Voter suppression is UnAmerican and can not be tolerated. Majority Vets get their meds shipped via USPS -60,000/day
Philadelphia Inquirer 8/14/2020
Trump’s assault on Postal Service and voting is a plot against American democracy | Editorial
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On Thursday morning, after months of attacks on the United States Postal Service and vote-by-mail, President Donald Trump admitted that the two efforts are connected as a part of one voter disenfranchisement effort. In a Fox Business Network interview, Trump said that the sticking point for him in the negotiations over a new coronavirus economic relief package is Post Office funding: “If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money. That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it.”
I am so OVER this virus and I am so OVER how it has become a politicized debate. Unless either party offer a solution to the issue without either causing another Great Depression by throwing us all in a bunker for who knows how long or infecting us all for herd immunity and the fittest (or those with better resources) survive, I say to hell with politics.
Stop making this a political issue. It is a public health issue. yet if you look closely-neither party gives a damn. So I voted for who I feel is best for the economy-because at this point it is my own responsibility to protect myself and my family from those among us. I will say this- try working full time and raising your family, taking care of your marriage, and because your high risk doing it all froM home since this all began-People-it blows. But this is what I’m stuck with. A vaccine is the only hope I have of having a normal life or risk dying of this infection.
I waited I line for an hour to vote in my N95 mask and gloves while handling the papers. Why not absentee ballot? oh-mine got lost in the mail x3:giving me 3 lines to wait in each of those times to cancel the ballot I never received to do an in person vote-so due to never receiving my ballot and needing to cancel it THREE times-I do feel that absentee or mail in ballots have a tendency to disappear. My brother also got a letter saying his absentee ballot was invalidated because his “signature didn’t match the one on file”um-my signature never matched that stupid pad they make us use-I’ve resolved to initials for credit cards- when I shopped in person-a lifetime ago.
I am so OVER this virus and I am so OVER how it has become a politicized debate. Unless either party offer a solution to the issue without either causing another Great Depression by throwing us all in a bunker for who knows how long or infecting us all for herd immunity and the fittest (or those with better resources) survive, I say to hell with politics.
Stop making this a political issue. It is a public health issue. yet if you look closely-neither party gives a damn. So I voted for who I feel is best for the economy-because at this point it is my own responsibility to protect myself and my family from those among us. I will say this- try working full time and raising your family, taking care of your marriage, and because your high risk doing it all froM home since this all began-People-it blows. But this is what I’m stuck with. A vaccine is the only hope I have of having a normal life or risk dying of this infection.
I waited I line for an hour to vote in my N95 mask and gloves while handling the papers. Why not absentee ballot? oh-mine got lost in the mail x3:giving me 3 lines to wait in each of those times to cancel the ballot I never received to do an in person vote-so due to never receiving my ballot and needing to cancel it THREE times-I do feel that absentee or mail in ballots have a tendency to disappear. My brother also got a letter saying his absentee ballot was invalidated because his “signature didn’t match the one on file”um-my signature never matched that stupid pad they make us use-I’ve resolved to initials for credit cards- when I shopped in person-a lifetime ago.
Do you think this worst because you are in Alabama? I do. My experience with mail-in was easy and ballot is tracked in Michigan. Of course it hasn't been counted yet so anything bad can happen. Hopefully we will be rid of this sociopath after January and this depressing election scenario will never be repeated again. I grew up in the deep South and have no desire to ever visit again. Except for the peaches, it sucks.
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August 2020: How a Biden-Harris Administration Would Handle the COVID-19 Pandemic Differently
The COVID-19 plan laid out by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden differs greatly from the policies of the Trump administration.
The Biden plan calls for a science-based approach to protocols, such as mask-wearing and COVID-19 testing.
It also calls for increased funding for necessary protective materials for healthcare workers and patients...
... “Every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next 3 months at a minimum,” Biden said following an Aug. 13 briefing on the pandemic. “Every governor should mandate mandatory mask-wearing. The estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives in the next 3 months — 40,000 lives if people act responsibly.”...
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THE BIDEN PLAN FOR AN EFFECTIVE RE-OPENING THAT JUMPSTARTS THE ECONOMYTHE BIDEN PLAN FOR AN EFFECTIVE RE-OPENING THAT JUMPSTARTS THE ECONOMY
A stronger, more effective reopening requires doing the work to keep workers safe, to restore consumer confidence, to support small businesses, to ensure seniors can participate, and to provide parents with the help they need to get back to work....
... Biden will release an aggressive and comprehensive plan for good-paying job creation in the coming days.
