Driftglass, Bluegal and the Internet kitties recap the weeks political events.

The Cornfield Resistance Podcast is antivenom medicine against Fox News for me.

Driftglass and Bluegal topics include:
The Apollo 12 reboot
Lincoln Project's nearly unbroken record of winning elections for Republicans
Strategic Focus of the Democratic message for Conservative areas
Fragile white women voters' trigger word
Surprise: Voter fraud claims go away when Republicans win

The Cornfield Resistance Podcast is anti-venom medicine against Fox News for me.

Driftglass and Bluegal's topics include:
The Apollo 12 reboot
Lincoln Project's nearly unbroken record of winning elections for Republicans
Strategic Focus of the Democratic message for Conservative areas
Fragile white women voters' trigger word
Surprise: Voter fraud claims go away when Republicans win

and My Body My Choice is what I put on my picket sign for the Women's March today. Anybody else going? I would love it if you all post pictures on DU. I am not able to post pictures but I would love to see all of yours. Hope we have a big turnout. Usually the media just ignores women's marches and women's issues, but, like E Warren, nevertheless, we persist.

Unfortunately, I have several of these Trumpette women living in my neighborhood.

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Some of the topics Driftglass and Bluegal recap this week: Suffering David Brooks, ending our 51st state and supporting Texas women.

Can state tax dollars really be used to pay bounty to entrap people helping a woman seek abortion? Are there any other instances where state tax dollars are used for bounty? Is human bounty hunting still legal?

I am so grateful for Biden's steady hand at the wheel, boldly steering us out of this 20 year long quagmire. The path forward is bound to be rough but we are paving a new path forward toward peace and prosperity. Onward.

I believe that there is, most likely, very serious under-reporting about the number of deaths from Covid-19 in red states. The first example of glaring ignorance about Covid-19 was my 12 year old niece. She was laid up for several weeks in June with a full body rash that included a very swollen tongue. She was taken to the ER for treatment twice at Methodist Hospital but was never tested for Covid-19. I asked if they were going to get her tested and mentioned that rash was a symptom of Covid-19. Apparently, her insurance would not pay for treatment so a test was never done.

In the second example, it seemed that Republican members of my family were going out of their way to deny that Covid-19 is a threat. Last night at my 59 year old cousin's funeral, I mentioned that I was in shock and had no idea that he had been seriously ill. The family repeatedly said that he died of natural causes. However, the story I got from another cousin, who is a respiratory therapist at the Hospital he was in, said he had had been hospitalized for Covid-19 last month and was on oxygen for a while. He got better and returned to work, when he suddenly died.

Is anyone else in Red States seeing this kind of orchestrated denial of reality?