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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Hamilton Samuels

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38925 on: June 18, 2020, 01:59:37 PM »

Sure

So if you are weaker, older I would sure think twice about attending the Trump really.

Unless, like some, you have decided that you will live your life - risk and worry be damned.

The risk is to others, selfish one. Think!
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« Reply #38926 on: June 18, 2020, 02:07:27 PM »

Sure

So if you are weaker, older I would sure think twice about attending the Trump really.

Unless, like some, you have decided that you will live your life - risk and worry be damned.

The risk is to others, selfish one. Think!

And here's today's idiot: https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiENJcMUKaWxiXa7uc2K6jjRQqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4Zn5CjCu8uACMLTRlgY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

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So, slow Arizona.
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« Reply #38927 on: June 18, 2020, 02:11:44 PM »

Like the US, much of Sweden's troubles with the virus are in nursing homes.  `It has been, like NYC, their great failure.

The care home problem is hardly unique to the US and Sweden. Italy, Spain, and many others have the problem, too.

But in Sweden, their problem goes beyond the nursing homes, which are tied to roughly half their deaths. Another 40% of deaths are from people over the age of 70, not in nursing homes - these are the folks who have paid most for Sweden's approach.

The US rate is as bad overall in part because blacks are dying more than twice as fast as whites.
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« Reply #38928 on: June 18, 2020, 02:15:18 PM »

Like the US, much of Sweden's troubles with the virus are in nursing homes.  `It has been, like NYC, their great failure.

The US rate is as bad overall in part because blacks are dying more than twice as fast as whites.

Why?
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« Reply #38930 on: June 18, 2020, 02:36:15 PM »

Like many govt's, the Swedish gov't did its share of dissembling during the pandemic.

Early on and at times when they thought their strategy was working they were willing to describe it as herd immunity.  Other times they preferred other terms, especially when they realized their death rate was way high and that infection levels were much lower than predicted.  They were in on herd immunity when they thought it would work and backtracked and pretended they never went for that when it wasn't working.

Speaking of lying.  Dr. Fauci finally admitted that he lied about the best health policy with regard to the virus.  The intent was to better protect health care workers.  But his intentionally wrong advice was responsible for hundreds of thousands of infections, and probably millions, since the US infection rate is likely actually 10M - 20M.  But those huge numbers of extra infections put health care workers at risk, as they had to care for a large number of extra unnecessary cases created by Fauci's lie, not to mention the infected people who could have been protected by a simple precaution.

Of course the Trump Admin diverts attention by complaining about China not be forthcoming with WHO back around New Years.  Somehow missing all of the damage that Fauci's intentional lie caused.  Plus the Trump Admin inept response that did untold damage and made the US the global viral hotspot.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38932 on: June 18, 2020, 02:39:07 PM »

Sure

So if you are weaker, older I would sure think twice about attending the Trump really.

Unless, like some, you have decided that you will live your life - risk and worry be damned.

The risk is to others, selfish one. Think!

And here's today's idiot: https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiENJcMUKaWxiXa7uc2K6jjRQqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4Zn5CjCu8uACMLTRlgY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Oh, oh, Arizona.
The devil's fool
With the best laid plans.
So, slow Arizona.
Don't teach science in your land?

For someone who was recently described as being the KING of listening and processing and responding, Trump has remarkably few rhetorical tools in his toolbox.

In this case, his tell for not knowing something is his saying “no one had ever heard of it before!”  Like, if he didn’t know it, naturally that means it’s unknown.

“People don’t realize how many countries there are!”

Your “president.”
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"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."  -  The impeached "president" on Feb 27, 2020

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« Reply #38934 on: June 18, 2020, 02:42:09 PM »

Speaking of narcissistic behavior...

"These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives," Trump tweeted Thursday. "We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!"

Trump's comments hours after Thursday's ruling and days after the court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ Americans from job discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or transgender status.

"Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn't like me?" Trump tweeted Thursday.

Trump later Thursday unleashed a series of tweets complaining about the ruling.

"The DACA decision, while a highly political one, and seemingly not based on the law, gives the President of the United States far more power than EVER anticipated," Trump wrote. "Nevertheless, I will only act in the best interests of the United States of America!"

