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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]

You guys who are trump supporters don't also need to support this misbehaving couple who no one but their PAID lawyer is defending. 

Why do you jump to their defense?  Do you see yourself in them?  Sit this one out.  You'd have more credibility.

<chuckle>  Our foremost Trump fanboy and American culture pundit is an Australian dotard whose entire knowledge of America is gleaned from old TV series,  movies,  and cruising Google Street View.   

[barton]

And making verbal threats of fire and death.

Got a recording of it? No? Then it's a claim made for its own benefit, not verified. Roughly akin to "we were afraid for our lives."

And had they not accosted the protesters to begin with, would they have still feared for their lives?

Utterly pointless to keep up the counterpoint.  Kid has no real interest in any facts counter to his Brave Defender saga.   The notion that having a gun pointed at people (while shouting threats) can make some of them pissed and verbally aggressive is beyond him.   

[LarryBnDC]

Please, Barton.

Had the protesters simply been marching past, maybe that would have been fine - though in a private hood.

But clearly they were congregating outside the house.

They were going to protest at the mayor’s house.

Sure

And on the walk?

Some stopped and said, “Look! It’s Ken and Karen as shoeless gunslingers!”

Sit down you can see in their demeanor she shamed his ass out there. “Look it, Ken. If you were any kind of a man you’d...”

Smart-ass protesters?
Probably not the least bit interested that they'd scared the White folk residents into arming themselves and making a stand in front of their home.
Maybe 'Ken', seeing his wife genuinely fearful for her life and the life of her pets inside...said to himself , as the man of the house..."I'm not putting up with this shit", grabbed his assault rifle and went outside to make a stand, his wife then grabbing her gun and following him in support.

Not a good idea to taunt fearful, shaking 'gunslingers'...that's a good way to get yourself killed.
As I remember it the woman was shaking...truly fearing for her life.
I expected to see the gun go off any second.

Good thing Ken never fired that weapon considering he was holding it left handed and it has a right side ejection port.

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/ocasio-cortez-aipac-israel-aid-annexation-345287

Uh, no.

Why not?

Folks put conditions on financial support all the time. I’ll continue to fund you and your socialized healthcare system if you stop stealing your neighbors land.

Yawn. You should stick to other topics.

Why?

[LarryBnDC]

Brilliant!

[LarryBnDC]

Racial health disparity, explained.

When Uché Blackstock, an urgent-care physician and founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, saw initial reports from China regarding characteristics of people who are at higher risk for contracting coronavirus she knew it would spell trouble for fellow members of the Black community.

“Black communities were essentially already sick before coronavirus,” Blackstock told MarketWatch. “They carry the highest burden of chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, even obesity.” In addition, health-care institutions in predominantly black neighborhoods are often under-funded and provide lower quality care than in other neighborhoods, she said.


The nightmare Blackstock foresaw has become an unfortunate reality.

Nearly one-third of Black Americans have lost someone they know due to coronavirus, compared to 13% across all populations, according to a recent Ipsos/Washington Post poll. Additionally, Black COVID-19 patients have 2.7 times the odds of being admitted to the hospital compared to non-Hispanic white patients.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/black-communities-were-essentially-already-sick-before-coronavirus-pandemic-highlights-preexisting-condition-with-health-care-and-race-2020-06-30?mod=home-page

Yep.

[barton]

One thing I learned in my dealings with public health (doing social work in group homes) is how substandard housing can impact respiratory health.   Poor housing can give you asthma, in several ways.    And also,  living within 150 feet of an arterial (where cheaper housing is often found) has an impact on CV health.  We have a long ways to go on these issues.   

[barton]

Dammit,  Jim,  I'm a ship's doctor,  not an epidemiologist!

[LarryBnDC]

What the fuck, GOP?

Give it up. That kompromat is coming out sooner or later.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/senate-removes-ban-foreign-election-help/index.html

[Echo4]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53218704

A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists.
It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say.
The researchers are concerned that it could mutate further so that it can spread easily from person to person, and trigger a global outbreak.
While it is not an immediate problem, they say, it has "all the hallmarks" of being highly adapted to infect humans and needs close monitoring.
As it's new, people could have little or no immunity to the virus.
The scientists write in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that measures to control the virus in pigs, and the close monitoring of swine industry workers, should be swiftly implemented.

Any action in the White House, yet?

He denies having been briefed on this and the intelligence is inconclusive, anyway.

[LarryBnDC]

One thing I learned in my dealings with public health (doing social work in group homes) is how substandard housing can impact respiratory health.   Poor housing can give you asthma, in several ways.    And also,  living within 150 feet of an arterial (where cheaper housing is often found) has an impact on CV health.  We have a long ways to go on these issues.

It has t been proven but the crime rates dropped as lead abatement increased. Unleaded gas etc.

So now entire communities are being poisoned by lead in the water.

[bambu.]

You guys who are trump supporters don't also need to support this misbehaving couple who no one but their PAID lawyer is defending. 

Why do you jump to their defense?  Do you see yourself in them?  Sit this one out.  You'd have more credibility.

Some people in America besides their lawyer are defending them.
Why?
Maybe they too have had enough of protesters rampaging thru society, invading private property, taking over cities, burning down whatever they like,  threatening to burn down whole city districts if they don't get their way, tearing down whatever statues they don't like ...and are thinking "We could be next".

[Echo4]

You guys who are trump supporters don't also need to support this misbehaving couple who no one but their PAID lawyer is defending. 

Why do you jump to their defense?  Do you see yourself in them?  Sit this one out.  You'd have more credibility.

Some people in America besides their lawyer are defending them.
Why?

Maybe because they have kneejerk reactions, just like you, with an allergy to facts.

[Hairy Lime]

Maybe the Mayor should've just resigned.  Instead of holding her gated community neighbors to this type of emotional anguish.

Maybe.

Maybe marauding protesters should stop invading communities and subjecting residents to fear and emotional anguish.
There oughta be a law.
Gated communities are private property.

No.

[bambu.]

"ScoMo goes ballistic as Australia spashes out on new weapons".
One can never have too many weapons.

The more weapons you have, especially new weapons, the more likely you are to use them.  Think about that ...

Some fancy new missiles we bought from Washington that sit  under the wings of warplanes, and when a button is pushed fly away and blow up whole ships.
Cool.  (well except for the loss of life on the ships.)...all's fair in love and war.
China is attacking Australia now at every turn. Alleged espionage, trade, verbal insults,  what next...physical assault, 
blocking the South China sea and ruining our economy?
Use new weapons? not much point having them if you're not prepared to use them.
What Aussie really needs ...nuke-powered, nuke-armed subs ...even if rented from Washington...that can turn Beijing and Shanghai into ash at the pushing of a few buttons.
Might as well go out in a blaze of glory as be a China slave forever....on in modern language 'Kung fu slave'.
Obama is appalled at Trump's term "Kung flu".
Obama is too nice.