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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]

Wall Street being buoyed by the prospect of the nimbleness of this self-lobotomizing administration. 

[josh]

[kiidcarter8]

Excellent leadership by Trump today.

May just be the best president of my lifetime, rivaling Reagan.

[josh]

Excellent leadership by Trump today.

May just be the best president of my lifetime, rivaling Reagan.

You just believe his bullshit all day, everyday.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/politics/alexander-azar-coronavirus-chairman-task-force/index.html

[LarryBnDC]

Excellent leadership by Trump today.

May just be the best president of my lifetime, rivaling Reagan.

“We’ll see what happens” is Trump speak for ‘I have no fucking clue.’

It’s people like you who fall for his bullshit that’s allowed him to have multiple bankruptcies... and become leader of the White World.

[Hairy Lime]

Excellent leadership by Trump today.

May just be the best president of my lifetime, rivaling Reagan.

Also, that grape Kool-Aid is delicious!

Fify.

[Driver125]

Excellent leadership by Trump today. May just be the best president of my lifetime, rivaling Reagan.

Oh Klid, Klid…..I wish we could understand you…..but we don’t. We just don’t understand how someone could be as stupid as you apparently are. Trump we get. He’s just a big con man. Has been his entire adult life. He knows no other way to operate. But you??? You don’t gain anything for Trumps criminal stupidity….all you end up is looking completely dumb. And when it all finally falls completely apart, there you will be, trying desperately to blame this on the Democrats or someone else—anyone else—-besides your orange hero, while anyone with a modicum of sanity listening to you won’t be able to avoid thinking ‘dumb shit’—absolutely clueless.

[barton]

Excellent leadership by Trump today.

May just be the best president of my lifetime, rivaling Reagan.

Also, that grape Kool-Aid is delicious!

Fify.

Rarely do I quote Frank Sinatra movie lines, but...


  'Raymond Shaw is the kindest, warmest, bravest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life,' and even now I feel that way - this minute. And yet, somewhere in the back of my mind, something tells me it's not true. It's just not true. It isn't as if Raymond's hard to like. He's impossible to like. In fact, he's probably one of the most repulsive human beings I've ever known in my whole - all of my life.   

[barton]

Excellent leadership by Trump today. May just be the best president of my lifetime, rivaling Reagan.

Oh Klid, Klid…..I wish we could understand you…..but we don’t. We just don’t understand how someone could be as stupid as you apparently are. Trump we get. He’s just a big con man. Has been his entire adult life. He knows no other way to operate. But you??? You don’t gain anything for Trumps criminal stupidity….all you end up is looking completely dumb. And when it all finally falls completely apart, there you will be, trying desperately to blame this on the Democrats or someone else—anyone else—-besides your orange hero, while anyone with a modicum of sanity listening to you won’t be able to avoid thinking ‘dumb shit’—absolutely clueless.

Con men exist because there are marks.

[Hairy Lime]

Excellent leadership by Trump today.

May just be the best president of my lifetime, rivaling Reagan.

Also, that grape Kool-Aid is delicious!

Fify.

Rarely do I quote Frank Sinatra movie lines, but...


  'Raymond Shaw is the kindest, warmest, bravest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life,' and even now I feel that way - this minute. And yet, somewhere in the back of my mind, something tells me it's not true. It's just not true. It isn't as if Raymond's hard to like. He's impossible to like. In fact, he's probably one of the most repulsive human beings I've ever known in my whole - all of my life.   

kiid likes to pass the time by playing a little solitaire.

[Hairy Lime]

Thing is, even if Trump performed perfectly yesterday - real perfect, not Trump phone call perfect - he would be performing on a level of, oh, the mayor of Wilmington NC with a hurricane approaching. It is the nature of the task. But for Trump cultists even the routine stuff is evidence of genius.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Thing is, even if Trump performed perfectly yesterday - real perfect, not Trump phone call perfect - he would be performing on a level of, oh, the mayor of Wilmington NC with a hurricane approaching. It is the nature of the task. But for Trump cultists even the routine stuff is evidence of genius.

