UPDATE...AZ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema takes Pharma $ then nixes Biden Prescription Plan...UPDATE

 

UPDATE: Increased amount AZ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema took from pharmaceutical and medical device industries is more than $750,000 in donations.  READ MORE

She's against Biden's $3.5 trillion infrastructure Bill, for the filibuster and against $15.00 minimum wage, as well as recently opposing Pres. Biden's Prescription plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices. AZ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has taken all these positions in defiance of issues that are basic to Joe Biden's agenda. Okay, maybe the $3.5 T is negotiable but not the rest. As an added fact, in the last couple of years Sinema received $358,452 in donation from the pharmaceutical industry.

Kyrsten Sinema loves filibuster...

That's a major amount and her fight for Pharma coincides with West Va. Sen. Joe Machin who is in the pockets of fossil fuels giant Chas. Koch. She has even talked directly to Biden...

"Sinema met with President Joe Biden on Sept. 15 to discuss the social spending package, in which party leaders hope to include the Medicare prescription drug pricing proposal. Sinema has made her resistance to the current House prescription drug negotiation proposal clear to the White House, according to one of the sources, but it’s unclear if she’s completely immovable."

Joe Manchin has called for a pause in the Infrastructure Bill, vigorously opposed by AOC and her people. On the other hand, some Democrats disagree...

"Some in the party have called the bills even more necessary as parts of the country are ravaged by wildfires or affected by flooding."

The left is known for its spending, mostly in needy projects, where Republicans resist to the extent of putting the country in jeopardy. Like right now as Moscow Mitch is refusing to increase the debt limit. This could mean the U.S. goes into default and financial markets experience turbulence. We are certainly not in normal times, especially considering the Covid-19 pandemic, thus, the need for extra revenue. 

Sinema votes against $15.00 minimum wage...

And Republicans also must face up to the fact that many of the problems America faces today were caused by one of their own, the former White House maniac, Donald Trump. The fact that the right seems to be doing absolutely nothing about Trump's current bizarre antics is further burden in getting our nation back in order. It's bad enough when you have to deal with an unreasonable opponent, but when you have to fight with fellow party members it becomes absurd.

Sinema does have company within the party, and this does raise questions re. the amount of the Infrastructure Bill. Sen. Bernie Sanders wants the full amount, and he believes even more is needed. I am still a loyal supporter of the Bern, but at the
same time wonder if there are parts of the legislation negotiable that would appease the standoff Democrats...

"Congressional Democrats warred with each other on Tuesday over the price tag and policy scope of their roughly $4 trillion economic agenda, raising the potential for a stunning, self-inflicted defeat as the House prepares to vote on one of the measures next week."

It is beyond me how anyone in Congress could oppose Medicare's negotiation for the price of drugs for their constituents. Canada regulates their drug prices and they are 50% to 80% lower than in the U.S. Okay, we've known for years donations buy the votes of Congress. In the beginning, Big Pharma thought they had a friend in the junior Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Now the senior Senator of Arizona, they were definitely right. 

Covid-19 deaths passed 1918 flu pandemic-Does anyone care?

 

The suggested number of deaths in the 1918 flu pandemic is 675,000. At this writing, the Worldometer is reporting 692,899 deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic. I expected the media to jump on this and attempt to explain to the U.S. just how we could have been duped again, after having gone through such a teaching crisis. CNBC has its take...

"In 1918, for example, the U.S. population was less than a third of today’s with an estimated 103 million people living in America just before the roaring 1920s. Today, there are nearly 330 million people living in the U.S. That means the 1918 flu killed about 1 in every 150 Americans, compared with 1 in 500 who have died from Covid so far."

The differences are significant, although I'd like to know more in relation to how the public reacted since there was no flu vaccine then and no CDC or national public health department to guide the public. And, so far I have read nothing of the kind of maniac politicians we are stuck with today, like Florida Gov. Ron  DeSantis, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and So. Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. Combined, these Killing Machines have killed 115,458, about 17% of total deaths.

"The pandemic of H1N1 virus in 1918 infected about one-third of the world's population, causing at least 50 million deaths, including more than a half-million in the United States." See more...

Right now only 55% of the U.S. has been fully vaccinated. Anti-vaxxers are running rampant, and threaten the prolonging of the pandemic which will kill scares more Americans. ABC News has an interesting point in the infection evolution of the flu pandemic...

"Something similar happened with the H1N1 flu virus, the culprit in the 1918-19 pandemic. It encountered too many people who were immune, and it also eventually weakened through mutation. H1N1 still circulates today, but immunity acquired through infection and vaccination has triumphed."

In the case of the coronavirus pandemic, so far the virus has "triumphed," with not much hope yet of getting it under control. And, as long as we have scoundrels running major states like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis, the U.S is not likely to make the progress we need. In fact, it is the whole of the Republican Party that appears to want to keep the Covid-19 pandemic going for some3 reason. Is this a matter of just stupidity or corruption? Perhaps both.