To meet the first two challenges, Biden has an eight-part plan to make sure the reopening is safe and strong and sets the foundation for an economy that works for everyone.
Guarantee Testing and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for All Called Back on the Job: If we are going to send Americans back to work without having beaten COVID-19 as a nation, workers should know if they or their co-workers are infected. Biden would:
Direct the federal government to provide regular and reliable COVID-19 testing for every worker called back on the job – paid for by the federal government, with a federal guarantee of availability and rapid reporting of results — for the duration of this crisis.
Ensure all workers, in all communities, have access to effective personal protective equipment based upon their risk of exposure to the virus and their type of workplace. No worker should be forced to give up benefits and return to work under unsafe conditions.
Ensure workers and unions have a voice in reopening plans, and that reopening decisions by tribal governments are respected. (Read Joe Biden’s plans for establishing a Pandemic Testing Board to surge testing nationwide, and ramping up the production and fair distribution of PPE.)
Guarantee Paid Leave for All Who Get Sick: No one should have to choose between their paycheck and their health. Biden would:
Ensure paid leave for all workers who get sick with COVID-19, for as long as they need to recover and complete quarantine – leave paid for by the federal government with a guarantee that workers can return to their jobs.
Guarantee federally-funded paid leave for workers caring for family members or other loved ones sick with COVID-19. His plan is broader, stronger, and longer than the plan enacted by Congress, and is in addition to existing paid leave provided by a business’s existing policies, including collectively-bargained leave.
Ensure Worker Protection and Accountability: People want to get back to work, but they also want — and deserve — to know that their workplaces are safe. Biden would:
Task the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) with setting and enforcing a rigorous emergency temporary standard for worker protection so employers follow a clear set of rules to keep workers safe from COVID-19 exposure.
Ensure that the OSHA standard includes requirements for exposure identification and control, including social distancing, improved ventilation, and other workplace design measures, adequate personal protective equipment, targeted sanitation procedures, as well as training, notification and communication requirements for handling cases at work.
Protect workers not fully covered by OSHA, including by working with Congress to ensure this standard would cover public employees and directing other agencies to enforce industry-specific standards.
Pursue tough fines on corporations that do not abide by standards or recklessly expose their workers to COVID-19, targeting employers that engage in the most egregious violations that put the largest number of workers at serious risk. And, he would do everything in his power to ensure workers are protected against retaliation as they reasonably try to stay safe.
Build a National Contact Tracing Workforce: Once COVID-19 infected people are identified, we need to find those to whom they might have unwittingly spread the disease. Contact tracing is a core component of a robust nationwide data-driven disease surveillance system. Given the massive unemployment problem that Trump generated and the incredible need for contact tracers, Biden would:
Create a U.S. Public Health Jobs Corps. Through this Corps, the federal government will closely coordinate with state, tribal, and local leaders, as well as unions, to mobilize at least 100,000 people — and many more, if necessary — to support the public health response including by ensuring contract tracing reaches every community in America. Corps members should come from the communities they serve in order to ensure that they create trust and are as effective as possible.
Establish a COVID-19 renewable state, tribal, and local government fund — which Biden proposed in mid-March — to provide sorely under-resourced public health departments the support they need to stop new outbreaks.
Protect Older Americans, Americans with Disabilities, and Others at High Risk: Discrimination against those at risk or those with COVID-19 cannot be tolerated. Biden would:
Require employers to tailor work arrangements for anyone who is in a high-risk group or has a high-risk individual in their home. If arrangements cannot be made, individuals would be allowed to continue to draw unemployment benefits and be protected from job loss. These benefits would last for the duration of the crisis.
Provide older Americans and others at high risk evidence-based guidance for different phases of reopening. Biden’s plan to ramp up testing nationwide — and the resulting aggregated testing data — will help inform advanced this guidance, and will give older Americans, who already experience social isolation, the confidence to know they will not be left behind.
Establish testing capacity so that every resident in a long-term care facility could safely see at least one visitor every week and that the many older Americans who foster or care for children have access to regular and reliable testing.
Direct the federal government to create an easy-to-read Nationwide Pandemic Dashboard that Americans can check in real-time to help them gauge whether local transmission is actively occurring in their zip codes. This information is critical to helping all individuals, but especially older Americans and others at high risk, understand what level of precaution to take.
Create “Safer for Shoppers” Program: The economy will not fully come back until consumers feel safe again. The Safer for Shoppers voluntary federal program will:
Provide state, tribal, and local governments with funding and technical assistance for their public health departments to certify business as compliant with testing procedures and other best practices for reducing transmission and to conduct spot-checks as necessary.
