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Bring back travel bans
Seems time for safe states to ban travel from virus hot spots like Florida.
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but noooo, we’ve got to expend time on the public airwaves with titillations, sports and brittany woes.
i’m with pogo’s complaint last night: “Frankly I’m tired of Dems eating their own. The fucking president of the US paid a porn star and a Playmate of the Year to cover up his extramarital affairs with them and notafuckingthing came of it.”add to that the not so little rape accusations, one of which from a minor.
As Florida battles a surge in coronavirus cases and a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is getting caught up in a food fight.
On Tuesday, DeSantis added British brand conglomerate Unilever to the state’s list of “scrutinized companies” because one of its divisions, Ben & Jerry’s, announced last month that it would stop ice cream sales in Israeli-occupied West Bank and contested east Jerusalem. The move could ultimately prohibit Florida from having investments in Unilever or any contracts with the company and its subsidiaries if it doesn’t reverse course in 90 days.
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On Tuesday, Florida reported 11,515 people hospitalized with the coronavirus, a pandemic record, including some 2,400 in ICUs, per the Orlando Sentinel. And experts do not see any relief in the immediate future.
“Short term and long term, the cases are going to explode,” Edwin Michael, a professor of epidemiology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, told The New York Times. “We are predicting that the cases will be peaking the first week of September.”
Michael said that without a slowdown in cases, the state might exceed hospital bed capacity by early next month.
But as cases continue to climb, DeSantis has prioritized his culture war with Ben & Jerry’s.
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DeSantis has been far more passive when it comes to preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Last week, he signed an executive order to cut funding to school districts that require face coverings. As classes prepare to resume in the midst of the latest wave of the pandemic, both the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics have recommended universal masks indoors and in schools.
DeSantis is also fighting in court to prevent COVID-19 vaccine requirements on cruise ships.
No!!!!!! Just make folks show their vaccine cards to fly or stay at a hotel or eat at a restaurant.
If folks drive and stay with someone and get food at a drive-thru, there’s no way to catch them, anyway. So help me, if Abbott screws up my vacation this fall…
A travel ban on flights won’t fix the lunkheads on motorcycles going to Sturgis this month.
Why should those of us who’ve done the right thing suffer? We shouldn’t. Short of house arrest, they won’t stay home. It’s just got to be inconvenient enough for them, not for the vaccinated.
Florida congressional representative and purported sex pest Matt Gaetz mocked the Delta variant of COVID-19 as it rages through his home state. At a rally in Brevard County over the weekend, Gaetz poked fun at masking recommendations while Florida set new highs for daily numbers of cases and hospitalizations. Speaking to a maskless crowd at the Hilton Melbourne Beach Oceanfront hotel for his “Florida Man Freedom Tour,” Gaetz downplayed the threat of the virus that is rampaging through the area.
Gaetz told the crowd he had the “Florida variant,” symptoms of which include “hunting, fishing and hugging your family.” For the record, a quick Google image search of “Matt Gaetz holding gun” returns no relevant results. The same definitely can’t be said of his partner in conservative trolling Marjorie Taylor Greene.He updated the applause line a bit for a later speech in Largo, saying that the variant gave him freedom.
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At the same time that Gaetz was holding his rally, Florida was sharing record-breaking COVID-19 numbers. The state reported a new high in coronavirus cases on Saturday, with over 21,000 infections recorded the day prior. On Sunday, the state reported a new high for hospitalizations with 10,207 people across the state admitted for coronavirus complications.
“Gas producers got a pass by Texas policymakers,” said Michael Webber, professor of energy resources at the University of Texas at Austin. “Making a million-dollar political donation to reward the government for its light touch and encourage the government to continue turning a blind eye to price gouging and windfall profits while hundreds of people die seems like a good return on investment.”
I don’t support cuomo but I do support his right to defend himself. I don’t trust those particular women yet. Just don’t. There’s just something way fishy bout the whole deal.
