It's Christmas-SO, where is the goodwill toward humankind?
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There is a question floating around in the press and media asking --Why is Joe Duh’Hoe Manchin deciding to put millions of kids into poverty because of his failure to stand by his Biden commitment to vote for the $1.7T BBB bill? But Manchin reneged on his commitment.
Marketwatch.com asks this question of Manchin. They asked --“Should one millionaire senator really be able to send millions of children back into poverty?” It appears that Manchin doesn’t really care. He is more beholden to his billionaire benefactors in the coal, oil, gas and big Pharma industries. The article says that nearly 90% of U.S children have benefited from the enhanced child tax credit, which was part of the American Rescue Plan passed by Biden. The credit was able to put into bank accounts up to $300 per month for each child. This cash benefit went to buy food, housing, school supplies, diapers, heat, housing, electricity, and more for families in need. But Joe-Duh’-Hoe believes that it goes to buying drugs—illegal drugs without a shred of proof. It is his belief that to withhold a child tax credit for millions of families throughout the nation is enough to block it from passing. This is how sick and perverted his mind works. He is more like Teddie KKKruz and the 50 other Trump American Neo Nazi Party members who were once known as Republicans, than his fellow Democrats. Ironically, the Union of Coal Miners in West Virginia called for HoeJoe to vote with the Biden BBB bill. HoeJoe decided to spill out from his nasty ‘I-won’t-vote-for-the-bill’ Scrooge bag of coal his “Just say NO to Joe Biden” message on Fox News, instead of a legitimate and reputable news outlet.
The tax credit has currently decreased poverty by 30 percent. That means that around 3.6 million kids were kept out of poverty. HoeJoe seems to have forgotten that West Virginia ranks 46th in the hierarchy of states that suffer from poverty. The current child tax credit has helped 93% of the kids in his state, but now, this multimillionaire is turning his back on those suffering in his state. But, Joe is just fine voting for the $778B military spending bill. Manchin loves his forever Senate job because his state is made up of a majority of Trump supporters, and for one reason or another, allow him to stay in Washington. He realizes he can do whatever he wants without any consequences.
The earned income tax credit, which was part of the American Rescue Plan passed by Democrats and signed in to policy by President Biden has helped 100,000 low income workers in his state, probably some who actually work in his coal mining industry as non-union workers. Joe would rather drive his Maserati around D.C than back home in West Virginia where the rich and richer lobbyist pals wine and dine their friends.
The article points out that another part of the BBB bill that Joe Duh’Hoe is rejecting is the paid family and sick leave provision, which he believes will be used by people in his state to go hunting instead of taking care of a sick family member or a child at home. He sure doesn’t have much respect for families around the country who are taking care of a sick family member, or the arrival of new baby into one’s home. Manchin is just a cynical nasty multimillionaire. Currently, less than 10% of low income people receive any sort of family leave benefit. But Joe sure does as a senator and the owner of a coal mining business. What is good for him, apparently is as not good for the rest of the country. Joe seems to have forgotten that this benefit and other benefits are paid for by the taxpayers, since he is a public sector employee.
Joe’s excuse for behaving like a Republican is inflation, but 17 Nobel-winning economists have testified that his believe is hogwash. As President Biden said in his speech on December 21, helping working Americans with the provisions in the BBB bill would help counter household inflationary factors while the pandemic rages across the nation preventing the economy from getting back to normal. Manchin only cares to protect those uber-rich folks that he parties with on his houseboat yacht from getting their taxes raised. He doesn’t want to be reminded that the people he really protects are those people who would be helping pay for this BBB bill. They got a YUUGE tax cut from the Toddler-in-Chief. Now it is time for them to give it back to help those who really need it during a national crisis. No doubt, those recipients of the Trump tax cut invested their free cash, so now it is time to give back their principle investment, since they have gained a lot of interest from their free tax cut.
Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show, went into detail on the electoral college delegate scam that could be considered illegal by the Wisconsin and D.C justice departments. She detailed how a group of 10 Trump supporting election officials decided to rewrite their fantasy that Trump’s election was stolen and help Trump steal the election for him. This group of 10 moved to steal the election for Trump all by themselves. As Democrats were meeting in the Wisconsin state house on December 14, 2020 casting their electoral college delegate ballots for Biden/Harris by filling out the required documents, which would eventually be sent to the President of the Senate, the Election archives and other offices.
