"Business backers of voter access now balk at fighting curbs" By Margaret Newkirk Bloomberg, March 18, 2021
Many US companies loudly championed voter access in 2020 and recoiled at the stolen-election myth that fueled the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, but now that Republican state lawmakers across the country are using the same debunked claims to advance unprecedented ballot restrictions, those businesses have fallen mostly silent.
It's not a myth, even Lendman knows it, and it doesn't really matter.
The reluctance to take a public stand against the measures is starkest in corporate headquarters-rich Georgia, where Republican lawmakers are proposing dramatic voting curbs that would especially affect Black voters. Ballot-rights advocates are pushing companies — including Coca-Cola, Delta, AFLAC, Home Depot, United Parcel Service, and Southern Co.— to oppose the bills.
The activists, who helped deliver control of the US Senate to the Democrats, are also putting pressure on President Biden to support an overhaul of federal election laws that would shield voters’ rights from statehouse Republican efforts to undermine them.
That's how the communi$ts, 'er, Democrats intend to keep power forever -- with the help grateful migrants awarded citizenship for criminal entry.
For weeks, the corporate response has been to issue anodyne statements extolling democracy and broad voter access, but calling for a balance with “election security” — effectively legitimizing the discredited voter-fraud allegations Republicans are using to justify making it harder to vote. “The ultimate goal should be fair, secure elections where access to voting is broad-based and inclusive,” Coke said in its statement.
Oh, they are acting like the US government then while paying lip service to "democracy."
That's the fizz anyway.
Corporate Georgia tiptoed closer to opposition this week, after an activist-funded campaign that included newspaper ads calling out companies by name. On Sunday, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce said it had “concern and opposition” to unspecified parts of the two broadest voter restriction bills. It reiterated the need for balance between broad access and security.
Something the Globe will not:
"After the military staged its Feb. 1 coup, security forces detained individuals who had been named months earlier as key members of a foreign plot, blessed by Suu Kyi, to destabilize Myanmar. The chronology suggests a well-planned effort to rid the country of its most beloved leader. Days before the November polls, the coordinated attacks on social media accused Suu Kyi and her governing National League for Democracy of illegally profiting from foreign funding. If the National League for Democracy is found guilty of having been tainted by foreign influence, the party could be disbanded, neutralizing the most popular political force in Myanmar’s history. The targeted campaign — disseminated on Facebook, YouTube, a custom-built website, and spoofed e-mails that shared similar branding and cross-posting — implied that a cabal of Western interests was working with the National League for Democracy to steal the elections and upend Myanmar governance. The custom-built website was developed from a folder named after the military’s proxy party, a digital forensics investigation found....."
What they cut and omitted was that chief among the supposed plotters was George Soros, the American philanthropist whose Open Society Foundation promotes democracy worldwide, presumably because it validates as truth "conspiracy theories" and I'll get to Asia later below, but for now....
Voting advocates say it’s not enough. “It’s almost as bad as silence,” said Cliff Albright, a cofounder of Black Voters Matter in Atlanta. “It still accepts the premise that ‘security’ of elections are in doubt.”
Georgia is just one of the most dramatic examples of Republican efforts to curb voter access. Nationwide, lawmakers have filed 263 bills in 43 states that would make it harder to vote, with about 20 more bills expected to be added soon, said Eliza Sweren-Becker, counsel for NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice’s democracy project.
Legislatures are considering even more bills — about 700 — to ease voting, according to the center, but most of those are in solidly Democratic states, not in the swing states that decided the 2020 presidential election. Some are also in Republican-controlled states — including Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina — where they stand no chance.
Look at that, will you?
Nearly 3x as many Democrat bills to enshrine vote fraud and the pre$$ focus is on the Republicans allegedly blocking access in an effort for fair elections.
How can those bills stand no chance in Georgia after Democrats stole those Senate seats, huh?
That's the problem: the pre$$ gets confused about all the lies and shit it has shoveled.
GOP lawmakers are aiming at voting from all angles: absentee voting, ballot drop boxes, early voting and the authority of state and local elections officials to make adjustments in crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.
They describe their efforts as common-sense reforms needed to address the concerns of many Republican voters. Polls show they overwhelmingly support former President Donald Trump and still believe his false claims that the election was stolen through mail-in balloting and other efforts to expand voting last year.
