Covid-19: American Acceptionalism

The kids on his lawn bit, maybe.. I thought the first bit was you?

 

I went for the title with the stones number in it. Always a good bet...

 

Stand My Ground
Within Temptation
I can see
When you stay low, nothing happens
Does it feel right?
Late at night
Things I thought, I put behind me
Haunt my mind
I just know there's no escape now
Once it sets its eyes on you
But I won't run, have to stare it in the eye
Stand my ground, I won't give in
No more denying, I got to face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will stand my ground
It's all around
Getting stronger, coming closer
Into my world
(My world)
I can feel
That it's time for me to face it
Can I take it?
Though this might just be the ending
Of the life I held so dear
But I won't run, there's no turning back from here
Stand my ground, I won't give in
No more denying, I got to face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will stand my ground
All I know for sure is I'm trying
I will always stand my ground
Stand my ground, I won't give in
(I won't give in)
I won't give up
(I won't give up)
No more denying, I got to face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will
Stand my ground, I won't give in
No more denying, I got to face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will stand my ground

 

Good!

 

At the time of writing this, "American Acceptionalism" is winning with 62% of the vote. The runner-up is the nervous breakdown one with 14% of the vote.

These are Putin's Russia victory numbers.

 

Are you saying Knave is throwing dissenters off balconies? Because that's what it sounds like...

 

Although now that I think about it, that is sort of how he used to moderate his forum...

 

All I'm saying is don't find yourself near any open windows.

 

Those are some nice words but, why have you linked them to some furrin woman who seems to be singing a song about... er... 'eggs' from what I can tell?

 

That was supposed to be the whole goddamned point.

 

Fake news, they were suicides.

 

You're jealous there's no beautiful English woman with such a beautiful voice singing meaningful lyrics

 

Knavepocalypse Now

 

But, we'll get some F35's out of it

 

I keep standing by one, but no one will push me out...

I'm so fucking tired, people

 

It's not the "regime", but the whole set up of the US law system, which is geared towards protecting business instead of people. As I have claimed some time ago the laws in Europe are geared towards protecting the human rights of their citizens, while the US laws care shit about the rights of people vs businesses.

 

Where does this 85% come from?

Here in Canada we had a multi pronged approach.

We already have a federal unemployment program. That provides 55% of your income, up to a maximum of $573 a week, regardless of income.

But, we quickly realized in March this did not assist the self employed, or those earning very low salaries as 55% of a low salary is nothing. And, it was an onerous and cumbersome program to qualify for.

So we created a new emergency benefit in a matter of days, pegged at 500 a week (remember we don't have any state supplements). Anyone who lost a job,regardless of income, received that amount. Processing was so easy, with money arriving in 3 to 4 days.

We also did a wage subsidy program of 75% paid to businesses to keep folks on payroll. Its been a good program, but has issues. The chief among those is we found businesses have so many other payroll costs to keep someone on payroll, over and above just their wage. So pickup was sub optimal. The 2k benefit proved more effective, at least short term.

But now we are a bit stuck as a nation trying to figure out how to transition from this to our next stage of recovery. That 2k definitely disincentived work during the recovery process, so we are trying to fix that.

 

We won't push you but we might hug you.

 

I'd really appreciate the push, tho. I've made enough copies of myself

 

Well, I know those copies would be upset if you got pushed.

 

Hmm... well, that's kinda true I suppose...

https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/22/hungary-claims-victory-in-eu-recovery-fund-talks
https://www.politico.eu/article/what-eu-leaders-really-decided-on-rule-of-law-budget-mff/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ioned-on-rule-of-law-orban-says-idUSKBN24B1EB

When a liberal Hungarian EU lawmaker asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel, now holding the EU’s rotating presidency, on Wednesday whether the EU was prepared to condition recovery funding on adherence to democratic standards in Hungary, Merkel told the European Parliament she would engage with Orban.​

Presumably in much the same way the GOP 'engages' with Trump.

 

Unless they were doing the pushing I guess?

 

He lives in a building that only has a ground floor

 

My sons have decided that when the time comes, they will make their sister pull the trigger and evacuate my skull across the open steppe

 

Retribution may be just around the corner.