How The West Lost COVID

Solid New York Magazine overview of what went right (not much, except vaccines!) and wrong with our COVID response in the West and around the world:

How the West Lost COVID

How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?

I especially liked this passage:

In the U.S., the story of the pandemic year has been dominated by the character of the president who presided over it so ineptly, often with such indifference it seemed he was rooting for the disease. But the problem with assigning Donald Trump all, or even most of, the blame for America’s suffering is that the country’s failure isn’t unique. In fact, before the arrival of vaccines, the American experience of the coronavirus was not exceptional but typical — at least among those European nations it typically considers its peers. And as the New Year has brought a new administration, experts in fields from public health to economics have grown more comfortable acknowledging that catastrophe was much bigger and deeper than the denier-in-chief and indeed much more “normal” than Americans outraged or mourning are likely to understand.

Yes, the truth can now be told - the US was middle-of-the-pack among its obvious Euro-peers.

Comments

[Davod]

From Instapundit.

"Knox County Mayor grants operation on public roads to autonomous vehicle,"

Covid innovations. Anything to lessen the numbers in vehicles.

[GUS]

Utter horseshit.

[Narciso]

Lockdowns didnt work,

https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1371131826559881216

[Narciso]

Where is sweden on this chart?

[Narciso]

Now we do have 5 times germanys population, 7 times the uks, fraud ferguson created this cage that has killed hopes and dreams and yet has saved few.

[Narciso]

This countrys soul is dying, all the institutions are rotten with a pathetic mannikin atop it,

[Narciso]

As usual our correspondent from the emerald isle was ahead of the curve.

https://computingforever.com/2021/03/09/the-great-reset-and-the-plantation-of-the-mind/

[Davod]

."Columbia To Host Six Graduation Ceremonies
Divided By Sex, Race, Inc"

Segregation now, and forever.

[Narciso]

Ah hamilton is screaming in the ether.

[Narciso]

So how did the uk which pioneered the lockdown do worse,

[GUS]

Because Maguires pals are in the COMMIE PARTY are useless. But he loves them anyway. Doesn't even deny it. He's a fraud. I told you all along.

[Narciso]

I mean there must be some lesson here

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1371544244163317762

[Narciso]

Who is an expert, slavitt, how about palm or levine, oh yes the sainted fauci xis favorite puppet except captain pike.

[Narciso]

Now did germany have anyone as bloodthirsty as cuomo murphy whitmer and evers who turned nursing homes into abbatoirs.

[Davod]

On Hotair.
"Biden still hasn’t called Turkey’s president and that might be a good thing
Jazz Shaw Mar 14, 2021 11:01 AM"

Biden doesn't need to call Turkey's president. He probably has enough supporter of Turkey's policies in his administration.

[Narciso]

Its a systemic failure were assuming the statistics are really accurate and not inflated by funding formulas by denial of needed (and inexpensive) therapeutics.

[Narciso]

As michael doran put it, turkey is in an alliance with azerbaijan and israel, vs iran and armenia

[Davod]

Did anyone see this horrific account of D-Day?

"Surviving WW2 Veteran Recounts Harrowing Story Of The Lack Of Trans Representation On D-Day..."

https://babylonbee.com/news/surviving-ww2-vet-recounts-harrowing-story-of-the-lack-of-trans-representation-on-d-day

[Narciso]

Their wisdom was not appreciated

https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-cdu-suffers-heavy-losses-germany-key-regional-elections/

Ofcourse the social democrats and greens are probably worse

[Narciso]

How did they do:

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/israel%E2%80%99s-new-election-no-one-else-bibi-180277

[Narciso]

Did the uk care less, did germany care more, theres got to be an answer.

[Narciso]

They terribly handle the casting of blacks and women but the problem is the critics

https://mobile.twitter.com/rewritingripley/status/1370065099713486849

[Narciso]

Ot i learned the actor who played dr. Bashir is the great great grandson of the mahdi alexander siddig

[Dave (in MA)]

The uncredited writer of the cited swill is David Wallace-Wells, a "journalist known for his writings on climate change" who has a history degree. His hyphen was not apparently acquired by marriage, so I'm guessing he got it from the people who paid to put him through Brown.

[Davod]

RE. The Israeli elections. Netanyahu winning always presupposes that the electronics want him to win.

