Stacey Abrams had some choice words for her former gubernatorial rival Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) following his decision to begin rolling back the state’s stay-at-home orders at the end of the month.
The Imbecile Enemy is everywhere too.
Well, if not on the ticket, then Abrams better be prominently posted in the Biden Administration.
I’d think she would want a 2.5 meter battle lance for that.
By the time this is over, Kemp will wish he had not cheated Stacey Abrams out of the Governor’s Mansion.
People who insist on only interacting-in-a-spirit-of-equality with their own homogeneous group can fall prey to overstating their own importance and overestimating the prevalence of their own cloistered opinions, outlooks and evaluations.
I hope she keeps talking to remind them what they missed. If she had won, this wouldn’t be on the table, and probably not even in the room.
I have to say, I am in Kemp’s corner here. Kill a lot of Georgians, turn the state into a hot spot (and note the worst areas in GA has NOT been Hotlanta, it has been rural areas… with little medical care since the hospitals went belly up due to the failure to take the Obamacare funding for Medicare expansion…
I for one am going to watch the GA numbers with an eager eye… Big outbreak, and GA is in play, and in an election where two GOP senators are on the ballot, and both might be dragged down by Kemp.
So you go Kempy, you go!
P.s. the data chart for GA: https://covidtracking.com/data/state/georgia#historical
Shows GA is the last state that ought to be re-opening it’s economy. WA, northern CA, yes. GA no…
I have been of the opinion (not a very original one, I admit) that Red State Govs are cooking the books, which is the last thing to do in a pandemic.
Opening CA or WA does not help Dear Leader, neither does opening MO or SD. Dear Leader needs the big red states opening, and that means GA, FL & TX.
Seasonal flu deaths will be through the roof…
Donnie says they’ll all go away by Xmas…
yes. This is the best short explanation of what is going on: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-mission-to-reopen-the-economy-is-his-hail-mary-chance-at-reelection/2020/04/20/7263fb1e-833c-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html
Rampell (who covers economic issues for the Post) has it exactly right.
My point is that a second round of infections, hot spots in FL, GA, TX (or WI) is a ticket to jail for Trump. GA is particularly fraught as there are two potentially in play senate seats up there as well.
This election is not about just getting rid of Don the Con, it is about putting his enablers and their political party on the scrap heap of history. Unfortunately a lot of people are going to die to make it happen, but did you really expect anything else from Trump? On the bright side, he has not gotten us into a nuclear war…
That’ll be the October surprise, nuking Iran to distract from Covid here.
Georgia’s economy reopens:
Florida is, but not including “seasonal residents” in there figures. There is also some issues arround the edges of “diagnosed cases” and non-hospital (nursing home) deaths.
But I think outside of FL - which is a clear case of fudging the books - that the system of reporting is too decentralized to be fudged very much. Retrospective analysis will show the numbers are too low and missed deaths, but I am not expecting a systematic - again outside of FL - fudging.
should have added “yet” 
The systemic fudging is coming from the top, through constraining the supply of tests and capacity of testing.
No tests mean lots of misses. At this point, it’s clearly deliberate, we totally plateaued on test volume a couple of weeks ago, and haven’t moved up since. And it’s the CDC pulling the strings here.
Just an FYI, he seems nice
While I understand the sentiment, this level of epidemiological comprehension matches the GOP’s.
They think it’ll only kill us; if we think it’ll only kill them, then we’re all Theodoric of York.
(Sorry if that comes across as a wet blanket. I’ll make some armpit-farting noises later on.)
Tx hasnt really opened anything but the state parks. Restaurants are still closed for dine in, but can operate for curbside pickup, retailers can do the same. So I wouldnt include TX at this point, all though we have some dumb asses and things could change.