Maternal Mortality Rates Aren’t That Bad If You Don’t Count Black People, Cassidy Argues

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.

Sure, Louisiana has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the country, BUT “about a third of our population is African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told Politico. “So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear.”


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1415913
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SF Examiner editorial board demands Pope remove archbishop who barred Pelosi from communion over abortion (msn.com)

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If you don’t count the Jews, the Roma, the homosexuals, the political opponents, and the civilians in captured territories, the Nazis hardly killed anyone, at all.

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When Repubs come knocking on my door there will be more questions on what they believe.
Cassidy not considering black women part of American public.
Trump backing Muslim Oz here in PA when Trump accused Obama, of being a Muslim firing up his base.
Having a difficult time figuring what Repubs stand for.

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So, when the Tesla catches fire the electrical system shut down defaults to locked doors and broils the occupants. What next? Maybe a Halon fire suppression system to extinguish the fire and occupants?

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Pro tip: Nothing. Beyond power that is.

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They stand for nothing except getting re-elected.

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And a great sigh of relief is felt across White Racist Murca as they realize that it’s not their kind that’s hurting. It’s that other, lesser or furriner kind. I mean why are they still here? Their work visas expired long ago and they should all be back in Africa, with their own kind, like the good WHITE lord intended, right? FreeDUMB! USA #1!

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Oh, they stand for other things, too. Like cocaine sex orgies, underage girls and boys, insurrections, coups, treason, genocide, global warming, coddling the rich, shooting immigrants, kissing up to murderers, etc. They have such diverse interests!

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Guns. Fossil fuels. Climate change. More guns. Death.

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Lots of folks call Musk a genius. Not so. He was in the right place at the right time when the Internet was moving into our lives. PayPal is no more genius than a credit card. It’s just an internet take on one.

What’s not genius is insulting the sector of America that is most likely to buy the over rated Tesla. The cars appeal to green conscious folks…and the GOP isn’t their home. His mistake, not original just ask Papa Johns, Chic fil A or Hobby Lobby has destroyed an enormous amount of wealth including his own. None of that had to be. It was an application of Musk’s genius that did it.

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You can be a genius and a horrible person, e.g. Leni Riefenstahl, Thomas Jefferson, Lee Atwater, Henry Ford, etc.

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They don’t stand for those things. The use them to reel in the rubes to get elected. Their real agenda is sustaining a tit for tat relationship with their donors. A relationship bought by the donors that keeps them in power. You can’t sell a pro 1% agenda to the rest of America so guns and Bibles are your go to.

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It strikes me that Tesla’s not informing its customers how to escape their burning cars is a sneaky but effective way of eliminating dissent that might tarnish Musk’s aura as a Visionary.

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Ouch!

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Yes. But you can’t be a genius and be a stupid person and stupid is the only adjective I can come up with for insulting those you need.

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Yes–and it’s not as though Tesla sprang fully formed from his head, as the Muskovites would have us believe. He just bought the company. Any of us (with a few billion to toss around) could have been the same kind of “genius” he is.

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I remember their saying how totally Republican a country this is if you just presto change-o take out California and New York, because look let’s face it there are places that aren’t Real America.

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“Come now, let’s not bicker and argue about 'oo killed 'oo…”

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