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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

[josh]

Trump is optimistic.

Not that there is a basis for it, but he is.

Doesn't that just fill you with confidence?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/politics/trump-north-korea-losing-patience/index.html

[josh]

Another day, another lawsuit against the Trump administration:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-epa-lawsuit/us-epa-is-sued-for-ousting-scientists-from-advisory-committees-idUSKCN1T42H8

The NRDC said the Oct. 31, 2017 directive from Wheeler’s predecessor Scott Pruitt upended decades of EPA practices “for no good reason” and without required public comment.

It said the agency has since used the directive to remove qualified scientists from its roughly 23 advisory committees, freeing it to replace them with industry representatives.

Monday’s complaint seeks to set aside the directive and all decisions based on it.

[LarryBnDC]

Methinks that some Britons, no ideas, are protesting Trump the man, rather than any dislike of America/ns.
Still, they should be treating the office of the President of the United States of America, and the person who holds that office...with a lot more respect.

Pity Trump will not be touring Australia...he would likely get a different perspective if he actually visited here.

Love the Trump robot.

Thanks! We at the Shinbone Star are real proud of that!

[josh]

Shifting from one liar (Ward) to another (Trump):

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/06/05/donald-trump-properties-false-royals-claims-kfile-sot-vpx.cnn

No wonder the Queen was wearing the brooch that Obama gave her when she met Trump. She has to be beside herself over the need to spend time behaving diplomatically to this guy who has used her family's name for his personal financial gain.

She'd be used to it by now.
She had to meet with IRA 'boss' when travelling to Ireland to lend them money in recent times.
Had to host Mugabe for a visit.
Hosted Japan's emperor a while ago...toured around in a carriage with him.
Bad idea...veterans/etc turned their backs as the carriage passed by.

She might be Queen...but she needs to remember who the 'king of the world' is when dealing with Mr Trump.

Mr Trump, democratically elected by the American people to be 'king of the world'.

Any American who thinks our president - whichever one we elect - is "king of the world" is almost as demented as Trump and you.

[josh]

The science...there is climate change.
True.
The climate is always changing, Ice Ages come and go, glaciers started melting 15,000 years ago.
Long ago sea levels rose, and flooded the land bridge between Australia and India.

Sydney's dam is down to 50% capacity...water restrictions have been introduced.

No1 radio host has been telling the politicians for decades to build more dams....did they listen?   no.
Wouldn't surprise me if this time Sydney does run out of water.

Building more dams would not have alleviated this problem, but... why bother talking to somebody who thinks this rising heat is like the others and has decided that if the seas are going to rise we should just let everybody die and our world to fall apart.

Given that you see nothing wrong with the US government killing kids, I guess I should not be surprised.

If it is, the US govt should not be killing kids.
If the seas rise, then everybody should be moved to higher ground.

Gee, it only took you how many months to utter those?! Wow!

"If it is..." however, is part of your ongoing naivete.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/border-patrol-is-confiscating-migrant-kids-medicine-us-doctors-say-225354608.html

[josh]

Soooooooooo much winning!

This is from two years ago:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/medicare-social-security-forecasts-show-no-sign-of-trumps-promised-growth

Medicare’s trust fund for inpatient care will become insolvent in 2026, three years earlier than previously expected, the trustees reported Tuesday. The insolvency date for Social Security stayed steady, with a projection of 2034. That does not mean, however, that the funds will be exhausted by those dates. Rather, those are the dates that the programs’ costs will exceed the tax revenue coming in. The report found that the programs will be able to cover about three-quarters of promised benefits for the next half-century without any policy changes.

Announcing the report, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin insisted that the tax cuts Republicans passed earlier this year will generate so much economic activity that they will more than cover the benefits of the tens of millions of American who depend on the programs.


“The Administration’s economic agenda – tax cuts, regulatory reform, and improved trade agreements – will generate the long-term growth needed to help secure these programs and lead them to a more stable path,” he said. “Social Security and Medicare are the federal government’s two largest programs, and millions of Americans heavily rely on their benefits. Robust economic growth will help to ensure their lasting stability.”

Tuesday’s report shows, however, that not only has that promised growth failed to materialize, the deep tax cuts are causing the federal trust funds to deplete faster — though the biggest factor is that there are more people retiring and depending on the program than there are taxpaying workers to replace them. The report itself also acknowledged that the tax bill’s health care changes are worsening the Medicare trust fund’s financial future, citing “the repeal of the individual mandate, which increased the estimate of the number of uninsured, in turn leading to a large increase in uncompensated care payments.”

A more recent (2019) look at Medicare:
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/medicare-is-not-bankrupt

Still set to become insolvent in 2026.

Social Security is looking at 2035 now, a year better than it was.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-social-security-medicare-warning-20190422-story.html

Still not good.

[facilitatorn]

Trump-Nixon is planning a milkshake on the mall party for July 4. Wendy’s and McDonald’s are competing for the business with new football shaped and missile shaped shake containers that keep their contents pressurized for wider splash zones on impact.

It’s a good time to loosen up your throwing arm in protest of trump’s massive backdoor regressive tax hike. He likes to call them tariffs. Join your patriotic brothers and sisters in letting trump know it’s time he get his hand out of your pocket.

Can trump’s various hair products withstand the cold creamy viscosity of the American milkshake?

