Tough Times
I have a theory. When I see what businesses the rightwing want to open, I kinda get suspicious.
Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican governor, will allow gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys, tattoo and massage parlors to reopen on Friday, followed by movie houses and restaurants next week.
It looks to me like they really don’t want to go back to work – they want you to go back to work.
And along comes Fox News with the outrage of the day.
Ainsley Earhardt, a blonde co-host (aren’t they all?) tells the real tragedy of the ban on immigration.
“Many families here, including mine — we have au pairs, and we rely on them,” she said. “I go to work at three o’clock in the morning, so I need her there. And I need her in my house so that she can help me with my daughter.”
“Many families rely on child care from other countries,” Earhardt continued. “These au pairs come here on work visas. They have to go back to their country to get the visas renewed, and we’ve been talking in my house about how that’s going to happen.”
Damn, I didn’t even think about the horror of that. I mean, think of the single mothers teaching school, how do they function without an au pair? Thousands of waitresses are waiting for their summer au pair across this country.
The Fox News host, who appears to be riding out the pandemic by the beaches of the Hamptons, presumably with her au pair, lamented in late March that women forced to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19 “can’t get their nails done.”
“Women — all my friends are saying — you know, this is not a priority. People are dying, and I realize that,” she said at the time. “But they can’t get their nails done.”
I appreciate that she said it was not a priority, but just one item in a long list of inconvenient atrocities rich white women must endure.
Thanks to S Gray for the heads up.
What a shallow, clueless, vapid twit. Somewhere in that statement, I expected to her to say we should all be allowed to eat cake.
1There could only be one network where such a simpleton could possibly find work. Am I surprised at this nitwit? Alas, not.
2It is the wage slaves who are misled by these bimbettes, and the wage slaves who work these jobs and will either die or spread the virus to others who will die. But the bottom-feeders (at the top, ironically) believe/know there are plenty of other wage slaves to take their places.
3We will kiss Trump’s Fat Ass and let you die…
because elections have consequences.
Watch: Georgia doctor reacts with horror to Gov. Kemp’s decision to ‘reopen’ state despite pandemic risks
Edit: The videos showing the reaction to Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen the state’s businesses, despite the deadly risk such “reopening” presents to both employees and customers of those establishments, and all the people they subsequently come into contact with, really speak for themselves. From Atlanta’s 11Alive news:
The following, from Lawrenceville, GA. physician, Dr. Karla Lorraine, has gone viral today. It is well worth watching in its three-minute entirety.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/watch-georgia-doctor-reacts-with-horror-to-gov-kemps-decision-to-reopen-state-despite-pandemic-risks/
4Hmmmm. Could it be that this is the resurrected Queen Marie Antoinette? Right now I need a haircut in the worst way as I am now shaggier than a sheep dog. My son has gone biblical with long hair and beard. But hell I can always find a pair of scissors and at least keep the ahir out of my eyes. Sure, I miss a good mani-pedi and a facial and oh yes a massage. But dammit i come from people who do that old fashioned thing called soldiering on!
5I looked up BIMBO in the dictionary and there was a group picture of the eye candy on Faux
6Speaking for one old white lady who can’t get her hair cut or nails done – BARF! Grow up and be glad you have a job and you aren’t married to a Republican from Kentucky!
7Looks like this is the year is the year I go gray, but I would never want to expose my hairdresser to illness or death to prevent it. Airhead Earnhardt obviously is focused on herself and her own inconvenience than another human being’s risk.
8And that includes nannies. I suppose it would never occur to
Ainsley that she care for her own children by working from home and forcing FOX to suck it up.
Don’t cry for me, Quarantina….
9Grandmas Ada @7,
I’d rather be shaggy and have roots showing than be dead or make someone else.
AlanInAustin @ 9,
You win the internet today for that one!
10ALL governors that want to open businesses in the state must FIRST open their own governments first. Then 2weeks later allow other businesses to open.
11Coronavirus to accelerate Social Security, Medicare depletion dates, U.S. officials say
Edit: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Job and revenue losses prompted by the coronavirus will likely accelerate the depletion of Social Security and Medicare reserves, U.S. officials said on Wednesday as they released reports showing little change in the federal benefit programs’ pre-pandemic finances.The 2020 Social Security and Medicare trustees reports released on Wednesday did not reflect projections from the coronavirus pandemic but showed continued long-term funding shortfalls for retirement, disability and seniors’ healthcare benefits. Social Security, which pays retirement, survivor and disability benefits, can pay full scheduled benefits until 2035, the same year as projected in last year’s report. Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund can pay scheduled in-patient hospital expenses until 2026, also the same as in last year’s report.
