From Rep. Madison Cawthorn's coke orgy fabulisms to the chaos in the NDGOP around Rick Becker's Senate campaign, we are seeing what happens when we reward spectacle over competence.
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Yeah, sorry. No one’s in the mood for COVID advice from a guy named Cuomo, particularly fans of DeSantis.
But this clip makes for an interesting pair with Fauci’s point in the last post about people “encroaching” on the “rights” of others by not masking up. Mandates are designed to prevent that encroachment in theory. But there are two kinds of mandates at this stage of the pandemic:
Precautionary mandates, e.g., requiring masks, capacity limits on businesses, and so on to limit transmission, and
vaccine mandates, requiring the unvaccinated to get their shots as a condition of employment. Having both types of mandates in place would feel like overkill: If most of the population is getting vaxxed to satisfy their boss, why encumber them with precautions too? They’ve already taken the ultimate precaution by getting immunized.
Donald Trump from Wisconsin Republican senate president
Chris Kapenga on Tuesday that the MSNBC host said amounted to “Stalinist groveling.”
Hayes outlined Trump’s strategy of attacking Republicans who haven’t backed election audits in their respective states. Last week the former president issued a missive declaring, “Wisconsin Republican leaders… are working hard to cover up election corruption… They are actively trying to prevent a Forensic Audit.”
Trump added that if Republican leaders in Wisconsin don’t authorize an audit, “I have little doubt that they will be primaried and quickly run out of office.”
In other words, Trump is threatening to endorse primary challenges to Republican lawmakers who won’t indulge his wholesale lunacy that the 2020 election was stolen.
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