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[halcyondays]

Unless you're a shareholder at Pfizer, in which case you feel very clever.

While I am a Pfizer shareholder (albeit a minor minor minor one ) their profits under Medicare-for-all will still be generous just no longer obscene.

 

[halcyondays]

Oh, Trump's been taken off Twitter...

Perhaps we'll finally get some legislation holding social media players like Twitter to account for not vetting content.

 

[DiamondJoe]

So true.

It's "red scare" tactics from the Cold War. Replace communism with socialism. It's the same tired rhetoric and dog whistle for right wingers. Those who voice it are modern day Joe McCarthys.

Yes, I was struck by one of the banners that a protestor was holding. It said something along the lines of

BIDEN = COMMUNIST = STOOGE OF THE CCCP*

One thing that Trump did do was move the national dial on the China "discourse". Both left and right now openly criticise (and there's much to criticise).



* I don't know if this was meant as CCP, Chinese Communist Party, or whether someone hadn't told them that the party ended for that particular party in 1991.

 

[halcyondays]

* I don't know if this was meant as CCP, Chinese Communist Party, or whether someone hadn't told them that the party ended for that particular party in 1991.

Are Trumpsters even smart enough to know the difference between the CCCP and the CCP?

 

[DiamondJoe]

While I am a Pfizer shareholder (albeit a minor minor minor one ) their profits under Medicare-for-all will still be generous just no longer obscene.

I plucked that as an example - possibly an appropriate one! - although there is a question over how much of that (and other vaccines) were funded by various governments, and how that should be reflected in any share of the profits, has not quite been addressed...

 

[DiamondJoe]

Are Trumpsters even smart enough to know the difference between the CCCP and the CCP?

It's hard to tell. They seemed to be dressed as Vikings. Fuck knows what they think actually happened in history.

 

[b.c.]

Where's the tear gas? If those were BLM protesters there would be dead people. BLM camped in a park across the street and got the shit beat out of them. These guys storm the Capitol and the police fall back?

Granted these assholes are probably armed to the teeth. Piss off with any BLM equivalency.

Machine guns. Grenades. Tanks. All would have been used. A little Tiananmen Square US-style.

BLM didn't storm the US Capitol building to start an insurrection, putting the lives of Congress, the Speaker of The House, and the Vice President in danger.

False equivalence.

Exactly. Trump invited insurrectionists, anarchists, and domestic terrorists to D.C. and the White House didn't even call the National Guard to protect the Capitol. D.C.'s mayor did to protect the city.

Pence had to call the National Guard while hiding out in a fkng BUNKER. Take a look at what they had ready for BLM:

Police treated Black Lives Matter protesters and the violent pro-Trump mob very differently
Police response compared: Pro-trump insurrection vs BLM protests — Quartz

The lines have been drawn, those GOP congressmen know that Trump tried to get them and the Vice President killed today.

PRECISELY.

I honestly thought Trump would spend his final days wreaking the environment, tearing up treaties and laying the escape tunnel for him and his cronies... not engaging in this undignified omnishambles.

Clearly, I over-estimated the man.

CLEARLY.

.

 

[DiamondJoe]

Exactly. Trump invited insurrectionists, anarchists, and domestic terrorists to D.C. and the White House didn't even call the National Guard to protect the Capitol. D.C.'s mayor did to protect the city.

Pence had to call the National Guard while hiding out in a fkng BUNKER. Take a look at what they had ready for BLM:

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Police treated Black Lives Matter protesters and the violent pro-Trump mob very differently
Police response compared: Pro-trump insurrection vs BLM protests — Quartz



PRECISELY.



CLEARLY.

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"Always with a liddle humour, my dear Markov..."

 

[b.c.]

BTW, here's a PERFECT example of some of that "smaller lesser government" that someone (under the delusion that's what Trump stood for) has been squawking about:

Trump administration added almost $15 billion in government red tape last year: report
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[halcyondays]

I plucked that as an example - possibly an appropriate one! - although there is a question over how much of that (and other vaccines) were funded by various governments, and how that should be reflected in any share of the profits, has not quite been addressed...

