Hermit-The-Prog
Hermit-The-Prog's JournalJust-us Mockalito and Amy Coathanger would love the witches suggestion.
Just-Us Beer Bong Weenie Waver and Uncle Clarence and Robber roberts will gleefully go along. The Subversive Court doesn't want to take a long time to send us backwards a long time, as they know their time of subversion is limited.
The radical Republican extremist party has been trying to eliminate old folks for quite a while -- and raid that Social Security stockpile, of course. Moscow Mitch wants peasants of all ages to stop lounging around on his money and get back to the mines and sweatshops. A fetus is a tool to rile the worker drones and stormtroopers. Good worker drones, stormtroopers, breeders, and billionaires -- that's all the modern radical Republican extremist party needs.
Anyone not brainwashed by now by the Fascist Oligarch eXtremists propaganda network is either the enemy or expendable, to GOP.
he really said it ...
Are Republicans now coming for Republican guns?
My neighbors have screeched for years about Democrats coming for their guns. No logic or history has calmed them. Maybe it's time to have a little chat with them about their recent loss of the right to privacy.
Using the stellar journalistic example of FOX (or, as many people are saying, the Fascist Oligarch eXtremists propaganda network), I submit the following:
Robber roberts, Uncle Clarence, Goreysucker, Amy Coathanger, Beer Bong Weenie Waver, and Mockalito have STRIPPED THE RIGHT of privacy from gun owners and paved the way for GOVERNMENT to snoop for RED flag GUNS and CONFISCATE them. Republicans are coming for your guns!
The Speaker: "McCarthy (Q-CA) Fails to Lead, Hands Keys to Party to Greene"
From Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
McCarthy (Q-CA) Fails to Lead, Hands Keys to Party to Greene
February 3, 2021
Press Release
Sen. John Thune: House Republicans Must Decide if They Want to Be the Party of QAnon
After several conversations and literally running away from reporters, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Q-CA) made clear that he is refusing to take action against conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. As a result, the House will continue with a vote to strip Greene of her seat on the esteemed House Committee on Education & Labor and House Committee on Budget. McCarthys failure to lead his party effectively hands the keys over to Greene an anti-Semite, QAnon adherent and 9/11 Truther.
McCarthys cowardly refusal to deal with Greene breaks with calls from Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Republican Jewish Coalition and several prominent members of the party to take action against Greene.
As No 2. Senate Republican John Thune warned Tuesday, McCarthy has chosen to make House Republicans the party of conspiracy theories and QAnon and Rep. Greene is in the drivers seat.
[ Edited to add the original's in-line links, but click the title to go to the original in case I missed some. ]
Your President is not a threat to your life or country
You can sleep tonight knowing that your President will not threaten your life, livelihood, or nation, either deliberately, through ignorance, or incompetence.
Let that sink in and relax.
We need to de-throne Scrooge McConnell
It's our money that Moscow Mitch Scrooge McConnell and the Republican death cult is withholding. People will lose jobs, homes, transportation, and lives because of the failure of the GOP to act.
January 5th is coming. Meidas, the Lincoln Project, Fair Fight, and others are working on getting out the vote and getting information to the electorate in Georgia.
Omaha Steve set up the DU actblue link for Warnock, Ossoff, Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dufor2020runoff
A few questions: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14520874
and answers: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14520972
Here's Omaha Steve's daily update on the progess:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214759560
Beaten Mom with Toddler ... Demands Officers Be Fired
Black Mom Swarmed & Beaten by Philly Riot Police with Toddler in Car Demands Officers Be FiredA Black mother who was attacked by a horde of Philadelphia police officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia Young was driving an SUV with her 2-year-old son and teenage nephew on October 27 as the city was engulfed in protest over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. earlier that day. Officers descended on the vehicle, broke its windows, assaulted and arrested her and separated her from her child. Youngs arrest went viral due to a shocking video of the police swarming her vehicle, and after the National Fraternal Order of Police the countrys largest police union posted a photo of her 2-year-old on social media, falsely claiming he was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness. More than a month after the police attack, Rickia Young is demanding the officers involved be fired. The police have not offered an explanation as to why they acted the way they did that night. They responded instead with a police investigation into Rickia, says Kevin Mincey, Rickia Youngs attorney.