Just like Iraqi WMD or Syrian chemical weapons use, right, that kind of false claim?
The muted corporate response to such measures exposes as hollow a year of pro-democracy messaging from Georgia companies, said Nse Ufot, chief executive of the minority-voter advocacy group New Georgia Project, which has worked closely with the Atlanta business community.”We just came out of Black History month, where all of these same corporations spent 28 days peppering us with their favorite Martin Luther King Jr. quotes,” she said.
A united Georgia business lobby could stop the bills, she said, just as it did in 2016, when companies joined forces to defeat an anti-gay rights bill framed as one meant to protect religious liberty.
Corporate America was one of the unexpected heroes of the 2020 election season. Coke, Home Depot, Delta, and UPS joined Target, JP Morgan, Hewlett Packard, Patagonia, and NBA franchises across the United States in throwing their clout and resources to make voting easier during the pandemic.
Sure looks like election interference and COUP to me after LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers star, last week launched a multimillion-dollar outreach effort to recruit poll workers. Power the Polls started in June and has a $2 million social-media budget. It's been pitched by Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show” as well as online, at rallies, on campuses and by volunteer organizations. It's backed by a long list of businesses that are both funding the outreach and leveraging their own employees as poll workers. The list includes ViacomCBS Inc., Patagonia Inc., Starbucks Corp., Lyft Inc., Uber, Warby Parker Retail Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Zillow Group Inc. and Old Navy Inc. Some are giving employees paid time off to work the polls on Nov. 3, in addition to whatever local election agencies pay....."
$crew him, $crew $ports, and didn't someone once say “those who vote decide nothing, those who count the vote decide everything?”
Moved by the spectacle of people queuing during the primaries — and by a sense that “democracy was fraying” — corporations stepped up, said Richard Eidlin, national policy director of Business for America, which organized corporate help for election officials in 28 states. They kicked in equipment and staff and bucked then-President Trump’s campaign to discredit mail-in voting. Later, they suspended campaign contributions to politicians who supported the vote-fraud myth that fueled the Capitol riot.
That changed yesterday.
The election restrictions now moving in state legislatures are based on the same fiction. Many directly attack the voting alternatives that corporations supported last year.
The moves by Republicans — especially in states that Biden won in the 2020 presidential election and where Trump insisted without evidence that there was rampant fraud — reflect the influence Trump still holds with GOP voters.
We all f**king saw it, and methinks the pre$$ doth protest too much. They never even bothered to look.
In Georgia, the party’s lawmakers want to end no-excuse absentee voting that has been legal for 15 years and to reduce by half access to Sunday voting, which is mostly used in the Black community. In Texas, lawmakers want people with disabilities to prove they qualify as such if they want an absentee ballot, and in Arizona, one bill would scrap democracy altogether: allowing a simple majority of the legislature to overturn the state’s presidential election results.....
Of course, in Georgia the state’s Republican legislators have been known to take revenge when crossed on issues popular with their base, and I'm confused because I was told yesterday that Wall Street firms are quietly preparing to resume political giving in the next few months, marking an end to a freeze that many corporations vowed to impose after rioters stormed the US Capitol in January to disrupt congressional certification of Donald Trump’s loss to President Biden. The pause on political action committee contributions, touted by major financial companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, alarmed lawmakers in both parties at the time, given how much of their campaigns are bankrolled by deep-pocketed corporate donors, yet it was never meant to be a shutdown of the Wall Street money machine, which contributed $787 million to the 2020 election, people familiar with the matter said. Instead, it was about publicly showing customers and stockholders that they were disgusted with the armed insurrection and the Republicans who directly or indirectly backed the effort. Some of the 147 members of Congress who voted against certifying the election for Biden will remain on what’s been dubbed the “no-fly list,” a likely permanent ban on corporate PAC donations, such as Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri or Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Craig Engle, a political lawyer at the Arent Fox law firm in Washington, says he expects PACs to resume donations in earnest next month, but the memory of the insurrection will make it difficult to resume giving to some of the 147 senators and representatives. “That is truly a case-by-case, corporation-by-corporation or group-by-group decision,’' he said. ’'There is no general rule that is going to emerge.”
