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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, May 8, 2020

Ice Water Is For Everyone Who Is Thirsty

Senator John "Not That One" Kennedy (Asshole- LA) has decided to oppose more stimulus money because, and I quote, "People in hell want ice water, too."

It is fashionable among the Severely Online, the Cognoscenti and Rose Twitter to talk about how Biden being "not Trump" isn't enough to win in November. Here's Aaron Blake making a rather stupid point about the current polling, as if the polls might not move over the next six months.  If the GOP decides to take a hard line against bailing out states, localities and the public at large, then...yeah, all Biden has to do is say he would do the opposite. 

For context, Hoover didn't become unpopular until well after 1929.  His attack on the Bonus Army and his overall lack of concern for individual Americans is what sank him. If the GOP really wants to stop putting money into people's hands, we are headed for 25% unemployment.  Easily.

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