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Scottie’s world today
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Do you notice how low the bar is going? Be grateful for a library…. as billionaires in space have all our money?
Do you notice how low the bar is going? Be grateful for a library…. as billionaires in space have all our money?
Trump predicted to his cult the market would crash if he were not re-elected.
He lied. The scare tactic was obvious. The fear was the obvious message. The cult lives on fear.
Show the cult these market numbers and they will refuse to admit they got played.
The cult can’t admit Trump is a tremendous loser because then they would have to internalize they are tremendous losers.
The Fox News article doesn’t mention what DeSantis was doing the other 13 days when he failed to make any public appearances.
While Florida has been exploding with record COVID-19 cases six days in a row.
58,013 single day record in a 24-hour period.
He is either unwilling or unable to respond to his constituents during a Pandemic.
Either way Florida deserves better.
God forbid we give 3% less to the military and save humankind.
I take issue with the phrase “health-care system”. It’s misleading. In the 1st place, it’s not a system. A system is something that’s designed to achieve a particular end, in a coordinated way, usually as efficiently as possible. (Think computers or automobiles.) In the 2nd place, it’s not about care, it’s about capitalism.
What we have in lieu of a true health-care system (you know, the kind that every other industrialized democracy on the planet has and loves) is a haphazard scattering of profit centers concentrated in areas where the money is, with vast swaths of the nation under- or unserved. By contrast, the US Postal Service and the public schools are true systems that serve every square centimeter of the country. (And yes, the metric system too is a true system, well and intentionally designed, not like ACHU, the Accidental Collection of Heterogeneous Units that the US alone in the world still clings to.)
So I recommend using the phrase “health-insurance industry”, because it’s more accurate. Scottie
I know an older highly devote Catholic lady that goes to church 4 times a week, sometimes more. She was telling me one day she knows there is a god. I corrected her that she feels there is a god, but she again stated as a fact she knows there is a god. I replied she thinks there is a god. Nope she knows, so I asked her to show me the proof of her god and she replied she feels her gods presence around her all the time and she thinks that she sees his work in everything around her. But of course she couldn’t show me the proof of what she knew. Scottie
https://twitter.com/roderickgraham/status/1477467052898148357?s=20
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The fact is the inflation we are seeing right now is profit taking price gouging. Watch CSNBC and see all the CEO’s and market people crowing about how much money they are making and bemoaning the fact the feds might be cutting off the faucet that gives them free money to prop up their stock values. Biden’s polices would help the people with out putting more unearned free money in the pockets of the wealthy. So of course corporate media, especially the right wing corporate media hates them. Scottie
So the right is now going to deny their favorite phrase and what they mean by it like a little kid who got caught saying a dirty word. Grow up. Scottie
The right wing media is desperate to paint Dr. Fauci as some incompetent out of his field like Paul Rand or Sean Hannity along with all the right wing opinion hosts. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., was the NIH AIDS Coordinator before being appointed as the first Director of the Office of AIDS research when the office was established in 1988. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Fauci received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1966. He then completed an internship and residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. In 1968, Dr. Fauci came to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In 1974, he became Head of the Clinical Physiology Section, LCI, and in 1980 was appointed Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. In 1984, Dr. Fauci became Director of NIAID–a position that he still holds – where he oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, illness from potential agents of bio-terrorism, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.
Dr. Fauci has kept up 16-hour workdays during most, if not all, of his career. That obviously leaves very little time for sleep and relaxing, but instead offers more time to be involved in the medical community. This includes being a member of:
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Medicine
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- American College of Physicians
- American Society for Clinical Investigation
- Association of American Physicians
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- American Association of Immunologists
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
Dr. Fauci also serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals and was an editor of “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. To add to his incredible rap sheet, Fauci has authored, co-authored, and edited more than 1,300 scientific publications and textbooks.
Compare this to his detractors and the people who think a few hours on Facebook and YouTube equal his understanding of Covid public health measures. Scottie
You are correct Al, the country did elect Joe Biden as President, fair and square. The idiot trump lost and instigated an insurrection against the very nation he swore to protect. President Biden got to work to make life better for all citizens, not just those who overwhelmingly voted for him. Here are a few accomplishments under President Biden’s first-year watch:
The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
$1.9 trillion Covid relief deal, cutting child poverty in half.
Getting 73percent of American adults vaccinated with at least one dose.
An economy where the unemployment rate has dropped to 4.2 percent.
The average number of Americans filing for unemployment over the last four weeks is the lowest since 1969. When President Biden took office, over 18 million were receiving unemployment benefits. Today, only 2 million are still receiving unemployment
Having competent federal judges appointed and confirmed.
When President Biden took office, “46% of schools were open. Today, 99% of schools are open.
The U.S. was the only G7 country [U.S., U.K., Canada, Japan, Germany, France, and Italy] to surpass pre-pandemic output by Q2 2021 and keep growing. No other G7 country had reached pre-pandemic output by end of 3Q 2021.
Of course, not everything President Biden wanted to do in the first year was accomplished. However, for a First-year President, inheriting a country in the middle of a pandemic, it’s not a bad record. And what have Republicans been focused on? Denying voting rights to minority citizens, lying about the 2020 election, and denying reproductive rights to women. Not a good look for Republicans, Al. Scottie
*https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/biden-2021-was-year-big-accomplishments-big-disappointments-n1286092
**https://www.axios.com/biden-year-accomplishment-memo-5ec5cfa3-fa08-4fbc-83fb-5d688a8b79eb.html
Why does trying to help people, cut child poverty, and mitigate a deadly pandemic pure anathema to Al Goodwyn and his little nihilist troll supporters? Oh yeah, that’s right, because it’s the Democrats doing it. The Trumpublican goal is, quite simply, total power achieved through hatred, fear, anger, ignorance, and cruelty. And nihilists like the previous poster is a perfect example of that.
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And now some for fun
Scottie's Playtime 
Thank you for doing this, and I especially love the final one! 😊
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Hello Ali. I was going to save that one for my section Scottie’s world today. But it was too funny to not post it. Have a great year. Scottie
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