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Tuesday, November 17, 2020 10:24 AM

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THERE ARE NO CONVERSATIONS right now about another round of Covid relief. None. The White House is silent. The Hill is quiet. That means no new programs, no new money for Americans before the holiday season.

BUT EQUALLY NOTABLY, a number of crucial provisions expire at the end of this year, which is 44 DAYS from now:

THE PANDEMIC EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION, which gives 13 weeks of extra UI to those who have run out of options, ends. … THE PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE -- used by gig workers -- runs out. …

THE EVICTION MORATORIUM ends. … STATE AND LOCAL funding stops flowing. … 2020 REBATE CHECKS end, as does STUDENT LOAN forbearance. … SMALL BUSINESS debt relief ends. … CHARITABLE DEDUCTION LIMITS expire. … THE EXCLUSION of employer payments of student loans stops. … THE REFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT for required paid sick leave runs out. …

THE CREDIT for family and sick leave for self-employed individuals ends. … THE PAYMENT DELAY for employer payroll taxes ends. … CHANGES on net operating losses end. This is on top of the 33 TAX PROVISIONS that end at the close of the year. List here: www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-d30c-df07-a577-d38eb8d30001

IN OTHER WORDS, a huge safety net for Americans is going to be yanked away at the end of 2020, and Congress isn’t preparing much of anything to keep people from plummeting.

www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/11/17/the-year-end-cliff-49
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020 11:36 AM

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Since losing the election, Trump has effectively given up doing any parts of the job that require consultation with people outside of his inner circle. Trump has no events on his schedule Tuesday, the 10th time since the election that's been the case.

One prime example: Talks with congressional leaders to arrive at a coronavirus stimulus deal, which were active in the run-up to the election, have gone dormant -- with no signs they will begin again despite the clear need for more money to be pumped into the economy in order to withstand the ongoing effects of Covid-19 on the country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/donald-trump-2020-election-joe
-biden/index.html

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 7:45 AM

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"I'm kind of discouraged, frankly, right now," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Tuesday.

After months of stalemate, negotiations have yet to restart. The impasse is about the price tag and what programs should be funded: House Democrats are pushing for a $2.2 trillion plan, and Senate Republicans want a slimmer $500 billion bill.

Mitch McConnell actually wants zero dollars for the bill, but that would make it too obvious that the GOP doesn't care about the unemployed. The GOP cares only to make President Biden a one term president. Mitch didn't pass a bill this summer because he suspected for months that Trump would lose. Now he knows.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/covid-19-cases-surge-congres
s-sounds-pessimistic-about-new-relief-n1248030

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:15 AM

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Biden's 6 week house arrest of 325+ Million people probably isn't going to happen either. So anybody who isn't a Legacy Media lemming can breath a sigh of relief and stop worrying about that one.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:17 AM

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Since losing the election, Trump has effectively given up doing any parts of the job that require consultation with people outside of his inner circle. Trump has no events on his schedule Tuesday, the 10th time since the election that's been the case.

One prime example: Talks with congressional leaders to arrive at a coronavirus stimulus deal, which were active in the run-up to the election, have gone dormant -- with no signs they will begin again despite the clear need for more money to be pumped into the economy in order to withstand the ongoing effects of Covid-19 on the country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/donald-trump-2020-election-joe
-biden/index.html

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He's a little tied up trying to save Democracy.

Besides, that's Congress's job, and they've fucked off at it since August.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 9:10 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

He's a little tied up trying to save Democracy.

Besides, that's Congress's job, and they've fucked off at it since August.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
What is Trump doing during the last hour? He will tell you:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
...AND I WON THE ELECTION. VOTER FRAUD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!
7:31 AM · Nov 18, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1329054683441278977
Multiple sources called this election differently

If Trump wants to "save Democracy", he needs to do more than have Rudy Giuliani** take the case.

Likewise, if Trump wants Covid-19 unemployment relief, he will have to do more than have Mitch McConnell take the case. Trump needs to bypass Mitch and go directly to GOP Senators and tell them he wants that bill passed even if Mitch does not. If Trump can get a dozen GOP Senators to vote for the Heroes Act, the Democratic Senators will provide the 60 votes to turn it into law.

**Rudy Giuliani Is 'Sad to Watch'
https://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-attorney-general-rudy-giuliani-s
ad-watch-1548252
Giuliani descended into "lunacy and conspiracy theory and fearmongering" during his testimony. The Republican, who is President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, had been granted permission to plead before the court on behalf of the Trump campaign.

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Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:16 AM

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Congress will be more likely to negotiate on a second coronavirus relief package after President Trump leaves office in January, president-elect Joe Biden said Wednesday.