[Narciso]

Heres another view

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#coronavirus-country-profiles

[Narciso]

Hes beenon the hamster wheel five? Times.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--...the character of the president who presided over it so ineptly, often with such indifference it seemed he was rooting for the disease...
...the catastrophe was much bigger and deeper than the denier-in-chief...--

If this horseshit bore some relationship to reality it might succeed as snark. But as it is it's...well, horseshit.
Day after day he was up there with those two clowns they laud talking endlessly about this. Even Newsom and Cuomo had to amit when pressed that Trump gave them everything they asked for and Fauci admitted Trump did what he asked [no matter how stupid it was].
In the remnants of Federalism we have the states and localities are the front line and Trump did what he could according to the powers he has. What is Biden doing differently besides shooting his mouth off?

Of course this meme's real purpose is to turn attention away from the growing realization by the public everything they took from us did nothing but hurt us.
Lockdowns were a colossal retarded mistake that harmed millions and did nothing? Well after all how can we criticize that when nothing anyone did would have made any difference? Who could have known?

[Narciso]

In the second chart germany is second re 7 day case growth, so the late william goldmans maxim seems on point.

[Narciso]

You know how i feel about stay puft

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/15/new-jersey-gov-phil-murphys-office-was-warned-on-nursing-home-policy-patients-will-die/

[Narciso]

India with about a billion people, did very welm regarding case growth, wonder why that is (could the fact they grow the key raw material for hcq cinchona, have something to do with it)

[jim nj]

"In the U.S., the story of the pandemic year has been dominated by the character of the president who presided over it so ineptly, often with such indifference it seemed he was rooting for the disease."

I guess you have to frame it like that in order to publish in New York Magazine. If not, the author is just displaying his ignorance of how things actually played out. More likely, he needs to believe that Trump was inept to excuse the errors that everybody else made.

Cuomo, Newson, Wolf, Murphy and Whitmer were advised by idiots, unfortunately, so was Trump. And the media backed the idiots over Trump.

If TM had paid attention to the comments here instead of the NY media he would have been better informed all along.

[jim nj]

Iggy and I seem to be in agreement. I should have refreshed the page and just moved on.

I must have skipped over "denier-in-chief" when I read the quote. That's an infuriating appellation. Indeed, it disqualifies anything that follows.

It is somewhat appropriate though, I've come to associate the word denier with the liars that propose it.

[jim nj]

Thank you, fre whoever posted this.

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/06/11/searching-for-ways-to-prevent-life-threatening-blood-clots-in-covid-19/#:~:text=Among%20the%20many%20mysteries%20is,even%20in%20younger%20people.

"We’re still trying to understand what promotes the clotting. One clue involves the endothelial cells that form the inner lining of our blood vessels. These cells have on their surface a protein called the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor, and this clue is important for two reasons. One, the virus attaches to the ACE2 receptor, using it as an entry point to infect cells. Two, endothelial-lined blood vessels extend to every organ in the body. Taken together, it seems that some COVID-19 complications relate to the virus attaching to endothelial cells, not only in the lungs, but in the heart and multiple organs."

This explains what I've been trying to puzzle out with my legs. Why did the onset come so quickly? It's like I skipped a step. The progression was all wrong. No leg cramping after a hour's walking. Then after a half hour's walking. Just, boom, one day, shortly after a presumed Covid exposure, ten minutes is too much walking.

I want to talk to my cardiologist about this.

[jim nj]

fre should be for

The keyboard made me do it.

[henry]

The article assumes the disease was worse than the lockdowns. If anything, government response to disease did the killing. Both here and in Europe.

[henry]

As the public figures out the Kung Flu authoritarianism by government, pay attention to the totalitarian fallback:

The funny thing is that atmospheric carbon dioxide, although crucial to the prosperity of life forms, has had only a very minor if any role in regulating the average global temperatures despite the contrary views propagated by IPCC.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/03/16/the-water-planet-earth-and-its-climate/

[henry]

Connecticut is almost as bad.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/illinoisans-are-over-taxed-new-study-confirms

[MissMarple2]

I see that the effort to deflect any sort of blame from Fauci, Brix (who went to work for a Clinton affiliate after her retirement), VP Pence (who was put in charge of coordinating the response, to great acclaim at the time), the hysteria of the news media, the democrats (who used President Trump's travel ban to charge him with racism and xenophobia, remembering Nancy Pelosi's trip to Chinatown)and, dare I say it, the CHINESE (who first denied being the source while sending their citizens to every major western county) has begun.