Sure looks like, $mells like, and feels like FA$CI$M to ME, how about you?
The $hamele$$ lying never ends over there as the state Senate passed its version of a multipronged COVID-19 relief bill on Thursday, with plans to get legislation on Governor Charlie Baker’s desk within the next week; however, you will still owe taxes on the loot.
Also see:
"BlackRock, the money manager that’s made bold statements about climate change, now plans to press companies about their policies related to human rights, as well as biodiversity, deforestation, and water. The world’s largest asset manager said it will ask companies in which it holds stakes to identify and show how they intend to prevent human rights abuses, and provide “robust” disclosures about those practices. BlackRock also will request that businesses show how they have adopted sustainable practices regarding air, water, land, minerals, and forests, according to a stewardship report released Thursday."
The private equity f**kers who have polluted the world in a quest for profits now wants to be a $teward of the planet, uh-huh.
This is about setting most lands off limits to all except the global elite, who will free to enjoy the wide-open spaces without pesky humans around.
It's this group that is calling the shots and running the planet, complete with political kompromat of their political puppets:
"Les Wexner is leaving the board of L Brands, bringing an end to a long — and recently troubled — relationship with a company he built into a retail empire. Wexner, 83, and his wife, Abigail, won’t stand for re-election at the annual shareholder meeting in May, the company said Thursday. Wexner had already relinquished his chairman seat last year at L Brands, the owner of Victoria’s Secret, though he had maintained in a chairman emeritus role. The decision caps a nearly six-decade run for Wexner, whose once-sprawling company is now being dismantled. Victoria’s Secret, which has struggled with changing consumer tastes and controversy amid the #metoo movement, is being split off in the coming months, leaving only the Bath & Body Works chain."
What is missing from that brief talking point, 'eh?
Believe it or not, he is moving to Florida and will stay on the job:
"Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s plan to move part of its asset-management unit to Florida is gaining momentum, as the Wall Street bank discreetly seeks volunteers for the first wave and prepares office space. In recent weeks, executives overseeing Goldman Sachs Asset Management and its merchant banking operations have asked managers to identify people willing to be relocated to West Palm Beach, according to people familiar with the matter. The initial group could comprise a couple hundred people, including investment professionals. A year of pandemic has spurred conversations in the highest rungs of the financial industry over shifting more workers from high-cost cities such as New York to places like Florida, where taxes are lower and the weather is warm."
That's odd; I was told just last week they were returning to NYC.
Apparently, the pre$$ doesn't give a shit about flat-out lying anymore, and they wonder why they are losing us.
"The red-hot US housing market is paying off for many homeowners, even those who aren’t looking to sell their home. On average, homes with a mortgage gained $26,300 in equity in the last three months of 2020 versus a year earlier, according to real estate information company CoreLogic. That average gain is the highest since 2013, the firm said. CoreLogic said homes with a mortgage account for about 62 percent of all US properties. Taken together, the home equity for those properties surged to more than $1.5 trillion, an increase of 16.2 percent from a year earlier."
Better sell now because rates continue to creep up after the Fed flooded the $y$tem with money.
You can wash it down with tap water from the faucet:
"Oslo has emerged as the city where a bottle of water is the most expensive, and is almost triple the median price in 120 cities surveyed by Holidu, a search engine for vacation rentals. Tel Aviv, New York, Stockholm, and Helsinki are the next most expensive locales to purchase a 16.9-ounce bottle of water, Holidu said in a study released Thursday. Meanwhile, Boston ranked highest in terms of water quality among American cities, and was 24th overall. Boston is followed by Seattle and Portland. Data for the water-quality index comes from the UN and the World Health Organization."
Time to spit it out then (don't scream about, don't think aloud, turn your head now, baby, just spit me out) because it's showtime:
"AMC Theatres says it will have 98 percent of its US movie theaters open on Friday, with more expected to open by March 26. Movie theaters all over shuttered their doors a year ago as the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe. While some movie theaters have opened over the past few months with limited capacity and enhanced safety protocols, the announcement by AMC to open nearly all of its US theaters by month’s end means more people will have more locations to choose from if they want to see a film on the big screen. AMC said that California is expected to open 52 of its 54 locations by Monday."
