Daniel Desrochers, political reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader, joins Ali Velshi to discuss the backlog of unemployment claims in Kentucky and says he has heard from people skipping meals and not being able to pay rent. Aired on 6/19/2020.
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Don’t forget kids: coronavirus is just a “hoax”, cases will go down to zero like a “miracle”, and the warm weather will stop it. Also, don’t forget to inject disinfectant. /s
HOW CAN THEY BE THIS STUPID? Jesus, take the wheel.
Yep.. But watch how many idiots show up to the Trump rallies …literally risking their lives and the lives of everyone they come into contact with for two weeks after.
*THE WORST STATES*
*TOP TEN most violent crime states (8 red states, 2 blue states)*
Red states: Alaska, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, Arizona
Blue states: New Mexico, Nevada
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/13/most-dangerous-states-in-america-violent-crime-murder-rate/40968963/
*TOP TEN worst states to live in (8 red states, 1 purple state, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alaska, Oklahoma, South Carolina
Purple state: Pennsylvania
Blue state: New Mexico
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings
*TOP TEN most federally dependent states (9 red states, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Mississippi, West Virginia, Montana, Kentucky, Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Alabama, South Carolina
Blue state: New Mexico
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/
*TOP TEN worst GDP per capita states (9 red states, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Mississippi, Idaho, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Carolina, Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky, Montana
Blue state: Maine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita
@Bat Boy well done bat boy😎👍✊
Thinking you have an invisible friend named Jesus, who will protect you and vanquish your enemies is idiotic too.
@Bat Boy awesome compilation… the data proves what I’ve always thought
they should be lining up at moscow mitch’s home.
Or in front of their house, offices..
Absolutely!!! 👉
No justice, no sleep! Serenade Moscow Mitch every night!
Page 18 paragraph 3 of the Mueller report says that you’re a moron.
@Carl Spackler YOur words are all we need to know your IQ (internet quibbler)
Moscow Mitch doesn’t care about American people.
@Bat Boy Well done, Bat.
CYET ! ………….
@Andrea What amazes me is how Mitch managed to keep getting reelected for so many years without any serious shows to his constituents that he was helping them and their state. Iowa may be a Red state on the surface but we’ve a history of flipping over politicians that don’t openly produce…King would be a recent example.
That is an understatement. If you check on what Moscow Mitch is doing on a day to day basis, you can easily see he’s actively working against normal everyday people. Then check the bills the House has sent over that Moscow Mitch essentially tossed into the garbage can, and you’re so disgusted. Moscow Mitch is an evil man.
@Brad Gies He’s diffidently done well for himself and his backers at the public’s expense.
Where’s your gods Moscow Mitch & your messiah Trump????????
but they have the richest senator representing their state. How is this possible? They could just line up at his house.
@Bat Boy thats why big states get more reps in Congress and more electoral votes too.
@mksrookies – The Senate and the House of Representatives are two different things. I’m talking about the Senate.
@Bat Boy yes they are 2 different things 1 gets proper representation for population and the other gets 2 each state period Its by design and its necessary for fairness to smaller states . Do you really want 5 states running everything for the other 45 states?
@mksrookies – Must I educate you? Well…lets see if you can use objective logic. (I’m thinking, you can not): https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k
@Bat Boy It’s the current model and works like the Senate. All laws are created in the populist-centric House, then each state gets equal weight in passing them. It’s not going to change without major constitutional surgery – and that is what you should be worried about – a Constitutional Convention.
One good thing the current model is supposed to do is protect against electing a populist president – in that it failed miserably this time. (Dems actually won pop vote and EC Gore v Bush, but the fix was in – and that “fix” has nothing to do with the EC and it exists for Trump to cry foul and be “re-appointed” in 2021.
I digress. *IT IS THE CURRENT MODEL* If we want to defeat the advantage of sheepherders in Montana and corn farmers in Nebraska over city-slickers, we need to run candidates with mass appeal or simple *GET OUT THE VOTE* in all areas we do better in.
It’s what it is and unzipping the Constitution to fix it is beyond stupid and dangerous
Moscow Mitch is as corrupt as Donald J Trump. Kentucky please vote him out.
*THE WORST STATES*
*TOP TEN most violent crime states (8 red states, 2 blue states)*
Red states: Alaska, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, Arizona
Blue states: New Mexico, Nevada
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/13/most-dangerous-states-in-america-violent-crime-murder-rate/40968963/
*TOP TEN worst states to live in (8 red states, 1 purple state, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alaska, Oklahoma, South Carolina
Purple state: Pennsylvania
Blue state: New Mexico
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings
*TOP TEN most federally dependent states (9 red states, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Mississippi, West Virginia, Montana, Kentucky, Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Alabama, South Carolina
Blue state: New Mexico
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/
*TOP TEN worst GDP per capita states (9 red states, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Mississippi, Idaho, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Carolina, Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky, Montana
Blue state: Maine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita
@SMDK Chile ? what does Honolulu have to do with KIN tucky Jethro?
@Bat Boy : You’ve been doing your research. Good work!
Good good. That’s what they get for voting for McConnell and trump 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽. The submissive sheep who constantly deflect and blame others in trump’s cult deserve this.