At the same time, this make-believe group of 10 were also meeting in secret in the state house forging their fake documents, which looked like the official Electoral College delegate documents for Trump/Pence. They went as far as to fill them out illegally, while the Democrats did so legally, and then, they signed them and sent them off to the President of the Senate and to the Election Archives office and other offices just as the Democrats had done for the legitimate winner of the presidential election.
This group of ten are now being investigated for fraud, forgery, falsely assuming to act as a public officer, official misconduct, conspiracy and other potential crimes by the attorney Jeffrey Mandell of the Wisconsin legal group Law Forward. These ten people must have believed that the Trump Coup would be successful. To do this, they must have had information that a Trump Coup was underway, and that Pence would reject Wisconsin’s legitimate Electoral College delegates, and choose the fraudulent delegates.
Michigan attempted this fraud, as well, but failed to get it done. There were other states trying to pull this scam off, too. But, only Wisconsin went all the way. Now many Red state legislatures have put into place a system to legally select illegitimate delegates if their state goes for a Democratic presidential candidate in 2024. They will not let the next coup run off the rails in 2024.
Steven Levitsky wrote about how democracies die, and he is concerned that our own democracy is on the skids. An example of how the Trump Zombies are devolving is when they decided to attend their lord and savior’s rally in Texas, along with BillieBoy O’Reilly, and booed them when they said to the crowd of zombies that they were vaccinated and had gotten the booster, as well.
Levitsky and Ziblatt wrote in their book “How Democracies Die” that in the 21st century we are seeing countries move into the dark side of mind control, such as Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, and Hungry. The United States may be next. They see that Trump was a critical factor in this switch from democracy to authoritarianism. They wrote that those in the Trump Party have chosen not to stop Trump or the direction the Party of Trump was heading, either. They define democracy as having tolerance for the other Party’s political positions and tolerance for the institutions which have been established historically to uphold our democracy. They are engaging in the weaponization of those processes, and a willingness to destroy our political institutions and its integrity. This is a sign that our democracy is under attack. Extreme polarization of political ideals is also a factor in the erosion of a democracy and this is currently happening in real time.
“If a party comes to believe that its opponents simply cannot be trusted to hold power, it becomes easier to rationalize any means to prevent those opponents from attaining power.”
Here is a video of Levitsky speaking on the topic at Cornell University.
They believe that the greatest threat to our democracy is a stolen presidential election. These two authors believe that the greater danger is not necessarily what happened on January 6, but for Republicans to use their manipulated legal process to overturn an election. They now see that many within the GOP have turned anti-democratic. This all began when Trump refused to accept the outcome of the presidential election and attempted to overturn the election results with an attempted coup. 41 states have passed laws that will allow their legislatures to assist in the overturning of a legitimate election by controlling election boards. The crisis we are facing is the radicalization of the once know Republican Party, which has become the Party of Trump’s Authoritarianism.
Here are some facts:
Republicans have won the popular vote for the presidency only once since 1988, yet have governed the country for nearly half of that period.
The Democratic and Republican Parties each control 50 seats in the U.S. Senate, even though Democratic senators represent 40 million more voters than do Republican senators.
The three justices who most recently joined the Supreme Court were appointed by a president who did not win the popular vote—and were confirmed by Senate majorities that did not represent a majority of Americans.
This is how a civil war begins. We are very likely in the early throws of a new civil war, not with guns and pitchforks and swords, but with the destruction of democratic norms, institutions, and rules and laws. With what has been outlined in the newsletter above and in past newsletters, we are in the beginnings of a new civil war.
On Omicron, it appears that the antibody treatments—monoclonal antibody treatments (MAT)—seems to not work against this variant. Two of the three MATs don’t work with Omicron. The one treatment has become scarce, at this point. Hospitals are having a hard time getting supplies. Two of these antibody treatments are produced by Regeneron and Eli Lilly. The one treatment that works the best is made by GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology. Omicron is spreading fast. Very fast.
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was found in the wastewater filtered into the city’s water treatment facility. That means that people are excreting the virus at home, while the health department and hospitals are not able to record these sick people because, more than likely, these sick people are staying at home. If they are using public restrooms, there is no way of knowing how many people are roaming around spreading the variant.
Multilayered tightly fitted masks is required to protect one’s self, as well as keeping your eyes covered with glasses. Loosely fitted masks allows the virus to be pushed out the sides of those masks. Here is a link to a number of recommended masks.