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Well, today, let's hope Georgians put McConnell in his place where he belongs -- in the minority. And, tomorrow, let the Republican shitshow commence.
I have a dream (apologies to MLK)...
It's a world where authoritarian fascism backfires on Republicans and becomes their worst nightmare. Their votes are all deemed fraudulent and never counted -- you know, just because. They can't have guns, own huge gas-guzzling pickups, display huge gaudy flags, log on to the internet, or attend all-white churches. They can only earn the minimum wage, can't have affordable insurance, affordable housing, food stamps, welfare, or education past high school -- just enough "ejukashun" to work ditch-digging jobs till they drop dead since they're also banned from ever retiring. And in congressional debates, they just have to STFU! (WARNING: very crude and offensive link; apologies to Teletubbies.)
When there's a pandemic, they get rounded up and put in crowded cages far away from other human beings, where they're forbidden from wearing facemasks, can't get inoculated, or have access to doctors, nurses, or ICU beds, and their deaths are recorded as nothing more than from the "common flu."
Oh yeah, and when there's a neocon greedy corporate resource war to fight, guess who gets drafted first and finds themselves in a foxhole on the front lines with substandard weapons, armor, artillery backup, and air support because of rampant corruption in the privatized "defense" industry.
Fortunately (because I'm a liberal and think all people must be treated fairly and equally regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, politics, etc.), my karmic fantasy should never be realized. But we can always make fun of the stupid-fckng-lying-hypocritical bastards -- you know, all that free-speech stuff. 🤣
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Trump not allowed into Scotland to escape Biden inauguration, Sturgeon warns
I think that people that want to buy weapons that are designed to kill humans should have to take the MMPI. It is used at a lot of industrial sites to allow people to work. Because I have been to a lot of different sites I have taken it a lot. Personally I think it is good to know if you are considered crazy, depressed or normal.
https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/general/what-is-the-mmpi-test-and-what...
If you have not listened to the Trump tape, you should. When you listen to it you have to realize that he has done this to every close voting state. His Evangelical Lawyer is in the backgound at times and does not advise him that what he is doing is illegal. The Republicans should be demanding impeachment, just to save their soul.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/03/politics/trump-brad-raffensperger-phone-c...
As long as the oligarchs and billionaires control all three branches of our government, Congress is unlikely to do anything of substance that would make our democracy into one that other countries would want. We need a critical mass of our citizens to unite with strategic nonviolent resistance and use that power to compel our elected officials to promote our general welfare and abolish the factions (the oligarchs and billionaires) that are destroying our nation.
I heartily agree that we need a "radical revolution of the mind" like deepspace has proposed, and we need to start with defining our government's purpose and then teaching our fellow citizens why that purpose is not being met. (Hint, read Thom's Blog above.) Then we need to collaborate with our elected and appointed officials to use best practice-based solutions to promote our general welfare and manage our commons. If money is no longer considered free speech and corporations are no longer treated as citizens, our government will be much less likely to engender corruption, if only because the grifters will find a new mark or two to shake down. Perhaps in Scotland.
I too have taken and administered those "personality tests". Some of them were much sneakier; they were centered around risky behavior. I really hated them and questioned just how ethical they were. Worst of all, the people that created them made a killing off selling them while assuring corporate customers they were valid.
Back in the day, I also took courses in loss prevention which included internal and customer-based theft. Some of this made a great deal more sense. It included the percentages of society that were inclined to steal, much of that had to do with opportunity.
Humans most likely have a sliding scale when it comes to conscience. We all know folks who are remarkably able to "compartmentalize", those who can do some very bad things and then just decide that it was a one-of, "not me", or even walk away from their own children. But, what we are dealing with on the radical right are people no longer tethered to reality. This too is just a percentage. We have to continue to expose how crazy they are acting by thinking others believe their shit.
Another remedy is to reduce the opportunity we give the thieves and grifters. That's what laws are for. Every crime can be argued to be a theft including stealing someone's life. We will always have to fight for our laws, their enforcement, and to update them. On a more personal level, I do this: I try to convince young people that politics effects everything they do every day of their lives. Cynicism and non-participation will only hurt them, their family and loved ones.