Speaking of shows, for the first time in I don't know how long, I will not be watching the Big Show (strange how the massive scandal has memory-holed, huh) despite the ma$$ive appeal.
Strange how the Globe is now worried about teen mental health as we are stuck in the muck of the CVD hoax that is no longer funny.
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It's a race against time now:
"Massachusetts is entering spring on a hopeful note. The state earlier this week released its plan to open vaccination eligibility to all adults on April 19, and a few sunny, warm days have begun to coax residents out of their homes and winter coats, but beneath the air of optimism lies a problem, epidemiologists caution: COVID-19 cases, after declining sharply in early February, have plateaued at an average of 1,500 per day, and the threat of another surge remains. “I think we’re just in a race against time to vaccinate people,” said Helen Jenkins, a Boston University epidemiologist....."
Yeah, Massachusetts is in the midst of a high-stakes campaign to vaccinate 4.1 million adults in an effort to protect people before new variants arrive — and it's already shown up in next-door neighbor Rhode Island and at local supermarkets with a outbreaks allegedly occurring at a cheerleading training facility in Weymouth and a youth wrestling tournament in New Hampshire, but March Madne$$ will continue and I think we all know the rea$ons why.
It is ALL a F**KING $CAM, folks!
Same as this as we return to Georgia:
Shirley Leung of the Globe says it's an outrage and should lead to a national reckoning, but history keeps repeating itself so.....
It's obviously her business, not mine, as police say ‘nothing is off the table’ in the investigation into the slayings at the massage parlors (gives them time to phony up "evidence") in Atlanta as Democrats falsely link the spa killings to rise in anti-Asian rhetoric and to Trump, of course, as Republicans remained mostly quiet because they are confiused after a sheriff’s deputy was criticized for commenting on the shooting suspect on Facebook -- insuring an unfair trial and dismissal of charges.
Of course, they are massaging the Kraft component to the story and have retired it to the dustbin of history as they Dream of future glory.
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Speaking of the devils:
"Russia erupts in fury over Biden’s calling Putin a killer; The Kremlin describes the US president’s response to an interview question as ‘very bad’ and recalls its ambassador to ‘analyze what needs to be done’ about the countries’ relations" by Anton Troianovski New York Times, March 18, 2021
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin dryly wished President Biden “good health” on Thursday after the American leader assented to a description of his Russian counterpart as a “killer,” and long-running tensions morphed into a furious exchange of trans-Atlantic taunts.
The previous evening, Russia took the rare step of recalling its ambassador to Washington after Biden’s comments in a television interview, warning of the possibility of an “irreversible deterioration of relations.” On Thursday, seated in a gilded chair on the seventh anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Putin all but called Biden a killer himself.
“When I was a child, when we argued in the courtyard, we said the following: ‘If you call someone names, that’s really your name,’” Putin said, quoting a Russian schoolyard rhyme. “When we characterize other people, or even when we characterize other states, other people, it is always as though we are looking in the mirror.”
That's how one should take any criticism of anyone that comes from Israel.
Despite Biden’s long-running criticism of Putin, some Russian analysts had voiced hope that the Kremlin could forge a productive working relationship with the new administration in Washington on areas of common interest, but Biden’s combative stance in an interview with ABC News that was broadcast on Wednesday seemed to puncture those hopes, even as many of Putin’s critics praised the American president’s comments.
In the interview, when asked whether he thought Putin was a “killer,” Biden responded: “Mmm hmm, I do.” He further pledged that Putin was “going to pay” for Russian interference in the 2020 election, which was detailed in a US intelligence report this week.
That is the pos propaganda they released the other day.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced sanctions against Russian officials after declassifying an intelligence finding that Russia’s domestic intelligence agency had orchestrated the poisoning of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, shrugged off the recall of the Russian ambassador, noting that the US ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, was still in place and when asked if Biden regretted his somewhat undiplomatic characterization of Putin, she said, "Nope," and told reporters Thursday that Biden stood by his words.
OMFG, look at the ARROGANCE OOZING FROM HER, topped only by the LIES in the NEXT PARAGRAPH!
Psaki repeated warnings that sanctions and other actions against Russia are coming in "week, not months." Still, she acknowledged that sanctions have a limited impact: Some imposed on Russia after its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 remain in effect, but after seven years they have not succeeded in forcing it to return the territory.
