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Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#324751: Aug 22nd 2020 at 12:09:38 PM

My grandmother has COVID I just found out. We're in Florida. There is a very real chance Ron DeSantis's policies may kill a member of my family.

The notion of an in-person RNC spreading this disease more is terrifying, karma or no

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#324752: Aug 22nd 2020 at 12:18:55 PM

Man, I'm sorry to hear that. I pray she gets better.

I have a grand uncle in Florida and I'm always worried something is going to happen to him.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#324753: Aug 22nd 2020 at 12:24:36 PM

I'm sorry.

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#324754: Aug 22nd 2020 at 12:41:16 PM

Hope your grandmother gets better.

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#324755: Aug 22nd 2020 at 12:46:06 PM

That's horrible to hear, I hope she gets better and the Republicans face real consequences for their disgusting negligence.

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#324756: Aug 22nd 2020 at 1:01:49 PM

I;m sorry to hear about your grandmother.

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ScubaWolf from South Carolina Since: Feb, 2020
#324757: Aug 22nd 2020 at 1:08:19 PM

I'm sorry to hear that Lighty, I hope she recovers.

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#324758: Aug 22nd 2020 at 2:06:51 PM

And in weather new, New Orleans and SE Louisiana are currenlty looking at a one two punch from Hurricanes next week.

Also, /hug @ Lightysnake

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Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#324759: Aug 22nd 2020 at 2:28:22 PM

Lightysnake, sending her and you my best wishes.

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#324761: Aug 22nd 2020 at 4:40:09 PM

Ah, they're still endlessly peddling the "the service is at risk because it's losing money" bullshit.

I assume their answer to all the "why does a *government service* need to be profitable?" and "then stop obliging it to fund 75 years of pensions" stuff is to just ignore it and walk away.

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#324762: Aug 22nd 2020 at 5:02:15 PM

The USPS is already self-sufficient (outside the stupid pension thing) and doesn't rely on taxpayer dollars on top of that. And if it did run off subsidies it wouldn't need to be profitable anyway since it would be a purely government entity.

Edited by Karxrida on Aug 22nd 2020 at 5:05:32 AM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#324764: Aug 22nd 2020 at 6:07:10 PM

The Delivering for America Act aims to halt recent operational changes to the United States Postal Service and provide the agency with an additional $25 billion in funding. More than two dozen House Republications voted in favor of the bill, which passed 257-150.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell released a statement shortly after, saying: “The Senate will absolutely not pass stand-alone legislation for the Postal Service while American families continue to go without more relief.”

I hate the Senate so much now.

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#324765: Aug 22nd 2020 at 6:10:11 PM

Just hate Republicans. This is rank cynicism by McConnell, who is also holding up relief legislation.

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#324766: Aug 22nd 2020 at 6:18:37 PM

You have to wonder what a guy who has only a few years left of his life is thinking that his last efforts will be to kill thousands of people so a monster like Trump has a better chance at winning.

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#324767: Aug 22nd 2020 at 6:20:29 PM

[up]You say that like the killing isn’t at least as much his goal as Trump winning.

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#324768: Aug 22nd 2020 at 6:26:39 PM

There is a hypothesis that these old Republicans hate the world and can't stand the thought of people doing better after they are gone from it. I can't say how true that is.

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#324769: Aug 22nd 2020 at 6:46:25 PM

@Fighteer I think a more likely explanation is simply that these people are old and therefore not very mobile, and therefore, watch TV quite a bit...such as the news. Especially Fox News.

But as a broader trend of older people leaning increasingly right, I'd say the big one is simply that they've "mastered" "the system" as it currently is. The person most familiar with 'the game' is likely going to be the person who isn't fond of changing the rules, especially not a game they consider themselves good at.

Though where that hypothesis is probably true is that they've probably placed a big value on the hard work that they've had to put into getting where they were, which makes the idea of people getting it for free seem incredibly unfair to them.

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#324770: Aug 22nd 2020 at 6:54:07 PM

And yet they dramatically overestimate the value of the "hard work" that they put in. "Fuck you, got mine" and all that.

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#324771: Aug 22nd 2020 at 6:58:03 PM

"We won't pass stand-alone legislation whilst there's other things to do!"

I don't know, small, targeted bills would in any sane world be the ideal.

Ayasugi Since: Oct, 2010
#324772: Aug 22nd 2020 at 7:10:22 PM

They won't pass a stand-alone bill to help the USPS, and they won't pass a relief package that includes support for the USPS. Why don't they just come out and say "I don't want to help the USPS"?

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#324773: Aug 22nd 2020 at 7:12:07 PM

"Challenge accepted. Here's a relief package along with the mail bill. Now vote, Mitch."

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#324774: Aug 22nd 2020 at 7:17:46 PM

They're way ahead of you. Pelosi already sent the HEROES Act, which included funds for the USPS to the Senate and Moscow Mitch already refused that.

Edited by Parable on Aug 22nd 2020 at 7:18:09 AM

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#324775: Aug 23rd 2020 at 2:14:36 AM

WaPo: In secretly recorded audio, President Trump’s sister says he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him’

Maryanne Trump Barry was serving as a federal judge when she heard her brother, President Trump, suggest on Fox News, “maybe I’ll have to put her at the border” amid a wave of refugees entering the United States. At the time, children were being separated from their parents and put in cramped quarters while court hearings dragged on.

“All he wants to do is appeal to his base,” Barry said in a conversation secretly recorded by her niece, Mary L. Trump. “He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.”

Barry, 83, was aghast at how her 74-year-old brother operated as president. “His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God,” she said. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”

Probably not much of actual consequence but hey, every gram of pressure on Donald is a good thing right now.

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