Don’t forget Rand Paul needs to go too!
Moscow Mitch better hide in his bunker too!!!!
Or his 🐢 shell.
Most of them voted for Donnie and Mitch. Looks like it’s working out great.
So much winning…..but they could have more if they made the right vote.
They won’t blame those losers though. They will stand there on the unemployment line and blame the Democrats for shutting down the economy.
Makes it kinda hard to feel sorry for rubes who vote against their own best interest….
This is gonna sound messed up but these people vote for corrupt politicians like Mitch McConnell because they get to caught up with cultural wars instead of voting for someone who will take care of them Mitch McConnell is corrupt and does the bidding of the wealthy people
Many of those who were misguided in their belief that Trump and his swamp team were going to improve their lives have backed away. They’re starting to wake up to the growling of their stomachs and the wailing of their dying. The ones who remain are entirely devoted to culture wars
Good good. That’s what they get for voting for McConnell and trump 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽. The submissive sheep who constantly deflect and blame others in trump’s cult deserve this.
@Megadog if the crisis were planned for and adequately managed from the beginning there would be no need for the stay-at-home orders. Keep blaming the Democrats for saving your life while you jam into an enclosed space for a hate rally, dog.
gerrymandering
princeoftidds no Republicans put sick people into nursing homes. Hate rally how’s that? Biden is the racist and Democrats think it’s ok if he has a black Vice President now that’s pandering and people are sucking it up.🤷🏾♂️
Vote Mitch out.
This is what they get for voting for Mitch McConnell…he needs to be voted out.
Rigor mortise to the tortoise
Actually, I would say this is what we get for electing Andy Beshear.
t’rump won Kentucky by 30 points.
Y’all feeling like America is Great Again? 🙄
Ro G 😅😂🤣 good one 👍
Yes. For all people in that line who voted for Hillary (in spite of her political warts) because you could see what a disgusting POS Trump is, I wish every possible blessing for you in this difficult time. For all those in that line who still support Trump, I hope this recession hits you like a freight train. 🤨
Kiiin tucky state motto “Incest is best”.
It’s easy for demagogues like trumpet and fox news sky murkdog to play the ignorant and even voice of America is going to be run with another altright demagogue Banon from Cambridge analytica
Moscow Mitch rakes in money via his wife – and other corrupt means – vote him out!
The staggering thing is, Chou has been well known as being corrupt for years, yet in the “land of the free and the home of the brave” no-one actually does anything about it.
@Jim Battersbee Yet Trump appointed her to his cabinet. Her family is connected to Xi and the CCP in China
So the richest country in the World with a military budget more than the next 10 countries combined, cannot afford to look after it’s most vulnerable people? Maybe something is wrong with US priorities???
Jim Battersbee I think it is
The tRumpicons do not care about the people
If they did they would not ask for help from Russia China Ukraine and the others
They would not need to cheat and lie
Not greedy nation but greedy neoconservative leadership
@Jaak Savat : Agree. We are not greedy and corrupt. But our current Republican leadership is. Our electoral system needs to be amended and updated. It has never encountered the likes of Trump, Barr and US Senate’s McConnell in a confluence of outright shameless greed, corruption and perversion of our system. Apparently our Constitution and the Founding Fathers’ relying on people with a code of honor and principles does not withstand the test of this triumvirate.
@Jaak Savat exactly.
Was isn’t Moscow Mitch down there handing out some of those Rubles he’s been stashing? Or how about the US dollars his wife has taken in from the US tax cuts to corporations?…. Red states. You get what you vote for.
This doesn’t just happen in red states. It’s because of an economy that rewards the rich for hoarding wealth and leeches off people who earn just enough to keep a roof over their heads.
Moscow Mitch is a corrupt, entrenched politician who could careless about his constituents. Vote him out in November. Definitely time for some new blood.
His constituents are the russians and arabs, not americans. Time russians and arabs should start paying the salary of the republican senators since they are doing their bidding.
He COULDN’T care less
Thats a lot of white people, if its that bad for them imagine being black there
Is that even allowed?
If they were black, all they’d have to do is cry “racism” and Barbra Streisand would cut them a check.
The Wraith :: 👍🏾 great where do I sign up at???
Kentucky???? I’m sure they are blaming Obama. Moscow Mitch could drive by in the back of a pickup truck tossing Manure at them and they will still vote for him!
One of the systemic problems that needs to be fixed is 3 generations of the federal government trashing public education… NCLB, Common Core, teaching creationism in science classrooms, school “choice” that’s only a choice for the well-off. I’ve never seen so many kids and young adults who can’t spell, can’t do basic math without a calculator, don’t understand proper grammar, and have zero critical thinking skills.
Yup the economy is fine! Just ask criminal president in office and his corrupt officials
The only “good thing” that has come out of this horrific year, thus far, is that our elected President and Senators are being exposed for their lack of leadership and compassion in an election year. We have got to get these imbecile’s voted out of office this November!
It’s hard to get the imbeciles out of office when we have imbeciles voting for imbeciles. Blue states like California and New York support these poorer states in paying more into taxes to the federal government than the amount that comes back to those states. Fact.
Absolutely!!!