Rudolph Giuliani, the man you may recognize as the hair dye sweating goon currently collecting $20,000 a day to indulge Donald Trump’s delusions and stall American democracy, is in all likelihood not going to die of coronavirus, unlike the 290,000 Americans and counting that his boss killed.
Instead, he is being sent home from a hospital that most of us could not get a bed in (seeing as hospitals nationwide are currently overwhelmed by the pandemic) with a little doggie bag full of pills the rest of us could never afford and would probably not have access to in the event we could afford them. Rudy says the physician who prevented Donald Trump from dying of coronavirus sent him to the Georgetown University Hospital and got him access to the magical drug cocktail denied to 99.9 percent of the 15.5 million Americas who have had coronavirus:
“His doctor sent me here; he talked me into it,” Giuliani said of the president in an interview with a local New York radio station. “The minute I took the cocktail yesterday, I felt 100% better. It works very quickly, wow.”
Couldn’t have been wasted on a more useless person, except for that time in early October when we wasted the meds on President Covidina. [The Guardian]
In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, the Minneapolis City Council will shift $8 million dollars away from the $179 million police budget to an assortment of city services, which is not “defunding the police” as much as it is “funding services that benefit citizens.” This is a compromise from the City Council’s previous plan—announced over the summer as Minneapolis citizens and others across the country protested Floyd’s murder—which would have replaced the city’s police department with a “Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention.”
As the violent crime rate has risen in the wake of the Floyd murder and protests, the size of the city’s police department has shrunk, leaving the mayor threatening to veto the city council’s plan entirely, though he praised the council for backing off a complete overhaul, the Washington Post reports:
“But in a statement early Thursday, Frey praised the council for removing language that would have permanently shrunk the size of the force by about 130 officers in what he described as a ‘defining moment for our city.’”
The $8 million will go toward funding “mental health teams, violence prevention programs and other initiatives,” according to KARE11 Minneapolis. [KARE11, The Washington Post]
- Child Protective Services unfairly targets and terrorizes BIPOC families. [Mother Jones]
- Here are 106 House members who support Texas in being wrong. [Twitter]
- That’s Professor Second Gentleman, Esquire to you. [Politico]
- The man who will not be President very soon would like all foreign aid to have a little “To: (Country’s Name) From: America” gift tag on it. [The Hill]
- The Inspector General said the V.A. did a shit job at handling a sexual assault complaint because that is true. [The New York Times]
- The FDA is voting on the Pfizer vaccine that I very much would like to put inside my body. [Washington Post]
- Biden is thinking about putting a competent person in a position of authority, which, wow, I had forgotten what it’s like to look at a possible new appointee and not have to write a bullet that reads “President considers random wolf to head Department of Sheep’s Affairs.” [Washington Post]