To ignore the Chinese communist party's effort to spread this virus while taking advantage of western confusion and anti-Trump bigotry, in conjunction with the dems and Never Trump weasels, is despicable. To accuse the President of ignoring it or treating it with indifference is doubly despicable.

I have not yet finished my first cup of coffee, so will withhold further ranting for now.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.steynonline.com/11140/the-very-model-of-a-modish-loser-general-staff

Steyn has choice words for the Pentagon.

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
·
47s
Suspension of AstraZeneca shots is 'political decision': Italy's medicines regulator head http://reut.rs/3bR8kyn

[clarice]

https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/15/capitol-investigation-seeks-to-criminalize-political-dissent/

[MissMarple2]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-16/jpmorgan-s-head-of-southeast-asia-m-a-tay-said-to-join-barclays

Excerpt:

"Tay, who holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, has over 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience in the U.S. and Asia, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before joining JPMorgan in 2011, she was an executive director on UBS Group AG’s M&A team in New York. Tay has also worked at Warburg Pincus and Standard Chartered Plc.

The banker is at least the second senior executive in Singapore to leave JPMorgan recently. Timothy Wee, head of Southeast Asia equity capital markets, left after serving more than seven years at the U.S. bank to pursue an entrepreneurial role related to the new economy industry, Bloomberg News reported last month."

My teacher sister's analysis of the CCP is that they are like Star Trek's Ferengi (which is how she explained this to her daughter). Bannon calls them a trans-national criminal organization.

Myself, I would like to know what "gardening leave" is.

[MissMarple2]

Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
·
17h
Crisis? Disaster?

No matter what you call it, President Biden’s policies caused the chaos at the southern border.

And he doesn’t have a plan to fix it.
====================================
I still want to know the source of those "Biden, please let us in " t-shirts and who paid for them.

[MissMarple2]

https://summit.news/2021/03/16/video-psaki-says-i-dont-have-anything-to-preview-when-asked-if-biden-will-visit-border/

There is also an article quoting a migrant who says "Biden promised."

This may be the first passive-aggressive administration in our history. Will any of them be held to account for the sufferings of the migrants?

[MissMarple2]

Apparently a lot of Europeans don't like Daylight Savings Time, either.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/will-daylight-saving-time-ever-end?srnd=premium

I think anonamom would agree with this line:

"The disruptive effects of the twice-a-year time change have been linked to higher rates of car crashes, workplace injuries, street crime, heart attacks and general crankiness."

[MissMarple2]

TheLeoTerrell
@TheLeoTerrell
·
3m
Day 55: Biden Administration: President Biden: You love to play race card: Each Day of your Administration, I will send you a tweet which will ask you two questions: Where does systemic discrimination exist in American? What have you done to eliminate systemic discrimination?

[MissMarple2]

Bloomberg
@business
·
9m
Britain's 99-year old Prince Philip left a London hospital after being treated for an infection and undergoing a heart procedure, AP reports

[MissMarple2]

Posted by Jnaice Dean on Twitter:

[MissMarple2]

TheLeoTerrell
@TheLeoTerrell
·
9h
The stimulus bill is racist because it provides financial assistance to minority farmers and not white farmers. The bill is unconstitutional and Democrats should be embarrassed

[MissMarple2]

The Hill
@thehill

· 15m
Biden planning first major tax hike in almost 30 years: report http://hill.cm/kqyXA36

[MissMarple2]

https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17009

Universities make out like bandits with Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID package

The new COVID-19 federal relief bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on Thursday contains billions more for American colleges and universities.

Universities will receive another $40 billion in this round of stimulus.

[MissMarple2]

House Republicans detail their firsthand takeaways from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border amid a migrant surge: “This is Biden’s crisis, this is Biden’s scandal.” pic.twitter.com/oWFbaUfDLd

— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) March 16, 2021

Video at link. Please listen. Large groups of Chinese, who pay $45,000 to get the cartels to transport them in.

Where do those Chinese get the money to pay the cartels, and are they refugees or CCP operatives?

[James D.]

If TM had paid attention to the comments here instead of the NY media he would have been better informed all along.

But he doesn't, and he never will, because Orange Man Bad, or whyever.

It's because of posts like this from TM that I'm not here nearly as much anymore.

[rse]

Guess what is still not being covered on the local news despite hyping the original story to death. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/the_washington_post_confessed_to_a_very_big_lie.html

[Melinda]

Yeah, that's not at all shocking. Whatever tool works.

