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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j7gnioc wrote

Reply to comment by OGZackov in So its safe to say as of 2023 theres No more stimulus checks coming right? by ODDBOY90

The Democrats aren't doing jack shit, either.

 
Josh Shapiro is forcing workers back into the office during an ongoing pandemic that's killing around 3500 people a week in the US. People in this state were playing him up like the next FDR. Turns out he's just another cop.

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Hashslingingslashar t1_j7hr1uh wrote

Republicans have held the state Senate since 1994. And until later this month, they’ll have had the State House 23 of the last 27 years. Nobody should blindly vote for a party but if this state is in need of balancing, it should put in more democrats, not more republicans.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j7hrbts wrote

Might want to ask Josh why he's putting Republicans in his administration, if they've been driving the state into the ground.

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Hashslingingslashar t1_j7hronx wrote

Did I say Republicans were driving the state to the ground?

No, I didn’t, but I think it’s absolutely fair to say that the state legislature has been dominated by the GOP since 1995. Good or bad, that’s up for each of us to decide for ourselves, but it’s a fact.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j7hryv2 wrote

I absolutely think they're driving the state into the ground, which is why it's bizarre to me that Super Cop Josh Shapiro is stocking his administration with them.

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Hashslingingslashar t1_j7hszfz wrote

I tend to agree with you however there’s only been a handful of relatively moderate republicans he’s nominated, I wouldn’t use the word “stocking.” After all he does still have to work with the GOP-controlled state Senate and only a one-seat majority in the House and this could buy a little goodwill.

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OGZackov t1_j7gobbh wrote

It was a generalized statement as the economy and things always do better under democrats,

Also you act like republicans haven't been back to work since 2021....

But yes, blindly voting democrat isn't the solution you still need to vote for the better democrat but it's generally safe to assume in today's society any republican will be worse

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j7gow6a wrote

In order to keep the current shitty state of affairs going, Dems have to run the table.
 
For Rs to win big and fuck everything up for the rest of us, they just have to win big once.

 
Not a great state of affairs.

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Chemical_Miracle_0 t1_j7my00s wrote

Source on that Covid death figure? The 7 week death average has been floating around 300 - 500 since the summer with and exception of a large spike around early November.

https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-US&mid=%2Fm%2F09c7w0&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j7pg3rf wrote

The total for 2022 was around 267k, or 5,135 a week. So worse than the number I gave.
 
https://imgur.com/Mq3xfwH

 
States are not reporting consistently and dumping totals every few weeks. Daily averages over short periods of time aren't reliable.

 
Covid-19 is the leading cause of death in America that is not heart disease or cancer, is going to remain so for the foreseeable future, and forcing people back into high-transmission environments while it's still killing massive amounts of people is cruel and unnecessary.

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