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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

[bodiddley]

3 in 4 Republicans say US is in better shape than four years ago: poll

57 percent of Republicans say coronavirus death toll is 'acceptable'

Didn't click through to get the details, but J-E-E-Z ...

[josh]

3 in 4 Republicans say US is in better shape than four years ago: poll

57 percent of Republicans say coronavirus death toll is 'acceptable'

Didn't click through to get the details, but J-E-E-Z ...

I believe the term "deplorable" applies. The good news is that that is less than 19% of the American voting public.

[josh]

[Yankguy1]

Less than 19 percent of the ELIGIBLE voting public.

[josh]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-economy-coronavirus-opinion-poll-cbs-news-battleground-tracker/

That's the source of the horrifying stat.

The degree of self-serving hypocrisy is... hard to take.

The dishonesty is in full display here from Ward and, to a very slightly lesser extent, Kid.

[bambu.]

Achtung, bitches...


https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/21/texas-dps-police-brutality-protesters/

If only they'd stayed home.

Yeah!

Just think how wonderful everything would be if nobody ever left their houses.

If those mentioned had stayed home instead of rioting/defacing govt buildings/throwing things at cops...their lives today would be a lot more wonderful than they are now.

[josh]

This is an important piece coming out of the convention:


Similarly important is this:

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-economy-coronavirus-opinion-poll-cbs-news-battleground-tracker/

That's the source of the horrifying stat.

The degree of self-serving hypocrisy is... hard to take.

The dishonesty is in full display here from Ward and, to a very slightly lesser extent, Kid.

The perception of WHO IS DYING drives the numbers

[josh]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-economy-coronavirus-opinion-poll-cbs-news-battleground-tracker/

That's the source of the horrifying stat.

The degree of self-serving hypocrisy is... hard to take.

The dishonesty is in full display here from Ward and, to a very slightly lesser extent, Kid.

The perception of WHO IS DYING drives the numbers

Partially.

Some of it is, "but it is our president under whom it is happening, so it must be all right."

If it were the same numbers and the same perception of who was dying, the GOP would still be up in arms because it was Obama or Biden who was president and how dare they!

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-economy-coronavirus-opinion-poll-cbs-news-battleground-tracker/

That's the source of the horrifying stat.

The degree of self-serving hypocrisy is... hard to take.

The dishonesty is in full display here from Ward and, to a very slightly lesser extent, Kid.

The perception of WHO IS DYING drives the numbers

Partially.

Some of it is, "but it is our president under whom it is happening, so it must be all right."

If it were the same numbers and the same perception of who was dying, the GOP would still be up in arms because it was Obama or Biden who was president and how dare they!

You’re right! What’s truly heinous if roles were reversed different actions would have been taken and the GOP would be like, “One life is too many! 400 is unconscionable!”

This pandemic has truly exposed the nation for what it is and this young generation doesn’t like it one bit.

[josh]

In news totally unsurprising to anybody (and which those of us not hornswoggled by Trump and the GOP are willing to admit is not surprising, the Trump team failed to produce a single shred of evidence in their anti-Voting by Mail suit in Pennsylvania. It was due by Friday. Friday came and went.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-campaign-lawsuit-pennsylvania-voting

My favorite bit is the last line, bolded, in which the GOP lawyers throw in lots of pages of irrelevant crap, because they had nothing.

Even in response to a federal judge, the Trump campaign was unable to provide evidence of voter fraud in its crusade against drop boxes in Pennsylvania.

Last week, a Trump-appointed federal judge ordered the campaign to show examples to back up their argument that drop boxes, where voters can deposit their ballots, will open the door to widespread voter fraud.

In their response, campaign lawyers declined to do so.

“Neither the original Complaint nor the Amended Complaint contains an allegation that ‘ballot harvesting,’ ‘manipulating and destroying ballots,’ double voting, and/or voter fraud from mail-in and absentee ballots actually occurred during the Primary Election,” the lawyers wrote.

“The claims asserted by the plaintiffs do not hinge on evidence of voter fraud actually occurring,” they added. The campaign argued that though it has no proof that fraud of this type has happened, it could — and that’s grounds enough for barring the boxes.

The campaign then loaded the 524-page document with articles about a handful of cases of voter fraud unrelated to mail-in voting or drop boxes.

[Kam]

Meanwhile...

I’ve been telling kiid and RED for years the Republicans are a bunch of grifters and their supporters are

SUCKERS!

https://www.newsweek.com/former-donors-bannons-border-wall-crowdfund-say-they-feel-sick-over-where-money-went-1526517

Bannon’s vics don’t have all that much reason to be upset.

Hard to feel any sympathy for them contributing to such a cause in the first place.

[Kam]

[
Your snide comment to Josh was false.

You told Josh:  "That’s a chapter of the story you neglected."

My later post pointed out that the dismal effects of Hayes-Tilden - which no one here disputes at all - were discussed in the article Josh posted.   Therefore,  he did not neglect that story,  and in fact was the one who posted it.   Your rhetorical stab at him,  that he was neglecting the results of that infamous horsetrading,  was false.   

Either you lied,  or you didn't bother to read past the first couple paragraphs of the NYer piece.

The cited Article only  touched on the real tragedy of the Hayes/Tilden Compromise without detailing what ensued. 85 years of Southern democrats disenfranchising black voters.
No one who read the article was presented those facts in any sort of detail.

Your point about southern democrats disenfranchising black voters isn't a mark against modern democrats. 
We've discussed the change in the constituency of the Rep and Dem parties.
The southern democrats of that time are the southern republicans of today.   
Southern whites switched from Dem to Rep roughly 50 years ago and blacks switched from Rep to Dem around the same time.

[josh]

Wait, I thought the Christian deity is omnipotent and omnipresent!

[REDSTATEWARD]

This is a prior example of the systemic racism that Ward denies exists:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/civil-rights-devos_n_5b7b2dd3e4b018b93e96a9cf

The education system, this time.

An example of “ systemic racism” this article certainly Is NOT.
Allegations are not “ proof“ of anything.
But it is curious you would cite a report covering 2010-2016 when the Department of Education was under the Obama/Biden leadership.