yeah, a lockdown on my freedom
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
spring 2020 when the they decided to actually try paying people to stay home (republicans no less) was, in retrospect, very radical for the us imo. those few months with no traffic and a paycheck every week, more than i've ever made before, were totally amazing from my pov. feel like the last two years has been both sides of the government just making absolutely sure that will never, ever happen again.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it definitely had the feel of "ok fine, we're gonna do this HORRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE ECONOMY thing once, but that's it, we cannot keep doing this HORRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE ECONOMY thing after so get your affairs in order!". and I suspect a lot of Rs were thinking election year when they did it - it gave "I don't need no handout" conservative cranks an out to where getting a handout was acceptable ("ah couldn't do mah job!"0
now I have friends terribly afraid of losing weeks of work and not being able to pay rent and there is eerie deja vu.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
dunno how President Manchin feels about it now
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
the Empire of West Virginia has seceded
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
The sick part is, we have evidence those checks...stimulated the economy and provided household savings.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
saved my mother from utter ruin (or my brother and I from ruin, more like). and many many friends.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
sounds awful. for democrats, i mean, that they were able to help you. that's not the kind of message they want to be sending heading into the midterms.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
don't worry I assured everybody that my folks will be reporting to a worker's prison as soon as the pandemic is over
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
the message, instead is this: we're back on track and we're headed toward tomorrow. we can't look back now, we've got to go forward. we have to forget where we've been and think about where we're going. where are we going? that's the question we need to be asking. we need to be listening to each other more. we need to be quiet, sometimes, you know, and just listen? everybody, just be quiet and listen, ok? now everybody, i want you to grab the hand of the person next to you, go ahead, that's right don't be shy now, it's just hands! and let's close our eyes now and just listen in, toward the middle, listening to our own breaths. let's forget the past, together. where is the past, if we can't return to it? what is the past, if your past is different than my own? when was the past, and which one was it? forget the past. no one can be wrong here.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
*joe biden quietly breaks from the circle and is escorted by secret service into air force one
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
"dunno how President Manchin feels about it now"
https://y.yarn.co/3742b89f-8b66-4eaf-9699-a630617ce08c_screenshot.jpg
We got to sop up all that free money, because we caaint open up the KFC except at the drive through. Good lawd fellas, man's got to sit down at the KFC after the church meetin' or else he gits it all over his Sunday clothes.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
that was during a winter surge and wasn’t an incredibly contagious variant, i’m sure you’ll argue this point and i’ll be wrong somehow
(sincerely not trying to generate argument with any individuals, least of all Brad, but imo we are currently in a winter surge exacerbated by travel for Thanksgiving family gatherings, just as last November, when in the previous post the same dude described it as a "surge (that) demands a robust and immediate federal response which has been woefully lacking")
(at the very least I don't see any way in which December 27 2021 is less "winter" than November 13 2021!)
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
Joe Biden, November 2020:
"I am alarmed by the surge in reported COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and fatalities. This crisis demands a robust and immediate federal response which has been woefully lacking."
Joe Biden, January 2022:
lol idk, google some shit and figure it out
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
trump gave everyone $2000 when way less people had COVID
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
yeah, and they used it to buy fentanyl
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
$2000 in two payments over the span of 10 months, during a period of time when Rs were more amenable to voting "Yay" on a recovery package (i.e. when they had a Republican President in office whose approval rating could benefit, when the pandemic was new).
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
being that DINOs like Manchin want means testing for people receiving any benefits like this now, good luck getting this shit passed now.
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:02 (two years ago) link
lets not pretend it wasn't a Democrat proposal that virtually every Dem voted Yes on
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
Does that matter to the populace in general? A Republican President and Republican Senate were in office when people got those checks and the situation somehow seemed less hopeless. Oh, a Democrat is stopping Democrats from doing anything to assuage misery now? I'm sure when the midterms roll around "elect more Democrats to stop Democrats from stopping Democrats from helping you" will be a killer slogan.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
Those dastardly Republicans just doesn't work when it was Biden who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into not restarting student loan payments at the peak of Omicron.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
Got it, so should we vote for Republicans or just not vote?
