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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

[oilcan]

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years.

Bleaching has struck all three regions of the world’s largest coral reef system and is more widespread than ever, scientists from James Cook University in Queensland state said Tuesday.

The air surveys of 1,036 reefs in the past two weeks found bleached coral in the northern, central and southern areas, James Cook University professor Terry Hughes said.

“As summers grow hotter and hotter, we no longer need an El Nino event to trigger mass bleaching at the scale of the Great Barrier Reef,” Hughes said. “Of the five events we have seen so far, only 1998 and 2016 occurred during El Nino conditions.”

https://apnews.com/6f3594b72e37a9d1280b1d622bab0d81

[barton]

Class issues are based in race.

No.  Class issues are based in economics.

The GOP has largely successfully conflated race and class to prevent class consciousness and block measures that would assist the poor.

It's about what markers are used.   In Britain,  accent was the principal class marker.  In the US,  it was melanin.   The dismal legacy of using a visible marker is with us still,  and persisted because Americans wanted to reject that snooty ol Brit class system.   Underlying it,  IMO,  was the idea that defining an "other" by genes was somehow more based in an objective  reality.   No more of that shallow Henry Higgins stuff about flowers girls and Hartford, Hereford,  and Hampshire. 

(edit to fix typo,  I hate my auto-correct)

[Hairy Lime]

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years.

Bleaching has struck all three regions of the world’s largest coral reef system and is more widespread than ever, scientists from James Cook University in Queensland state said Tuesday.

The air surveys of 1,036 reefs in the past two weeks found bleached coral in the northern, central and southern areas, James Cook University professor Terry Hughes said.

“As summers grow hotter and hotter, we no longer need an El Nino event to trigger mass bleaching at the scale of the Great Barrier Reef,” Hughes said. “Of the five events we have seen so far, only 1998 and 2016 occurred during El Nino conditions.”

https://apnews.com/6f3594b72e37a9d1280b1d622bab0d81

Help may be on the way:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/europe/pope-francis-coronavirus-nature-response-intl/index.html

[Hairy Lime]

Meanwhile COVID has claimed Alan Garfield, one of the 24 Count 'em 24! of the stars of my second favorite movie.ever, Nashville.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Good bye Bernie Sanders
Good Bye Medicare for All

Good riddance to both.

[josh]

Good bye Bernie Sanders
Good Bye Medicare for All

Good riddance to both.

You feeling particularly dense today?

Bernie's leaving the race now increases the chances of Medicare for All (or some other form of universal healthcare), not reduces it.

And even if it changed nothing of the likelihood, the topic is not going away - not with the huge gaps that COVID-19 has exposed (which were already obvious to most of us).

The fact that your side of the country continues to lie about the numbers dead, claiming them to be inflated, the fact that Republicans, particularly Republican men are less likely to be practicing social distancing, may make them less likely to acknowledge the need, but Republican men are a only about 13-14% of voters.

You are in the minority - a group that is shrinking before our eyes. You will be better served as a minority group than any before you in the history of this country.

This is from January, before we saw just how much of a problem this disease was going to be. They haven't run the numbers again, yet, but do you seriously believe that the percentage in favor of Medicare for All is going to drop?!

the latest KFF tracking poll finds that a majority of Americans favor a national Medicare-for-all health plan (56%) but a larger share favors a government-administered “public option” (68%). Notably, nearly half of adults (48%) favor both of these proposals. Among the 17% who favor a public option but oppose Medicare-for-all, when asked to explain their reasoning in their own words, the most common responses indicate that they prefer a public option because it allows choice (32% of those who were asked, or 5% of the total public).

Eight in ten Americans think taxes for most people would increase both under a Medicare-for-all plan (83%) or a public option health plan available to all (81%). However, more adults think that all Americans would have health insurance coverage under a Medicare-for-all system (62%) than under a public option (53%).

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-january-2020/

[REDSTATEWARD]

Bernie has made a lot of money pushing socialism.
I guess he can be expected to sit back and spend his profits fixing up his many, many houses.

[Hairy Lime]

Good bye Bernie Sanders
Good Bye Medicare for All

Good riddance to both.

Every attack on Obamacare increases the likelihood of Medicare for all. As long as you keep that shit up Medicare for All is not going away.

[kiidcarter8]

I think Bernie has ten more years in him as a senator.  The dude works hard.   Clap, clap, clap ....

Will we see a Bernie for President 2024?

[REDSTATEWARD]

I think Bernie has ten more years in him as a senator.  The dude works hard.   Clap, clap, clap ....

Will we see a Bernie for President 2024?

LOL
Not a chance.

[josh]

Bernie has made a lot of money pushing socialism.
I guess he can be expected to sit back and spend his profits fixing up his many, many houses.

By you, because it is what you would do.

That you mischaracterize where most of his wealth is from is typical.

[josh]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mayo-clinic-cardiologist-inexcusable-ignore-hydroxychloroquine-side-effects-n1178776?cid=googlenews-politics&fbclid=IwAR1r0KocEhOqJGGf38Qs0vgXsKKYBPMCKgOTFCkbacINOkqvcb3hPivfKJk

[Hairy Lime]

I think Bernie has ten more years in him as a senator.  The dude works hard.   Clap, clap, clap ....

Will we see a Bernie for President 2024?

I think Vice President Harris would be in the best shape to run, should President Joe opt to serve only one term.

[kiidcarter8]

Bernie has made a lot of money pushing socialism.
I guess he can be expected to sit back and spend his profits fixing up his many, many houses.

By you, because it is what you would do.

That you mischaracterize where most of his wealth is from is typical.

He has a second home, like most Vermonters (huh?).  Leave him alone.

[LarryBnDC]

Class issues are based in race.

No.  Class issues are based in economics.

The GOP has largely successfully conflated race and class to prevent class consciousness and block measures that would assist the poor.

No.

Just like that no?

Successful is the word. White people by and large vote for policies they think will hurt black people thus biting off their nose to spite their own face.

The answer is not a definitive no. Let’s not quibble over the wealth of nations.

This is America 2020 and race is the persdigm.

Explain Trump in five words.

America is racist as fuck.