Tag: Rand Paul

Koch network pushes private-sector health-care agenda to counter Biden’s public option

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Koch network pushes private-sector health-care agenda to counter Biden’s public option

Called the “personal option,” the plan is a collection of policy proposals geared toward the private sector that focuses on tax breaks, expanding health savings accounts and slashing regulations. The plan’s name and messaging are intended to contrast with Democrats’ push for a public option, which would give people a chance to buy in to a government-run health-care program that would compete with private insurers.

Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Facebook for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers

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Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Facebook for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers

Lawsuit Alleges Facebook Favors H-1B Visa Workers and Other Temporary Visa Holders over U.S. Workers

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Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act exposes Silicon Valley’s hollow diversity slogans

This bill is great for Silicon Valley, but bad for high-skilled American workers. As OpenSecrets reported, “a significant portion of the lobbying done in favor of” the bill “was bankrolled by tech companies.” With this act, foreign-born workers would make up an even greater share of the tech workforce, for haf the pay, and Americans with STEM degrees would get the short end of the stick.

Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after Republican convention

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after Republican convention

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Rand Paul: I didn’t block anti-lynching bill, I attempted to strengthen it

[2018] How Drudge, Assange, Greenwald and the Pauls Are Unifying Under a Libertarian Banner

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How Drudge, Assange, Greenwald and the Pauls Are Unifying Under a Libertarian Banner

This leads us right back to Drudge’s eye-popping tweets about upending the two party system in the name of libertarianism and so on. Remarkably, with fewer than 280 characters, he managed to pull everything into critical focus. Similarly, as Greenwald and others have stated, the libertarian left’s primary goal is the disintegration of the two party system by pursuing a long-term effort to undermine the Democratic Party, even if it means the election of more Republicans and the enacting of conservative policies like voter ID, corporate deregulation and the further erosion of reproductive rights. On the Greenwald front, the mission is to destroy the Democratic Party. On the Drudge side, it’s the Republican Party. And the common denominator? Libertarianism.

Coronavirus Reality Show: Kentucky Episode!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“All the world’s a stage!”

Dr. Anthony Fauci Warns Senators Reopening Too Soon Will Cause “Suffering and Death”

Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky — the first senator known to test positive for the virus — appeared in person and did not wear a mask.

Masks are for those who are SICK!

Where coronavirus cases are rising in the United States

Kentucky had the largest surge in new cases in the nation with a 60% rise in the first week of May, due to widespread testing at a prison that revealed an outbreak.

University of Kentucky to close $6 million COVID-19 field hospital — without ever housing patients

The University of Kentucky is closing the 400-bed field hospital at Nutter Field House as the potential for a surge of COVID-19 patients has subsided.

Kentucky’s poor economic outlook due to COVID-19 was ‘self-inflicted,’ UofL professor says

Dr. Coomes says he’s blunt, and so he criticized Kentucky for not pivoting when it was clear a surge of COVID-19 patients at hospitals wasn’t going to happen.

He also criticized the policies for opening up the commonwealth slowly, saying it was overly cautious.

“This is really self-inflicted from my point of view,” Dr. Coomes said.

For some sarcastic relief:

Rand Paul Says Secret to Social Distancing Is Making Everyone Despise You

Boris Johnson Joins Trump in Redefining Conservatism

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

As Mr. Johnson’s decisive win in a hotly contested national election illustrated, the conservative movement in the West now has become markedly more populist and nationalist, and appeals to a distinctly more working-class constituency. Fiscal restraint, once a cardinal tenet of conservatism, matters less; rewriting the rules that have governed the global economy matters more.
— Read on www.wsj.com/articles/boris-johnson-joins-trump-in-redefining-conservatism-11576277776

Spending doesn’t matter to economic nationalists, apparently?! Sorry, Senator Rand Paul! The Tea Party has been usurped by White Nationalists, like Steve Bannon! If you don’t tow the line, you’ll end up like your friend, Justin Amash! You know, the one that the Freedom Caucus threw under the bus, the day they joined up with Bannon!