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
that's the point.that's why there has to be a revolution.but it can't, because of what's happening.so, we just have to keep watching out for that
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:40 (two years ago) link
I don't know, vote for whomever you want to, doesn't seem to matter much in the end.
today I learned a city testing site that I found by Googling charged me $1,068.89 for a test I didn't even end up getting 🙃 https://t.co/kgVSTS1bUZ— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) January 5, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
right.
so what are the steps after that? it's that there has to be a big fundamental change, many are saying. some presidential candidates would refer to it every single day as "a revolution". but why doesn't that revolution happen. welp, yes, alas. we'll just have to keep an eye on all that
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
Steps after voting for whomever you want to vote for? I dunno, they usually hand me a sticker on the way out. I like to put it on my hat for the rest of the day.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
Do any of you know what primaries are ? We need more people to primary out centrist assholes, and more people to run in those primaries.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link
i do not know what primaries are
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:15 (two years ago) link
but i know they're one of the first things in a process, probably one of the most...essential parts of it
for me it's always been about the secondary and tertiaries, though. i'm talking brown & crouppen
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
i enjoy primaries most when too many people are trying to primary the centrist and they each get a little bit of the vote, as a treat
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link
With the right primary wins, 125 members of the House Progressive Caucus could have folded on Build Back Better instead of 85.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:21 (two years ago) link
So let’s get on that revolution thing. Most Americans agree with us on that, right?
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 January 2022 01:20 (two years ago) link
Whole lotta people showed up for a revolution last Jan. 6th!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 January 2022 01:39 (two years ago) link
Ok can’t succeed don’t try sorry to have said anything
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 6 January 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
the revolution will be endlessly revised
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 January 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
Finally, bipartisanship:
NEW: Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper claims that Trump said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd: “Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) May 2, 2022
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Monday, 2 May 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, and we must fight any and all attempts to overturn it. As president, I will codify Roe into law and ensure this choice remains between a woman and her doctor. https://t.co/kaJbYWcYhL— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 5, 2019
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 04:21 (two years ago) link
but we must wait until it has already happened and is far too late, to even begin to muster a counterattack and to begin to do what is right
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 04:29 (two years ago) link
November 2, 2020:
The first thing @JoeBiden and I will do in the White House is get this virus under control.— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 3, 2020
May 13, 2022:
Biden urges local leaders to use unspent Covid relief money to hire more police
May 21, 2022:
576 officers lost their lives in the line of duty in 2021. We passed a Senate resolution designating this week as National Police Week to honor the officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities. One small way to recognize their courage.— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) May 21, 2022
(444 of these deaths were from COVID.)
May 23, 2022:
Two months after dropping the mask mandate, my city is at 377 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents in the past 7 days. This is the second-highest peak of the pandemic to date (testing is now largely self-reported, so raw numbers are certainly far higher than recorded, but will still be below January 2022.)
May 24, 2022:
A mass-murderer entered a Texas high school and killed at least 19 children and two adults. Some of the dead children were so badly shot that parents had to be DNA swabbed to compare to corpses, in order to identify them. Current police funding is at a level (40% of the total city budget) that the school district has a distinct force. Multiple members of this school district police force fired on the murderer outside the school, but failed to stop him entering the premises.
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 08:36 (two years ago) link
We passed a Senate resolution designating this week as National Police Week to honor the officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities. One small way to recognize their courage.
This National Police Week marked the second anniversary of the protracted murder of George Floyd by a group of police officers. When hundreds of thousands of citizens protested this brutality, Joe Biden repeatedly called for the protestors to be shot and for police funding to be increased.
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
Joe Biden repeatedly called for the protestors to be shot
source? are you talking about the "aim for the leg and not the heart" thing?
― aegis philbin (crüt), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
cant believe it all started with that kamala tweet. a true butterfly effect.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
the kamala effect
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
I do consider my legs to be part of me, yes.
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
sorry, not gonna buy any theory that posits Kamala affecting something
― rob, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
sic, I believe Biden was advocating shooting unarmed "suspects" in the leg not protesters, but the rest of your points are solid
― rob, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
He talked about "an unarmed person coming at 'em," during the protests that were themselves being met with brutality in response. It's possible he meant "people suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill a month ago," and not "unarmed people marching toward police in the context of current daily events," but I'm going to assign infelicity in wording to the speaker rather than the listener, if so.
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
what he said was pretty ignorant, but it's clear his point was that police officers shouldn't shoot to kill, and you're deliberately misrepresenting that to fit your narrative
― aegis philbin (crüt), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
that is to say, he absolutely did not repeatedly called for protestors to be shot
― aegis philbin (crüt), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link