George Floyd should've been Time's Person of the Year.

Biden/Harris are responsible for removing the most dangerous and evil president in history. Yet, somehow that is not good enough for Charles. We liberals are never satisfied.

Props for addressing the obscure Derek Owusu's absurd remarks. You can't overrate Bleak House.

They gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize merely for not being George Bush. Person of the Year is thing gruel by comparison. Doesn't even come with a cash prize.

According to Krugman, the real poison pill was munchkin's proposal to exchange expanded unemployment benefits for a $600 one-time check. Once again the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps party is screwing over disadvantaged people because they think the economy will be saved if people buy a few more TVs.

@2
I felt the same way- initially.
But I can't blame Time for making the bland choice. We will be seeing the depths of Trump corruption for years and years. The Democrats wisely -amazingly - didn't shoot themselves in the foot.

Careful with your headlines - the figure is 10% test positivity not "infection rate". The percentage of people in Seattle with an active case of covid is probably somewhere from 0.5% (fraction of population with positive tests in the past two weeks) to 2.5% max (based on worst-case estimates early in the pandemic of testing missing 4/5 cases.

It appears one of the main hurdles in getting covid relief through the Senate is business liability protections. The dems won't budge on that. Seems that liability protection is a worthy accommodation the democrats should accept to move forward and end the suffering.

@11 This country has made the decision (a foolish one in my opinion) to rely on the courts, rather than regulation, to protect the weak from the strong. If you deny people even that, they are at the mercy of their employers and from that quarter, no mercy will be forthcoming. A dear price for an extra 300 bucks, or whatever it is.

Easy for you to bargain it away, raindrop, when you are in no danger of being forced to stand cheek to jowl in a chicken processing plant someplace. And as far as it goes, couldn't we say that the sticking point is aid to municipalities? McConnell isn't budging on that. Maybe the Dems would move on the liability in exchange.

As a specialist enlisted in Antifa I was concerned they Biden’s win would negatively impact my finances. Glad there are other billionaires willing to pay me to harass elected Georgia republicans. Big thanks to the GOP for putting their home address and family pictures online. Glad to be back at work.

I'd imagine Biden & Harris as POTY was just meant to serve as a sly proxy for every human being on the planet not named Donald J Trump, the fat guy who currently lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington DC (since there are probably a couple otherwise decent people out there who coincidentally bear that now horrifically tarnished name.)

The liability protection McConnell wants absolutely should NOT in any way be accepted by the Democrats (or if any of the Rebuplicans had a a soul, any of them either). Why should corporations be allowed to force people to work, get sick, and die with no liability? Supporting that is supporting forced labor and murder. Period. Fuck anyone and everyone who thinks this is acceptable. And while McConnell is insisting that corporations be given liability protection the package to help actual PEOPLE has disappeared. No unemployment. No direct payments. Nothing. So this is just more pork for the already rich, plus the benefit of being allowed to force people to work, get sick, and die. FUCK THAT NOISE. The House passed a 2.2 trillion dollar plan in MAY. It's now down to $900 billion with nothing for the PEOPLE. And the people are going to lose their unemployment, their eviction protection, and STILL have no jobs at the end of the year. And to put a cherry on top of their shit sundae? The GOP is already declaring that they will not do one damn thing for Biden (which means they intend to keep up their business as usual, doing nothing but harm). And while they're at it they've got over 100 congressional reps who are supporting the sedition and treason and 17 governors and AGs doing the same.

But blaming the Democrats for not giving in is what everyone always does and then when they do give in they are blamed for betraying the people.

I want to burn this country and everyone in it to the ground.

COVID-19’s Looming Eviction Crisis Will Devastate Women
The pandemic has only magnified systemic sexism and racism in housing, possibly leaving millions of women and their families homeless come January.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-19-eviction-crisis-women_n_5fca8af3c5b626e08a29de11

@17
Not just Tyson removing protections for workers, but management betting on how many workers will get sick!
Nothing says free enterprise like the top management letting the peons suffer and die for the cause of the 4th Reich!

@21
The GOP and Trump are doing a pretty good job of burning everything down to the ground already.

Dylann Roof is white, Brandon Bernard is black. That much is true.

Both were sentenced to death in federal court. (Federal offenses aside, both committed their crimes in execution-happy state jurisdictions.)

Bernard spent over 20 years on death row. Roof has been on death row a little less than 4 years.

As for the Burger King make-believe, see
https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/06/22/dylann-roof-burger-king/

True outrages are true enough, and outrageous enough, without narrative embellishment.

@11 -- Do you assert that employers should get a free pass for knowing fraud and deliberate coercion resulting in employee fatality? That this would be a "reasonable accommodation"?

Doesn't sound very libertarian of you.

@26: No

The liability exclusion is being traded for state funding. McConnell said he’d drop liability if state funding was dropped.

The issue here is the Republicans are ruthless and the Dems are weak. They overplayed an already weak hand. After the election there was no more leverage. After the defense and continuing funding resolutions were passed there is only one more card to play.

Shutting the government down until a minimal amount of relief is passed is the card to play but the Dems are too weak and don’t have the stomach for it. The Republicans are more than willing to tank the economy so they can hang it on the Biden administration and gain in 22 and 24.

This here probably represents the best two minutes I've spent in months. Enjoy.

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1337517668497231876

Biden and Harris beat Trump. That is, by far, the best thing to happen this year in America, if not the world. Even if Sanders or Warren (who I voted for) were elected, it isn't clear whether they would have made any difference. Unless they get the Senate, it won't. Just as Biden was the best choice for becoming president, he is likely the best choice as the president-elect to convince Georgians that a Democratic Senate is OK, if not ideal. All politics aside, we elect a president, not a king, or even a prime minister. There is likely very little practical difference between a president Biden and a president Warren or Sanders.

As far as high speed rail is concerned, it depends on how fast. If you mean Japanese/French style high speed rail, it is a bad idea. We have nowhere near the density or demand to justify that kind of cost. It is quite possible it would be worse for the environment. It requires lots of concrete, which increases global warming. Really fast trains use more energy than pretty-fast trains. If we funded the improvements necessary to get speeds similar to that on the East Coast (110 MPH) it wouldn't require nearly as much money (or emit as much carbon). It has already been studied, and unlike super high speed rail, it really is "shovel ready" (https://www.aawa.us/site/assets/files/7322/2006_washington_state_long-range_plan_for_amtrak_cascades.pdf). There is a sweet spot when it comes to technology and situation, and in the case of the Northwest, it is trains around 110 MPH. https://seattletransitblog.com/2018/01/09/high-speed-rail-study-predicts-low-ridership/

What happened?
Did that High Speed Rail zombie-project come back again?

The estimated number of trips between Seattle and PDX is estimated around half-a-million per year, tops
Between Seattle and Vancouver it's even less.
The estimated number of trips on the Japanese bullet train, which after all is what makes this a viable infrastructure project, is around 350 million per year.

Who's going to pay for a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project for which there is so little demand?

@36: A yesteryear wet dream that never dies.

@37
as your projections
increase in accuracy
so shall you prosper
--Confucius

Fake 'prez "Trump is over here tweeting about how his pandemic is the best ever." --CM

and the Great trumpf Depression will be prolly the best one ever too.

he's certainly taught Malania how to be Best
and see how that shit just trickles on down?