October 24, 2021

Afghanistan Near Collapse

Afghanistan Near Collapse

October 24, 2021 at 3:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 88 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/24/afghanistan-near-collapse/

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“Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Swedish and Pakistani ministers warned on Saturday,” CNN reports.

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October 24, 2021

Twitter Suspends GOP Congressman

Twitter Suspends GOP Congressman

October 24, 2021 at 3:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 42 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/24/twitter-suspends-gop-congressman/

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“Twitter suspended the account of Indiana Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) after the Republican congressman intentionally misgendered Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, the first transgender person to hold an office that requires a Senate confirmation,” NBC News reports.

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October 24, 2021

Pelosi Won't Say If She'll Run Again

Pelosi Won’t Say If She’ll Run Again

October 24, 2021 at 10:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 172 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/24/pelosi-wont-say-if-shell-run-again/

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wouldn’t tell CNN whether she would run for reelection in 2022, saying she would consult with her family before making her decision public.

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October 24, 2021

Austria Threatens Lockdown for Unvaccinated

Austria Threatens Lockdown for Unvaccinated

October 23, 2021 at 11:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/23/austria-threatens-lockdown-for-unvaccinated/

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“Unvaccinated people in Austria could face new lockdown restrictions if coronavirus case numbers continue to rise, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said,” the AP reports.

“Schallenberg announced that if the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units reaches 500, or 25% of the country’s total ICU capacity, entry into businesses such as restaurants and hotels will be limited to those who are vaccinated or recovered from the virus.”

“If the number reaches 600, or one-third of total ICU capacity, the government plans to impose restrictions on unvaccinated people. In this case, they would only be allowed to leave their homes for specific reasons.”

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October 15, 2021

It goes to the corruption of the whole modern Republican Party and how Trump

has opened the gates to bad behavior in public, which rots the whole system.

October 8, 2021

Conservatives always used to say the Roman Empire fell to moral decay.

The moral decay is all republican at this point. They corrupt, have parolees with criminals like Putin. They mock people dying. They legislate the undoing of democracy. Their policies kill so many they refuse to put forth any policy that could be scored. They attract people with personality disorders as politicians. The moral rot is all theirs.

October 1, 2021

Biden Re-Links Infrastructure and Reconciliation Bills

Biden Re-Links Infrastructure and Reconciliation Bills

October 1, 2021 at 4:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 274 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/01/biden-re-links-infrastructure-bill-to-reconciliation-bill/

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President Biden told the House Democratic caucus that bipartisan infrastructure package “ain’t going to happen until we reach an agreement on the next piece of legislation,” Punchbowl News reports.

Said Biden to reporters: “It doesn’t matter when. It doesn’t matter whether it’s six minutes, six days or six weeks. We’re going to get it done.”

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And Democrats around the country should be in the press every day talking about the different bits of the Reconcilliation Bill so it educates and blankets the country with information. Republicans will be screaming to pass it in 6 weeks if we do that.

September 23, 2021

Alberta tried this for everyone and there was an outcry. They had to stop

it. They ended up with flooded ICUs and cancelled elective surgeries. It is like they are trying to land the covid plane on endemic and are terrified of the virus being vanquished. They are willing to risk pandemic to get there.

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1440865331417919488

September 23, 2021

Are they trying to get educated Americans to hate low info voters to undo

civil society, and once the middle class is destroyed, then switch to all educated elites voting for reduced taxes and division they are so afraid of being poor. The low information Trump voters would be jettisoned and stuck in a dark and brutal cerf underclass where they die early and often along with high information poor people who can't get a leg up because the middle class is non existant and they are too depressed to vote?

September 19, 2021

Manchin Wants to Delay Big Spending Package (Two articles)

Build Back Better' would bring 4 million jobs. It's up to Congress, this week in the war on workers

Sep 18, 2021 6:55pm Eastern Daylight Time 

by Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/18/2051174/--Build-Back-Better-would-bring-4-million-jobs-It-s-up-to-Congress-this-week-in-the-war-on-workers

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Sen. Joe Manchin and just about every Republican—probably every single one, once the counting is done—are opposed to investing $3.5 trillion over a decade in revitalizing U.S. infrastructure. But let’s be clear: with that, they’re opposed to creating jobs.

Here’s the Economic Policy Institute’s analysis of the jobs impact: “Combined, the [Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act] and budget reconciliation package would provide fiscal support for more than 4 million jobs per year, on average, over the course of the 10-year budgeting window, through direct spending and increased indirect demand in related industries.” 

But the combined number covers over the much larger impact of the reconciliation package: “On its own, the IIJA will provide fiscal support for 772,400 jobs per year, or 19% of the total jobs supported by the combined package. In comparison, the budget reconciliation is expected to support more than 3.2 million jobs per year, or 81% of the total jobs. The budget reconciliation’s outsize economic impact flows from its more significant financial commitment to public investments.”

Manufacturing would get 556,000 jobs.

Construction would get 312,000 jobs.

The reconciliation package’s investments in caregiving would mean 1.1 million jobs.

Investments in fighting climate change and protecting the environment would mean 763,000 jobs.

So tell us again, Joe, how slashing the plan to ribbons is being fiscally responsible. 

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Manchin Wants to Delay Big Spending Package

September 19, 2021 at 5:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 243 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/09/19/manchin-wants-to-delay-big-spending-package/


“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is privately saying he thinks Congress should take a ‘strategic pause’ until 2022 before voting on President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social-spending package,” Axios reports.

“Any delay on the Democrat-only reconciliation package could imperil House passage of the separate $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which Pelosi has promised to pass by Sept. 27.”

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Applegrove:

Sounds like Manchin is helping the GOP not have to run on destroying the BBB $3.5 Billion infrastructure plan in the 2022 midterm elections. Seriously is he a Republican? I hope Dems run on the infrastructure plan in 2022. The ads write themselves. Democrats could stand in front if local bridges and make speeches.