Okay, Russia DID NOT "seize" Crimea, Crimea voted to secede from the Ukraine after the 2014 Obama coup and then petitioned the Russian Federation to join it after a vote, which was successful and after which the Russians accepted the petition.
That's the kind of pre$$ I have to deal with on a daily basis, a FLAT-OUT F**KING DISTORTER and LIAR, and and I think after SEVEN YEARS the policy has FAILED!
Time to take Crimea with force, and good luck with that!
To the Kremlin, however, Biden’s interview offered a fresh opportunity to highlight its confrontation with the West for its home audience — a useful tool at a time of broadening domestic discontent over a stagnant economy and official corruption.....
The truth is the exact opposite: it is Biden who is doing that to divert attention from CVD lockdowns and inflation due his to his "relief" bill as the economy gets ready to implode.
I'm told it is a “watershed moment,” in US-Russian relations with senior lawmaker, Andrei Turchak, described Biden’s utterance as “a challenge to our entire nation,” and reporter intoning in prime time on the state-run Channel 1 that “conservative American journalists already suspected that Biden has dementia during the campaign,” and he just proved he is a demented fool and apparition.
That's why the White House is dark and there is no activity there.
So WHO EXACTLY is in CHARGE of this country right now anyway?
The "DEEP STATE?"
Related:
"On Thursday evening, Putin appeared to try to tamp down tensions, and said he would direct officials to set up a phone call with Biden in the coming days because “we can and we must continue to have relations.” Addressing another flash point between Moscow and Washington, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, between Russia and Germany, was a “bad deal,” echoing Biden’s resistance to the project. The pipeline would reroute Russian natural gas exports to Europe under the Baltic Sea and bypass Ukraine. The project has been opposed by US lawmakers on the grounds that it gives Moscow a stronger hold on Europe’s energy sector and stands to deny Kyiv billions of dollars in revenue from transit fees. The Trump administration also opposed the $11 billion project, which is led by Russia’s Gazprom. Putin signed a law in 2006 legalizing targeted killings abroad — legislation that Russian lawmakers said at the time had been inspired by American and Israeli conduct....."
Those last two are above the law because it is their God-given right, case closed, and Putin just blinked(?).
Also see:
"Nine security personnel were killed after an Afghan military helicopter was downed, likely by militia forces, in eastern Afghanistan early Thursday, signaling a drastic rift between the Afghan government and the regional forces supposedly under its control. The fighting occurred in Wardak, a mountainous province that borders Kabul in the country’s east. There, militia forces led by Abdul Ghani Alipur, a local warlord with a spotty rights record, have been engaged in a tense, sometimes violent, standoff with government troops since January. President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan did not directly accuse Alipur’s forces of the attack, but said that the helicopter was shot down and that the government would retaliate....."
Yup, HAVE TO STAY NOW to prevent a CIVIL WAR, right?
Let the Great Games begin:
"For the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, its creative director, Hiroshi Sasaki, envisioned a popular comedian and plus-size fashion designer, Naomi Watanabe, decked out in pig ears, tumbling from the sky as an Olympic messenger. Or, as he put it, an “Olympig.” Watanabe, 33, rose to prominence with her swaggering dance performances of Beyoncé songs, and she has been called “the Japanese Beyoncé” in the media. A champion for body positivity in a country that largely prizes thinness in women, she has joked about feeling most liberated when eating ice cream in bed and how a muscular sumo wrestler embodies her ideal body type....."
Then she needs to get in shape and stop eating the fast food:
Sophomore Carolyn Fopiano gets a cheeseburger and fries delivered to her dorm (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
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There is a storm coming after leaving trail of damage in Deep South:
"Elizabeth Warren and AOC lay down climate challenge to Biden" by Jarrell Dillard and Leslie Kaufman Bloomberg, March 18, 2021
Progressives in the House and Senate are behind a $500 billion proposal to shift US transportation away from fossil fuels.
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, two proponents of the Green New Deal, are behind the bill, joined by Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Representative Andy Levin of Michigan.
Their plan aims to accelerate the process of making the US carbon neutral by 2050 — a goal Biden campaigned on — by putting the money in the hands of state, local, and tribal governments or transit authorities to make sweeping investments in public transit systems.
