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Post by impulse on Apr 2, 2020 13:34:46 GMT -5
Others have basically beat me to the punch, but yeah, as I understand it, for a huge amount of people, SS benefits barely cover the bills if they even do, so just because someone gets SS doesn't mean they don't need more. Also, it would be more time and money than its worth to calculate who of the 330 million Americans actually "need" the money, and the time lost figuring it out would be more detrimental than just getting it in the hands of people who are going to turn around and immediately spend it anyway. So, even if someone gets a grand they don't "need" it's still good for the economy because most people will spend it on something that will be respent and spent and spent until someone who does need some income will surely get it.
I would have loved more of the money to go to working folks and gig workers than to corporate interests. And the nerve of cruise ships who incorporate in other countries to dodge US taxes to beg for bailouts now. Let them ask their nation of incorporation for help, and give the US tax money to a server or bartnender here who is out of work. THERE I SAID IT.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 2, 2020 15:28:50 GMT -5
THIS JUST IN! Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he only just learned that asymptomatic people can transmit #Covid19. People "could have been infecting people before they ever felt bad, but we didn’t know that until the last 24 hours.” Further proof, as if any is needed (look him up if you don't believe me), that Kemp is a world-class @$$#ole. In fairness to Kemp, his office has been primarily focused on suppressing the virus' ability to vote. Kemp and his fellow suppressors are saying all the quite parts very loudly. Can you say "panic"? from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Pressure mounts for further delay of Georgia’s May primary election
State House Speaker David Ralston, who said Wednesday that widespread use of absentee-by-mail voting in the primary would hurt Republican candidates.All 6.9 million active voters in Georgia are being mailed absentee ballot request forms this week by the secretary of state’s office. Voters who return the absentee ballot request forms will be able to participate in the primary without having to come into contact with other people on election day or during early voting. “This will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia,” Ralston, a Republican from Blue Ridge, said during an interview with FetchYourNews, a North Georgia news site. “Every registered voter is going to get one of these. … This will certainly drive up turnout. ”Republicans say high voter turnout favors Democrats, although that is not always the case. Ralston doesn’t want the mail-in primary to set a precedent for future elections in which heavier use of mail-in ballots drives turnout higher in the general election, when the parties compete against each other.Ralston said he agreed with President Donald Trump’s criticism of proposals by Democrats for changes in elections such as increased voting by mail and same-day voter registration.“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said Monday on “Fox & Friends.”
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Post by impulse on Apr 2, 2020 15:40:51 GMT -5
In fairness to Kemp, his office has been primarily focused on suppressing the virus' ability to vote. Kemp and his fellow suppressors are saying all the quite parts very loudly. Can you say "panic"? from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Pressure mounts for further delay of Georgia’s May primary election
State House Speaker David Ralston, who said Wednesday that widespread use of absentee-by-mail voting in the primary would hurt Republican candidates.All 6.9 million active voters in Georgia are being mailed absentee ballot request forms this week by the secretary of state’s office. Voters who return the absentee ballot request forms will be able to participate in the primary without having to come into contact with other people on election day or during early voting. “This will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia,” Ralston, a Republican from Blue Ridge, said during an interview with FetchYourNews, a North Georgia news site. “Every registered voter is going to get one of these. … This will certainly drive up turnout. ”Republicans say high voter turnout favors Democrats, although that is not always the case. Ralston doesn’t want the mail-in primary to set a precedent for future elections in which heavier use of mail-in ballots drives turnout higher in the general election, when the parties compete against each other.Ralston said he agreed with President Donald Trump’s criticism of proposals by Democrats for changes in elections such as increased voting by mail and same-day voter registration.“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said Monday on “Fox & Friends.” 😲Well, there, he said it.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 2, 2020 16:32:25 GMT -5
All 6.9 million active voters in Georgia are being mailed absentee ballot request forms this week Yep. Ours came in the mail today.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 2, 2020 17:25:17 GMT -5
I was having a crappy day so I decided to read some old Superman books. This was the one that was on the top-
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Post by Duragizer on Apr 5, 2020 13:56:22 GMT -5
It's time to reclaim the swastika and the toothbrush mustache from the fascists.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 5, 2020 15:11:32 GMT -5
It's time to reclaim the swastika and the toothbrush mustache from the fascists. They're welcome to them, thanks very much.
