I think what's senseless is the left's refusal to put their blood feud with trump on hold long enough to get through this crisis- the media especially. This whole shit-show is already splitting along party lines. I don't get it. Work together? Fuck that. Apparently some people would rather just condemn themselves and everyone else to getting sick instead of putting their boiling kettle of unnecessary rage on the back burner for a hot second.
If you're saying you think hate for Trump is making the crisis worse (over and above Trump doing things to make the crisis worse and receiving merited criticism about it), or that the left's "blood feud" with Trump makes them more uncooperative than the right, you're going to have to be more specific. (eta: Add specifics and I might even agree with you on some points. But as an umbrella statement it serves to discredit valid opposition /eta).
In regards to the relief and stimulus package, Dems haven't agreed to McConnell's proposal because it isn't acceptable.
eta: Besides the usual 'GOP wants to bail out corporations, Dems want relief to go directly to people' differences, Heather Cox Richardson (political historian) sums up the biggest issue here:
A big sticking point is a $500 billion provision that would permit Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to dole out loans to corporations with very little oversight. The companies that took such loans would remain secret for six months after they tapped into the money. Republicans argue that this secrecy would keep the stock of such companies from dropping as people realized their financial straits. Democrats are leery of such secrecy—what would stop Mnuchin from handing out government largesse to Trump’s key supporters… or even to the president himself, whose hotels have been hard-hit by the pandemic? (Trump refused on Sunday to promise he would not take any federal aid.) “The American people don’t want another corporate bailout,†Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown said. “They don’t want a bailout for Wall Street. They don’t want a bailout for the airlines. They want money. If we’re going to do a relief package, the money needs to go in the pockets of workers.â€
When asked about the provision allowing the Treasury to dole out this money without oversight, Trump said: “Look, I’ll be the oversight. I’ll be the oversight.â€
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Meanwhile, Democrats in the House of Representatives have written their own massive stimulus bill. Covering more than 1400 pages, its summary reads like a campaign document, laying out Democratic priorities in contrast to those enumerated in the Senate coronavirus bill. It directs more than $2.5 trillion to health care, individuals, small businesses, unemployment compensation, food security, state and local governments, schools, and mail-in voting in the 2020 election.
More eta: Mods, this might be a good time to create "coronavirus: political edition!" Sorry it didn't occur to me before posting it in this thread.
local churches here have been putting sermons online. come on now people.