“The climate crisis is an existential threat to our planet,” Warren said, “ut it’s also a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, create a million good new jobs, and unleash the best of American innovation.”
So Liz is in bed with the World Economic Forum and on board with the Great Re$et, huh?
What a FRAUD!
The bill stands little chance of making it through Congress on its own, but the group plans to push the Biden administration to include the measure in its yet-to-be-unveiled next package tackling infrastructure, climate goals, and economic growth.
While Republicans have shown interest in upgrading transportation systems, they’re already raising concerns about adding to the nation’s debt.
Meeting Biden’s net zero pledge will require electrifying much of the economy — including, of course, as much transportation infrastructure as possible. Currently, this sector of the economy accounts for roughly 30 percent of the country’s annual carbon emissions. Public transit holds a special place in climate activists’ hearts because it maximizes people movement, reduces congestion, and will still be significantly less energy intensive per passenger mile than cars even when individual vehicles are electrified.
Btw, "global warming" is another BIG LIE just as is CVD!
It's all part and parcel to the Great Re$et!
The bill, the BUILD GREEN Infrastructure and Jobs Act, works double-time by updating and greening public transit at the same time. It offers a minimum of $150 billion over 10 years for electric vehicle infrastructure and to replace and electrify the nation’s public bus fleet — including commuter buses and school buses — and commuter rail lines, many of which still run on diesel. The rest of the money in the bill will be available for EV charging equipment and infrastructure projects such as highways and bridges, so long as they install EV chargers along the way.
Where will the ELECTRICITY COME FROM?
I mean, wind and sun isn't nearly enough to generate all the power they are requiring; however, if the HUMAN POPULATION is REDUCED by say 90%, this is ALL GOOD!
As expected based on Biden’s campaign promises, the bill reserves 40 percent of funding to “serve a front-line or vulnerable community,” and, perhaps anticipating that all communities will have a hard time raising taxes after COVID, the bill ups the federal contribution to projects from 80 percent to 85 percent and gives the secretary of transportation the option to wave local matching funds altogether for select projects.
The economy is flat on its back and they want to RAI$E TAXES?
IN$ANE!
The bill already has 15 cosponsors — all Democrats, plus Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent — and endorsements from more than a dozen climate advocacy groups.
Democrats used a fast-track budget process to pass Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package without a single Republican vote, but the president has said he wants the infrastructure package — which could carry a price tag of $2 trillion or more over 10 years — to be bipartisan.
If not, they will jam it through like the communi$ts they are!
It could be easier to lure GOP support for an infrastructure initiative after House Republicans voted Wednesday to allow members to request spending on specific projects. Republicans previously banned such dedicated spending, known as earmarks, after several corruption scandals.
Still, the climate provisions will likely get major pushback from Republicans, who’ve used the Green New Deal as a cudgel against Democrats since before it was even introduced as a non-binding resolution in 2019. Progressives may also face opposition from within their own party on measures in the bill that would seek to guarantee a $15 minimum wage for anyone working on projects funded through the bill. Their attempt to include a $15 federal minimum wage in the stimulus bill was foiled by a technicality of the budget process, but moderate Democrats had already come out against it.
Who cares about the pushback?
They are POWERLESS and WILL BE FOREVER if they are not PURGED FIRST!
You f**ked up, guys, -- all in your quest to remove Trump!
Data for Progress, a left-leaning think tank, estimates that the bill will save $100 billion per year in avoided health costs, prevent 4,200 deaths per year by reducing air pollution, and create a million new jobs. Those created directly through the program would have enhanced labor protections, including three months of paid family leave, but Data for Progress also expects the measure to have ripple effects throughout the power sector. Namely, to generate enough renewable electricity to cover new electricity needs will require $7.5 billion for new power projects and $20 billion for energy storage infrastructure. There’s enough money in the bill for both, according to the think tank.
I have to give the Globe credit there. They really make you think.
Putting these measures in the infrastructure bill may make it more difficult for the White House and congressional leadership to keep Democrats united; however, Warren has been building clout with Biden, with many of her former staffers and protégés holding key posts in the administration. While the president hasn’t endorsed Warren’s signature proposal, a tax on wealth, his infrastructure bill will likely include several tax increases on wealthy businesses and corporations, constituting the largest tax hike since 1993.
