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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]

On D-Day in '44, Josh's grandparents did no celebrating.  After all - look at all that died.

Morbid folk they were.  And have passed it down.

Yeah, because dying because the Liar-in-Chief did nothing to stop it is SO the same as the soldiers giving their lives on D-Day.

Oh, the NOBLE SACRIFICE these COVID-19 patients made for the sake of their country, bravely rushing the wards of the hospitals, knowing that many would die for the good of the country.

And you say I have to stop?

You just compared 4,400 troops dying on D Day to 200,000 sick people dying, many of them fooled into thinking it was not a big problem by the president.

[josh]

Donald Trump has accused the Democratic Party and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of conspiring to delay the announcement of Pfizer and BioNTech’s potential coronavirus vaccine until after last week’s election

Interesting

No.

Stupid.

Like you have been on this whole issue from the start.

But hey, we're rounding the corner, like in a horse race!

Only another 200,000 Americans need to die and then we WIN!

Go us.

[barton]

Biden is number 46, the full number of chromosomes for a human.   

Sorry,  been reading about Q,  which infects me with urges to post items of faux-significance.

[barton]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/10/qanon-identity-crisis/

Funny,  in a pathetic way... true believers are having crises of faith.

[facilitatorn]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/10/qanon-identity-crisis/

Funny,  in a pathetic way... true believers are having crises of faith.

Hopefully the vast majority wind up very angry and the Nazis who duped them into rabbit holing in the first place.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-and-news-11-10-20/h_ea24bf2d9e4098e37e905b8c19487beb

Pompeo is promising a smooth transition to a 2nd term for Trump.

What drugs is he on or what does Trump have on him to cause him to make such a fatuous comment?!

[bodiddley]

Questioning by justices is a rather unreliable guide as to how they will vote.

Questioning plus their previous decisions can be pretty reliable.
Also in high profile/political cases, the questioning tends to be more indicative of positions.
Kav seems to be a severability guy, which is a solid approach.
Roberts already saved the ACA before.
Knock off 2 conservative votes and the ACA is safe.

Otherwise, I think there's just no appetite to kill off ACA now.
The timing right after a new president was elected is poor.
Plus the pandemic is the ugliest time to rip insurance away from 23M.
And ACA has run for a decade now, and is part of the landscape.

Roberts is very mindful of the court's prestige and institutional role.
And with three fairly new justices, I think Roberts will be able to hold sway over them.  Really all he needs is to persuade one other conservative to join him.

Not to mention that the case is fairly weak in itself.  It's more like a legal exercise rather than a genuine case.  Which is where standing comes in.  Often when the court wants to punt and not decide, they bring up standing issues, and the conservatives of fond of denying standing to individual plaintiffs, believing the courts shouldn't decide too much.  I don't think it would be hard to rustle up 5+ votes for lack of standing, allowing the premise of the case to linger without deciding any merits. 

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-and-news-11-10-20/h_ea24bf2d9e4098e37e905b8c19487beb

Pompeo is promising a smooth transition to a 2nd term for Trump.

What drugs is he on or what does Trump have on him to cause him to make such a fatuous comment?!

He’s an End of Days type of guy. He fully expects to be raptured.

[kidcarter8]

Official congratulations, Thom Tillis.

[kidcarter8]

You just compared 4,400 troops dying on D Day to 200,000 sick people dying, many of them fooled into thinking it was not a big problem by the president.


No.  I compared D Day to yesterday.  Big step forward in the overall fight to defeat a nasty foe.

[kidcarter8]

Tillis never led

And yet has won.

Nice job, pollsters.

[barton]

You just compared 4,400 troops dying on D Day to 200,000 sick people dying, many of them fooled into thinking it was not a big problem by the president.


No.  I compared D Day to yesterday.  Big step forward in the overall fight to defeat a nasty foe.

And I want to thank the German couple, both children of Turkish immigrant parents,  whose groundbreaking work on messenger RNA for a German biotech company allowed Pfizer to announce their promising results on a vaccine.   

[facilitatorn]

Sad day for North Carolina and the Senate.

If this is all stressing Mitch out too much, his governor can appoint his replacement.

[facilitatorn]

You just compared 4,400 troops dying on D Day to 200,000 sick people dying, many of them fooled into thinking it was not a big problem by the president.


No.  I compared D Day to yesterday.  Big step forward in the overall fight to defeat a nasty foe.

And I want to thank the German couple, both children of Turkish immigrant parents,  whose groundbreaking work on messenger RNA for a German biotech company allowed Pfizer to announce their promising results on a vaccine.

Trump only managed to slow a vaccine by two or three months tops by the sum of his decisions. Go world!

[bodiddley]

So in 2012, when the election was called for Obama, Trump was calling for a revolution, marching on Washington, etc.  What "injustice" and "travesty" prompted this?  Trump was enraged at the Electoral College and that the candidate with fewer national votes was elected president.  (Trump didn't wait for the West Coast tallies and Obama to pass Romney in total votes, and so not only had a stupid argument but was wrong on the underlying facts as well).

Pretty funny, as 4 years later in '16 Trump would become president with 3M fewer votes, due to that same horrid electoral college.  And this year Trump is trying to finagle his way to an electoral win despite nearly 5M fewer votes.

Screenshots of Trump's real time 2012 tweets:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/11/trump-is-election-nights-most-unhinged-goper.html