"but what could Ted Cruz possible have done, he only represents Texas in the Senate*
The difference between Republicans and Democrats, in one tweet.
Science: We shot a bullet on a 293 million mile path at where another planet would be in 6 months and used that to gently land a car sized robot from a rocket powered hover-crane.
Republicans: ‘Don’t listen to the science’
Republicans LOVE cancel culture, just ask the Dixie Chicks.
Heck, cancel culture is Bliblical. Shunning - Wikipedia
America sent generators and fuel down to Texas, but well… Texas
The grid is back up since mid yesterday. MX and AZ might need it since TX diverted NG.
Consider:
Ted Cruz takes his family to Mexico and it becomes an international incident in the minds of the American mainstream media propaganda arm of the DNC. They cannot cease reporting this incident over and over. They want to be certain everyone knows.
Andrew Cuomo kills thousands of seniors, then moves heaven and earth to cover up his misdeed, and that very same mainstream media all but ignores the entire matter.
This sort of BS is what passes for “journalism” in 2021 America.
Cuomo hid COVID-19 data. But it was worse than just a coverup.
You’ve heard the expression that the coverup is worse than the crime? Well, in the case of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), the opposite might be true.
Cuomo is under bipartisan fire after an aide admitted that his administration deliberately delayed releasing information showing the true extent of covid-19 deaths in New York nursing homes, out of fears, according to the aide, that the information “was going to be used against us.”
Stonewalling the Justice Department is bad enough, but Cuomo did something even worse: His administration provided inaccurate data to public health officials in real time, at the beginning of the crisis, when government scientists were desperately trying to figure out how the virus was spreading, who was most vulnerable and how to stop it. Instead of meeting its obligation to provide accurate information, the Cuomo administration provided incomplete data about nursing home deaths apparently because he feared real data would hurt him politically. That is like providing false intelligence to battlefield commanders about the location of the enemy in a time of war.
On March 25, Cuomo’s health department ordered nursing homes to accept known or suspected covid-19 hospital patients, prohibiting facilities from requiring tests to see whether they were infectious. After a firestorm erupted, on May 3, his administration suddenly changed the way it reported nursing home covid deaths — releasing only the number of deaths that took place inside nursing homes, and not counting those who died after being taken to hospitals. According to a senior Justice Department official, the administration withheld data on private nursing home deaths in New York until the final days of the Trump administration. As a result, the federal government was given bad data about the spread of the pandemic in New York. An Associated Press investigation found that New York under-reported the number of hospital patients recovering from covid-19 who were sent to nursing homes by 40 percent. The real number was more than 9,000 — my mother among them. And the Cuomo administration reported only 8,500 nursing home deaths, when the real number was about 15,000 — an undercount of at least 43 percent.
This was more than just a coverup. It impeded our public health response. We now know that New York was the primary source of new infections across the United States. Genetic testing shows that the outbreak in New York was seeded by travelers from Europe, and that it was the New York variant — not the West Coast variant that arrived directly from China — that seeded the rest of the country. The New York Times reported last year that the New York variant was responsible for 70 percent of covid-19 cases in Texas, 78 percent of cases in Wisconsin, 80 percent in Alaska, 84 percent in Arizona and 100 percent in Louisiana. As Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health, told the Times, “New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country.”
So, understanding how the virus was spreading in New York was critical to stopping it nationwide. But Cuomo’s administration shared inaccurate data with health officials. And then when Justice Department investigators and state lawmakers began asking questions, New York delayed its answers. His administration “froze” (in the words of Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa) and withheld the real data. It was only a court order and the release of a report by the New York state attorney general that forced the governor to admit the true extent of the damage his policy did.
Meanwhile
As the above-outlined fraud was being perpetrated, Cuomo won an award for his strong and forceful daily presentations on TV. He was a national hero, and such a contrast with President Trump at that time. Of course nobody back then knew Cuomo was purposefully feeding Trump’s COVID-19 team bad data, impeding and harming their desperate efforts to get a handle on the virus.
You might notice that the heat he is taking is “bipartisan”
A Democrat screwed up, and Democrats are mad at him for it. Republicans can shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not a problem for Republicans.
Let’s check in with DeSantis in Florida, who had the person who reported the true numbers for Florida fired and arrested: DeSantis is now a 2024 Republican front-runner.