The Intercept
@theintercept
Cuomo deployed the “WEP” to back male machine candidates over women with a real shot at winning. interc.pt/38KYn3m

https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1371794775788171264

(The pic is the penultimate in political cynicism.)

[Melinda]

A recent interview with an overworked tech support manager:

Christiaan Beek
@ChristiaanBeek
Have a smile, analyst hearing that they have no on-premise Exchange servers. #Hafnium #DFIR

https://twitter.com/ChristiaanBeek/status/1371732913151180800

[MissMarple2]

James D.,

I certainly understand. I also understand those who primarily post on JOM2. Mostly I ignore whatever the thread topic is, but today's set me off.

In a way, I guess it's good for me to see what BS the other side is pushing. I certainly don't follow New York Magazine on Twitter, nor would I ever go to their web site. The democrats seem to have become nothing but a character assassination machine, and as near as I can tell, this is their platform:

1. Trump is an uncaring, crooked buffoon and his followers are gullible, uneducated, racist idiots.

2. "Free stuff" dangled in front of voters like dog treats.

3. If you are a democrat, you are cool, hip, and smart.

I come from a democrat family. My father would have been ashamed of what his party has become.

[jimmyk]

In the U.S., the story of the pandemic year has been dominated by the character of the president who presided over it so ineptly, often with such indifference it seemed he was rooting for the disease.

I won't lower myself to read a piece with garbage like that (I don't even see a link anyway), but I don't imagine it notes the fact that all those African and Asian regions with very low death rates are HCQ-friendly, since we know who spoke favorably about HCQ and who ridiculed him for it.

[MissMarple2]

toddstarnes
@toddstarnes
·
13h
Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State knew the WaPost got the story wrong - but he remained silent. He threw the Senate elections.

[Melinda]

"for pay."

FIFY.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/03/08/coffee-shop-gives-jobs-people-special-needs-purpose/

Since I have been fuming about the article and the democrats, I thought some uplifting stories would make up for it.

[MissMarple2]

Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwart
·
1h
Volkswagen shares are on a tear. Investors betting it will be the pre-eminent alternative to $TSLA https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-16/if-tesla-is-the-apple-of-electric-vehicles-volkswagen-is-betting-it-can-be-samsung
=========================================

I think the operative word here is "betting."

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

Sorry I don't have a link because it's been disappeared from Bloomberg Here's their tweet, though:

Bloomberg
@business
·
1h
Commerzbank Supervisory Board Chairman Hans-Joerg Vetter unexpectedly resigns for health reasons, throwing the bank into renewed management tumult as it prepares a major overhaul.

[MissMarple2]

Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
·
1h
From colleague Mike Emanuel. AK GOP moves to censure Murkowkski. Will recruit opponent to challenge her in next year’s primary

[MissMarple2]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/supercharged-economy-leaves-global-supply-chain-shambles

This article has lots of charts and graphs demonstrating the increases in shipping costs, etc.

I found this excerpt interesting:

"Chief Executive Steve Greenspon at Honey-Can-Do International LLC told WSJ that the rate at which Americans are purchasing clothes racks, shelves, and other housewares is remarkable. The "exceptionally high" demand produces bottlenecks at its manufacturers in China, resulting in a 50% increase in shipping cost and longer shipping time. Industry-wide, shipping costs are hitting record highs."

[sbwaters]

FTA: the character of the president who presided over it so ineptly, often with such indifference it seemed he was rooting for the disease.

I do love TM’s sense of humor! He’s such an instigator. How he can keep a straight face tossing this red meat into the lions’ den is beyond me.

Such an unserious article doesn’t deserve to be read. It obviously overlooks that Trump faced a second problem as dangerous as the virus.

Trump’s options were limited by Democrats who dearly wanted Republicans to be the ones to destroy checks and balance of federalism.

Trump’s genius was to forge a battle plan that despite political and bureaucratic resistance, proposed temporary protective measures for the most vulnerable, advocated therapeutics, funded warp speed production of a vaccine, worked to restart the economy, and, most deliciously allowed Democrats, RINOs, bureaucrats, corporate social media barons, and media talking heads to individually and collectively step on their own rakes.

[Narciso]

I did jim nj.

[KevlarKid]

"The stimulus bill is racist because it provides financial assistance to minority farmers and not white farmers. The bill is unconstitutional and Democrats should be embarrassed"

Leo Terrell is an ignorant dumb fuck who should bone up on the matter, i dunno, by reading the defining history "Dispossession" by Pete Daniel. Spells out the hard truths about the USDA and White farmers in the 20th century and access to govt subsidies and credit.

