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Beau is certainly correct about the trucking industry. I don’t share his optimism that our infrastructure will change. Inertia and regression are powerful. Might be a couple years, but we’ll just all revert back to the mean. Our systems will demand their tribute and won’t be changed until they collapse.

 

My sister in law is a trumper (other members also but since trump we don't talk politics, and it works) so when she puts up a meme or something pro trump I just go into that post and hide all from the original poster. If she posts from that source again, I don't see it.

 

Same here. It takes a lot of effort to share a stupid political meme on Instagram so you see less of it. Where as on Facebook, shared memes are the only way some people communicate. Also, since Instagram is photo based you have less drama posts of “people are so stupid,” “can this day get any worse,” “how do I open a can of tuna” crap from people.

 

I knew he was a blowhard, liar etc. - so yeah, I figured all that rhetoric on the campaign trail was just that - and I'm not letting him off the hook at all - but he has people around him who are very sick people, who view the government as something to plunder for their own means and they've done a lot of damage either by incompetence, indifference or willfully because they have the keys to the car and "want to see what these this thing can do." Listened to a Chris Hayes Why is this Happening podcast yesterday and it is an extremely difficult listen - mainly because it was recorded before coronavirus blew up.

 

Due respect to the relevant parties, but we've been writing about Trump for nearly fifty years.

If voters - and worse still, journalists like Clyde Haberman - didn't know who this malignant dunce was before election day, we deserve everything we're about to get.

 

Priorities.

Dr. Anthony Fauci: I Don’t Want to ‘Embarrass’ Trump

 

The Republican Senate bailout bill has a $150 billion bailout fund run totally at the discretion of Mnuchin. In other words, it's a slush fund for the Trump campaign. Democrats need to take a lesson from Mitch. No cooperation. Nobody's gonna blame them if the economy goes totally tits up.

 

They’re Republicans. They’ll get away with it.

 

There are certain people within the pipeline - such as legislators and people within Wall Street - who should have all of their trades and financial transactions made public as they happen. They buy a stock, they sell a stock - you can find it on a website or get a Google alert. The other option is a 30-day delay in any transaction - you like what company is doing? You can put in an order and it will go through in 30 days. You want to get out of a stock? The same deal. These positions are already well paid and they require public trust.

 

The list of laws from which Congress as an institution and Congresspeople as individuals are exempt is easily 1/4 of the US Code.

 

Biden will inherit a Great Recession and no money to spend. As was pointed out, only took them four years instead of eight.