There are now transparent solar panels.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has slipped behind a Democratic gubernatorial rival in a new poll as he faces scrutiny over his handling of the pandemic amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the Sunshine State.
The survey, conducted by Florida-based firm St. Pete Polls, found that 45 percent of voters said they would vote for Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist (Fla.), who previously served as governor from 2007 to 2011, while 44 percent said they would back DeSantis.
St. Pete Polls noted that Crist’s lead was within the survey’s margin of error of 1.6 percentage points.
The congressman argued that DeSantis has focused on responses to the migration surge at the Texas border rather than the worsening COVID-19 figures in his own state.
“What’s he [DeSantis] doing about it? He’s going to Texas. He goes to the border. Texas. You’re the governor of Florida, you know,” Crist said. “He doesn’t understand. And you know he’s spending our tax dollars out there, giving our law enforcement to Texas while people are dying in Florida. Unbelievable.”
On Tuesday, Crist called on DeSantis to require state employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying, “The way to stamp out the virus, and protect our public health, economy and our jobs, is to get everyone vaccinated.”
I’m with you. I know Cuomo tends toward overbearing autocrat, but these sudden charges from several people at once raise my suspicions. Totally willing to believe them, but I want some corroboration on the particulars involved.
Men “of a certain age” got away with being pretty handy in the past in a way that wouldn’t be tolerated today. It has been hard to retrain them until they retire or die off.
The Cuomo victims i’ve read about seem like good people who just wanted to work in government without getting groped.
“My autocrat is slightly less rape-y than your autocrat” is a poor defense of him imo
i’m telling you, if someone put their hands on me the way he is photographed putting his hands on women, he’d get at least a shove, certainly not a “haha you’re so adorable Mr. Governor”
A governor who does deserve his job is Gavin Newsom, who seems to be doing a great job managing the complex and diverse state of California, and yet is polling to lose the recall vote
The one accuser of cuomo who gives me pause is the state trooper lady…..she seems to have a bit more than thin gravy in her accusation….so we’ll see said the blind man……sure hope we don’t get a trumpling as next governor.
Had an adoption hearing this morning and was talking with the paternal grandfather about the fact that yesterday I was informed about my first client who contracted Covid 19-D variant. He joked that the worst will be named the Covid-19 MAGA variant. Almost spit through my nose I was so impressed with the joke.
To be clear, Bink, I don’t support Cuomo, and neither do I condemn him. I’m of a mind with Mrs. P (who btw was a sexual assault victim as a young lady) – if it was important enough at the time for the victim to report it, it’s important enough to pay attention to now. And she doesn’t mean filing a report or charges or necessarily anything formal. I don’t know the specifics of Cuomo’s accusers or what they did or did not do at the time, so I won’t comment on the merits since I have no way of knowing. I live in a world of facts that have to be proven to become evidence and preponderances of evidence to demonstrate what appears to be the truth. Helps separate the wheat from the chaff. It’s not perfect, but it tends to temper my jumping to conclusions about accusations, something I definitely have a natural tendency to do. That said, I think his political days are numbered – perhaps to the end of his current term, but that’s about the limit.
So Dumbass the Former is fighting to keep his tax returns out of Congress’ hands – again. How predictable. But his lawyer’s outrage is misplaced. Teri Kanefield explains in today’s Wapo op-eds.
On Friday, the Justice Department ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand over former president Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress. On Monday, Ronald Fischetti, a lawyer for Trump, said Trump intends to fight the order.
“There is no evidence of any wrongdoing here and I object to the release of the returns not only on behalf of my client but on behalf of all future holders of the office of the president of the United States,” Fischetti said in statement. He added that “this politicization and harassment of Mr. Trump is uncalled for and outrageous” and that he had “never seen anything like this.”
It was a short statement, but it managed to expose what amounts to four holes in Trump’s defense.
First, there is considerable evidence of wrongdoing. The Trump Organization — a closely held company run by Trump himself and his family members — was recently indicted on charges of tax fraud. Prosecutors described a 15-year tax avoidancescheme“constituting a systematic ongoing course of conduct with intent to defraud.” The 15 counts included falsification of records.
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Second, contrary to Fischetti’s implication, Congress had a legitimate legislative purpose for requesting the tax returns, perfectly valid under its oversight duties. The House Ways and Means Committee sought Trump’s returns to determine whether the IRS was fully and appropriately auditing the president. Trump is on extremely weak footing here. Congress is permitted wide latitudeto investigate the executive branch, which is key to our system of checks and balances. Moreover, Section 6103(f) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 6103(f), requires in mandatory terms that the Treasury “shall furnish” the committee with “any” requested tax return information.
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This brings me to the third hole in Fischetti’s defense: the idea that Trump is objecting on behalf of “all future presidents.” Rule of law literally means that the law applies to the president as much as it does to anyone. Anything else is autocracy.
The fourth hole is fairly obvious: How is making Trump’s tax returns available to Congress “harassment” — unless Trump has much to hide? He was, after all, the first president to refuse to disclose his taxes. Richard M. Nixon voluntarily released his returns when media reports suggested that he paid only $792 in federal income tax in 1970 and $878 in 1971, even though he earned more than $200,000 in each of those years. To allay public concerns, Nixon subsequently released his tax returns for every year between 1969, when he entered office, and 1972.
Every president since Nixon voluntarily released his tax returns.
I won’t comment on the merits since I have no way of knowing
Easily accessible, all over the internet; many did report in a timely manner
Young, motivated idealists trying to make a better society are the lifeblood of the Democratic party, disenchant them and have fun trying to hold power
I think I am being playful and make jokes that I think are funny. I do, on occasion, tease people in what I think is a good natured way. I do it in public and in private
i’m no lawyer, so you tell me how the “i was just fucking around” defense plays in court😆
I’m fascinated by the idea of how Trump has reason to destroy DeSantis and how he would do it. Ron might regret encouraging 2024 talk. And now that Trump lives in Florida DeSantis can’t be his running mate.
i’m no lawyer, so you tell me how the “i was just fucking around” defense plays in court
Is he in court? I didn’t know. If you were a lawyer you wouldn’t ask that question and expect an answer applicable to a specific case, but generally, it’s not a good defense. But then again, it depends (that’s always the real answer) on the case presented by the plaintiff. If waiting for the facts to come out before convicting Cuomo on a blog disenchants young idealists trying to make a better society, the lifeblood of the Democratic Party needs to do consider what kind of society they want. Ask Al Franken about that.
Easily accessible, all over the internet; many did report in a timely manner
And yet not a single link to check out. The internet also said there was a pedophile sex ring run by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in the basement of Comet Pizza – that from what I understand did not have a basement.
What do Al Franken and Pizzagate have to do with Cuomo? Oh, nothing, but let me sit here all day doing google seraches to refute your disingenuous hypocrisy. No thanks✌️
“Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday he regrets approving a statewide ban on face mask mandates earlier this year and has called the state Legislature into a special session in an effort to amend the law.“ “…Hutchinson has asked state lawmakers to amend the ban so that school districts have the opportunity to mandate face masks if they choose.”
C’mon, Greg Abbott, schools in TX are opening. Be man enough to allow mask mandates. Don’t kill the kids.
“Local mask mandates are popping back up across Texas — even as Gov. Greg Abbott has stressed that local officials who try to enforce restrictions aimed at reducing spread of COVID-19 will be penalized.“
“Abbott’s July executive order says “no government entity, including a county, city, school district and public health authority” and “any public or private entity that is receiving or will receive public funds” can enforce mask or vaccine mandates.“
What do Pizzagate and Al Franken have to do with the internet’s the question. If the references are too subtle I apologize (not really). Sorry Bink, but you’ve become a troll. Drive by unsupported snark Not my idea of discourse. Enjoy your echo chamber.
