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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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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #30345 on: March 30, 2020, 11:58:19 PM »
Quote from: REDSTATEWARD on March 30, 2020, 06:16:29 PM
The Federal Government is restricted from national quarantines. The states not so much thanks to the 10th amendment and the Commerce Clause.
I stand by what I wrote.

This is wrong in many ways.  You don't understand how the commerce clause has been interpreted for two hundred years.  Your have it all backwards.  The Feds have great powers under the commerce clause.  And if anything, the Commerce Clause would likely prohibit a state from shutting down commerce.   but all this ignores the vast powers that state and fed gov't have during emergencies, especially when dealing with core powers -- health, safety, defense.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #30346 on: March 31, 2020, 12:03:47 AM »
Quote from: josh on March 30, 2020, 07:54:26 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd/index.html

Of course almost the entirety of the article talks about the shortage of masks and the need for health care workers to be prioritized. 

Bottom line: they don't advise people to take a very sensible precaution because it isn't available.

If everyone wears a mask in public, transmission will be halted sooner and anyone infectious will have a hard time spreading the virus. 

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #30347 on: March 31, 2020, 12:48:36 AM »
So's I'm scrolling through CNN headlines mostly serious stuff to do with the coronavirus.  And then one headline:

Man Allegedly Teaching His Dog To Drive Arrested After High Speed Chase

More serious news, then:

Scientist Gets Magnets Stuck in his Nose After Coronavirus Device Mishap


Both gave me a good laugh ...
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #30348 on: March 31, 2020, 12:55:53 AM »
Quote from: bodiddley on March 31, 2020, 12:48:36 AM
So's I'm scrolling through CNN headlines mostly serious stuff to do with the coronavirus.  And then one headline:

Man Allegedly Teaching His Dog To Drive Arrested After High Speed Chase

More serious news, then:

Scientist Gets Magnets Stuck in his Nose After Coronavirus Device Mishap


Both gave me a good laugh ...



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« Reply #30349 on: March 31, 2020, 02:51:25 AM »
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“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “They had things in there about election days and what you do and all sorts of clawbacks. They had things that were just totally crazy and had nothing to do with workers that lost their jobs and companies that we have to save.”

Can't have everybody voting or the GOP would never win again.

That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it. Obstructing the voters, keeping them away from the ballot box, is the only way the slimeballs can win.

Bet you're proud of that, too, Ward, huh?
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« Reply #30350 on: March 31, 2020, 04:46:15 AM »
More good innovation:
MIT Will Post Free Plans Online for an Emergency Ventilator That Can Be Built for $100

Basically taking the standard hand-pumped respiratory bag (Ambu bag) used until a respirator can be hooked up, and mechanizing the manual pump.
This could be a good emergency device if shortages hit.  Though it needs to work for a few weeks without missing a beat.
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« Reply #30351 on: March 31, 2020, 04:48:22 AM »
Great country full of great people. Piss poor and shitty imposter federal executive leadership, a problem to urgently fix in November.

http://www.theweek.com/articles/905570/pandemic-rages-president-brags

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« Reply #30352 on: March 31, 2020, 04:49:45 AM »
As for the driving dog, the police chase ended after the guy went off road, through two ditches and rammed a building.  The human got out, ran into a Pentecostal church and hid in their bathroom.  When the police got him, he berated them for being "slow as fuck."  Then exonerated himself by claiming his dog was driving.
Unsurprisingly, this was in Florida.
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« Reply #30353 on: March 31, 2020, 04:50:44 AM »
Quote from: facilitatorn on March 31, 2020, 04:48:22 AM
Great country full of great people. Piss poor and shitty imposter federal executive leadership, a problem to urgently fix in November.

http://www.theweek.com/articles/905570/pandemic-rages-president-brags

But... his briefings have the highest ratings!
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« Reply #30354 on: March 31, 2020, 04:55:09 AM »
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« Reply #30355 on: March 31, 2020, 04:56:15 AM »
Trump continues to be an endless embarrassment.

At least I put a little humor on Page 2020  ...
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« Reply #30356 on: March 31, 2020, 04:59:36 AM »
http://www.theweek.com/articles/904946/trumps-message-blue-states-battling-coronavirus-drop-dead

A lot of people are starting to recognize that the sick traits trump displayed blackmailing the Ukraine are now on full display domestically as the ill douche goes schoolyard bully & mob thug with whatever federal resources he can influence or control.

Trump is a tiny twisted nasty little man who has rallied the tiniest most twisted and vilest in the nation to worship around his blazing T of treason daily on the White House lawn.
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« Reply #30357 on: March 31, 2020, 05:03:03 AM »
Bottom line: trump is terrified of doing the job he stole.
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« Reply #30358 on: March 31, 2020, 08:04:18 AM »
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“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “They had things in there about election days and what you do and all sorts of clawbacks. They had things that were just totally crazy and had nothing to do with workers that lost their jobs and companies that we have to save.”

Can't have everybody voting or the GOP would never win again.

That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it. Obstructing the voters, keeping them away from the ballot box, is the only way the slimeballs can win.

Bet you're proud of that, too, Ward, huh?

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« Reply #30359 on: March 31, 2020, 08:06:34 AM »
Quote from: bodiddley on March 31, 2020, 04:49:45 AM
As for the driving dog, the police chase ended after the guy went off road, through two ditches and rammed a building.  The human got out, ran into a Pentecostal church and hid in their bathroom.  When the police got him, he berated them for being "slow as fuck."  Then exonerated himself by claiming his dog was driving.
Unsurprisingly, this was in Florida.
Ha!
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