Compliant businesses would receive a “Safer for Shoppers” sign to display so shoppers would know that the businesses have done what they can to minimize the risk of exposure.
Restart Small Business: President Trump’s corrupt economic response has routinely favored corporations over small businesses and largely shut out minority business owners from COVID-19 recovery funds. Biden refuses to allow this crisis to inflict further economic pain on working families and communities of color. Biden would:
Provide an ambitious “restart package” that provides small business owners support for retaining and rehiring workers, as well as for fixed costs as long as they are bringing back workers.
Support work-sharing so that small businesses — and larger ones, too — can bring back all of their workers, even if they are not operating at full capacity, with the federal government making up the difference.
Provide grants for businesses to cover the costs of restarting in this challenging environment, including for supplies like personal protective equipment and plexiglass to use as a barrier to reduce transmission risk.
Swiftly end the racial inequity in small business support by ensuring that minority-owned businesses get effective access to all of these tools, as well as access to technical assistance — such as accounting support and legal advice — so that they are not shut out of federal aid programs.
Reopen Schools and Child Care Programs: Trump has done effectively nothing to help schools or child care providers reopen, perhaps the single most important step to get parents back to work. While schools stay closed, parents are struggling and students, especially low-income students and students of color, are falling behind. Biden would mobilize the federal government, in cooperation with educators, child care providers, unions, communities, and families, to take decisive action.
Significantly scale-up National Institutes of Health-funded COVID-19 pediatric research partnerships to help address the glaring gaps in our understanding of how the virus affects children and generate evidence-based guidance.
Build a Safer Schools Best Practices Clearinghouse to help schools and child care providers across the country and around the world share approaches and tools for reopening.
Provide funds for child care providers and schools — particularly Title I schools — to cover costs, including personal protective equipment and enhanced sanitation efforts; alterations to classrooms, schedules, class sizes, and transportation so students can physically distance; upgraded technology and broadband for new forms of instruction; support for social-emotional learning; and training for educators, parents, and students as they adapt to new circumstances.
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18 hours ago, NurseSpeedy said:
I am so OVER this virus and I am so OVER how it has become a politicized debate. Unless either party offer a solution to the issue without either causing another Great Depression by throwing us all in a bunker for who knows how long or infecting us all for herd immunity and the fittest (or those with better resources) survive, I say to hell with politics.
Stop making this a political issue. It is a public health issue. yet if you look closely-neither party gives a damn. So I voted for who I feel is best for the economy-because at this point it is my own responsibility to protect myself and my family from those among us. I will say this- try working full time and raising your family, taking care of your marriage, and because your high risk doing it all froM home since this all began-People-it blows. But this is what I’m stuck with. A vaccine is the only hope I have of having a normal life or risk dying of this infection.
I waited I line for an hour to vote in my N95 mask and gloves while handling the papers. Why not absentee ballot? oh-mine got lost in the mail x3:giving me 3 lines to wait in each of those times to cancel the ballot I never received to do an in person vote-so due to never receiving my ballot and needing to cancel it THREE times-I do feel that absentee or mail in ballots have a tendency to disappear. My brother also got a letter saying his absentee ballot was invalidated because his “signature didn’t match the one on file”um-my signature never matched that stupid pad they make us use-I’ve resolved to initials for credit cards- when I shopped in person-a lifetime ago.
Sounds like you need state leadership that is vested in making voting accessible, convenient and secure for the population. Perhaps your votes should be about more than just money.
I am so OVER this virus and I am so OVER how it has become a politicized debate. Unless either party offer a solution to the issue without either causing another Great Depression by throwing us all in a bunker for who knows how long or infecting us all for herd immunity and the fittest (or those with better resources) survive, I say to hell with politics.
I am over the virus also, but the virus is not done with us...'we've only just begun' to deal with the real fallout. Have you seen any decrease in cases currently? Our President tried to deal with it as a political problem -- need I remind you for example "it will just go away".... "Let's put Kushner over supplies and our VP over the task force." "Fauci has been wrong so much....he told us not to wear masks (deleting the real reason for the need to conserve PPE supplies for health care providers) ..."
When we get a government in place that supports public health initiatives it can become a public health matter - and let's let the CDC (with a new director that doesn't crumble at pressure) help us all with guidance and instruction.