Republicans accept global warming - Paul Krugman proves them wrong

 

The GOP calls the obvious threat of global warming "fake news," a hoax. Paul Krugman explains the Republican strategy of picking their denial, based on the issue. Krugman says...

"That’s what we’re seeing now, as conservatives argue against the Biden administration’s push for climate-friendly public investment. As it happens, this push is taking place against a background of unprecedented heat waves, huge forest fires, severe drought in some places and catastrophic flooding in others — phenomena that scientists have long warned would become more common as the planet gets hotter."

In some cases the GOP is backing off slightly from its denials...

"Senator James Inhofe, the author of 2012’s “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future,” is now claiming that he never called climate change a hoax."

 In a recent post, this headline from Business-Insider, "The companies polluting the

planet have spent millions to make you think carpooling and recycling will save us." My comment was that Chas. Koch, one of America's most profound polluters, was no doubt standing in the front to donate from his ill-gotten gains. As always, supporting Koch to the hilt was the Senate's great protector of slimeballs like Koch, traitor emeritus, Joe Manchin.

Here's a video from seven years ago [still appropriate] featuring Richard Branson taking Chas. Koch to task saying he just "isn't listening" when it comes to global warming...

In closing, Paul Krugman is pessimistic, professing...

"If experience is any guide, this new willingness to accept the reality of global warming won’t last; the next time America has a cold snap, the usual suspects will go right back to denying climate change and attacking scientists."

America must remember that it is clearly Republicans that are leading our country to this catastrophe! 

Could Ron DeSantis go to jail for this?

 

If this isn't illegal corruption punishable with jail time, the legal experts will have to explain to me 'why not.' The demented Florida gov. Ron DeSantis has been pushing the anti-body treatment for some time now. Just recently it was revealed the drug used, Regeneron, is a product of DeSantis' top donor, Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, a Chicago-based hedge fund. The fund owns $15.9 million in shares of Regeneron Pharmaceutical Inc.

In August DeSantis "ramped up" his recommendation of the drug, while he strongly puts down the virus vaccine along with anti-masking. For the record, Florida has 3,530,742 cases, 50,817 deaths. Haven't seen any figures whether this strategy is working for the state, but Florida regularly disguises or lies about their coronavirus figures. Take a look at DeSantis in this video espousing misinformation accusing others of misinformation...

Did you see DeSantis' bobblehead moron to his left. In summary, when you combine this imbecile's fraudulent act of promoting the product of a political donor who has given him millions, plus the killing machine's Florida resident deaths due to his recommendation to avoid the vaccine, yes, it's time for this moron to go to jail.

WATCH Pres.-elect Joe Biden charges Donald Trump in Jan. 6 Capitol Riots

 

Just before entering office, Pres.-elect Joe Biden urged Donald Trump to do the right thing and call off his goons rioting at the U.S. Capitol. Since this incident, a precedent in U.S. history, the American public has come to the conclusion democracy is under attack in this country...

"51% say it is likely that elected officials in the US will successfully overturn the results of a future election because their party did not win."

Here's the video where Pres.-elect Biden appeals to Americans to think about what they are doing and stop the insurrection... 

More from the CNN poll...

"Nearly all Americans feel that democracy in the US is at least being tested: 93% total say that democracy is either under attack (56%) or being tested but not under attack (37%). A scant 6% say that American democracy is in no danger."

I did a blog back in February, "America in Conflict," that illustrates the turmoil going on in the U.S., which mirrors the components of the CNN poll. The question is, are we going to let this lawless group of insurrectionists take over our country, or will Democracy and the sanity of a government for the real people prevail?

WATCH how anti-vaxxers kill innocent heart patient

 

Rachel Maddow covers a tragedy caused by anti-vaxxer overflow in hospital ICUs. Here's the scenario...

Ray DeMonia, who died in a Mississippi hospital 200 miles from his home in Alabama after his family says the hospital there "contacted 43 hospitals in 3 states in search of a Cardiac ICU bed."

Can you imagine the horror DeMonia and his wife must have been going through feverishly driving from hospital to hospital, and being turned away with a condition the hospitals must have known could kill DeMonia? I find it hard to believe not one of these medical facilities couldn't have saved this man's life??? Here is Rachel Maddow's take...

Anti-Vaxxers killed this man in their cold-bloodied refusal of  the Covid-19 vaccine. By the way, Ray DeMonia was vaccinated.

Read more: "Covid Hospitalizations Hit Crisis Levels in Southern I.C.U.s"

Watch Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis caught in a lie

 

Here's what happened in DeSantis' lawsuit...

“The vaccine changes your RNA, so for me that’s a problem,” said Darris Friend, a 22-year city employee who is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Gainesville government over its vaccine requirements for all municipal employees. “We don’t want to have the vaccine. It’s about our freedom and liberty.”

The Covid-19 vaccine, of course, does not alter our RNA. DeSantis, standing close by, studied to find his next lie. Watch DeSantis on video get caught in a lie...

The great mimicker of Donald Trump kills Florida residents in a keenly orchestrated plan. Read more.