It is not arguable that Pfizer is unprosecutable for vaccine-related injuries (due to Brandon’s imprudent administration). Judges are kind of upset about this, as you might imagine.
Nope.
Under the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) PREP Act Declaration for COVID-19 (and
its amendments), COVID-19 vaccines are covered countermeasures within the PREP Act’s scope. As a
result, CICP—and not VICP—will apply to injuries resulting from COVID-19 vaccinations while the public health emergency persists and the Declaration remains in force. Compensation through CICP is generally somewhat more limited than through VICP.
The price tag of Manchin's version of BBB was $1.8 Trillion over 10 years. The price tag of Biden's proposal was $3.5T. The current Defense Appropriation for a single year is $770B. Which translates into $7.7 Trillion over ten years. Interestingly, the ten year figure BBB is less then the $2 T we spent in Afghanistan.
Let's also note that the appropriation to the Pentagon is both MORE then what Biden requested, and something the "masses of people" are not actually screaming for. Masses are screaming for solutions to their economic, educational and environmental problems - which BBB does.
Oh, and its not "other people's money." Its all our money. And if you want me to support spending at that level on Defense, I want you to support spending at that level on American citizens. Deal?
True enough - not unlike the President being responsible for gas price increases in an industry he doesn't control. Regular folks go there because both left, center and right leaning media tell them to go there, and no one of prominence tells them otherwise.
Given the MSM's unwillingness to ask probing questions that might ruin their ability to attend high society cocktail parties in DC, I have no doubt that there is some portion of this in play. Until additional information comes out, all I have to go on (as do you and Jaybird) is what is reported.
I'll try this one more time - Democrats allowed Manchin to rewrite the BBB in his liking, save for keeping the childcare tax credit. He got nearly everything he asked for. No Republican signed on to support his version. And then after getting all the power, all the press and all the deference he walked away from his own proposal. He walked away. Democrats didn't balk. They didn't tell him no. He walked away.
You can't negotiate that away, nor can you negotiate with Republicans who don't want to.
The individual elements of BBB poll between 60 and 70% support, with Republicans in that mix. Manchin was allowed by Democrats to whittle the $3 Trillion bill down to his favorite $1.8T except for the Childcare tax credit. He walked away, and had no Republican co-sponsors for his effort.
Republicans keep saying they don't want to negotiate and then don't negotiate. They have told us clearly who they are and what they will do. Over and Over. We believe them You don't seem to. Why is that?
Democrats have been pointing to the polls. Republicans have made no counter offers. They have just said no. Repeatedly. Since Obama was elected. Manchin tried to negotiate in a watered down voting bill but when it came time to vote on it, the republicans he had negotiated with balked and filibustered.
So since heaping shame isn't working, and we can't get bills passed because only Democrats have agency, what would you suggest? Just acquiesce in the slide to white male conservative authoritarianism?
She is already telling close friends she intends to run for President in 2024. Which tells me she doesn't intend to run for senate, and therefore isn't likely to be in a divisive primary.
Greenwald's "takedown" is now over a year old, and it hasn't aged well. To begin with all the major media outlets corrected the story to indicate Ofcr. Sicknick wasn't killed that day, nor did he die of sustained injuries. Testimony before the January 6th Committee has reinforced that there is tragic overlap, but no causation.
it it also true that Capitol and DC Metro Police were physically attacked with a variety of things, including video of what appears to be fire extinguisher being swung at an officer that was trying to keep the mob from entering the building.
January 6th is a real issue. Mobs storming the Capitol to try and prevent the peaceful transfer of power following a free and fair election is something we can't tolerate if we want to remain a democracy. Convicting the perpetrators (which is thankfully underway) is a must, as is the Committee's investigation of what politicians knew what when.
This isn't about ballots - its about requesting them. The county Houston is in has a 50% rejection rate for requests. The county Austin is in has over a 20% rejection rate. There are more. All because the rules about what can and cannot go on the requests has changed AND the county election officials are now barred from helping.
Texas is having an "unusual" high rate of vote by mail applications being returned, and county elections officials can't tell them how to fix problems without being potentially prosecuted under the new laws there. Add that to the shortened time frame to apply for an absentee ballot, and Texas already highly restrictive rules on who can get an absentee ballot, and yeah I think what's happening at the state level is already a problem.
The ECA situation only come into play if these sort of laws - and the hyperpartisan redistricting keep up. Take this stuff off the table, including the gerrymandering, through federal regulations, and what was attempted by Republicans last election would be harder to even plan.
That aside, I stand by my assertion that McConnell is just suing the ECA to run the table. He hasn't introduced legislation, he hasn't handed legislation to Schumer to introduce, and he didn't bring it up until the current bill looked like it would fail. Its not a serious offer.
I agree we could have hammered out an agreement in a somewhat functional senate. We haven't had one since early in the Obama years if not before because even the Republicans decided they didn't want to govern, they only wanted to obstruct. During their majority under Trump they didn't both to reach across the aisle, though Democrats did vote with them on a number of occasions.
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Nope.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10584
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Joe Rogan happily platforms people who lie regularly about COVID. That angers me. It should anger you.