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2nd attempt thwarted by Supreme Court; counties will set aside any mail-in and absentee ballots that arrive after Nov. 3, even if they have a postmark showing that they were sent before Election Day in case further legal appeals by Trump admin. Can add tally to final vote sent to Secretary of State for certification.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour plea by Pennsylvania Republicans to strike down a three-day extension for counties to accept mail ballots but has left open the possibility that it will hear the case and that those votes might not ultimately be counted.
“The question presented by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision calls out for review by this court — as both the State Republican and Democratic Parties agreed when the former applied for a stay,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a statement, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. “But I reluctantly conclude that there is simply not enough time at this late date to decide the question before the election.”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in the decision. But with the prospect the high court could still hear the case or related challenges to late ballots, state election officials urged voters not to count on the extension or the U.S. Postal Service, and instead to hand-deliver their mail ballots to counties as soon as possible...
This is also a portion of Trump's attack on our democracy. Kavanaugh has no business in that bench seat and neither does his newest coworker. Her flawed judgement is only surpassed by her lack of qualifying experience. They will be used in an attempt to keep Trump in power.
Did anyone else notice at his Senate hearing how nasty he got a 5pm? That guy needed a drink and he needed it right then! I hope the court doesn't work after 5 pm. After they reverse Roe vs. Wade, I expect that coat hanger abirtins will start up again. But since it only affects women I guess that's OK.
Almost there! However, the latest SCOTUS shouldn't even be allowed to vote on Trump's election nonsense. She'll definitely be biased, especially since the only reason she's there is to disrupt the election. Trump threatened the SCOTUS judges he benched on Twitter yesterday as if they personally work for him. But based on the latest poll data, he's already lost and Biden is already at the number of electoral votes to win hence why Trump is staying hunkered down in the WH instead of fleecing the government at his hotel on election night. He's already defeated.
And did anyone see Jr on Fox looking stoned with the jaw tics? I'm tired of this dog and pony show.
This thread has become little more than an echo chamber for self-righteous communists, socialists and supporters of deviancy and lawlessness to virtue signal and opine. And of course, to personally attack and ostracize those who disagree with them. Irony: while the progressives rail against "rich old white men" -they want to elect a filthy rich old white man who has been in politics for 50 years. The one whose VP pick essentially accused of him racism in the Democrat primary debates, and also said his accusers (of sexual harassment) should be believed. Not to mention his questionable creepy behavior around children. It shows how unprincipled, desperate and power hungry democrats are. If you want higher taxes, more government regulation, poor healthcare, bad trade deals, endless wars and a weaker country -fine, vote Biden/Harris. The people will decide the outcome and if you don't like it, well, that's too bad. We are a republic, not some communist dictatorship that you dream of. Maybe you should move to Cuba since they have such a wonderful healthcare system or Venezuela since they have done away with all economic inequality. The argument is not "won" because you got the last word in; the issue will soon be settled when the votes are counted. I know a lot of unlikely voters who are voting Republican for the first time in their lives because they can see through the nonsense, corruption, hate, and lies. My vote has been cast and I voted for individual liberty, lower taxes, healthcare, jobs, prosperity and peace.
This thread has become little more than an echo chamber for self-righteous communists, socialists and supporters of deviancy and lawlessness to virtue signal and opine. And of course, to personally attack and ostracize those who disagree with them.
And with these two sentences, you've become the biggest contradiction in this thread. The rest of your post goes on to do exactly these, name calling and all! Just stop. ?
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I am so OVER this virus and I am so OVER how it has become a politicized debate. Unless either party offer a solution to the issue without either causing another Great Depression by throwing us all in a bunker for who knows how long or infecting us all for herd immunity and the fittest (or those with better resources) survive, I say to hell with politics.
Stop making this a political issue. It is a public health issue. yet if you look closely-neither party gives a damn. So I voted for who I feel is best for the economy-because at this point it is my own responsibility to protect myself and my family from those among us. I will say this- try working full time and raising your family, taking care of your marriage, and because your high risk doing it all froM home since this all began-People-it blows. But this is what I’m stuck with. A vaccine is the only hope I have of having a normal life or risk dying of this infection.
I waited I line for an hour to vote in my N95 mask and gloves while handling the papers. Why not absentee ballot? oh-mine got lost in the mail x3:giving me 3 lines to wait in each of those times to cancel the ballot I never received to do an in person vote-so due to never receiving my ballot and needing to cancel it THREE times-I do feel that absentee or mail in ballots have a tendency to disappear. My brother also got a letter saying his absentee ballot was invalidated because his “signature didn’t match the one on file”um-my signature never matched that stupid pad they make us use-I’ve resolved to initials for credit cards- when I shopped in person-a lifetime ago.