Speaking to a group of frontline workers, Biden said he thought Republicans would move forward with the bill – likely to include another round of direct payments to the public – once they no longer fear “retribution from the president.”

“Hopefully, when he’s gone, they will be more willing to do what they know should be done - has to be done - in order to save the communities they live in,” Biden said.

https://www.al.com/news/2020/11/second-stimulus-check-gop-will-move-fo
rward-with-stimulus-once-trump-exits-biden-says.html

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Thursday, November 19, 2020 9:23 PM

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He's a little tied up trying to save Democracy.

Besides, that's Congress's job, and they've fucked off at it since August.
Despite his busy schedule, today Trump revealed that he DOES NOT SUPPORT Covid-19 relief:

Trump’s Treasury pulls the plug on pandemic relief loans

The Trump administration asked the Federal Reserve to return $429 billion it received from Congress in the CARES Act to bolster credit markets during the pandemic, but the Federal Reserve is in a rare public disagreement with the Treasury.

In his letter, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin argued the Federal Reserve’s lending authority lapses on Dec. 31. Lawyers say that interpretation is a stretch. Bharat Ramamurti, a member of the panel appointed by Congress to oversee the Fed’s lending, says what expires is the Treasury’s ability to give the Fed additional funding, not the Fed’s authority to use what it has on hand.

The Fed has suggested in its statements that the law does allow its pandemic relief programs to continue. Mnuchin’s attempt to end the program by blaming the statute is seen by many investors and Washington observers as motivated by the Trump administration’s desire to sew chaos for president-elect Joe Biden even as it refuses to acknowledge the former vice president’s victory in the election.

Without that $429 billion, more businesses will close and more workers will lose their jobs.

More at https://qz.com/1935959/
https://qz.com/1935959/trumps-treasury-pulls-the-plug-on-feds-cares-ac
t-pandemic-loans/

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Friday, November 20, 2020 8:34 AM

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US Treasury refuses to extend some of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Covid-19 crisis-fighting tools

Steven Mnuchin, Treasury secretary, orders several lending facilities to close over objections of central bank

Mr Mnuchin has faced pressure from some Republicans on Capitol Hill to wind down the lending facilities.

In his letter to Mr Powell of the Federal Reserve Bank, the Treasury secretary said that ending the emergency credit facilities would free up $455bn in funds that could be spent elsewhere by Congress. Mr Mnuchin said that in the “unlikely event” that the facilities were needed again, new approval would have to be sought from the Treasury department. (New Covid-19 relief will not pass in this GOP controlled Senate and $455 billion in old Covid-19 relief is being withdrawn)

Neil Bradley, chief policy officer at the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest US business lobby group, criticised Mr Mnuchin’s announcement as “a surprise termination” that would “prematurely and unnecessarily tie the hands of the incoming administration, and closes the door on important liquidity options for businesses at a time when they need them most”.

https://www.ft.com/content/e4b3a063-db44-4e6c-b998-74a29d70b136

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin pulls the $455 billion plug on Covid-19 Relief

After markets closed on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin surprised the financial world, saying he would not extend authority beyond the end of the year for the Federal Reserve to backstop corporate credit as well as the Main Street and municipal lending programs. Mnuchin asked for the Fed to return the roughly $455 billion of unused capacity to the Treasury.

The Federal Reserve swiftly put out a statement saying it “would prefer that the full suite of emergency facilities established during the coronavirus pandemic continue to serve their important role as a backstop for our still-strained and vulnerable economy.” Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday had stated a need for the programs to continue.

The intent of the Mnuchin move is to prevent the next Treasury secretary extending relief to state and local governments, and had been urged by Sen. Pat Toomey, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania who is set to chair the Senate Banking Committee, unless the Democrats win both the runoff elections in Georgia in January.

www.marketwatch.com/story/whats-next-for-markets-after-treasury-secret
ary-steven-mnuchin-pulls-the-455-billion-plug-11605872579

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020 10:23 PM

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Mitch McConnell refusing to move on covid relief talks as programs set to expire by end of year.

Policies from covid relief are set to expire by the end of the year if the Senate doesn’t take up the House’s HEROES Act.

Sen. Chris Murphy blames Sen. Mitch McConnell: "He has refused to negotiate with anybody ... because he's afraid of splitting his caucus."

Video at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-refusing-to-mo
ve-on-covid-relief-talks-as-programs-set-to-expire-by-end-of-year/vi-BB1bkmaJ

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 2:53 AM

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Policies from covid relief are set to expire by the end of the year if the Senate doesn’t take up the House’s HEROES Act.


