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Roland99
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February 4, 2020
Caucus comment... heh
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1224546949640212482 This caucus system really boggles Des Moines.
Im sorry. Ill show myself out.
Im sorry. Ill show myself out.
February 3, 2020
Twitler was correct. Y'all didn't know Kansas had annexed west Missouri???
https://twitter.com/TheyCallMeTarz/status/1224174715465617408
February 1, 2020
After twitler claims he's exonerated, guess what he and #TraitorGOP will do about the Bidens?
Not. A. Goddamned. Thing.
They wont open one single investigation. No special counsel. No committee hearings.
Nothing
Oh, theyll still spread lies and innuendo but they wont actually do anything and their knuckle-dragging #MAGAt supporters wont care.
February 1, 2020
US Constitution ... 1787 - 2020
This house is a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; it is here-it is here in this exalted refuge-here, if anywhere, will be resistance made to the storms of political frenzy and the silent arts of corruption. And if the Constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hands of the demagogue or the usurper, which God avert, its expiring agonies will be witnessed on this floor.
- Aaron Burr, 1805 farewell address to the US Senate
January 31, 2020
Its really because we want to kill their cows
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1223068056575971329
U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high: court data
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1ZT2YECHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. farm bankruptcy rates jumped 20% in 2019 - to an eight-year high - as financial woes in the U.S. agricultural economy continued in spite of massive federal bail-out funding, according to federal court data.
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The increase in cases had been somewhat expected, bankruptcy experts and agricultural economists said, as farmers face trade battles, ever-mounting farm debt, prolonged low commodity prices, volatile weather patterns and a fatal pig disease that has decimated China's herd.
Even billions of dollars spent over the past two years in government agricultural assistance has not stemmed the bleeding.
Nearly one-third of projected U.S. net farm income in 2019 came from government aid and taxpayer-subsidized commodity insurance payments, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The increase in cases had been somewhat expected, bankruptcy experts and agricultural economists said, as farmers face trade battles, ever-mounting farm debt, prolonged low commodity prices, volatile weather patterns and a fatal pig disease that has decimated China's herd.
Even billions of dollars spent over the past two years in government agricultural assistance has not stemmed the bleeding.
Nearly one-third of projected U.S. net farm income in 2019 came from government aid and taxpayer-subsidized commodity insurance payments, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Its really because we want to kill their cows
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1223068056575971329
January 31, 2020
https://twitter.com/cjchivers/status/1223214627577790464
How lethal is the new coronavirus?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain.htmlIts tough to assess the lethality of a new virus. The worst cases are usually detected first, which can skew our understanding of how likely patients are to die. About a third of the first 41 patients reported in Wuhan had to be treated in an I.C.U., many with symptoms of fever, severe cough, shortness of breath and pneumonia. But people with mild cases may never visit a doctor. So there may be more cases than we know, and the death rate may be lower than we initially thought.
At the same time, deaths from the virus may be underreported. The Chinese cities at the center of the outbreak face a shortage of testing kits and hospital beds, and many sick people have not been able to see a doctor.
Theres still a lot of uncertainty about what this virus is like and what it is doing, said Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, who was at the frontlines of the Canadian response to SARS.
Early indications suggest the mortality rate for this virus is considerably less than another coronavirus, MERS, which kills about one in three people who become infected, and SARS, which kills about one in 10. All of the diseases appear to latch on to proteins on the surface of lung cells, but MERS and SARS seem to be more destructive to lung tissue. As of Jan. 31, fewer than one in 40 of the people with confirmed infections had died. Many of those who died were older men with underlying health problems.
Heres how the new coronavirus compares with other infectious diseases:
At the same time, deaths from the virus may be underreported. The Chinese cities at the center of the outbreak face a shortage of testing kits and hospital beds, and many sick people have not been able to see a doctor.
Theres still a lot of uncertainty about what this virus is like and what it is doing, said Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, who was at the frontlines of the Canadian response to SARS.