Absolutely! Strengthening the spine of the Democratic Party is the best way out of this seemingly endless Republican Party quagmire destroying our democracy.
The modern history of American politics demonstrates clearly and painfully that voters have just two real choices. Third parties with no chance of winning only serve to dilute the voting blocks of the two dominant parties, only spoilers at best.
A parliamentary system with multiple parties, which normally must forge coalitions to create their governments, makes for a better democracy. It's closer to the people and more difficult to corrupt (although obviously not impossible to corrupt with all the private-sector millionaires and billionaires working diligently behind the scenes to buy off every public official possible no matter what type of government stands in their way).
Nowadays, unfortunately, it's nearly impossible to improve the outdated drawbacks hardwired in the American constitution, such as the Electoral College, given the wide political divide. Progressive liberals, therefore, must keep supporting and voting for other progressive liberals until they become the dominant caucus in the Democratic Party.
That means the rank and file must either persuade or out-vote their family members, friends, neighbors, and workmates who are not progressive liberals -- and publicly shame as well as prosecute the Proud Boys, Trumpees, et al. rioting in the streets in their comical "military" attire, waving their absurd, oversized flags and burning Black Lives Matter banners.
And of course, the Democratic Party must utterly defeat the worthless, contemptible, godforsaken, anti-democratic Republican Party at every level of government, from mayor to POTUS.
Only then will it be possible -- maybe -- to enact intelligent legislation and implement worthy policies that truly help the common folk as opposed to mainly helping the wealthy class at the expense of everyday working people, which is the rotten-to-the-core system under which we are presently laboring ...and suffering.
Armed revolution is not an option; that only plays into the hands of fascists. Any fundamental change for the better has to be a radical revolution of the mind, which is what has always steered the course of history toward progress -- a complete rejection of the ruthless greed-mongers sucking up all the wealth, the endless warfare of kings and queens, and the blind stupidity of authoritarians like Trump the Liar and his wingnut enablers.
What I’d like to see is that on Wednesday morning - after the results of the Georgia election are announced the night before, Pelosi starts impeachment proceedings using this latest phone call as the impetus. No, it won’t go anywhere, but a president in the middle of an impeachment inquiry cannot pardon anyone - including himself (if there’s still some uncertainty about whether he can do this). Get a backbone Dems!
I fear we are so far gone that very little will ever change. Democrats are so divided within that they wont be capable of effecting real drastic change needed. With Biden you will see a return to relative normalcy however nothing significant will happen. Reaganomics will continue, the court will stay as is, republicans and trump will not be punished for sedition and other crimes, gerry mandering will continue, the electoral college will continue, Biden will do some kind of half ass attempt to build on the ACA. This is why I can no longer be a Democrat. I have no party affiliation although I will vote Democrat in the elections. I just cant be a member of this corrupt neutered joke of a party.
You are a classic case of you cannot fix stupid. Unfortunately the Trump base is full of your type. It is really sad that the USA education level has gone so low. Australia has 3.6 deaths per 100000 and the USA has 107 per 100000. The best one on the list is Taiwan, a country that I have worked in a lot. It is 0.03 per 100000.
For now untill that bad Supreme Court descision can be overturned, trump and all the crimanal republicans trying to commit treason by conspiring to try to overturn the election through sedition, need to be arrested! The leaders currently in place in Congress need to issuse a severe warning, backed up with action, that they will be arrested if they try what they say they are planning to do on Janurary 6th.
Mr or Ms Legend
Dah...if you catch Covid-19 in Australia you have a 3.2% chance of dying.
If you catch Covid-19 in the USA you have a 1.7% chance of dying.
Airport near Trump's golf resort in Scotland is alerted to a US military plane arriving 1/19/21.
Thom once had somebody complain there was too much underlining in the newsletter. :)
I looked up Thom's link in the second paragraph of the above article. Do you understand that the blue letters reference a link? https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality is the link. Look at the far right column of the Cases and Mortality by Country and you will see 3.6 per 100000 for Australia. You have to go way down the chart. The USA is at 107 per 100000. Keep it coming.