Bullshit. Blatant lie.

https://www.axios.com/problem-solvers-caucus-coronavirus-bill-ab2a287e
-33d2-4d69-97ef-f0d00611aa52.html

They're going to have bigger problems anyhow. If they shut everything down again a lot of people are going to be unemployed for over a year and there aren't any programs that extend further than that, even in states that give the extra 13 weeks to make a full 52.

Completely exhausting everything over a bug that kills almost nobody.

Smart.


Won't be anything left to give when Biden's buddy Xi releases the bug that wipes out 50% of people infected.

Yeah... but Putin is the REAL bad guy.



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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 6:37 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Policies from covid relief are set to expire by the end of the year if the Senate doesn’t take up the House’s HEROES Act.


Bullshit. Blatant lie.
Because of Mitch McConnell is NOT allowing a vote, the following are EXPIRING AT END OF YEAR:
• Emergency Unemployment Relief
• Small Business Debt Relief
• Eviction Moratorium
• 2020 Rebate Checks
• Student Loan Forbearance
• Paid Sick Leave Tax Credit
• Payroll Tax Deferral
• 33 Various Tax Provisions
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-refusing-to-mo
ve-on-covid-relief-talks-as-programs-set-to-expire-by-end-of-year/vi-BB1bkmaJ

The worse Mitch McConnell makes things for Biden, the better it is for the GOP in the 2022 election. The marginal "independent" voter won't be aware that Mitch, not Biden, deliberately made things worse and the marginal voter will blame Democrats and will switch to Republican candidates, giving a small yet helpful advantage to the GOP.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 6:50 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Policies from covid relief are set to expire by the end of the year if the Senate doesn’t take up the House’s HEROES Act.


Bullshit. Blatant lie.
Because of Mitch McConnell is NOT allowing a vote, the following are EXPIRING AT END OF YEAR:
• Emergency Unemployment Relief
• Small Business Debt Relief
• Eviction Moratorium
• 2020 Rebate Checks
• Student Loan Forbearance
• Paid Sick Leave Tax Credit
• Payroll Tax Deferral
• 33 Various Tax Provisions
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-refusing-to-mo
ve-on-covid-relief-talks-as-programs-set-to-expire-by-end-of-year/vi-BB1bkmaJ

The worse Mitch McConnell makes things for Biden, the better it is for the GOP in the 2022 election. The marginal "independent" voter won't be aware that Mitch deliberately made things worse, not Biden, and the marginal voter will blame Democrats and will switch to Republican candidates, giving a small yet helpful advantage to the GOP.

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You missed this part when you quoted me.

https://www.axios.com/problem-solvers-caucus-coronavirus-bill-ab2a287e
-33d2-4d69-97ef-f0d00611aa52.html

Stop lying, asshole.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 7:20 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You missed this part when you quoted me.

https://www.axios.com/problem-solvers-caucus-coronavirus-bill-ab2a287e
-33d2-4d69-97ef-f0d00611aa52.html

Stop lying, asshole.
Back in September, Mitch McConnell did NOT place that bill on the Senate's calendar because it was $2 trillion, which is too much money helping potential President Biden. By September, Mitch could see that Trump was in election trouble. Mitch did not want to help Biden so Mitch waited until after the election to learn who wins. Now that Biden won, Mitch sure won't be placing that $2 trillion bill on the Senate's calendar. Mitch doesn't need Pelosi's permission to write a compromise bill, but Mitch is doing nothing because that is best for the GOP. The more people in pain, the more Biden will be blamed, not Mitch.

https://problemsolverscaucus-gottheimer.house.gov/media/press-releases
/problem-solvers-caucus-unveil-march-common-ground-covid-stimulus-framework

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 8:04 AM

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If Mitch McConnell allows different Covid-19 relief bills to be voted upon in the Senate during the next 56 days, then we know he sincerely cares. I doubt he cares.

https://days.to/until/us-presidential-inauguration

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:11 AM

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Quote:
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You missed this part when you quoted me.

https://www.axios.com/problem-solvers-caucus-coronavirus-bill-ab2a287e
-33d2-4d69-97ef-f0d00611aa52.html

Stop lying, asshole.
Back in September, Mitch McConnell did NOT place that bill on the Senate's calendar because it was $2 trillion, which is too much money helping potential President Biden. By September, Mitch could see that Trump was in election trouble. Mitch did not want to help Biden so Mitch waited until after the election to learn who wins. Now that Biden won, Mitch sure won't be placing that $2 trillion bill on the Senate's calendar. Mitch doesn't need Pelosi's permission to write a compromise bill, but Mitch is doing nothing because that is best for the GOP. The more people in pain, the more Biden will be blamed, not Mitch.



Not my point.

