My parents are in their 70s. Neither with any college. Dad barely graduated high school. Both independent voters. Neither of them needed to research Hawley to know that he was trouble. /1
I’m glad people are finally starting to properly vet Josh Hawley. I can forgive voters for not having the time or resources to delve into Hawley’s history. But it’s tough for me to forgive people like frmr Senator John Danforth or frmr Ambassador Sam Fox. /2
Tough to forgive never-Trumpers who mused in 2018, that Hawley, like Nikki Haley, would be the future of a resuscitated, post-Trump GOP; that Hawley might return the GOP to true conservatism. /3
Tough to forgive the media which should have covered more of not only his past but his record and lies. Hawley supported RTW the same year Missouri defeated RTW. Hawley was suing to end the ACA while running ads saying he supported protections for pre-existing conditions. /4
Tough to forgive my local news media who even after Hawley started appearing on Fox spouting Trump’s conspiracies continued to treat Hawley like a serious statesman. /5
And it’s certainly tough to forgive people on the left who saw Hawley’s moves to support $1200 COVID relief checks, social media reforms, tech crack-downs as anything other than populist moves to promote the one and only person Hawley seeks to serve - himself.
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I don’t have time to be all fancy and eloquent but I’ve been listening to news today including Biden’s remarks, economists, etc. IMHO, the COVID relief is today’s ACA. We need a full-court press on this like we did for the ACA. Really. /1
For years, constituents of Republican members of Congress were fed lies about the ACA through TV appearances, radio interviews, newsletters and emails. They believed those lies even as the majority of them were benefitting from the ACA’s consumer protections and /2
expanded coverage. It wasn’t until the ACA was under real threat that everybody went to school on it. And it made a difference. IMHO, Democrats should bypass members of Congress. We need to sell this COVID package to the people in plain and simple terms. /3
“Economists at Kansas State found that farmers were paid up to as much as 8x their estimated losses from trade friction in 2018....The trade relief payments drove up net farm income by 12% in 2019”.
“One study suggested that the department had paid out more than was actually lost...While the government paid $28B in 2018 and 2019, he estimate that through mid-2019, the trade wars actually cost farmers about half of that.”
December 31st - Chinese scientists informed the WHO about a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. Within two weeks, the Chinese had sequenced the virus. Within days, German scientists had developed a test that could identify a unique part of the virus’ DNA.
January 17th - WHO adopted the German test, publishing technical guidelines and working with private companies to produce testing kits.
From farmers in rural Missouri to my neighbors in Missouri’s 2nd District, this is what happens when you vote against your own self-interests. /1 washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
There are computer models that can help farmers navigate and plan for a changing climate. Except no one can access the program because the researcher who ran the program quit when the FDA moved to Kansas City. /2
Farmers are complaining that the staff upheaval, a result of Trump’s decision to move the FDA, has made it harder to access information they need. /3
Ivanka and Jr. nearly indicted for fraud but then Daddy gives the NY prosecutor a campaign donation. /2 propublica.org/article/ivanka…
As vice-presidents of Trump Organization, they are implicated in whatever the hell is going on with the “inconsistencies” in the tax records for the Trump Tower Chicago. propublica.org/article/trump-…