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Post by Duragizer on Apr 5, 2020 17:28:40 GMT -5
It's time to reclaim the swastika and the toothbrush mustache from the fascists. They're welcome to them, thanks very much. The swastika was a symbol of good fortune to numerous cultures for thousands of years; ceding it a group of genocidal troglodytes is obscene. The toothbrush mustache is simply stylish.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 5, 2020 17:50:32 GMT -5
They're welcome to them, thanks very much. The swastika was a symbol of good fortune to numerous cultures for thousands of years; ceding it a group of genocidal troglodytes is obscene. The toothbrush mustache is simply stylish. The swastika was a symbol of good fortune to numerous cultures for thousands of years.Yeah, everybody knows that. It ain't any more. Ceding it a group of genocidal troglodytes is obscene.Nobody's ceding it to them. They took it, and all the anthropologists in the world aren't going to strip it of its current connotation. You want to wear a swastika T-shirt as a shout-out to our Neolithic ancestors, be my guest. The toothbrush mustache is simply stylish.So was a bowl-cut. Now it's a symbol of moronism. If the toothbrush moustache was ver stylish, it ain't now. Now it suggests hatred. Sorry. But be my guest if you want to rock either or both.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 5, 2020 19:24:42 GMT -5
They're welcome to them, thanks very much. The swastika was a symbol of good fortune to numerous cultures for thousands of years; ceding it a group of genocidal troglodytes is obscene. The toothbrush mustache is simply stylish. As Prince Hal said, it wasn’t ceded; it was taken (or usurped, if you prefer). But in any case, it is now firmly associated with a hateful ideology, and there is no going back from that, much as it would be historically and culturally justified. It’s the same with the N word, which is really just derived from the latin for “black”. It is unlikely that it will escape its current derogatory connotation anytime soon. It’s still cool to point out that the swastika was not traditionally a hateful symbol, though. That’s another infamy to chalk up to a horrible movement. Concerning the moustache, well... perhaps calling it a Chaplin moustache would help!
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Post by beccabear67 on Apr 5, 2020 22:32:40 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 6, 2020 4:46:07 GMT -5
The swastika was a symbol of good fortune to numerous cultures for thousands of years; ceding it a group of genocidal troglodytes is obscene. The toothbrush mustache is simply stylish. What Prince Hal and Roquefort Raider said; otherwise, as to how stylish it is - to each his own, but I think it looks kind of silly on most men. It also reminds me of something that happened here in Croatia a few years ago: a local far-right, barely-closeted fascist party held a press conference to protest their characterization as fascist or pro-Nazi by the media. And I kid you not, one of those nitwits basically came cos-playing as Hitler.
By the way, beccabear67 , as far as I know, the toothbrush 'stache actually became a thing in the US prior to the First World War, and then caught on in Europe, where it was most popular during the interwar years. When I was still a young history student, I recall flipping through old newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, etc. from that period, and can attest to the fact that the look was popular with a lot of men on both the political left as well as right. It was even sported by Soviet general who died fighting the Nazis in 1941: Still don't see the appeal, though - I think he would have looked better sporting a pornstache...
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Post by impulse on Apr 6, 2020 8:44:53 GMT -5
The toothbrush stash was soul patch of 100 years ago, and looked just about as silly then as soul patches do on most men today. There I said it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 6, 2020 11:15:19 GMT -5
I had a bit of a chuckling moment with the Swastika, a few years ago. I was working for a retailer who carried a lot of home decor nick-nacks (read: junk) and we got these Buddha figures, made in China) Then we got a directive to pull them and return them. They had put the swastika (in the reverse angling) beneath the figure; but, it was hard to see at first, since the whole thing was painted in silver and it wasn't a strong detail (because it was cheaply made). At first I thought our stock was okay, until I looked again. The usage was proper; but only 1 person in a hundred would likely know that.
The toothbrush mustache brings up two images: Hitler and Chaplin. Unless you are going to spend the rest of your life wearing baggy trousers, a threadbare jacket, a bowler hat, and carry a cane, don't wear it.
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Post by Duragizer on Apr 6, 2020 13:11:20 GMT -5
The toothbrush stash was soul patch of 100 years ago, and looked just about as silly then as soul patches do on most men today. There I said it. Now I kinda wanna see someone rock both at the same time. The toothbrush mustache brings up two images: Hitler and Chaplin. Unless you are going to spend the rest of your life wearing baggy trousers, a threadbare jacket, a bowler hat, and carry a cane, don't wear it. Probably the best course of action. I'm not the type of person who'd risk offending someone over fashion, anyway. Maybe after neo-Nazism has been thoroughly dismantled and left in the dust, the swastika/mustache can be reappraised. That's a long way off, unfortunately.
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