You said:

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Policies from covid relief are set to expire by the end of the year if the Senate doesn’t take up the House’s HEROES Act.


That statement is a lie.



And if Biden is going to go throwing around nationwide shutdowns over a virus that kills virtually nobody, than he shouldn't be bailed out by the American taxpayer either.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:34 AM

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That statement is a lie.

And if Biden is going to go throwing around nationwide shutdowns over a virus that kills virtually nobody, than he shouldn't be bailed out by the American taxpayer either.
Social media users are sharing a false quote attributed to the Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, saying that if he wins the upcoming U.S. presidential election, he will lock down the United States until everyone is vaccinated against COVID-19. Biden did NOT say that if elected he will lock down the country until everyone is vaccinated against COVID-19.
www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-biden-shutdown-vaccine/fact-check
-biden-did-not-say-that-if-elected-he-will-lock-down-the-country-until-everyone-is-vaccinated-against-covid-19-idUSKBN2762TF

Biden says he will not pursue a national lockdown as part of his COVID-19 response: 'I am not going to shut down the economy, period'
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-national-shutdown-lockdown-says-
he-wont-shut-down-2020-11

On the other hand, Mitch McConnell will not allow a Covid-19 bill to become law while Trump is President. Mitch will not be making it clear that he is the roadblock, but he is.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:47 AM

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Quote:
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

That statement is a lie.

And if Biden is going to go throwing around nationwide shutdowns over a virus that kills virtually nobody, than he shouldn't be bailed out by the American taxpayer either.
Social media users are sharing a false quote attributed to the Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, saying that if he wins the upcoming U.S. presidential election, he will lock down the United States until everyone is vaccinated against COVID-19. Biden did NOT say that if elected he will lock down the country until everyone is vaccinated against COVID-19.
www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-biden-shutdown-vaccine/fact-check
-biden-did-not-say-that-if-elected-he-will-lock-down-the-country-until-everyone-is-vaccinated-against-covid-19-idUSKBN2762TF

Biden says he will not pursue a national lockdown as part of his COVID-19 response: 'I am not going to shut down the economy, period'
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-national-shutdown-lockdown-says-
he-wont-shut-down-2020-11

On the other hand, Mitch McConnell will not allow a Covid-19 bill to become law while Trump is President. Mitch will not be making it clear that he is the roadblock, but he is.

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Another good story ruined by the internet being forever.








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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:54 AM

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And speaking of the internet being forever:




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Another good story ruined by the internet being forever.
I saw the same story, but Biden is in charge, not some adviser, and Biden says no shutdown. What else does Biden say? "Right now, Congress should come together and pass a COVID relief package like the HEROES Act that the Democratic-led House passed six months ago." The sticking point is that Democrats want over $2 trillion in economic assistance. Meanwhile, Republicans insist the economy is doing significantly better than it was when Congress passed the CARES Act in March, which is false, but they said it to justify passing either little or no Covid-19 relief because they want to harm Biden's future reputation as President.

www.npr.org/2020/11/25/938564215/move-fast-push-for-a-big-deal-biden-f
aces-debate-over-more-covid-aid

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And speaking of the internet being forever:
And speaking of you not understanding what you are writing about, Trump let a bunch of infected Americans, who were traveling in highly infected Europe and Britain, back into the country without going into a two week quarantine, but Trump stopped travelers from China who were NOT infected because it was China and Trump was trying to shift all blame to China and away from himself.

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Legislators will return to Washington, D.C., on Monday and while they technically have enough time to pass another package before the new Congress begins, with the fate of the Senate hanging on the January 5 Georgia runoff elections, hopes are dwindling of a package before the end of the year.
www.newsweek.com/what-has-senator-lindsey-graham-said-about-second-sti
mulus-check-1550779

I think that no Covid-19 Relief package will pass this year or next unless Democrats win both Senate runoff elections in Georgia because that would take control of the Senate away from Mitch McConnell, who wants Biden to fail. The worse the economy is, the better it is for the GOP to take back Congress and the White House since Biden will be blamed, not Mitch.

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Friday, November 27, 2020 5:54 PM

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And speaking of the internet being forever:
And speaking of you not understanding what you are writing about, Trump let a bunch of infected Americans, who were traveling in highly infected Europe and Britain, back into the country without going into a two week quarantine, but Trump stopped travelers from China who were NOT infected because it was China and Trump was trying to shift all blame to China and away from himself.

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Wrong.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wrong.
There is a map of the world showing that Trump is worst in the world at keeping Covid-19 out. The map shows you and Trump to be wrong, although Trump keeps claiming he is the best in the world. Please give John Hopkins University about 60 seconds to fully load the map.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

The map also shows the places where Covid-19 Relief is most needed, but exactly like keeping Covid-19 out, Trump and Mitch McConnell are the worst in the world at providing Unemployment Relief.

