Cornyn is awful. When the Texas lawsuit was still active and about to go to the SC, he was openly dismissive of it. He could've kept his cake hole shut, but he decided to publicly undermine it instead.
Non-Texans should also be calling. Just be prepared to give a Texas zip code if they ask for one.
It's remarkable. Our DMVs are infamously slow and understaffed, our local governments are frequently unable to keep up with basics like pothole maintenance, and our VA healthcare system has been a disaster for the longest time.
But when it comes to actually getting the money that is supposed to fund all of those things? The government is brutally efficient. The IRS may be the one government agency that is always firing on all cylinders.
I believe I've found the number for his PR guy, Michael O'Brian. Maybe consider giving him a call? Ask him if Dave would care to elaborate on his tweet.
212-620-3161
Edit: Lol that number isn't even in service. Luckily, we have the number for his Manager, Tim Sarkes, and this number is working. Say hello.
310-205-5123
I have more downtime at my job than I would care to admit (virus or no virus), and I don't work in a critical industry, but even I don't have enough time to gather a dozen idle coworkers and put together some kind of stupid dance video.
Wait, here's an idea: compile these dance videos along with footage of politicians breaking their own orders. Intersperse footage of people lamenting the "overwhelmed hospitals", and overlay the dance videos with statistics showing how things like unemployment, depression, loneliness among the elderly, and substance abuse have skyrocketed. Continue by overlaying articles that discuss how people can't attend funerals for family members and are restricted from going to church.
If they have tons of free time, then instead of making another lol epic tik tok dance compilation 2020 [must watch] 😂, maybe they should make a video of themselves carefully explaining to the thousands of mask Karens that no, hospitals are not overflowing with corona corpses, and yes, Gavin "French Laundry" Newsom is a hypocritical piece of trash.
These vapid dance videos don't invite admiration, they invite disgust.
I'm not spinning anything. While Germany had given some consideration to invading or bombing us, they ultimately couldn't reach us in the same way that they could reach Paris or Warsaw, in part because their Navy had no chance against us. Now, had the UK and France surrendered, had the US been the last man standing against the Axis, then maybe Germany would have tried harder to neutralize us, assuming that they weren't also fighting in the Russian meat grinder. More likely, Japan would've tried to invade our mainland or forced us to capitulate, but that's all Monday morning officer speculation.
The point is that when you were a kid living in the States during WW2, you didn't have to worry about artillery pounding your neighborhood into dust, you didn't have to worry about nightly air raids (unless you lived in Hawaii I suppose), and you didn't have to worry about columns of hostile soldiers marching down your street. The sacrifices made were economic (e.g. rationing) and the conflict was more 'distant' and 'abstract' than it was for British children, because it wasn't on our doorstep. The fear that Hitler could conquer the world was sufficiently dashed after the Germans failed on the Eastern front and failed to completely knock the UK out of the fight.
It also helps that the message of the day was "Buy war bonds! We can do it! Let's go kick some Kraut ass!"
Today the message is "Shut up, do as your told, shut down your business, and don't ask why your governor is dinning out right now. Anyone could be sick. Report your neighbor for not wearing a stupid mask." The former message is Pro-US, the latter message is Pro-Fear.
When the GIs returned home (alive or deceased), the children saw the cost of war, but they also saw a prolonged period of relative peace and prosperity, which in many ways was made possible by the tough, duty-driven men who returned. Sure, the boomers largely squandered that period of peace and we started to see commies worm their way into academia, but now I'm getting off topic.
Children are going to be deeply damaged by what's happening now. I'm not telling you that they're already lost, I'm telling you that our current trajectory of pervasive paranoia is terrible, and if we want to reverse that damage, we need to start yesterday.
Well, that would depend on where you lived.
You're a kid in Poland? Your home gets turned into a pile of rubble.
You're a kid in Germany? You are brow-beaten with poisonous political propaganda, and then your home gets turned into a pile of rubble.
You're a kid in the US? You have an entire generation of tough, duty-driven men to look up to, and your home doesn't get turned into a pile of rubble.
Even if this is a Christmas party, many businesses have been forced to cancel their parties because of the CCP virus. You would think that hospitals, which are some of the most important places during deadly pandemics would be among the first to eschew frivolous parties.