What other lowlife ne’er do well could bring such ceaseless drama to what had only recently been a highly respected office?

[arafura]

https://www.simbaly.com/view/worlds-biggest-navy-sim/?page=37

World's biggest, and most powerful naval forces.

1. North Korea
2. China
3. USA
36. UK...'everyone' has a bigger and more powerful navy that Britain...well except Australia, it's not even on the chart.
Exactly why Australia must get nukes, in a hurry.

[facilitatorn]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5cf88b5de4b0e3e3df151e12

Will trump’s non consensual sex life get a proper airing out? One judge decides on June 14th...

[barton]

Another day, another lawsuit against the Trump administration:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-epa-lawsuit/us-epa-is-sued-for-ousting-scientists-from-advisory-committees-idUSKCN1T42H8

The NRDC said the Oct. 31, 2017 directive from Wheeler’s predecessor Scott Pruitt upended decades of EPA practices “for no good reason” and without required public comment.

It said the agency has since used the directive to remove qualified scientists from its roughly 23 advisory committees, freeing it to replace them with industry representatives.

Monday’s complaint seeks to set aside the directive and all decisions based on it.

Not the splashiest story, but might be one of the most important WRT to our nation's survival. 

[barton]

Still, they should be treating the office of the President of the United States of America, and the person who holds that office...with a lot more respect.

If Trump would treat the office with more respect, I'm sure they would. 

The Queen respects those who treat the office with respect....which is why she's been wearing the brooch Obama gave her.

[NeedsAdjustments]

"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress" says nothing about how any determination for the Electors' voting.

Nor does anything in the 12th Amendment, or you would not have bitched and moaned about my not putting them in the same post.

You got bupkis.

No I have the Constitution.  The appointment of electors is a delegated right granted to the states by the Constitution and while that right can be amended( i.e.12th ) it cannot be amended without Congressional approval NOR  in any manner that changes the overall purpose of the presidential election system.  And that system is an indirect election carried out through the Electoral College.
What the Nevada Legislature was trying to do a was convert Nevada ELECTORS into agents of other states.
Blatantly unconstitutional.

You keep saying that, but the states that set up winner-take all *did* change things without a constitutional amendment.

No. They didn’t. Article II gives the the right to elect electors anyway the states choose.
Nevada proposed doing away with electors effectively scrapping the Electoral College.
Blatantly unconstitutional

Dude, you pulled that one waaaaaaay out your ass!

Nevada proposed scrapping the Electoral College!

REDSTATEWARD's way of conceding defeat is to fictionalize the Nevada bill to match his rgument. 

[REDSTATEWARD]

"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress" says nothing about how any determination for the Electors' voting.

Nor does anything in the 12th Amendment, or you would not have bitched and moaned about my not putting them in the same post.

You got bupkis.

No I have the Constitution.  The appointment of electors is a delegated right granted to the states by the Constitution and while that right can be amended( i.e.12th ) it cannot be amended without Congressional approval NOR  in any manner that changes the overall purpose of the presidential election system.  And that system is an indirect election carried out through the Electoral College.
What the Nevada Legislature was trying to do a was convert Nevada ELECTORS into agents of other states.
Blatantly unconstitutional.

You keep saying that, but the states that set up winner-take all *did* change things without a constitutional amendment.

No. They didn’t. Article II gives the the right to elect electors anyway the states choose.
Nevada proposed doing away with electors effectively scrapping the Electoral College.
Blatantly unconstitutional

Dude, you pulled that one waaaaaaay out your ass!

Nevada proposed scrapping the Electoral College!

REDSTATEWARD's way of conceding defeat is to fictionalize the Nevada bill to match his rgument.

Exactly what the act was.   Blatantly stupid and blatantly Unconstitutional.
The only thing that was defeated was the Bill.

[oilcan]

Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows Dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/06/she-sounds-like-trump-his-best-tucker-carlson-endorses-elizabeth-warrens-economic-populism/?hpid&utm_term=.d7bfd8c17479

Tucker Carlson of Fox News spent nearly three minutes of his opening monologue on Wednesday quoting verbatim from the economic plan unveiled this week by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the Democratic presidential aspirant.

But his intention was not to disparage it. Hardly. He told Republicans, who are the lion’s share of his viewers, that they were voting against their own economic interests by backing candidates who did not speak like the consumer protection advocate and former Harvard Law School professor.

“She sounds like Donald Trump at his best,” Carlson said, in a striking show of support for the liberal firebrand who recently accused him of propagating hate.

There is no love lost between these two figures, and Carlson had no shortage of criticism for other aspects of Warren’s candidacy. Still, their agreement on certain fundamental questions about the economy revealed something about each of them — and about the inchoate political realignment that has made it unclear to which party causes from free trade to privacy protection belong.

For Carlson, who recently refused to apologize after the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America surfaced old recordings of him making racist and sexist remarks, the endorsement of Warren’s vision exemplified his efforts to distance himself from Republican orthodoxy at the very moment his network cleaves closer to the president. He has cast himself as a Trump-era populist truer to the creed than is the president himself, willing to speak hard truths to his own tribe, namely the Republican elite.

[facilitatorn]

There are ways to be a strong progressive that most of the country will vote for.

I’m still waiting to see who pulls it all together the best.