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Friday, November 27, 2020 8:09 PM

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Wrong.
There is a map of the world showing that Trump is worst in the world at keeping Covid-19 out. The map shows you and Trump to be wrong, although Trump keeps claiming he is the best in the world. Please give John Hopkins University about 60 seconds to fully load the map.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

The map also shows the places where Covid-19 Relief is most needed, but exactly like keeping Covid-19 out, Trump and Mitch McConnell are the worst in the world at providing Unemployment Relief.

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Wrong.



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Wrong.
I agree that the wrongness is Trump claiming he did the best job in the world at keeping Covid-19 out of the country and Trump and Mitch McConnell have done wrong to the unemployed suffering because Covid-19 got into the country. Again, the world map of Covid-19 shows how wrong Trump and Mitch are: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

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Friday, November 27, 2020 8:41 PM

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Wrong.
I agree that the wrongness is Trump claiming he did the best job in the world at keeping Covid-19 out of the country and Trump and Mitch McConnell have done wrong to the unemployed suffering because Covid-19 got into the country. Again, the world map of Covid-19 shows how wrong Trump and Mitch are: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

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Wrong.



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McConnell told reporters he doesn’t want to pass anything that Trump won’t sign. McConnell and Trump have supported two very different numbers for stimulus relief. McConnell repeatedly tried to pass a $500 billion package, while Trump voiced support for a package closer to $1.8 trillion.

McConnell’s version of an emergency package he sent to his Republican members on Tuesday contains no funding for state and local aid, no money for rental assistance, and provides just a one-month extension of unemployment benefits rather than the bipartisan proposal’s three-month extension.

More at www.vox.com/2020/12/1/21761244/senate-emergency-covid-relief-manchin-m
cconnell-collins

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Mitch McConnell’s Relief Offer Is Actually Worse Than Doing Nothing

The majority leader wants to send Americans a big lump of coal for Christmas.

On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the Senate and House decided to show a modicum of responsibility by attempting to break the monthslong stalemate on Capitol Hill over coronavirus relief. The crew unveiled a $908 billion compromise package that addressed most of the economic issues Democrats are concerned about, but at a price point moderate Republicans could maybe live with. It didn’t take long, unfortunately, for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to dismiss the effort, telling reporters, “We just don’t have time to waste time.”

McConnell, who says he wants to pass legislation before Congress leaves town for Christmas later this month, is instead circulating his own, roughly $550 billion proposal, which he has precleared with the White House. It’s essentially a revision of his previous proposals that Democrats have rejected as insufficient. And while it’s unlikely that Democrats would ever agree to pass it, it’s worth reiterating that doing so under current circumstances might actually be worse than doing nothing.

McConnell’s proposal is dotted with a number of inessential pet priorities from various Republicans presumably meant to win votes (or the president’s signature). It would make business lunches 100 percent deductible again, a hobbyhorse of Donald Trump’s nobody thinks will be helpful, and it includes a bit on rare-earth mining that’s essentially a bribe for Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski.

It does roughly nothing for Americans who are out of work by extending unemployment benefits one more month, to the end of Trump’s term. The proposal doesn’t actually add to the number of weeks individuals are eligible to collect unemployment, so people who already reached the end of their benefits would still be cut off.

McConnell’s proposal also does not include any aid for state and local governments, which are being swamped in a flood of red ink.

It includes a provision that terminates the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending program for state and local governments and makes sure lending could not be restarted during Biden’s Presidency.

McConnell is still demanding a strong liability shield to protect businesses and employers from coronavirus-related lawsuits. This is his personal red line, the one prize he truly seems particularly interested in at this point. And if he were to get it, he won’t pass another round of relief in the new year under the Biden administration.

Passing this bill might actually be worse than doing nothing: It would take any remaining pressure off McConnell to act, while leaving states and the jobless to dangle indefinitely.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20201202213826/https://slate.com/business/
2020/12/mitch-mcconnell-stimulus-coronavirus-relief-blech.html

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020 7:19 PM

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Do me a favor and look at how much unrelated bullshit was in the insane Democrat spending bill that wouldn't help the people.


It would be much easier to take anything you ever had to say seriously if you weren't so fucking one sided about literally everything you post about.

What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Do me a favor and look at how much unrelated bullshit was in the insane Democrat spending bill that wouldn't help the people.