Early indications suggest the mortality rate for this virus is considerably less than another coronavirus, MERS, which kills about one in three people who become infected, and SARS, which kills about one in 10. All of the diseases appear to latch on to proteins on the surface of lung cells, but MERS and SARS seem to be more destructive to lung tissue. As of Jan. 31, fewer than one in 40 of the people with confirmed infections had died. Many of those who died were older men with underlying health problems.
Heres how the new coronavirus compares with other infectious diseases:
https://twitter.com/cjchivers/status/1223214627577790464
January 31, 2020
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1223144191082938368
Blunt message to the cult of maga
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1223138396484198400https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1223144191082938368
Mike Rothschild
@rothschildmd
For the MAGA cult: you think you're winning. But you're not. The country wanted witnesses. The country wanted him impeached. The country wants him gone. You're never going to be a billionaire. You'll never get the wall. You'll never marry a model. You'll never have a gold toilet.
When the house of cheap shit plaster finally collapses, and it will, the debris won't hit Trump or his cronies. It'll hit his most devoted cultists - blindsided and robbed of the man they built their recent lives around. Trump will be long gone by the time you realize it.
So post your Pepe memes and your Q drops and buy your MAGA swag and tweet that he's the BEST PRESIDENT EVER!!
One day, and maybe very soon, you'll be dining on ashes - alone, robbed of your dignity, and desperate to figure out what happened.
So read this thread and know.
@rothschildmd
For the MAGA cult: you think you're winning. But you're not. The country wanted witnesses. The country wanted him impeached. The country wants him gone. You're never going to be a billionaire. You'll never get the wall. You'll never marry a model. You'll never have a gold toilet.
When the house of cheap shit plaster finally collapses, and it will, the debris won't hit Trump or his cronies. It'll hit his most devoted cultists - blindsided and robbed of the man they built their recent lives around. Trump will be long gone by the time you realize it.
So post your Pepe memes and your Q drops and buy your MAGA swag and tweet that he's the BEST PRESIDENT EVER!!
One day, and maybe very soon, you'll be dining on ashes - alone, robbed of your dignity, and desperate to figure out what happened.
So read this thread and know.
January 31, 2020
No
Shame
None. #TraitorGOP
Fuck them all!
Trump team caught on video writing questions for GOP senators
https://twitter.com/Nuchnibi/status/1223033384127074306No
Shame
None. #TraitorGOP
Fuck them all!
January 30, 2020
Yes! These right-wing sources of grifting have caused enough damage to our schools
Wyndham Destinations pulls Florida voucher donations over anti-gay school policies
Wyndham Destinations pulls Florida voucher donations over anti-gay school policies
The timeshare company joined Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bank in saying theyll stop donating to the program after discovering some beneficiaries have anti-LGBTQ policies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/third-company-pulls-florida-voucher-donations-over-anti-gay-school-n1126686
Wyndham Destinations became the third major company in three days to announce it will stop donating millions of dollars to Floridas private school voucher program after a newspaper investigation found that some of the program's beneficiaries discriminate against LGBTQ students.
Wyndham said that it told the organization last year that it would "halt funding if concerns about the voucher program were not addressed."
"As we have not seen any further action to address our concerns, we are today discontinuing our support and funding for Step Up For Students and hope that the organization will quickly work with the Florida Legislature to immediately end any discriminatory practices existing within the voucher program," the company told NBC News and CNBC on Thursday afternoon.
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The Orlando-based hotel companys announcement comes just two days after a similar announcement by Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank and one day after an announcement from San Francisco-based Wells Fargo.
Wyndham said that it told the organization last year that it would "halt funding if concerns about the voucher program were not addressed."
"As we have not seen any further action to address our concerns, we are today discontinuing our support and funding for Step Up For Students and hope that the organization will quickly work with the Florida Legislature to immediately end any discriminatory practices existing within the voucher program," the company told NBC News and CNBC on Thursday afternoon.
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The Orlando-based hotel companys announcement comes just two days after a similar announcement by Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank and one day after an announcement from San Francisco-based Wells Fargo.
Yes! These right-wing sources of grifting have caused enough damage to our schools
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