Trump administration officials said that while they have made no official projections on the effects of the virus, if a 15% reduction in employment and revenues persists over the full 2020 year, they expect those depletion dates will move forward.
For Social Security, that drop in revenue, assuming a return to normal employment levels in 2021, would move forward the reserves depletion date by six months to mid-2034, the officials said. A worse-case scenario of a second year of a 15% reduction could push the Social Security depletion into 2033, the officials said.
Medicare, the healthcare program for older Americans, could face both a revenue hit and a significant increase in hospitalization costs, and the reckoning for trust fund depletion could come considerably sooner.
Under a “high-cost” scenario, the Medicare hospital trust fund would be depleted in 2023.
“It is also possible that the experience could be even worse than that,” one of the administration officials told reporters on a conference call. “It truly is too early to say exactly what the impacts are. But you are correct in that they are generally going to be worse than presented under the immediate assumptions.”
Depletion of Social Security and Medicare reserves does not mean that benefits stop altogether, because there is an assumption that tax revenues will continue to be collected. Under the current pre-pandemic projections, continuing tax revenues would allow Social Security to pay 79% of scheduled benefits in 2035 and Medicare could pay 90% of total hospital insurance benefits in 2026.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement that the programs, which make up the federal government’s two largest expenditures, “remain secure,” but added that the Trump administration was “working around the clock” to mitigate long-term negative economic impacts from the pandemic.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-benefits/coronavirus-to-accelerate-social-security-medicare-depletion-dates-u-s-officials-say-idUSKCN224368
12Mike Huckabee tweeted he will go th GA for a haircut and a tattoo. Does anybody else think he will look cute with a fresh Arschgeweih ?
13Well , American au pairs ARE too expensive for Ainsley on her Foxys Shrews wages .
14montag@13: No way. Huckabee will never look cute, no matter what is done to his exterior. And thanks for the diet help: no way I can eat lunch today after YOU made me think about him with a tramp stamp!
A question for everyone. I can see some jerks thinking a hair cut or manicure being vital to life. But who on earth thinks that a tattoo is something that cannot be delayed, and must be done even at risk of your own and others’ lifes? Mebbe I’m just old, and remember the days when a tattoo meant either a drunken sailor or an ex-convict.
15I did not think of Marie Antoinette but of another rich blonde rightwinger, Claire Boothe Luce, who was described in a profile as ‘kind to her inferiors.’
Dorothy Parker’s comment: Where does she find them?
16I work in a hospital. In Georgia. I have coworkers who’ve had this. It’s a nasty little bugger. You Do Not Want It. If – god forbid -someone close to him contracts this, maybe he’ll see the light, but I’m not holding my breath. If Kemp wants to open the state and send everyone into harm’s way, HE should be held responsible for for every sickness and every death that’s caused by his decision. At the ballot box, yes, but also civilly, criminally, and financially responsible. If Kemp is willing to send people out to DIE, he needs to take responsibility for the consequences. This is wrong. I wish there was something I could do to stop this, but I’m not rich, and obviously the only thing he cares about is money. Governing will be so much easier for Kemp when he doesn’t have to deal with pesky things like having live human beings in his state! Yes, I’m angry!
17I would rather see Sarah in an arschgeweih.
18Back in March, poor Ainsley was complaining that she and her friends couldn’t get their nails done. Now it’s nannies. This is why people are posting pictures of guillotines.
She can get a manicure tomorrow in the great state of Georgia, a decision so dumb that even trump is distancing himself from Governor Shemp.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-ainsley-earhardt-hair-nails-coronavirus_n_5e7ccf35c5b6cb08a92987b5
19Sorry, this is the link I should have posted. Scroll down to the bottom for Donnie’s Fourth of July plans, if you need a laugh.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/trump-georgia-reopen-coronavirus-briefing-us-latest
20faux spews should do a segment featuring Airhead going down to Georgia and getting the full beauty treatment in a newly-reopened salon.
A twofer–would solve her short-term maintenance problems and demonstrate how safe it is now in Georgia!
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