BiD, sorry you have Abbott as a governor. Blind, stupid ambition doesn’t really serve well as a skill set for governing. Abbott and De’Insanity are competing to see who can outdo the other in proving that. Hard to gauge this one but I think it may be Abbott by a nose at this point.
might be helpful, too, to start by banning that state’s guv from public airways and social media on the grounds he is a national health menace.
but noooo, we’ve got to expend time on the public airwaves with titillations, sports and brittany woes.
i’m with pogo’s complaint last night: “Frankly I’m tired of Dems eating their own. The fucking president of the US paid a porn star and a Playmate of the Year to cover up his extramarital affairs with them and notafuckingthing came of it.” add to that the not so little rape accusations, one of which from a minor.
As Coronavirus Rages In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis Melts Down Over Ice Cream | HuffPost
No!!!!!! Just make folks show their vaccine cards to fly or stay at a hotel or eat at a restaurant.
If folks drive and stay with someone and get food at a drive-thru, there’s no way to catch them, anyway. So help me, if Abbott screws up my vacation this fall…
A travel ban on flights won’t fix the lunkheads on motorcycles going to Sturgis this month.
Why should those of us who’ve done the right thing suffer? We shouldn’t. Short of house arrest, they won’t stay home. It’s just got to be inconvenient enough for them, not for the vaccinated.
must be something in the water there that the GOPer floriduh men are drinking
orlandoweekly:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/04/texas-energy-industry-donations-legislature/
“Gas producers got a pass by Texas policymakers,” said Michael Webber, professor of energy resources at the University of Texas at Austin. “Making a million-dollar political donation to reward the government for its light touch and encourage the government to continue turning a blind eye to price gouging and windfall profits while hundreds of people die seems like a good return on investment.”
I don’t support cuomo but I do support his right to defend himself. I don’t trust those particular women yet. Just don’t. There’s just something way fishy bout the whole deal.
There are now transparent solar panels.
the hill:
Sturgeone
I’m with you. I know Cuomo tends toward overbearing autocrat, but these sudden charges from several people at once raise my suspicions. Totally willing to believe them, but I want some corroboration on the particulars involved.
Men “of a certain age” got away with being pretty handy in the past in a way that wouldn’t be tolerated today. It has been hard to retrain them until they retire or die off.
by happenstance came upon this by tucker in 2019. bet he has something different to say today
Former Vice President Joe Biden criticized for affectionate behavior.
well, maybe not
Tucker Carlson makes light of Gov. Cuomo sexual harassment report, calls him ‘Governor Creep-o’ (businessinsider.com.au)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/world/coronavirus-newsletter-intl-04-08-21/index.html
“…the United Arab Emirates joined Germany, Israel and the United Kingdom in recommending third shots for the elderly.“
Ah, the good, old days, when folks were disguising themselves as being elderly to get a first dose.
The Cuomo victims i’ve read about seem like good people who just wanted to work in government without getting groped.
“My autocrat is slightly less rape-y than your autocrat” is a poor defense of him imo
i’m telling you, if someone put their hands on me the way he is photographed putting his hands on women, he’d get at least a shove, certainly not a “haha you’re so adorable Mr. Governor”
DeSantis deadlocked with possible Democratic challenger Charlie Crist in reelection bid. https://t.co/u92dhG5g8h
A governor who does deserve his job is Gavin Newsom, who seems to be doing a great job managing the complex and diverse state of California, and yet is polling to lose the recall vote
The one accuser of cuomo who gives me pause is the state trooper lady…..she seems to have a bit more than thin gravy in her accusation….so we’ll see said the blind man……sure hope we don’t get a trumpling as next governor.
“Hypocrites vs. Lunatics” is the state of modern American politics, hooray😭
Had an adoption hearing this morning and was talking with the paternal grandfather about the fact that yesterday I was informed about my first client who contracted Covid 19-D variant. He joked that the worst will be named the Covid-19 MAGA variant. Almost spit through my nose I was so impressed with the joke.