Mr or Ms Legend:
I have nothing to say about the other 86 countries. The facts are the facts. I never claimed the USA was the best. You went on about health care in Australia, and Mr Hartmann erroneously stated the death rate in Australia from Covid19 was 3/100,000 not the actual rate of 3.2/100. You were wrong, but you won't admit it.
First of all it is "Admit you are wrong". Or you could say "Admit you're wrong". And I said "per your chart", which was a reference to your link. So what do you say about the 86 countries that have a lower percentage of death per case than the USA?
IMO, anyone who abuses the edit feature to purposely jump ahead of subsequent comments -- with the intent to confuse readers with an out-of-order, nonsensical sequence -- should be banned from the site. Imagine what an unreadable mess it would be if everyone adopted the same rude tactic. Or is a self-ordained privilege okay for some but not for others?
This has happened before with deceitful posters who didn't like the original replies to their comments. There is ample opportunity to edit before posting using the "preview" button. One can even edit after posting before someone else might post (which I've done, taking a chance, not always succeeding, but never deliberately).
If there are subsequent comments, why not just post an additional comment in the proper order to correct any misstatements in the original post or to further clarify a point? Wouldn't that be easier and more reasonable than disrupting the integrity of the thread and therefore the conversation?
It might not even be possible for a webmaster to tweak the program to fix a glitch like that without re-inventing the wheel. But, in the end, there's no good excuse to take advantage of the problem on purpose, is there?
Mr or Ms Legend:
Now you're drifting into folderal. BTW they are not my statistics, they are the statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Admit your wrong.
Live in your Fox news Trump loving world of statistics. So by your figuring the 86 countries that have a lower death percentage per case than the USA have much better medical treatment for covid than the USA? Australia met the challenge very early in the pandemic. Treatments were in the early stages. We have had 20,000,000 cases to practice on. New drugs have been developed. New techniques. Like rolling fat men onto their stomach. But 350000 deaths is a fact (probably an undercount) and 657596 is not.
India has 4x the population of the USA and has less than half of the cases and less than half of the deaths. And per your chart has a death per case percentage of 1.45%. Keep it coming.
Mr or Ms Legend:
First off, don't chide me for editing my comments, after all, that's what the edit function is for, to edit the remarks. I have no control over the order, that's a function of the web master. Secondly, I realize the death rate is based on the number of Covid-19 cases. It's like that for everyone in the chart. If the USA had the same death rate from Covid-19 that the Australians have, we would have 657,596 dead. Don't try to manipulate the numbers to try and prove your unprovable point (whatever that point is). Accept the facts as presented. The facts are the same for all countries.
Just add another post. When you edit you take your post out of order which deceives other readers.
Death rate is based on number of cases. The USA has almost 25% of the world cases with 4% of the world population. Which kind of dilutes the whole statistical thing. Australia (your example) has had 28500 total cases with 909 total deaths, with a population of 25 million. Yes they have a death rate of 3.19%. The USA has 14x the population of Australia. If the USA compared to Australia we would have 28500 x 14 = 399000 cases total and 14 X 909 = 12726 deaths total. Throw all of your statistics at me that you want. You watch too much Fox News.
Mr or Ms Legend:
Australia is ranked 24th in the world with a death rate of 3.19% from Covid-19. The UK Is ranked 31st in the world with a death rate of 2.8% from Covid-19. Canada is ranked 50th with a death rate of 2.6% from Covid-19. The USA is ranked 90th in the world with a death rate of 1.7% from Covid-19. As I'm sure you are aware, both the UK and Canada have government furnished health care. Kinda blows your health care theory out of the water...here are the rankings as of January 4, 2021
PS the rates cited are identical to the rates cited by Mr. Hartmann, only a different source. Mr Hartmann mistakenly, cited Australia's death rate from Covid-19 as 3/100,000. The statistics he and I cited place Australia's death rate from Covid-19 at 3/100. A huge difference.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-death-rates-worldwide/