It would be much easier to take anything you ever had to say seriously if you weren't so fucking one sided about literally everything you post about.
Back when Herbert Hoover, a Republican, was President, he accused Franklin Roosevelt of being a Communist who would use the New Deal to destroy Capitalism. If Hoover said it, it had to be true! It was a message that resonated with Hoover's voters and still does with Trump's, except now it is Nancy Pelosi who will destroy Capitalism and hardworking, patriotic, blue collar Americans with the Heroes Act, instead of the New Deal. If Trump said it, it has to be true!
www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8406/text

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020 9:26 PM

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Not a legitimate reply.

If you're just going to post random shit, don't quote me first.

What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Not a legitimate reply.

If you're just going to post random shit, don't quote me first.
6ix, you wrote: "Do me a favor and look at how much unrelated bullshit was in the insane Democrat spending bill that wouldn't help the people." By people you mean poor white trash like yourself, don't you? What is in The Heroes Act that you don't want other people to have, 6ix? I can see all kinds of stuff you probably want removed from the bill because it is for Women, Infants, and Children, none of which are you, you goddamn stingy moron who wants money for your worthless selfish unemployed, yet greedy, prickish self.

www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr8406/BILLS-116hr8406ih.pdf

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Thursday, December 3, 2020 7:51 AM

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Not a legitimate reply.

If you're just going to post random shit, don't quote me first.
6ix, you wrote: "Do me a favor and look at how much unrelated bullshit was in the insane Democrat spending bill that wouldn't help the people." By people you mean poor white trash like yourself, don't you? What is in The Heroes Act that you don't want other people to have, 6ix? I can see all kinds of stuff you probably want removed from the bill because it is for Women, Infants, and Children, none of which are you, you goddamn stingy moron who wants money for your worthless selfish unemployed, yet greedy, prickish self.

www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr8406/BILLS-116hr8406ih.pdf

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You keep calling me white trash and it's hilarious, buddy.

I'm in the very small group of people who own their house free and clear. I'm certainly in a very elite group that were able to buy it with cash when they were only 32 years old. I've got enough credit to go and buy another house right now if I were as dumb with money as your average American is and wanted to start paying credit card interest that rivals the height of house mortgages in the early 80's.

And as for me being selfish and wanting this for myself... Please. Show me where I'm talking about me here. Show me once where it can even wrongly be assumed that I started this thread because I want or need more money for myself. I hardly need anything to survive. I learned that in the good times by denying my impulses.

Now that I'm not drinking anymore, and I can be completely honest with myself about just how much money that was costing me (let alone the health and social consequences), it's amazing to me how far a dollar goes. I was spending half of the money I spent on tanker truck's worth of the cheapest possible drunk's beer for 5 years. Most people would look at that as money that can now be spent on the newest, biggest TV set, or maybe a yearly vacation. To me, it's a 50% bump in my nest egg and/or low level of income over the next 20 years. I look at is as I just gave myself a 100% wage increase. The money gets socked away or put into my house, or gets put into tools that help me become even more self-sufficient.


I reject your assessment of me, and I wholly reject your impotent attempt at putting the question back in my lap.

You tell me what's bullshit about that bill.

I got shit to do today. You're the one without anything to do on any given day. It's about time you spend some of that free time you've got productively.

What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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You keep calling me white trash and it's hilarious, buddy. I'm in the very small group of people who own their house free and clear. I'm certainly in a very elite group that were able to buy it with cash when they were only 32 years old.
Almost 40% of U.S. Homes Are ‘Free and Clear’ of a Mortgage. Yeah, you are really special, 6ix.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-17/close-to-40-of-u-s-homes-ar
e-free-and-clear-of-a-mortgage

My parents paid cash for their first house and that was on money from working at Burger King. I paid cash for my first house. 6ix, you are not elite. In the state which is the epitome of poor white trash, West Virginia’s homeowners lead the pack with an astonishingly high mortgage-free rate of 54%.
www.move.org/states-most-mortgage-free-homeowners/

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Thursday, December 3, 2020 9:33 PM

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You keep calling me white trash and it's hilarious, buddy. I'm in the very small group of people who own their house free and clear. I'm certainly in a very elite group that were able to buy it with cash when they were only 32 years old.
Almost 40% of U.S. Homes Are ‘Free and Clear’ of a Mortgage. Yeah, you are really special, 6ix.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-17/close-to-40-of-u-s-homes-ar
e-free-and-clear-of-a-mortgage

My parents paid cash for their first house and that was on money from working at Burger King. I paid cash for my first house. 6ix, you are not elite. In the state which is the epitome of poor white trash, West Virginia’s homeowners lead the pack with an astonishingly high mortgage-free rate of 54%.
www.move.org/states-most-mortgage-free-homeowners/

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Give me the figures of how many people own their house and don't have other debt. It's nowhere near 40%

A vast majority of people who own those houses free and clear are far older than me, and almost zero of them bought it with cash when they were 32.

