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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

[facilitatorn]

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/1/Hope_economic_consequences_of_major_tax_cuts_published.pdf

[LarryBnDC]

And now, not one, but Two COVID-19 vaccines.
They said it couldn’t be done!

Who said it couldn’t be done?

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/politics/supreme-court-covid-kentucky-school/index.html

The Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request from a religious school in Kentucky to block regulations that temporarily restrict in-person instruction in elementary, middle and upper schools in the state due to Covid-19.

The court's unsigned order is the most recent to come from the justices dealing with religious groups that are challenging Covid-19 restrictions as a violation of First Amendment rights, although it is the first dealing with a school. In other recent orders, the court had sided with houses of worship and against state officials.

Here, the court noted that the state's regulation expires in the coming days and that there is "no indication that it will be renewed." The court said that because of the "timing and impending expiration" of the order, it would deny the request to block it but said the school could come back if a new order is issued next year.

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissented, saying that the executive order from Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear "resulted in unconstitutional discrimination against religion."

[facilitatorn]

We can’t put all the deaths on trump when there is so much blame spread throughout the republican party.

[bambu.]

French President Macron has tested positive.
Ridiculous.
Not scared enough, obviously.

I'll return to Marx later today.
Marx and his cohorts introduced a decree that hereditary properties had to be purchased by the inheritors.
My ancestors said "stuff that" and boarded the boat for Souh Australia.

Now like the coal plants, their descendant is retired and worthless.

At least your family did it’s part for German greatness by helping that nation shed some dead weight in its lurch toward modernity. It slightly offsets the fact that Australia will never live you down. You’ve become part of the generation that fell behind then folded to the Chinese.

LOL
Last summer's fires destroyed most of the Adelaide Hills where many of their descendants live...old towns in the style of what they left behind.
I travelled there in recent years to see for myself. I saw the first print of Martin Luther's writings.
Of course by the time my ancestors arrived all the good land had been taken by the those who'd arrived earlier.
The only land they could buy was mostly rocks, 1 cow to an acre.
As luck would have it, by the time they'd worked and saved, new land was released on the other side of the Hills.
Nice, flat, fertile land...so they bought some of that.

Marxists love death taxes.
When I left school there were death taxes. None today...bambu-ilk had them banished.

German greatness?  It's a myth.
Well, some might call it great that in Germany they 'all' go to saunas naked, separate genders and mixed genders.
Ew!
Tax on church members?   Time for meetings in barns at midnight.

Wonder if that 'church tax' applies to mosque members?

One good thing about dating German women in Germany is that they pay for their own meals in restaurants, and find their own way to and from the restaurant...so they don't feel obligated.
That's one great thing.

[Oilcandide]

For those of you who care about journalism,  this article from two years ago is worth reading.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/post-advertising-future-media/578917/


It was advertising that led to the demise of the party press. Ads allowed newspapers to become independent of patronage and to build the modern standards of “objective” journalism. Advertising also led to a neutered, detached style of reporting—the “view from nowhere”—to avoid offending the biggest advertisers, such as department stores. Large ad-supported newspapers grew to become profitable behemoths, but they arguably emphasized milquetoast coverage over more colorful reader engagement.

As the news business shifts back from advertisers to patrons and readers (that is to say, subscribers), journalism might escape that “view from nowhere” purgatory and speak straightforwardly about the world in a way that might have seemed presumptuous in a mid-century newspaper. Journalism could be more political again, but also more engaging again.

That’s already happening.

For example, in just the past few decades, The New York Times’ revenue has shifted from more than 60 percent advertising to more than 60 percent reader payments. As its business model has changed, so has its coverage. “Look at The New York Times in 1960 vs. 2010; the reportage is more interpretive,” observed the late James L. Baughman, the communications theorist and University of Wisconsin professor...   

[Oilcandide]

Just a quick note from the planet Earth....vaccines don't alter your DNA. 

So three people have read the Politico smoking gun story,  two have posted it,  and exactly zero Trumpistos have offered any comment.  Yeah,  I might hide from that one,  too,  if I were a red hat.

You don’t read all the posts, obviously.

So yours and Kid's response to the Trump admin deliberately wanting to infect as many Americans as possible was... what?   Somehow I missed where you actually made a cogent and thoughtful case for letting 1.5 million people die on purpose so we could goose the economy.   