Democrats by and large suck in general- no gettin around that. Diz Warren and Gillebrand are in on the bill, along with Spartacooz. Here's their play: this bill will fail to address the legitimate needs of underserved Black farmers while leaving a back door open for White women farmers to increase their access to federal * land grants* while over appropriating funding for local ag bureaucracies and red tape.

This is the same tune that played out as Washington appropriated millions in CRA 64 funds for agriculture and community development which got laundered throughout the country at the local level through Cracker bureaucracies and into White pockets.

"Obey but don't comply."

[MissMarple2]

.@larry_kudlow : Biden economic plan straight from 'left-wing playbook' pic.twitter.com/hbahgl2uYm

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 16, 2021

Video at link, about 5 minutes.

I didn't know they are proposing to use the original purchase price on businesses and family farms, even if it was over 100 years ago.

[Narciso]

I was struck by the vaccine seens to causing some of the same symptoms that the virus did.

[MissMarple2]

Kev,

Listen to Kudlow. Leo isn't as ignorant as you think. While proposing to make up for historical disparity in aid, they are going to reinstitute the estate tax and use the ORIGINAL purchase price to calculate the gain in value.

This will penalize a great many middle class people who will NOT gain any security from an inheritance, whether black, white, or anything in between.

[Narciso]

Melinda provided the rosetta link i followed up with cullen the emerald isle from the emerald isls and alex berenson.

[Melinda]

Heather Mullins - Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV)
@TalkMullins
BREAKING! 🚨🚨🚨

Fulton County, GA!: A judge has granted @VoterGa conditional approval to inspect Fulton County mail-in ballots and metadata! This includes the ballots seen in the controversial State Farm Arena video being scanned in after hours. Watch @RealAmVoice for updates!
https://twitter.com/TalkMullins/status/1371809057925959682

[KevlarKid]

Conservative outrage porn is a limp response to the current fiddle playing spectacle in DC currently orchestrated by powers that be.

It's predictable:

Hold a mirror up in front of a monkey and it will fly into blind rage at seeing "that monkey."

Works on Dems too.

And "Rome" burns. It took the Soviets, what, 75 years to burn through czarist wealth? And it's taken the US federal bureaucracy 75 years or so to burn through its WWII economic windfall?

Monkeyshines.

[Narciso]

Nicholson baker who i admit is insane followed the breadcrumbs that led from the wuhan institute of virology to our shores.

[Narciso]

As i pointed out at jom 2.0, woke is a rhetorical high ground these are zombies or lotus eaters brainless or just ignorant about what came before

[Narciso]

Remenber when breitbart called attention to this with sherrod and beck helped sabotage him.

[Narciso]

But of course

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/15/professor-who-called-acosta-treatment-truly-shocking-now-wants-to-ban-fox-news-from-white-house/#.YFCy5rug8DU.twitter

[Jane]

Clarice,

After reading the article you posted yesterday - and Julie Kelly today, it see,s clear republicans are becoming the new Jews.

[James D.]

I do love TM’s sense of humor! He’s such an instigator. How he can keep a straight face tossing this red meat into the lions’ den is beyond me.

I don't. I think that sort of "dry humor" is mostly just a shitty way to mock people who think you like/respect them.

[KevlarKid]

The conversion of basis price calculations to income tax has zero to do with historic inequities in financing Black farmers.

Income tax is unconstitutional period.

Now that Biden is set to run the table in the name of Big Ag, he'll finish the job of eliminating small operators using the basis ploy. A 500 acre farm in Iowa being passed on to inheritors ( valued at $5000 per acre-- good black dirt corn ground) will carry with it an income tax bill of about $792K. Who will pay that and seriously believe they can stay in business- credit or no credit?

It stinks.

But so does nullification of civil rights law through bureacratic malpractice, courtesy of the USDA- the net effect which wiped out Black farmers in the southeast after WWII.

Neither Kudlow nor Leo GET that...like most Americans who are influenced by the US' "Creation Story." If Kud n'Leo did GET IT they'd sing a different tune re unconstitutionality in the name of the ludicrous concept of " reverse discrimination" against White people.

Time to go to work.

[Narciso]

'You will own nothing, you will rent everything and you will be happy' is this thinking through yet' the commisars took our family farm and then flooded it. Just because they could.