And you're older than dirt dude. My grandpa was able to buy a house and raise 5 kids with a stay at home wife as lower management at a grocery store. No kidding that your parents had it a lot better than even you did. If you haven't noticed, the standard of living has been on a downward slope for a majority of Americans the last 20 years.

But I'm doing just fine.




I'm not elite. I never said I was. I have no desire to ever be.

But calling me white trash is laughable.


I haven't worked since last summer, and I just bought me a brand new set of cordless tools and two extra big batteries for it...

With cash.


And just last weekend I saved my neighbor's garage and will complete the process and make it 100% fixed once we can jack it up without worrying about tons of snow sitting on top. I even threw in $10 of parts while working on the job and didn't ask them for anything in return. They gave me a gift card worth $25 for my trouble, and a raincheck on a Steak and Shake dinner since my back was still tweaked and I just wanted to get back on the heating pad.

Let's just say I wouldn't be doing free shit for people like that if I was worried about where tomorrow's dinner was coming from. (And I certainly wouldn't be passing up Steak and Shake if I had an empty belly).



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But I'm doing just fine.
Tell it somewhere else.

The 2020 election results have powerfully strengthened moderates. After months of gridlock, the moderates took charge this week, crafting a bipartisan $908 billion relief compromise. Led by Sens. Susan Collins, Joe Manchin, Mitt Romney and Mark Warner and endorsed by a bipartisan group of House members from the Problem Solvers Caucus, it is big enough to make a real difference and includes two thorny issues: aid to the states and liability protection, which should, on the merits, be in the law.

This is how democracy is supposed to work! Partisans stake out positions, and then dealmakers reach a compromise. This is a glimpse of the sort of normal-functioning democratic process that has been largely missing since Newt Gingrich walked onstage lo these many decades ago.

To their great credit, Pelosi and Chuck Schumer embraced the bipartisan framework. Mitch McConnell went on the Senate floor Thursday, pretended to soften, ignored the compromise and did not move an inch.

Talks between the moderates and McConnell continue. But if McConnell won’t do a deal now, in the midst of a clear crisis and under a Republican president, there certainly won’t be one with more controversial issues under a Democratic president in 2021. If we don’t see a COVID-19 relief measure pass in the next week or two, then our democracy is existentially broken.

If that happens, McConnell should spend Christmas with people thrown out of work and witness the suffering he has caused.

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Brooks-The-winter-Mit
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But I'm doing just fine.
Tell it somewhere else.


No. Right here is fine.

You keep calling me white trash when it is clear that I'm not.

Sorry not sorry I don't fit into your single-celled world view.



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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



"A vast majority of people who own those houses free and clear are far older than me, and almost zero of them bought it with cash when they were 32."

To be completely honest, that was because you got a job you didn't earn on merit, and you've been riding on that advantage ever since.

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Stimulus Bill and Checks Not Likely to Arrive Before Biden Takes Office. Why?

The Trump administration has indicated that it's not in a rush on COVID-19 stimulus.

Joseph LaVorgna, Trump's chief economist of the National Economic Council, told Yahoo Finance on Friday that "we don't believe the [economic] recovery at the moment is in jeopardy."

"What we don't want to do is give money for sort of a grab bag wish list project of the left," said LaVorgna, a Trump appointee.

It is looking like Ebenezer Scrooge (Mr. LaVorgna) wants Tiny Tim and his father, Bob Cratchit from Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to starve this Christmas.

By the time Biden takes the oath of office, the new Congress will have been seated and two runoff elections in Georgia will have decided control of the Senate. If Democrats can pull off surprise wins in both races, the incoming Biden administration would be in a stronger position to pass a large stimulus package.

More at https://www.newsweek.com/stimulus-bill-checks-not-likely-before-biden-
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Saturday, December 5, 2020 7:56 PM

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"A vast majority of people who own those houses free and clear are far older than me, and almost zero of them bought it with cash when they were 32."

To be completely honest, that was because you got a job you didn't earn on merit, and you've been riding on that advantage ever since.


Not true.

I started as a low level employee in a call center (a job, incidentally that a lot of college graduates take today because there is no REAL job for them out there after they graduate), and worked my way up to a IBM Mainframe Analyst while also getting the maximum 6% merit raise every year in between two promotions.

I sure as shit earned that big promotion. In fact, I was put up for it by other people without even being aware that it existed in the first place.
When I was initially put up for the promotion, I specifically told them that I didn't meet the requirement stated on the job posting that you needed a bachelor's degree. They all told me that's what they put for the online ads to weed out people that they've never met and they already know from working with me that I'm more than capable of doing the job.

