talking about a military coup right now and if it doesn't happen we're going to be told the best way to heal is pretending it never happened.
This is how abuse works.
3,000 people are dying a day and after nearly a year of this Congress is releasing the barest fraction of the economic relief needed to keep people safe and only in exchange for the promise that we can't sue those who endangered the dead.
This is how abuse works.
We have a president who spent 4 yrs lying every time he opened his mouth, obvious lies everyone knew were lies, which his followers believed mostly because the sight of them believing lies caused the rest of us distress, and they loved our distress.
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