Links for 5/30/19

Links for 5/30/19
Right-wing Catholics do not accept discordant information, especially on a topic like finance. The GOP does not care about Puerto Rico either. They care about donors. May needed to have the courage to call an election for both Parliament and a Brexit redo. Her party's coalition will fall (more discordant info). Meghan, like everyone, is using Alabama as a way to comment about abortion. The real issue is states rights. As for fundraising, I have been saying this for years (without any comment from MSW). Greenhouse is right to connect the dots on the entire reactionary agenda (including bishops) about going back to Plessy, which undoes everything the Church dislikes. Pecknold had a conclusion searching for facts. Whatever keeps CUA donors happy. 

Individual reactionaries love their Trump in the same way neo-liberals love their Clintons. Nancy is right about one thing - impeachment is not worth it if Pence is the result (or if she has to step up an be President if Pence is implicated tomorrow by the release of the Flynn section of the Mueller report). Collective reactionaries do not like poor people, especially people of color. Not news, nor is the lack of teeth in enforcing fair housing. People really need to go to jail for their bad conduct for anything to change.

That people died in quarantine helped forestall a public health disaster. Modern air travel allows faster spread of the flu and other possible pandemics. Of course, the Bird flu happened anyway when the troops came home infected after WWI.  The real story is not how many Irish died but in how many did not and were instantly citizens. That could not happen today, probably because reactionaries disliked the latter result.