[kidcarter8]

There was never going to be a mask shortage - and citizens were told not to wear them (not by Donald Trump)

The masks that are reportedly necessary for COVID are being made by every Nancy and her cousin in the US - and I am sure in other locales as well.  With no ACT of the government necessary - just 2 things -

- Charitability of citizens

- American entrepreneurship

[bambu.]

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/karl-marx-was-pretty-bad-person/

In the name of the Marxian vision of a “new society” and a “new man,” socialist and communist revolutions led to the mass murders, enslavement, torture, and starvation of tens of millions of people around the world. Historians have estimated that in the attempt to make that “new” and “better” socialist world, communist regimes have killed as many as, maybe, 200 million people in the twentieth century.

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Beware the 'redistribute the wealth' lot, for they could well have you as pauper and not even blink.

[LarryBnDC]

Then we will have two, with Astra-Veneca coming around soon after, perhaps. Those plus the anti-body treatment may mean we can keep US deaths under 600,000, but I doubt it.

I would expect us to pass  WWII in deaths about Jan 22, Civil War in deaths in 4 months, and the 1918 pandemic by the end of May, unless our efficiency of getting people vaccinated improves a ton.

Because of Trump


There are more than 300,000 dead

FIFY

[LarryBnDC]

Because of Trump

We get it

Yes, because of trump. Things are geometrically worse due to his failures. That’s largely why we fired his ass. Thank you for catching up.

You’d think Trump was fucking Dave Checketts...

[LarryBnDC]

For those of you who care about journalism,  this article from two years ago is worth reading.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/post-advertising-future-media/578917/


It was advertising that led to the demise of the party press. Ads allowed newspapers to become independent of patronage and to build the modern standards of “objective” journalism. Advertising also led to a neutered, detached style of reporting—the “view from nowhere”—to avoid offending the biggest advertisers, such as department stores. Large ad-supported newspapers grew to become profitable behemoths, but they arguably emphasized milquetoast coverage over more colorful reader engagement.

As the news business shifts back from advertisers to patrons and readers (that is to say, subscribers), journalism might escape that “view from nowhere” purgatory and speak straightforwardly about the world in a way that might have seemed presumptuous in a mid-century newspaper. Journalism could be more political again, but also more engaging again.

That’s already happening.

For example, in just the past few decades, The New York Times’ revenue has shifted from more than 60 percent advertising to more than 60 percent reader payments. As its business model has changed, so has its coverage. “Look at The New York Times in 1960 vs. 2010; the reportage is more interpretive,” observed the late James L. Baughman, the communications theorist and University of Wisconsin professor...   

Yeah, but her emails...

[REDSTATEWARD]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/politics/supreme-court-covid-kentucky-school/index.html

The Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request from a religious school in Kentucky to block regulations that temporarily restrict in-person instruction in elementary, middle and upper schools in the state due to Covid-19.

The court's unsigned order is the most recent to come from the justices dealing with religious groups that are challenging Covid-19 restrictions as a violation of First Amendment rights, although it is the first dealing with a school. In other recent orders, the court had sided with houses of worship and against state officials.

Here, the court noted that the state's regulation expires in the coming days and that there is "no indication that it will be renewed." The court said that because of the "timing and impending expiration" of the order, it would deny the request to block it but said the school could come back if a new order is issued next year.

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissented, saying that the executive order from Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear "resulted in unconstitutional discrimination against religion."

Either Alito or Gorsusch will write the majority opinion if the issue is revived.

[LarryBnDC]

There was never going to be a mask shortage - and citizens were told not to wear them (not by Donald Trump)

The masks that are reportedly necessary for COVID are being made by every Nancy and her cousin in the US - and I am sure in other locales as well.  With no ACT of the government necessary - just 2 things -

- Charitability of citizens

- American entrepreneurship

Bitch, please.

[josh]

There was never going to be a mask shortage - and citizens were told not to wear them (not by Donald Trump)

The masks that are reportedly necessary for COVID are being made by every Nancy and her cousin in the US - and I am sure in other locales as well.  With no ACT of the government necessary - just 2 things -

Your deceit continues unabated.

There was a mask shortage, which is why Americans were told not to wear them. And at the time (early February) the vast majority of good masks were made in China, but you don't read.

And what Trump didn't do is either rapidly address the shortage of PPE or the distribution of PPE, while at the same time failing to [i[promote[/i] mask use when Fauci, et al, declared they should be used.

You keep wanting to pretend he did not lie to the American people for months.

So bizarre and twisted.