[Narciso]

Sinking in yet, and that was not unique, the result was in a few years the country with the highest standard of living in the americas faces real hunger and depravity.

[Narciso]

This is what vassar bushmills didnt understand or didnt care to.

[MissMarple2]

https://pandemic.warroom.org/listen-live/

Link to Steve Bannon's show, which is on from 10-12 Eastern. There is a link for audio only as well as video (scroll down for that).

[Narciso]

Depravation depravity was the hellscape we saw on the grammys

[Melinda]

Who had Pfizer for the recurring Fed Income stream win on their Bingo card?

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Lee Fang @lhfang
Pfizer executives explain to investors that people may need a third dose of covid vaccine, in addition to regular yearly boosters. The company will soon begin plans to hike prices given the "significant opportunity for our vaccine" documentcloud.org/documents/2051…

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1371823427443699712

[Old Lurker]

I'm confused.

Tell me again why I should even believe any of those numbers? I know for a fact that the US has cooked the books from Day One of Covid and only to secure political power over the sheeple, so now I am to believe countries even more dishonest than ours?

Governments lied, they are lying, they will lie.

That is why we have a Constitution.

Oh. Wait.

So it was a bad flu year.

It happens.

Here is your bill for $82 Trillion (and counting).

You're welcome.

[Melinda]

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
BWAHAHAHAHA PART 2

Lee Fang @lhfang
Replying to @lhfang
"But we think as this shifts from pandemic to endemic, we think there's an opportunity here for us."

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1371823874581610498

[Narciso]

Well there is that, so i did i comparative analysis with the widget and india a country that is drowning in hcq dis quite well.

[Melinda]

Central Jet Charter CEO Paul Alexander child sex indictment unsealed

https://www.google.com/amp/s/privatejetcardcomparisons.com/2021/03/12/central-jet-charter-ceo-paul-alexander-indicted-on-child-sex-trafficking/amp/

[Narciso]

The one he quotes is curious

https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1371827174001496064

But he has provided samizdat data in the past

[MissMarple2]

Bannon on a rant o McCarthy:

Heh. Right now Bannon is trashing McCarthy.

"Have you EVER been to the Border before yesterday's grandstanding? Where were you in 17 and 18, when Mr. Paul Ryan (now on board of Fox News) and you used all of your tricks to stop building the wall? This guy is inarticulate and stupid, and he is NOT going to lead us to victory in 2022!"

I am sure that there is more, but I wanted to give you a flavor.

[rse]

I just got off a webinar where the joyful presenter said that the bill signed last week took ideas that were fringe and on the pages of jacobin magazine 10 years ago and is now implementing them to create a new paradigm for the economy.

Webinar was actually last week, but went to beach to get my vitamin D more directly than what was available in ATL.

Webinar also mentioned a shift to a caring economy where healthcare workers and long term care workers will be much better paid. Now with deductibles already sky high and most people having trouble swinging what long term care, especially memory care already costs per month, who pays?

There actually are economic costs as yet unappreciated to all these social justice visions.

[Account Deleted]

MM, gardening leave is part of the regulations of layoffs in the UK. Well, they call layoffs "redundancy" or "made redundant."

If your firm lays you off, they have to give you a few months of leave. You are still an employee and get paid, but you stay home and are not allowed to start another job until the official termination. People call it gardening leave because they are at home taking care of the yard (which they call garden). A good friend went through this a couple years ago, and he rather enjoyed it. Ended up with a better job too.

[MissMarple2]

Thanks, Alison! Shows you can learn something every day!

[MissMarple2]

Raheem Kassan says "This regime is in business with the cartels."

[GUS]

Ig, that HORSE SHIT comment reminded me of ME.
JamesD, you get it.
You and Ig and both spot on.

[henry]

But so does nullification of civil rights law through bureacratic malpractice, courtesy of the USDA- the net effect which wiped out Black farmers in the southeast after WWII.

This was “fixed” by the Pigford money spigot. To the extent that cash went to the wrong people (all of it?), it suggests the answer is getting rid of USDA instead of funneling moar cash through that misallocation machine. ( much like getting rid of BIA would help the tribes). In each case the funds mostly feed favored politicians and NGOs. Nice design.

The “original basis” change wipes out the middle class small business, not only farmers. Also by design.

Addressing past racism screws everyone and never makes the victims whole (assuming they are still alive). It all boils down to government fleecing of all the people, with a rainbow on top to fool the rubes.