What this shows is that hospitals are not overflowing with covid patients and it shows a serious lack of social distancing. Both of these talking points have been drilled into our heads so hard for so long that the medical community wants them to replace current Burr Hole procedures.
So even in cases where nurses aren't wasting much time, it shows a severe disconnect between what we're being told, and what is going on.
I'm blessed to still have a job right now, but if I had been forced into unemployment or I lost my business because of the Commie Cough and I had to see these "overflowing hospitals", I can't imagine how furious I would be.
The only way this makes sense is if she's primary-ing Rubio or if she runs for governor if DeSantis becomes president in 2024.
Even so, merely having the Trump name doesn't make you a good or viable candidate. What are her policy views anyway?
"Everybody's unhappy"
Oh if only that were true. No, there are plenty of people who are perfectly content with the current situation. Beyond the inescapable "DAILY COVID DEATH COUNT" meticulously calculated and enthusiastically trumpeted by the media as an indictment of the current administration (and literally no other parties), there are legions of people who see nothing inadvisable about our current course.
They're all over Twitter and Facebook. Often their profile picture is of themselves in a stupid mask, staring solemnly at the camera lens as some kind of finger-wag against everyone else. Their usernames and bios are plastered with mask emojis or hashtags. When pressed for specifics on how the virus should have been handled by the evil Trump administration, they default to tiresome non-specifics like "we should listen to the experts", which conveniently doesn't require them to plant their flag on any actual policy proposal or solution.
They lose their minds upon hearing any suggestion that schoolchildren are poorly served by "Zoom classes", any suggestion that our country's social or psychological health are damaged by the paranoia, or any suggestion that forced lockdowns and business closures will have grave economic consequences. They don't care, because any government-declared pretext of "public health" is all it takes for them to completely shut off their brains (assuming that their diet of Franzia and late night TV "comedian" talk shows didn't already take care of that).
If Fauci stumbled half-drunk in front of a camera tomorrow and declared that the best way to ward off the CCP Virus was to duct-tape live gerbils to your face, those buffoons would be speeding towards the nearest pet stores with their checkbooks.
It's embarrassing that this guy has millions of followers. He spouts these kinds of insufferable tweets all the time. Not just during Christmas, but during other holidays and events. He has to constantly remind people how super-smart he is, and apparently the best way to do that is by reminding us that New Years Day has no astronomical significance.
Neil must have been that one obnoxious kid that began most of his sentences with "Well, technically..." and an adjustment of his glasses.
If sending out checks to encourage spending is good policy, then we may as well be sending out $500,000 checks every week so that everyone can buy a new home and a new yacht.
Even when you set aside the long term economic side effects of constantly printing and passing out money, a government check is addressing the symptom and not the disease. The problem isn't really that people are averse to spending per se (I'm sure that Amazon and any business with an online presence or delivery service is making money hand over fist), it's that consumers who still have disposable income are not necessarily able (i.e. allowed) to spend what they have at places that they want.
Insofar as people are averse to spending, that's almost entirely due to the personal financial crunch of having their income either partially or completely choked off... because of the government's actions.
And besides, whether they're $600, $2,000, or $500,000, the money in those checks were theirs to begin with, not Uncle Sam's.
In order for the "no evidence!!" claim to hold true, we have to believe that hundreds of private citizen whistleblowers across multiple states intentionally lied under oath about what they experienced. What incentive do they have to lie under oath? They have a lot to lose and individual testimony is a longshot for any kind of gain.
We can provide a long list of court cases prior to the election that were designed to facilitate mail-in ballot fraud or otherwise complicate the verification process. We have months worth of footage of Democrats setting the table for the post-election chaos, constantly badgering Trump and his circle if they would "accept a peaceful transition of power", knowing full well that the game was rigged from the start. We have the pre-election setting of the stage, we have the screwy election night "counting pauses", and we have the post-election refusals to investigate.
But dismissing the sworn testimonies of private citizens with little chance of personal gain is tantamount to the "Concave Hollow Earth" conspiracy theorists who have to concoct ever-more elaborate theories to explain how so many people could be "in on the cover up". The real "conspiracy theorists" are those that have convinced themselves that hundreds of random private citizens are nothing more than paid liars.
Has Mittens complained about the lack of money going to Pakistan yet?