I can guarantee that if the infection and death rates were exploding in the suburbs of Houston, Dallas, or Austin the Republicans would have a very different view.
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The most important thing is for those who might get severe disease to be vaccinated, to keep them out of hospitals. Let it run amongst the rest of the anti vaxxing people, skeptics, and âwill of godâ people of which there are many. Herd immunity will be reached because the younger people do not care, so it will spread via them and COVID will be minimised over time.
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Texas gonna Texas.
Yeah my auntâs not a happy camper.
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Is this still true? Didnât Republicans out-perform Democrats for people with high-school education or less in the last two elections?
To be more specific, the working class folks being impacted the most are African Americans and Hispanics.
White Blue Collar (HS or less Ed)
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Kelly Loeffler Just Lost Her WNBA Team to a Player She Refused to Meet
A massive story just went down in Atlanta, if we take the time to acknowledge it.
By Dave ZirinTwitter
Today 4:17 pm
Kelly Loeffler speaks at a campaign rally as then-President Donald Trump looks on. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
By any measure, it should be the biggest story in sports: a franchise owner runs a racist Senate campaign, throwing their own Black players under the bus in the process. Meanwhile, one of those players takes the year off from playing ball to dedicate themselves to social justice concerns. That player asks to meet with the aforementioned franchise owner to discuss those concerns and is denied. The franchise owner refuses to meet and respectfully engage with someone who disagrees with them for political reasons. After the franchise owner faceplants their election campaign, ending in ignominious defeat, the players, the union, fans, and eventually even the league pressures them to sell the club.
That in and of itself would be a hell of a story. But this one goes to the next level: the aforementioned player joins an ownership group and buys the team. Itâs positively cinematic. But this story isnât getting the media attention it should be. Thatâs because it took place in the WNBA. Sexism is a hell of a drug and itâs a damn shame because this is a story for the ages.
The now-former franchise owner is of course Trumpist lickspittle Kelly Loeffler, who lost her bid for Georgiaâs senate seat to Reverend Raphael Warnock. The team is the Atlanta Dream. The player is two-time WNBA champ Renee Montgomery. And this is truly news to celebrate.
I reached out to Montgomery and this is what she said: âI am excited to be able to continue my basketball career as the first former WNBA player to become a team owner and member of the leadership team for the Dream. My moments in Atlanta are continuing to build momentum in the community and I look forward to developing relationships that are mutually beneficial to both Atlanta and the Dream.â
It is not known how much of a stake Montgomery is going to have in the team; the majority owner is a real estate investor named Larry Gottesdiener from Newton, Massachusetts. But the decision making will fall to Montgomery â officially the teamâs VP â and Suzanne Abair, a real estate exec who works with Gottesdiener.
Montgomery says her inspiration to try and be a part of purchasing the team came from LeBron James himself, who tweeted that he might be interested in being part of a group to wrest the team from Loeffler. That, and LeBronâs âmore than a voteâ campaign pushed Montgomery in this direction. After the purchase, James tweeted congratulations, writing, âproud of this Queen. This is everything we are about! #Morethananathlete.â But this moment is not about LeBron. Itâs about Renee Montgomery, and the slogan that guides her work: âmoments equal momentum.â
The purchase of the Dream fulfills the desire across the WNBA community to get Loeffler away from the league. Loeffler ran her campaign using not so much a racist dog-whistle as a racist foghorn, and the focus of her ire was the Black Lives Matter movement in general, and her own players in particular. Using them as racist scapegoats for âriotersâ in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, was more than the WNBA-world could stand. They supported Warnock when he had 9% in the polls and now they look like prophets. Since her epic failure, Loefflerâs sale of the team was a foregone conclusion.
The move by Montgomery creates a hell of a line in the sand across the sports spectrum. Once again, the WNBA is ahead of the game politically. They were when embracing the Black Lives Matter movement and they are again, by forcing out a bigoted franchise owner and replacing them with a playerâs voice. Donald Sterling was forced to sell his stake of the NBAâs Los Angeles Clippers in 2014 after racist recordings surfaced, but he was bought out by tech billionaire Steve Ballmer. Given the repellence of Sterling, that wasnât exactly âold boss, same as the new boss,â but it didnât solve a fundamental problem across the sports world: the near total absence of Black franchise ownership â let alone Black women in positions of ownership. Now franchise owners know that their longstanding practice of taking public funds, while bankrolling this countryâs right-wing political apparatus, will be under scrutiny and when they cross that line â as Loeffler gleefully did â from paying for racist dog whistles to undertaking in the practice themselves â players will not be silent.
Renee Montgomery having a minority stake is a step in the right direction. Of course, she is now moving to the other side of the desk. Given Montgomeryâs roots not only as a player but as an activist, people are going to keep a close eye on what she does from her newfound perch.
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Iâm no Cuomo fan but is it really at the point where there are heightened calls to resign your post due to allegations such as these?
Obviously not ideal and not great but is this worthy of being pressured into resigning as Governor of New York? Really?!
Heâs obviously said he wonât be resigning but the pressure is being ramped up for him to on these three accounts.
Hid the death toll in nursing home. Basically triaged the elderly and kept the sick out of hospitals to leave capacity for younger people. In hindsight not required.
Shortly after he gets these sexual harassment allegations.
Fair to say this will be his last term. Probably should be.
Republicans have done and survived far worse. Doesnât mean Dems should let this pass.
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Curious. Trump went to hospital with COVID, âmiraculously recoveredâ in 4-5 days.
Then at the first opportunity in January, he secretly has a COVID vaccination.
So, I understood that when a person gets COVID, their body makes antibodies, which persist for months. HIs treatment was said to be monoclonal antibodies.
So it makes sense that if the monoclonal antibodies work before the body produces its own antibodies, it may prevent full development of innate antibodies and thus a vaccination is required to stimulate the body to produce its own.
If thats not the case, there are serious questionmarks over the reality of the original Trump COVID diagnosis
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It needs to be verified, but if the allegations are credible then yes he should go.
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Agreed. It is unacceptable behavior. Preying on women for gratification while wielding power.
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Are we ready for the Trump coup Rev2.
Cuomo did a good job during the first wave in NY. He is finished now.
Rudy did a good job in the aftermath of 911, He is finished now.
Politicians can burn political capital very very fast, especially when women are involved.
Except for the Donald ⌠he could grab womens â â â â â â â in broad daylight on 5th avenue and they would still elect him
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Agree that itâs a silly move for someone in a position of power (or anyone really) but is the threshold for losing your job (or at least being pressured into doing so) really at that level now?
Kissing someone on the cheek, some dirty talk and kissing someone on the lips?
Iâm all about consent and think we are moving in the right direction around these things but jeepers, that really is on the very mild end of misdemeanours to warrant losing your job.
Is there any insult more derogatory, yet satisfying to use to describe someone than âlickspittleâ?
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That would make sense.
Undermine the existing recommendations for treatment, and at the same time come across as some sort of Republican superhero
âAnti-covid Manâ
Fits the narrative of the serial liar bending the âtruthâ once again for his own ego and advancement.
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