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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

[barton]

Trump changes his mind in the right direction, for a change.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/26/politics/donald-trump-measles-vaccines/

Has always been in favor of vaccines and is now appropriately advising that those not vaccinated AT ALL get it done.

You need to better inform yourself about the man you worship, kiidcarter8.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-donald-trump-repeatedly-claim-vaccines-cause-autism-they-dont/

Its right in the article.  Vaccinate in smaller doses.

Vaccines don't work that way.  A dose must be large enough to trigger the immune system to develop antibodies against the disease.  Splitting a dose defeats that purpose and renders the vaccine ineffective.   As anyone with actual knowledge of medicine would know.  And you still evade the main point:  Trump gullibly believed a myth, the autism/vaccine myth, discredited years ago. 

As my previous post made clear:  you were wrong.  As is also clear:   you are pathologically incapable of admitting when you are wrong.  Or that you lied about Trump's prior view of vaccination.

[LarryBnDC]

“Those comments drive at one of the great media brain-busters of all time. On the one hand, media organizations in the run-up to November 2016 exposed and covered the hard-to-count scandals and outrages that Trump had generated over decades as a self-absorbed real estate mogul: the thousands of lawsuits, the mistreatment of women, the ambient lies, the racism, the stiffing of contractors, Trump University, the false promises of charity and much, much more. On the other hand, those same media organizations pounded away at Hillary Clinton’s email story. And many of them — CNN prominently included — gave Trump generous helpings of airtime for the rallies early in his campaign.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/01/29/cnns-jeffrey-toobin-i-regret-my-role-in-hillary-clinton-false-equivalence/

[facilitatorn]

Time to investigate and indict the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. Both are crooked as hell. Both too crooked for any role in-law enforcement.

[bodiddley]

I don't get Biden's appeal.
Working class -- might appeal to mid-westerners?
But why not provide actual policies that will help people instead?
What does Biden stand for, believe in, want to accomplish?
I have zero against Biden, but also zero in his favor.

He'd make a good VP.  And he knows how to campaign and he's been vetted (well, at least until Creepy Uncle Joe stuff turned up).
Maybe he'd be a good VP pick for Warren, Harris, Booker, etc.
Sander would be better off picking a non-old white male though.

Something like a Warren-Biden ticket would offer new policies and change, with some continuity to the Obama Era. 

I still think Obama was a huge disappointment, as he was too cautious and centrist.  Never tried to shift the party and country leftward.  Left the Dem party in poor shape.

[barton]

Morning, Bo.

Joe has three strikes IMO - Handsy Joe, as you noted, his role in the SJC in rejecting Anita Hill's story, and his age (octogenarian at end of term is okay for veep, but a POTUS needs more youthful stamina and mental focus).  Agree he's veep material.  I like Booker atm, so with Joe that would be an Eastern Seaboard ticket....maybe a little more geographic spread would be better but maybe it's not that important.  In some respects, Warren-Biden provides the better diversity, given the move towards glass ceiling breaking that accelerated in 2016.  And her considerable skills as a policymaker.

Overall, I think he would need to do more public soul-searching regarding Anita Hill, if he wants women of color, and women generally, to get enthused.   

[barton]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/obstruction-case-william-barr-doj-donald-trump.html

Well, we sorta knew that Barr's appointment would mean a slaved DOJ.  Makes Congress oversight role all the more vital.  With all the bellyaching about impeachment being politically hazardous, we can't forget that Congress has to uphold the Constitution and find some path to rejecting the Department of Justice Trump summary.

[josh]

I am amused at the falling out between Wayne LaPierre and Olly North concernng the NRA.

North took over an predominently honorary position and requested to be paid.

He told LaPierre that the latter should resign to protect the organization and himself, or some embarrassing information would come out.

LaPierre seems to have won that confict, as North announced that he would not be renominated for the presidency of the NRA.

[kiidcarter8]

I don't get Biden's appeal.
Working class -- might appeal to mid-westerners?
But why not provide actual policies that will help people instead?
What does Biden stand for, believe in, want to accomplish?
I have zero against Biden, but also zero in his favor.

He'd make a good VP.  And he knows how to campaign and he's been vetted (well, at least until Creepy Uncle Joe stuff turned up).
Maybe he'd be a good VP pick for Warren, Harris, Booker, etc.
Sander would be better off picking a non-old white male though.

Something like a Warren-Biden ticket would offer new policies and change, with some continuity to the Obama Era. 

I still think Obama was a huge disappointment, as he was too cautious and centrist.  Never tried to shift the party and country leftward.  Left the Dem party in poor shape.

So you want an 8-year VP to be VP again?

Heh.

[josh]

I don't get Biden's appeal.
Working class -- might appeal to mid-westerners?
But why not provide actual policies that will help people instead?
What does Biden stand for, believe in, want to accomplish?
I have zero against Biden, but also zero in his favor.

He'd make a good VP.  And he knows how to campaign and he's been vetted (well, at least until Creepy Uncle Joe stuff turned up).
Maybe he'd be a good VP pick for Warren, Harris, Booker, etc.
Sander would be better off picking a non-old white male though.

Something like a Warren-Biden ticket would offer new policies and change, with some continuity to the Obama Era. 

I still think Obama was a huge disappointment, as he was too cautious and centrist.  Never tried to shift the party and country leftward.  Left the Dem party in poor shape.

So you want an 8-year VP to be VP again?

Heh.

He did it well! Why not let him do it again.

He'd be the third man to serve as VP for two different presidents.

And on his first day, he would set a new record for most days as VP, which he currently shares with 6 others.

(Thomas Jefferson served as VP for 4 years, as did a bunch of other folks. But even though all of them were inaugurated on a specific day and replaced that same day 4 years later, he served one day fewer than did they!)

[josh]

Our president.

Just amazing how transparent he is.
http://time.com/5579131/kyler-murray-nick-bosa-donald-trump/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20190427

[kiidcarter8]

49-49

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

[facilitatorn]

Wow. They’re only off by ten. He’s 43 for 53 against.

Also setting records for a campaign burn rate on legal fees.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-election-campaign-spent-million-legal-fees-office/story?id=62611406

[LarryBnDC]

So this happened this afternoon at the Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue NW... hours AFTER another shooting at a synagogue.


https://twitter.com/cewigginton/status/1122255631757524992?s=21

[josh]

49-49

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

Why is that worth mentioning?

Looking at the Rasmussen numbers, 49 is roughly his average since February 17th and not even slightly newsworthy.

The most newsworthy thing about it is how off their numbers are compared to everybody else's numbers.

[kiidcarter8]

You are correct.  The key figure is 39%, which is the STRONGLY DISAPPROVE, down from a high of 50.  More voters are considering Trump now.