To be clear, Bink, I don’t support Cuomo, and neither do I condemn him. I’m of a mind with Mrs. P (who btw was a sexual assault victim as a young lady) – if it was important enough at the time for the victim to report it, it’s important enough to pay attention to now. And she doesn’t mean filing a report or charges or necessarily anything formal. I don’t know the specifics of Cuomo’s accusers or what they did or did not do at the time, so I won’t comment on the merits since I have no way of knowing. I live in a world of facts that have to be proven to become evidence and preponderances of evidence to demonstrate what appears to be the truth. Helps separate the wheat from the chaff. It’s not perfect, but it tends to temper my jumping to conclusions about accusations, something I definitely have a natural tendency to do. That said, I think his political days are numbered – perhaps to the end of his current term, but that’s about the limit.
So Dumbass the Former is fighting to keep his tax returns out of Congress’ hands – again. How predictable. But his lawyer’s outrage is misplaced. Teri Kanefield explains in today’s Wapo op-eds.
Well, gotta run – work to do.
Easily accessible, all over the internet; many did report in a timely manner
Young, motivated idealists trying to make a better society are the lifeblood of the Democratic party, disenchant them and have fun trying to hold power
i’m no lawyer, so you tell me how the “i was just fucking around” defense plays in court😆
ok, i’m done with the Cuomo topic forever
I’m fascinated by the idea of how Trump has reason to destroy DeSantis and how he would do it. Ron might regret encouraging 2024 talk. And now that Trump lives in Florida DeSantis can’t be his running mate.
How Mainstream Dems Dispatched a Progressive Hero in Ohio
Nina bye!
Is he in court? I didn’t know. If you were a lawyer you wouldn’t ask that question and expect an answer applicable to a specific case, but generally, it’s not a good defense. But then again, it depends (that’s always the real answer) on the case presented by the plaintiff. If waiting for the facts to come out before convicting Cuomo on a blog disenchants young idealists trying to make a better society, the lifeblood of the Democratic Party needs to do consider what kind of society they want. Ask Al Franken about that.
And yet not a single link to check out. The internet also said there was a pedophile sex ring run by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in the basement of Comet Pizza – that from what I understand did not have a basement.
What do Al Franken and Pizzagate have to do with Cuomo? Oh, nothing, but let me sit here all day doing google seraches to refute your disingenuous hypocrisy. No thanks✌️
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/politics/asa-hutchinson-arkansas-mask-mandate/index.html
“Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday he regrets approving a statewide ban on face mask mandates earlier this year and has called the state Legislature into a special session in an effort to amend the law.“ “…Hutchinson has asked state lawmakers to amend the ban so that school districts have the opportunity to mandate face masks if they choose.”
C’mon, Greg Abbott, schools in TX are opening. Be man enough to allow mask mandates. Don’t kill the kids.
Why’s everything so dang hard?
Just makes me tard.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/04/texas-mask-mandate-greg-abbott-covid/
“Local mask mandates are popping back up across Texas — even as Gov. Greg Abbott has stressed that local officials who try to enforce restrictions aimed at reducing spread of COVID-19 will be penalized.“
“Abbott’s July executive order says “no government entity, including a county, city, school district and public health authority” and “any public or private entity that is receiving or will receive public funds” can enforce mask or vaccine mandates.“
What do Pizzagate and Al Franken have to do with the internet’s the question. If the references are too subtle I apologize (not really). Sorry Bink, but you’ve become a troll. Drive by unsupported snark Not my idea of discourse. Enjoy your echo chamber.
BiD, sorry you have Abbott as a governor. Blind, stupid ambition doesn’t really serve well as a skill set for governing. Abbott and De’Insanity are competing to see who can outdo the other in proving that. Hard to gauge this one but I think it may be Abbott by a nose at this point.
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