You are right.  The toughest thing facing Trump during this crisis is for him to  resist a Twitter battle with Bernie and the democrats.  Given his history it may be nigh on impossible for him to turn the other cheek. We shall see.

But, as Dan Henninger wrote in the WSJ, Bernie has, possibly, a bigger problem.
Medicare For All.


A grim reality for medical science is that deadly mutating viruses are inevitable, as are antibiotic-resistant infections. We are in a race between a virus calamity and the ability to create effective vaccines and antiviral therapies.
Imagine if for the past 40 years, the U.S. health care system were run like Mr. Sanders’s two favorite alternatives—the U.K.’s National Health Service or Healthcare in Canada. It is only a slight exaggeration to say . . . we’d be dead.

A Medicare for All system in the U.S., with minimal private hospitals or physicians, would collapse beneath a real virus crisis. Medicare for All would smother the public-private infrastructure in the U.S. that develops, manufactures and distributes lifesaving therapies for viruses—or anything else.
The Wall Street Journal this week wrote about Moderna Inc., an 800-employee drug company in Cambridge, Mass., that is working around the clock to create a coronavirus vaccine within months. If BernieCare happens, they’re gone. No, you won’t be able to import the coronavirus vaccine from Canada.



https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-versus-the-coronavirus-11582763105?mod=opinion_lead_pos9

[Driver125]

Con men exist because there are marks.

Oh yes…..believe it Barton. And Trump is, in my mind, the greatest con man of all time. I don’t know why he can’t be happy with that. I thought he was good when he slithered away from that ‘pussy grabbing’ thing with no repercussions to his campaign….but then he topped that by getting 60 million Americans to actually vote for him. Nobody in history can even come close to that.

[LarryBnDC]

Con men exist because there are marks.

Oh yes…..believe it Barton. And Trump is, in my mind, the greatest con man of all time. I don’t know why he can’t be happy with that. I thought he was good when he slithered away from that ‘pussy grabbing’ thing with no repercussions to his campaign….but then he topped that by getting 60 million Americans to actually vote for him. Nobody in history can even come close to that.

Shit, half the people in this country thought the Confederate flag was cool...

[Hairy Lime]

Thing is, even if Trump performed perfectly yesterday - real perfect, not Trump phone call perfect - he would be performing on a level of, oh, the mayor of Wilmington NC with a hurricane approaching. It is the nature of the task. But for Trump cultists even the routine stuff is evidence of genius.

You are right.  The toughest thing facing Trump during this crisis is for him to  resist a Twitter battle with Bernie and the democrats.  Given his history it may be nigh on impossible for him to turn the other cheek. We shall see.

But, as Dan Henninger wrote in the WSJ, Bernie has, possibly, a bigger problem.
Medicare For All.


A grim reality for medical science is that deadly mutating viruses are inevitable, as are antibiotic-resistant infections. We are in a race between a virus calamity and the ability to create effective vaccines and antiviral therapies.
Imagine if for the past 40 years, the U.S. health care system were run like Mr. Sanders’s two favorite alternatives—the U.K.’s National Health Service or Healthcare in Canada. It is only a slight exaggeration to say . . . we’d be dead.

A Medicare for All system in the U.S., with minimal private hospitals or physicians, would collapse beneath a real virus crisis. Medicare for All would smother the public-private infrastructure in the U.S. that develops, manufactures and distributes lifesaving therapies for viruses—or anything else.
The Wall Street Journal this week wrote about Moderna Inc., an 800-employee drug company in Cambridge, Mass., that is working around the clock to create a coronavirus vaccine within months. If BernieCare happens, they’re gone. No, you won’t be able to import the coronavirus vaccine from Canada.



https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-versus-the-coronavirus-11582763105?mod=opinion_lead_pos9

I got whiplash from the rapid turn from the comically reversed dynamic of the first paragraph to the completely different subject of the second. I will only note that Sanders's proposal, like all MFA proposals, usurps payment for medical services, not the provision of them.