[ Transcript and video (warning: violent) at link above ]
Let Them Eat COVID, Or These Fabulous New Job Numbers!
https://www.wonkette.com/let-them-eat-covid-or-these-fabulous-new-job-numbers
by Liz Dye
December 04, 2020So much for that V-shaped recovery. The November jobs report is out this morning, and it's not great! Economists were looking for 445,000 new jobs, and they got 245,000. That's compared to a gain of 610,000 jobs in October. Hey, remember when Kush 'n' Munch promised us a soaring year-end recovery thanks to the Dear Leader's wise stewardship? Yeah, not so much.
As the next wave of coronavirus crashes over us and Mitch McConnell's end of unemployment benefits time bomb detonates under nine million Americans, it's clear we're in for a rough winter.
Theoretically, unemployment declined from 6.9 percent in October to 6.7 percent last month. But the reality is that 400,000 people dropped out of the labor force permanently, disguising what's probably a net loss of actual jobs. Anyway, the month-on-month data is just a metric to tell us how much progress we've made digging out of the covid hole. The more meaningful comparison the one that tells us how much shoveling we'll have to do to get back to "normal" is where we are now compared to where we were in February when the virus hit.
In February, the unemployment rate was at 3.5 percent, and there were 152 million people working. Now it's 6.7 percent, and there are 142 million people working. That's 10 million more unemployed Americans before the next wave of covid-related closures decimates the hospitality industry.
No doubt Mitch McConnell appreciates the Bureau of Labor Statistics' commitment to producing charts so boring they'll make your eyes bleed. He's hoping you'll fall asleep before you work out that he and the rest of those evil fuckers have been dicking around for four months, pretending that the House plan for a massive stimulus bill was just Democrats being Democrats. Look at Crazy Nancy with her wacko demands for a $3 trillion package. LOL!
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Inside the Lives of Immigrant Teens Working Dangerous Night Shifts in Suburban Factories
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/immigrant-child-labor-factories-bensenville-illinois/
During the day, they attend high school. At night, they work to pay debts to smugglers and send money to family.
Melissa SanchezIts a little before 6 a.m. and still dark when Garcia gets home from work this October morning. The apartment where he lives with his aunt and uncle is silent. Theyve already left for their own jobs.
After nine hours hosing down machinery at a food processing plant, Garcia is tired and hungry. But he has less than an hour to get ready for high school, where he is a junior. He quickly showers, gets dressed and reheats some leftover chicken soup for a meal he refers to as his dinner. Then he gulps down some coffee, brushes his teeth, and walks outside to catch the school bus waiting near the edge of the sprawling apartment complex.
Here in the Chicago suburb of Bensenville, and in places like it throughout the country, Guatemalan teenagers like Garcia spend their days in class learning English and algebra and chemistry. At night, while their classmates sleep, they work to pay debts to smugglers and sponsors, to contribute to rent and bills, to buy groceries and sneakers, and to send money home to the parents and siblings they left behind.
They are among the tens of thousands of young people who have come to this country over the past few years, some as unaccompanied minors, others alongside a parent, amid a spike in the number of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
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Life is almost back to normal in Melbourne, Australia.
https://www.vox.com/2020/12/4/22151242/melbourne-victoria-australia-covid-19-cases-lockdown
How Melbourne eradicated Covid-19
Life is almost back to normal in Melbourne, Australia. Heres how they did it.
By Dylan ScottIn July and August, the Australian state of Victoria was going through a second Covid-19 wave. Local leaders set an improbable goal in the face of that challenge. They didnt want to just get their Covid-19 numbers down. They wanted to eliminate the virus entirely.
By the end of November, theyd done it.
They have seen no active cases for a full four weeks. Melbourne, the states capital and a city with about as many people as the greater Washington, DC, area, is now completely coronavirus-free.
Australia enjoyed plenty of advantages over the United States in containing Covid-19. It has no land borders to speak of. Its population density is very low (though the population is concentrated on the coasts). Its outbreak never got nearly as bad as the USs did. On its worst days, Victoria saw about 700 new cases; Missouri, with (very roughly) a similar population and landmass, is currently averaging more than 3,000. Some of the Australian states also closed their borders to the others, which lowered the risk somebody might bring Covid-19 from one part of the country to another.
But the Australian epidemic has also mirrored Americas in important ways. Once the coronavirus arrived in the spring, the country went into lockdown. When cases abated, some of those restrictions were eased and, before too long, Covid-19 cases were spiking again. Each state was responsible for its own response, with the federal government playing an advisory role outside of obviously national issues like foreign travel.
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