Four years ago yesterday, the full disaster was upon us, as Chris Hayes noted on last night’s All In. For Ds, there is no question that getting past covid and well into Bidenomics has made everyone better off. Rs consider us worse off, for exactly the same reasons. Those People are getting free vaccines that for some reason don’t kill them, and are starting to become more equal—wait, sorry—UPPITY by every measure.
Headlines of 4/17 2020
- NYT: Broad Shutdown pushes Americans to economic edge
- WaPo: Unemployment claims rise to 22 million
- WSJ: Jobless-Claims Tsunami Tops 22 Million for a Single Month
- April 17 saw a record number of covid deaths in the US—nearly 5,000.
Well, we’re seeing great numbers in almost every state. We’re seeing big drops. We’re really seeing — in terms of beds — the numbers we have to look at are the beds — the beds being occupied. People going — which is essentially people going in. That means that you have fewer people that are sick; fewer people that feel they have to go to a hospital. And those numbers are dropping really precipitously. So I think that — we’re just seeing a lot of good signs.
etc. for more than 2 hours.
Trump press briefing, April 17, 2020
Trump, MAGA and the insidious underbelly of white supremacy in America
by Derald Wing Sue, opinion contributor, The Hill
The bigoted beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of Donald Trump do not represent an isolated case or an “outlier,” but may reflect the unconscious values of a large segment of the population.