Of all four people involved in my promotion, I'd only ever met one of them in person, shared lengthy conference calls with her and two others... and I never even met the fourth person, who ultimately made the hiring decision, that worked out of the Arizona branch and only even knew about me because of the other three.

I didn't get that because I was just some white dude.

Sorry to destroy your narrative, Karen.



Where I got lucky (and I DID get lucky) was that the great amount of money I was saving by not wasting a dime in 5 years got to some pretty insane amounts because I was in the market at the right time, and a company merger froze our accounts when they moved to a different platform right before the housing market crashed and I would have lost most of those gains. It was 4 1/2 years of 30% or greater returns in the most aggressive fund we had on offer on my 100%, fully vested, company matched 6% 401k contribution as well as the thousands of dollars per year they were putting into my account for profit sharing.



And that's why I don't play the Stock Market Roulette anymore.

The house doesn't always win.




What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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But yeah... I've been riding that EARNED advantage ever since.

Guilty as charged.




Good for me that my own personal "rock bottom" didn't come close to wiping me out financially.

It's pretty crazy how much you can still save when you're not wasting all of your income on beer while working part time, near minimum wage jobs every once in a while when you don't have rent or a mortgage bill and you did your homework and moved into a low tax area that won't steal 80% of your tiny after tax income via property taxes.





Oh, and...

P.S. If I were as poor at managing my money as you almost surely are, being a Californian/American Boomer and all, I would have been broke by 2012 despite the advantageous situation I put myself in.

My single luxury in life is working for others only when it pleases me and being able to tell a shitty boss to stick their job up their ass and bounce on it when I don't feel like going back anymore.

Living AND being happy is actually pretty cheap after you already figured out a way to not have to worry about a mortgage or a car payment and you don't have to fill that big empty hole inside of you with a bunch of meaningless crap. The hole you put there yourself by spending your life being a mindless wage-slave zombie because you had to pay all the interest on all of that meaningless crap, which only makes that hole even bigger and makes you need to enslave yourself deeper by filling it with even more meaningless crap.



What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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McConnell has rejected a new $908 billion bipartisan stimulus proposal, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and President-elect Joe Biden have supported. Instead, the Republican leader is holding out for a slightly tweaked, $550 billion version of his previous GOP proposal. But the new unemployment report has given his critics, Democrats and economists further ammunition to demand he accept the larger deal.

McConnell Faces New Pressure for Big Stimulus After Grim Unemployment Report:
McConnell's 'Political Games Costing Lives'
https://www.newsweek.com/mcconnell-faces-new-pressure-big-stimulus-aft
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Overreaction to Covid is costing lives. Democrats and Karens to blame.


You don't know anybody who's gotten the flu or the cold this year, do you?

Strange....

I guess those things just don't exist anymore.



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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Overreaction to Covid is costing lives. Democrats and Karens to blame.


You don't know anybody who's gotten the flu or the cold this year, do you?

Strange....

I guess those things just don't exist anymore.
I had not realized that Trump was faking when he was hospitalized for Covid-19. He was going for the sympathy vote, obviously, but he was in perfect health. And Trump's Operation Warp Speed for vaccines? Complete waste of money. Who needs a vaccination for a fake disease? And Trump's CDC should be closed since it is all Deep State, especially Dr. Anthony Fauci who Trump called a traitor attempting (unsuccessfully! Trump beat Biden!) to overthrow Trump.

https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-speed/index.
html
www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fauci-says-he-s-not-surprised-t
rump-contracted-covid-19-n1243857

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:38 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:
I had not realized that Trump was faking when he was hospitalized for Covid-19.


That's why you're lucky you've got me.

I told you that Trump faked it when it happened.


Go ahead and look back at the post history.



What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:44 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I had not realized that Trump was faking when he was hospitalized for Covid-19.


That's why you're lucky you've got me.

I told you that Trump faked it when it happened.

Go ahead and look back at the post history.
You also said you won't take any of the fake vaccines, perhaps because Covid-19 is fake? You are brilliant, 6ix, and full of profound insights that ordinary, less informed people are amazed at.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:53 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Never said Covid itself was fake.

As for the "vaccine" itself, I'd be happy if it were nothing more than a mere placebo. That's the best case scenario for everyone who gets it.

Not a very likely outcome after all of this manipulation to get us to the point we're at now though, I'm afraid.


Good luck with your shot though. Thanks for being a human trial.



What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 11:07 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


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But yeah... I've been riding that EARNED advantage ever since.
You even posted you didn't deserve it.

JACK is an idiot. It's that simple.

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