First, what the hell was this all about? On Monday, Fox News hyped Donald Trump’s Council to Re-Open America. Trump says decision coming ‘shortly’ on reopening economy, as task force formed: Sources told Fox News Monday that the second task force, which Trump first teased last Friday and is set to be formally introduced Tuesday, … Read more
Donald Trump’s “shadow cabinet,” the on air personalities at Fox News aka Trump TV, daily tell the president what to think and then he faithfully parrots back their talking points on Twitter and in his public statements. Normally an authoritarian demagogue tells his propagandists what they should say, but in this case, the tale is … Read more
The Washington Post reports 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, bringing the pandemic total to over 17 million: The surge of job losses continued last week with 6.6 million Americans applying for unemployment benefits, the Labor Department said Thursday. More than 17 million new jobless claims have been filed in the past four … Read more
I warned you yesterday that “It only takes one member to object to a voice vote to force a recorded vote.” I previously predicted that “Oh, you know someone is going to force a recorded vote.” It only takes one asshole: Libertarian Republican from Kentucky, Rep. Thomas Massie, confirmed that he will ask for a roll-call … Read more
This is what putting the U.S. economy into a “lockdown” to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic looks like in a graph — this is historic and previously unimaginable. The AP reports, 3.3 million seek US jobless aid, nearly 5 times earlier high: Nearly 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — … Read more