How about people who are fat or smoke?
Or an open-borders supporter shot by an illegal alien?
Or gang members shot in a gang fight?
Or someone who contracted AIDS by engaging in unprotected sex?
Or a Democratic mayor shot by Antifa?
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Would you waste your energy on any of them?
And the honorable doctor deleted his tweet. He should probably delete his account too. He is a hospital physician who advocated not wasting energy on COVID patients who don't wear masks. He called them "COVID deniers" and said let them die so they learn COVID is not a hoax.
Here is one of the gems from Dr. Cleavon Gilman.
(h/t: @RoyalTXGirl)
And it turns out the right honorable Dr. Cleavon Gilman has been cleaving on quite a bit.
1. Progressive Administrations Suck at Saving Lives
New York Times, of all sources, explains how.
Progressive leaders in much of the world are now struggling to distribute coronavirus vaccines quickly and efficiently, as opposed to places with conservative governance.
2. Europe’s vaccination rollout “has descended into chaos,” as Sylvie Kauffmann of Le Monde, the French newspaper, has written. One of the worst performers is the Netherlands, which has given a shot to less than 2 percent of residents.
3. Canada (at less than 3 percent) is far behind the U.S. (about 8.4 percent), thanks to Trump administration's aggressive distribution of vaccines.
1. WSJ: Why Won’t the President Listen to the Experts?
President Joe Biden is still claiming the economy needs another massive “rescue” bill from Washington.
But even the Beltway economics establishment is rejecting his diagnosis.
2. The Congressional Budget Office, an institution created by Congress in 1974 to enable higher spending, is not exactly a bastion of free-market economics. But there’s no denying the strength in the private economy. And so CBO has now raised its expectations.
3. With a good policy mix the economy could advance even faster, but there’s now a clear consensus among economists that the U.S. is in growth mode. CBO opines:
1. The Meltup's Real-world Positive Consequences: AMC Edition!
Well, positive in the sense of having a beneficial impact on the balance sheet of a real world company, as opposed to banal warfare between computer algorithms. Here are the details -- full credit to AMC management.
2. Thanks to Reddit, AMC Entertainment has managed to take $700 million of debt off its balance sheet, as well as raising $506 million of fresh cash in the stock market.
3. The movie-theater chain converted $100 million of junior debt into equity on Monday, while also raising fresh equity capital. Then, on Thursday, it announced that $600 million of senior debt had also been converted into equity, at a price of $13.51 per share.
1. GameStop: A Morality Play Or A Societal Clusterf*ck
A half-forgotten and unprofitable videogame retailer is bizarrely on the lips of the nation, because the GameStop story touches on economic and cultural forces that affect everyone, whether they own any stock or not.
2. In most Wall Street fights, the broader public doesn't have a rooting interest. This one — where a group of small traders won a multibillion-dollar bet against giant hedge funds — is different.
3. The core GameStop story is a simple morality tale. A scrappy and happy band of Wall Street outsiders, armed with little more than moxie and their stimulus checks, have not only made millions for themselves, but have also humbled big-name fund managers.
Trump Economy's Stunning Resilience
[Now watch Biden fritter it all away]
"NYT: BREAKING NEWS
The U.S. economy grew 1 percent in the fourth quarter, a 4 percent annual rate. It was a slowdown, but 2020 wasn’t as bad as feared last spring."
1. WSJ: This isn't 2009
That is a polite way to say Bidenomics is unnecessary.
President Joe Biden is still claiming there’s an economic crisis to justify trillions of dollars in new federal spending. But it’s getting harder to make the case.
2. Commerce Department reported that real GDP increased at an annual rate of 4% in the 4th quarter of 2020. This follows the historic 33.4% surge in the 3rd quarter and demonstrates a remarkable rebound from the spring shutdowns wherever governors have been willing to allow it.
They are impeaching him for "inciting insurrection" with these precise words on January 6, around 1:00pm.
Donald Trump: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically get your voices heard."
That is some incitement!
That's not say that Trump did not commit an impeachable offense. In my eyes, he did. But "inciting insurrection" or "inciting violence" was not it. He did not do that. If he was still in office, he should have been impeached for "dereliction of duty" after the violence broke out.