I expect Pfizer's profits on C19 vaccine will be obscene.

 

[DiamondJoe]

I expect Pfizer's profits on C19 vaccine will be obscene.

Trebles all round!

 

[longstroke7]

Perhaps we'll finally get some legislation holding social media players like Twitter to account for not vetting content.

After what happened today, Twitter and Facebook better be prepared for a colonoscopy.

 

[halcyondays]

Sociopath dictator wannabe Trump pouts like a recalcitrant child unable to Tweet!

He broods over the failure of his latest coup attempt, jealous of Putin, Kim, Xi and Mohammed Bone Saw. What will his next move be? Two weeks left.

 

[Gj816]

After what happened today, Twitter and Facebook better be prepared for a colonoscopy.

That's long over due. That should've happened after the last election.

 

[TinyPrincess]

Talks in the cabinet about invoking the 25th. What a beautiful morning

 

[TinyPrincess]

What will his next move be? Two weeks left.

Whatever it is, it has too put him in the limelight - if not for political reasons then absolutely for financial reasons. He needs the inflow of donations to keep him from personal bankruptcy. So whatever it takes to keep the base paying for all his personal debts.

 

[Klingsor]

This just in: I live daily with a rare incurable disease. I am dependent on the hormone drug hydrocortisone. I have Addison's disease. No one would ever guess that I have a rare incurable disease if I didn't tell them. Why? Because I'm pro active. I take care of myself. I work every day because I depend on me. Even on days that I can barely lift my head off my pillow. I force myself up, in the shower, and off to work. It's the way I was raised. Nobody is going to take care of you, but you.

It's not my fault that people get out here and make bad decisions. Nor do I rely on other people to come take care of me.
I know that everyone born in this country has the same right to live as they choose. Some just make bad choices. Some continue to make bad choices.

I work so that I can afford health insurance and prescriptions. Even though one of my prescriptions cost me $386, that's after insurance. Who do I blame for the cost of these prescriptions? Both Democrats and Republicans? Why? Because big pharmacy lobbyists pander to them and, lining their pockets is far more important than me and you having affordable prescriptions.

It's not hard for me to understand why these people are out protesting. It's not that I agree with them. Honestly I find their behavior disgraceful, just like I did last summer with BLM. However, I support their right to protest no matter how much I disagree or dislike it.
It's a free country.

No one would ever guess that you have a rare incurable disease if you didn't tell them. Why?

Because you're fucking lucky, that's why. If you had something like MSA, which killed my brother this past year, you wouldn't be taking care of yourself, forcing yourself up and in shower, working every day because you depend on you. You'd be lying helpless in a bed, barely able to speak, suffering from bedsores eating holes in your back because you can't move. You would, in fact, be relying on other people to come take care of you, because that's all you'd be able to do.

People like my brother didn't make a bad decisions; they were simply the victims of horrible shit that happened to them. So while it's great that you can work to afford health insurance and prescriptions, don't assume that's an example everyone can follow. Healthcare needs to be more than just an individual responsibility.

 

[halcyondays]

Whatever it is, it has too put him in the limelight - if not for political reasons then absolutely for financial reasons. He needs the inflow of donations to keep him from personal bankruptcy. So whatever it takes to keep the base paying for all his personal debts.

He's still raking in millions. Apparently. Lord know why.

 

[b.c.]

Congress certifies Biden win after day of mayhem

 

[Player_01]

Perhaps we'll finally get some legislation holding social media players like Twitter to account for not vetting content.

I wonder if the owners of Parler have taken that into account?

Accounts connected to supporters of Trump, QAnon and far-right anti-government group III%ers explicitly or implicitly call for violence on Parler, with some asserting Wednesday, “the war begins today.”
Pro-Trump riot at Capitol incited on Twitter, Parler: 'Burn down DC' (usatoday.com)