He called for "NEW JUSTICES" to be appointed to the Supreme Court and said he would, like in the 2016 campaign, release a list of conservative judges he will consider appointing in a second term.

"As President of the United States, I am asking for a legal solution on DACA, not a political one, consistent with the rule of law," Trump wrote. "The Supreme Court is not willing to give us one, so now we have to start this process all over again."


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-lashes-out-supreme-court-after-daca-ruling-doesn-t-n1231438
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« Reply #38935 on: June 18, 2020, 02:45:54 PM »

Just like when Trump said that no one had ever imagined as virus spreading around the world like this.

he really is a uniquely uninformed doofus.
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« Reply #38936 on: June 18, 2020, 02:46:36 PM »

http://www.techcrunch.com/2020/06/18/facebook-trump-campaign-nazi-imagery-red-triangle/amp/

Kiid is finally enjoying an executive after his own heart. We’re trying to take that away from him after all the glory he has bestowed on the United States.

Why shouldn’t trump have two terms? Once Hitler got in office, he got to serve for the rest of his life. Since trump is trying to be Adolph’s reincarnation, Kiid thinks he should be allowed to do the same.
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« Reply #38937 on: June 18, 2020, 02:51:56 PM »

http://www.techcrunch.com/2020/06/18/facebook-trump-campaign-nazi-imagery-red-triangle/amp/

Kiid is finally enjoying an executive after his own heart. We’re trying to take that away from him after all the glory he has bestowed on the United States.

Why shouldn’t trump have two terms? Once Hitler got in office, he got to serve for the rest of his life. Since trump is trying to be Adolph’s reincarnation, Kiid thinks he should be allowed to do the same.

Yeah. Just read that!

Facebook removed 88 ads Thursday posted by the accounts of President Donald Trump, the Trump campaign and Vice President Mike Pence that the social media giant said were “violating our policy against organized hate.”

All of the identical ads featured an upside-down red triangle, a symbol used by the Nazi party in World War II to identify political dissidents in concentration camps. The ads caught the attention of some Twitter users Thursday who pointed out the symbol's historical significance


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I am always playing golf, that is why they call me Rolf!

Springtime for Trump in New Germany!
Goosestep's the new step today
Bombs falling from the skies again
Deutschland is on the rise again...
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« Reply #38938 on: June 18, 2020, 02:54:07 PM »

Unless, like some, you have decided that you will live your life - risk and worry be damned.

Your arguments make a lot of sense ...  if you were talking about the War on Drugs.

Lots of folks are willing to assume the personal risk of drug usage.  For many, drugs aren't a problem and they can work and raise a family and be useful members of society.  While some will die from them or ruin their lives.    Why not let them have freedom and decide what to do with their lives and bodies?

The difference is those who  assert their individual rights during an epidemic, act careless and get infected can easily spread it to others who can also pass it on, until we have a genuine health emergency and people dying.  The potential harm isn't limited to the individual.   For drug use it mostly is.
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« Reply #38939 on: June 18, 2020, 02:54:23 PM »

Like the US, much of Sweden's troubles with the virus are in nursing homes.  `It has been, like NYC, their great failure.

The care home problem is hardly unique to the US and Sweden. Italy, Spain, and many others have the problem, too.

But in Sweden, their problem goes beyond the nursing homes, which are tied to roughly half their deaths. Another 40% of deaths are from people over the age of 70, not in nursing homes - these are the folks who have paid most for Sweden's approach.

The US rate is as bad overall in part because blacks are dying more than twice as fast as whites.

When Trump sprung the Euro travel ban it caught folks off guard and sent travelers scrambling home only to wait for hours in an enclosed packed spaces getting through customs at JFK and Newark.

Ground transpo people, agents, baggage handlers, security personnel, food court folks were exposed and then went home to spread it among their friends and family in service sector gigs, including home health care aides who also work multiple shifts at various care facilities throughout the region.

One of things people don’t understand about the folks in ‘essential’ sectors of the economy is the amount of stress involved in just getting through the day. Chronic stress is debilitating.
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