We shall see. There is some criticism now from the Democrat side. BUT:
Where was all this Democrat truth telling LAST YEAR!!
Oh, sure, some Democrat criticism has emerged very recently. Big whoop.
Did you read my post? Cuomo’s damage was perpetrated one year ago. It protected his image and contributed unfairly to making Trump, and his entire COVID-19 team, look bad.
Your hero Cuomo scored a big political win at the expense of thousands of American lives, not all in NY State. And considering the magnitude of the outrage he perpetrated, he continues to skate even now. He is still in office, after all. He belongs in jail.
Your defense is 'DeSantis was exposed first"
ummm, ok.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with DeSantis. Period.
You very clearly did not take the time to read my lengthy post, above. All is explained there. DeSantis is not mentioned. This is about Cuomo, and the blame is on Cuomo. Florida was never a gateway for the virus.
Texas officials warn of capitalism.
It’s about DeSantis because he was doing exactly the same shenanigans, but also firing and arresting people for, and the only person Republicans are mad with is Cuomo, while they make DeSantis a 2024 front-runner.
It’s hypocrisy.
I wonder how many margaritas in Cancun that buys, can someone ask Ted?
Again, for the third time, Florida was never a gateway for the virus.
That is the truth, but I now realize you turn away and are unable to handle the truth.
So true. I shut up about Cruz, but one particular partisan won’t quit. He is still carry on today. Old News!
As for the 2 Cuomo’s, one should be impeached. I could be satisfied if the older was run out of town & the younger dropped off CNN. But won’t happen, CNN loves his antics.
Biden Order Helping Criminal Illegal Aliens Evade Arrest by Feds
President Joe Biden’s order severely limiting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is already producing results, helping criminal illegal aliens evade arrest and deportation.
Biden’s order, issued by DHS on January 20, instructs ICE agents to only arrest and deport illegal aliens who are known or suspected terrorists, recent border crossers, or those who have been convicted of an aggravated felony — not including those convicted of drunk driving, simple assault, and various drug crimes.
The order, in practice, means that ICE agents are unable to arrest and detain most illegal aliens they otherwise would have taken into custody without first getting approval from top agency officials, a practice that one former official called “impossible.”
An illegal alien, for example, who has been charged with sexual abuse of a child is not eligible to be arrested, detained, and deported by ICE agents because the suspect has not yet been convicted, the order dictates.
A report out of Texas in recent days reveals that local law enforcement agencies are stuck with criminal illegal aliens in their custody as ICE agents are forced to drop detainers as a result of Biden’s order. An ICE detainer is when the agency asks local law enforcement officers to hold an illegal alien until they can take over custody.
The Associated Press reports:
> ICE has dropped “detainer” requests against 26 people in Texas in recent weeks , said Jason Clark, chief of staff at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Immigration authorities issue detainers to local or state law enforcement agencies holding a person who is potentially in the U.S. illegally. When a person in the U.S. illegally completes their sentence for a crime, ICE can seek to take them into immigration custody. [Emphasis added]
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Analysis conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies, as Breitbart News reported, warned that the order would dismantle the streamlined process whereby local law enforcement turns criminal illegal aliens over to ICE agents.
Communities in states like Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Illinois, and New York are expected to be the most impacted as illegal aliens are released back into their communities after criminal charges.
“Low-wage workers will suffer the most from these policies … as they see the labor market swamped with new workers, and their pay drop,” former immigration judge Art Arthur wrote in a post, calling Biden’s order “much worse than even Obama’s” enforcement policies.
“Finally, communities will be less safe, as they must deal with criminal aliens — some convicted of the most heinous of offenses — being returned to the streets instead of being removed,” Arthur wrote.
Today, there are anywhere from 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the U.S. At least eight million of these illegal aliens hold American jobs, illegally. Likewise, there are at least five million U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, commonly referred to as “anchor babies,” in the country.
Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers about $134 billion annually.
Thank Joe Biden for putting the interests of criminal illegals above those of average American citizens, and in particular the most disadvantaged among us, during a time of unprecedented pandemic. What wisdom!!
And special thanks to everyone who voted for Biden. You must hate our country every bit as much as he does. You elected a jackass.