The corporations will simply relocate out of the country, just as NYC forms are leaving for Florida.
Of course, there is no redo if they f**k it up!
Related:
"A dozen House Republicans voted against a resolution to award three Congressional Gold Medals to the Capitol Police, the D.C. police and the Smithsonian Institution in recognition of those who protected the U.S. Capitol when it was attacked by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6. The GOP lawmakers, many who said they objected to the use of the term “insurrectionists” in the resolution, are: Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Andy Harris (Md.), Lance Gooden (Tex.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Louie Gohmert (Tex.), Michael Cloud (Tex.), Andrew S. Clyde (Ga.), Greg Steube (Fla.), Bob Good (Va.) and John Rose (Tenn.). “We had to combine it with these editorial comments about the January 6 sequence of events, and then we had to logroll it with this exhibit at the Smithsonian, and … that was a little much for me,” Gaetz said after the vote. Others objected to the use of the word “temple" in the resolution. “Instead of simply being about honoring the Capitol Police who bravely protected the Capitol on January 6th, Speaker Pelosi included damaging language that unnecessarily weighs down the bill," Cloud said in a statement. “The text refers to the Capitol as the temple of democracy – simply put, it’s not a temple and Congress should not refer to it as one. The federal government is not a god.” Massie also opposed the use of the word “temple,” saying it was “a little too sacrilegious for me.” The resolution states: “On January 6, 2021, a mob of insurrectionists forced its way into the U.S. Capitol building and congressional office buildings and engaged in acts of vandalism, looting, and violently attacked Capitol Police officers.” It also says: “The desecration of the U.S. Capitol, which is the temple of our American Democracy, and the violence targeting Congress are horrors that will forever stain our Nation’s history.”
The stain on our history comes from Pelosi and the “politically charged publicity stunt” that was January 6th after they squeaked through the vote and sent him to the CIA at this moment of mounting challenges and heightened tension between the U.S., Russia, and China as the U.S. Postal Service investigators found no evidence to support a Pennsylvania postal worker’s claim that his supervisors had tampered with mail-in ballots, according to an inspector general’s report — allegations cited by top Republicans to press baseless claims of fraud in the presidential election after Richard Hopkins, a mail carrier in Erie, alleged in November that he overheard the local postmaster discussing plans to backdate ballots received after the Nov. 3 vote and pass them off to election officials as legitimate but he has allegedly recanted under pressure and threat after being one step away from success.
It's enough to put one into orbit, and there was no immediate comment from the Vatican and it was unlikely Pope Francis would act.
Also see:
"The head of a World Health Organization team working with Chinese colleagues to finish a long-awaited report into the origins of the coronavirus acknowledged its authors could face “pressures” but insisted the final product will have a unanimous green light from all of the team’s science-minded members....."
Great, another pack of lies that is to be called the official story.
NEXT!
"Britain’s ambassador to South Korea on Thursday criticized South Korean health authorities for mandating coronavirus tests on all foreign workers in Seoul and a nearby province in a mass testing campaign that has triggered complaints about racial discrimination....."
Why wouldn't he want the test, and the hollering of racism is rich!
Is he high?
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Time to end the gaslighting for today. I'm simply no longer in love with the Globe and it is time to separate with 287 days left in the year -- or less:
"Jesse Aylward carried a secret for decades. Then in early 2019, the Brockton resident finally cracked, confessing to someone that he’d killed a woman in Pembroke “many years ago,” Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz told reporters Thursday. The woman, Cruz said, was 59-year-old Virginia Hannon, who was found strangled, beaten, and stabbed in her Pembroke home in February 1984. And the person who heard Aylward’s shocking confession decades later, Cruz said, contacted police the day after Aylward died in February 2020 at the age of 58. Cruz said DNA evidence ties Aylward to the murder. “Though this investigation has spanned more than 37 years, we have identified Virginia Hannon’s killer, and it is Jesse Aylward,” Cruz said. “We have exhausted all of the evidence we currently have, and it all points in the direction of Jesse Aylward.”
I hope he rots in the grave he is already in.
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It was the New York Times' turn to eulogize him today, and with that I will end this post and go say some prayers for him, his family, and his nation.
