us: left govt, high inflation
uk: right govt, high inflation
germany: centrist govt, high inflation
italy: everyone in govt, high inflation
wild guess it’s not the govt
Did coronavirus come from China?
Yes.
Did it expand globally because the Chinese govt covered it up for a month?
Yes.
Does China produce most of US medical supply chain?
Yes.
Is it wise to antagonize China in the middle of this crisis?
Are you fucking kidding me.
reuters: korea’s top automaker hyundai planning to sever ties with some suppliers after finding exploitative child labor in its supply chain..
..in alabama
stunning video coming out of iran
in mahsa amini’s hometown of saqez, thousands ignore govt road closures to walk to her gravesite
40 days after her death in the custody of iran’s morality police
NORWAY
Happiest country
#1
(US
#14
)
Most gender equality
#2
(US
#49
) damn you, Iceland
Most political freedom
#1
(US
#45
)
Most press freedom
#1
(US
#43
)
Most prosperous
#1
(US
#18
)
People there must be clamoring to come to America.
There’s plenty of competition, but most ineffective world leader responding to coronavirus right now goes to Brazil President Bolsonaro.
This weekend he’s blasting governors taking lockdown measures. Will seriously damage his mandate.
female university students in iran wave their headscarves in the air shouting ‘freedom, freedom, freedom!’
this genie is never going back in the bottle..
You don’t need an authoritarian state to fight coronavirus effectively.
Germany, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are doing very well.
You need a government that prioritizes science and expertise. And a population that considers their authority legitimate.
Past five House Speakers:
Newt Gingrich – resigned
Dennis Hastert – resigned then imprisoned
John Boehner – resigned
Paul Ryan – resigned
Nancy Pelosi – reclaims Speaker role after 8 years
the level of disinformation on israel-hamas war being algorithmically promoted on twitter is unlike anything i’ve ever been exposed to in my career as a political scientist.
Brazil: Two health ministers gone in less than a month.
In a pandemic.
President Bolsonaro far and away the most incompetent leader of a democracy in his coronavirus response.
“She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.” – Kurt Vonnegut
i see no way putin can emerge from this war in anything but a radically worse position—politically, economically, and strategically—than he was in before he decided to invade.
and every day that passes it’s getting worse for him.
No need to be afraid of Covid!
As long as you have...
1 taxpayer-funded helicopter
10 dedicated hospital doctors
3 doses remdesivir
2 rounds of oxygen
multiple steroid doses
experimental antibody cocktail
chest X-rays
24/7 monitoring