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The price tag of Manchin's version of BBB was $1.8 Trillion over 10 years. The price tag of Biden's proposal was $3.5T. The current Defense Appropriation for a single year is $770B. Which translates into $7.7 Trillion over ten years. Interestingly, the ten year figure BBB is less then the $2 T we spent in Afghanistan.
Let's also note that the appropriation to the Pentagon is both MORE then what Biden requested, and something the "masses of people" are not actually screaming for. Masses are screaming for solutions to their economic, educational and environmental problems - which BBB does.
Oh, and its not "other people's money." Its all our money. And if you want me to support spending at that level on Defense, I want you to support spending at that level on American citizens. Deal?
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Care to expand on this? Because while I agree he loves taking on the left, he comes across as very much a rightie.
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True enough - not unlike the President being responsible for gas price increases in an industry he doesn't control. Regular folks go there because both left, center and right leaning media tell them to go there, and no one of prominence tells them otherwise.
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Given the MSM's unwillingness to ask probing questions that might ruin their ability to attend high society cocktail parties in DC, I have no doubt that there is some portion of this in play. Until additional information comes out, all I have to go on (as do you and Jaybird) is what is reported.
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I'll try this one more time - Democrats allowed Manchin to rewrite the BBB in his liking, save for keeping the childcare tax credit. He got nearly everything he asked for. No Republican signed on to support his version. And then after getting all the power, all the press and all the deference he walked away from his own proposal. He walked away. Democrats didn't balk. They didn't tell him no. He walked away.
You can't negotiate that away, nor can you negotiate with Republicans who don't want to.
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The individual elements of BBB poll between 60 and 70% support, with Republicans in that mix. Manchin was allowed by Democrats to whittle the $3 Trillion bill down to his favorite $1.8T except for the Childcare tax credit. He walked away, and had no Republican co-sponsors for his effort.
Republicans keep saying they don't want to negotiate and then don't negotiate. They have told us clearly who they are and what they will do. Over and Over. We believe them You don't seem to. Why is that?
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Thoughts and prayers.
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Democrats have been pointing to the polls. Republicans have made no counter offers. They have just said no. Repeatedly. Since Obama was elected. Manchin tried to negotiate in a watered down voting bill but when it came time to vote on it, the republicans he had negotiated with balked and filibustered.
How do you horse trade with that?
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Do tell.
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So since heaping shame isn't working, and we can't get bills passed because only Democrats have agency, what would you suggest? Just acquiesce in the slide to white male conservative authoritarianism?
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She is already telling close friends she intends to run for President in 2024. Which tells me she doesn't intend to run for senate, and therefore isn't likely to be in a divisive primary.
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Like most kids who came of age musically in the early 1980's, Meatloaf is an indelible part of my internal soundtrack.
I guess he's done doing anything for love.
RIP
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Greenwald's "takedown" is now over a year old, and it hasn't aged well. To begin with all the major media outlets corrected the story to indicate Ofcr. Sicknick wasn't killed that day, nor did he die of sustained injuries. Testimony before the January 6th Committee has reinforced that there is tragic overlap, but no causation.
it it also true that Capitol and DC Metro Police were physically attacked with a variety of things, including video of what appears to be fire extinguisher being swung at an officer that was trying to keep the mob from entering the building.
January 6th is a real issue. Mobs storming the Capitol to try and prevent the peaceful transfer of power following a free and fair election is something we can't tolerate if we want to remain a democracy. Convicting the perpetrators (which is thankfully underway) is a must, as is the Committee's investigation of what politicians knew what when.
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Then I sit corrected.
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Manchin kept telling them he was more movable then he ended up being. They essentially allowed him to rewrite the legislation and then he balked.
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Regardless of who its impacting, its still a bad thing. And just because it currently impacts republicans there's no reason it will remain such.
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I recall you saying that Trump was a shoe in for reelection as well . . . HOw'd that go for you?
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This isn't about ballots - its about requesting them. The county Houston is in has a 50% rejection rate for requests. The county Austin is in has over a 20% rejection rate. There are more. All because the rules about what can and cannot go on the requests has changed AND the county election officials are now barred from helping.
"
Texas is having an "unusual" high rate of vote by mail applications being returned, and county elections officials can't tell them how to fix problems without being potentially prosecuted under the new laws there. Add that to the shortened time frame to apply for an absentee ballot, and Texas already highly restrictive rules on who can get an absentee ballot, and yeah I think what's happening at the state level is already a problem.
The ECA situation only come into play if these sort of laws - and the hyperpartisan redistricting keep up. Take this stuff off the table, including the gerrymandering, through federal regulations, and what was attempted by Republicans last election would be harder to even plan.
That aside, I stand by my assertion that McConnell is just suing the ECA to run the table. He hasn't introduced legislation, he hasn't handed legislation to Schumer to introduce, and he didn't bring it up until the current bill looked like it would fail. Its not a serious offer.
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of course, you are at least being consistent with Mitch McConnell:
https://twitter.com/bse229/status/1484007688866566150?s=20
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No worries.
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I agree we could have hammered out an agreement in a somewhat functional senate. We haven't had one since early in the Obama years if not before because even the Republicans decided they didn't want to govern, they only wanted to obstruct. During their majority under Trump they didn't both to reach across the aisle, though Democrats did vote with them on a number of occasions.
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So we are all hamstrung by a mistake of omission? That's almost funny.