herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org

"Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them."
— Leo Rosten
#Quote #QuoteOfTheDay

The public response to COVID has been climate change in fast forward. We're now in the "no one hurricane can be attributed" phase.
#COVIDIsNotOver #BringBackMasks

Just to be clear:

“Sinema’s move away from the Democratic Party is unlikely to change the power balance in the next Senate. Democrats will have a narrow 51-49 majority that includes two independents who caucus with them: Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine…She did note, however, that she expects to keep her committee assignments – a signal that she doesn’t plan to upend the Senate composition, since Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer controls committee rosters for Democrats.”

However, in the interview, she claims that Arizonans sent her to DC to be an "independent" voice, but surely many or even most of her voters voted for her to be a Democrat, which is the party she represented when she asked for votes.

From the Green Party to Democrats to Independent. Does she believe in anything besides her own ambitions?

Beware of people like this whether politics or personal.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/kyrsten-sinema-leaves-democratic-party/index.html

Kyrsten Sinema single-handedly stopped Democrats from ending a tax break for hedge-fund managers and private equity executives.

Meanwhile, she received ~$1 million in donations from Wall Street.

Don’t be fooled: Sinema isn't “independent.” She's beholden to her donors.

Part of the scam is to define basic bedrock standards of decency as "left" & then, lo, you find "left bias" everywhere you look.

But that's not bias, fellas. That's just people trying to live in a society together.

Just a PSA for anyone who cares that CHEO, Eastern Ontario’s Children Hospital has called in the Red Cross to help with DISASTER RELIEF. Meanwhile here is Ontario’s Minister of Health Sylvia Jones walking in a Christmas Parade yesterday. I’m so angry. The Ontario Government needs to be charged with neglect. This is criminal.

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/cheo-calls-in-red-cross-as-it-deals-with-surge-in-respiratory-patients-1.6179918

#OnHealth #OnPoli #COVID #CdnPoli #healthcare

Putin, lying: “You can’t believe anybody but me.”

Before you decide that #PaulWhelan should have been freed before #BrittneyGriner because he was a Marine - at last look at the Navy's court record in this link below

Whelan was *courtmartialed* for attempted larceny, dereliction of duty, among other things.

To be clear, I am all for getting any American, including Whelan, unjustly jailed out of the ПИЗДЕЦ (Google it) terrorist/Fascist state that# Russia has become. We should be celebrating a small victory in getting at least Griner home.

Now let the Biden Administration continue working to get Whelan and others home, because the Trump Administration did nothing when Whelan was jailed in Russia.

https://www.jag.navy.mil/courts/documents/archive/2008/WHELAN,%20P.N.%20200800152%20PCE.pdf

#Covid

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say this has gotten so bad that the goal must be to reduce the cost of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and pensions.

Instead I will simply say: this is terribly immoral. Please mask in public spaces!

“In April, 79 percent of American deaths were among those 65 and older. In November, 90 percent.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/opinion/environment/covid-19-pandemic-elderly-deaths.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare