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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://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/congressional-democrats-have-some-ideas-that-arent-hopeless-in-the-face-of-everything-falling-apart.html

[josh]

Pence has gotten the OK from insurance companies to cover copays.

Meanwhile, large gatherings in many places are being shut down.

Ivy league has cancelled all out of season athletic competition - such as spring varsity  soccer exhibitions - and also had crowned their basketball champs so that they can forego the conference tournaments

Harvard has ALL STUDENTS LEAVING CAMPUS by March 15th.

Kid, you're [exactly[/i] like the GOP!

It's only a problem that *I* post news we can all find.

When you do it, it's grand.

P.S. It's most students are leaving campus for the start of Spring Break and not returning, as I already posted. Amherst and Middlebury colleges, too.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Bulletin from the Babylon Bee


Obama Announces He Is No Longer Responsible For The Economy


Told ya.

[Yankguy1]

I assume you realize your source is satire. I'm glad you credited it though.

[luee]

Bernie was head of the veterans affairs committee under Obama. Could as well have had a monkey with the terrible job done.

[facilitatorn]

I like potted pence. Bizarro world baby Groot. You could do one with KellyAnne conwoman wheeling him out to a podium with a hand truck

“Make way hoax doctors. A czar is born!”

[josh]

I'm told that after Bernie canceled his Cleveland talk tonight he went home to VT.

I wonder if he is going to "suspend" his campaign tonight, given the drubbing he is taking.

[josh]

UMaine chose a different path:
"University of Maine just did the opposite. We have no cases here in Maine right now, so they are asking students to STAY ON CAMPUS and not go anywhere for spring break next week. Some are and some are not."

[kiidcarter8]

Bernie must drop out prior to the debate

Why throw potshots at Biden and point out what you feel are his weaknesses if this thing is over?

[bodiddley]

Another approach is to get one last chance to put your progressive agenda to the American public.  Try to get Biden to commit to the left positions he's staked out during the campaign. That is, Bernie doesn't have to trash Biden.  Just make his own case, make a contrast with Biden's stances, and get Biden to recommit to the progressive stuff he endorsed already. 

[kiidcarter8]

Morning Joe Show - who gave ZERO indication that Biden just HAD TO be the Dem choice if they had any chance at all vs Trump - now acting as they had stood on this all along - and that the Biden train is not only Trump's worst nightmare but also in fact the winnewr of the presidency - as we sit here on March 11th.
I will say this - the party has done quite well in rallying around one guy (excepting Bernie if his campaign dies a slow death) - and in starting the propoganda vs the current administration that would have you believe that had they acted differently, just a couple of hundred at most may have eventually become infected from COVID-19.
Should be an interesting few months ahead.  Surely the more Trump rallies cancelled the better for the Dems.  And the less Joe is out there - likely the better as well.

[kiidcarter8]

Question - how do "many of the pundits" feel about Bidena ccusing them of burying his campaign a few weeks back?
I find this an ineffective, "how could you have said this" approach.  Actually trumpeting Trump about the "fake news" media

[kiidcarter8]

Another approach is to get one last chance to put your progressive agenda to the American public.  Try to get Biden to commit to the left positions he's staked out during the campaign. That is, Bernie doesn't have to trash Biden.  Just make his own case, make a contrast with Biden's stances, and get Biden to recommit to the progressive stuff he endorsed already.

Sure - well stated

I guess we see Sunday

Have a good day.

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I will say this - the party has done quite well in rallying around one guy (excepting Bernie if his campaign dies a slow death) - and in starting the propoganda vs the current administration that would have you believe that had they acted differently, just a couple of hundred at most may have eventually become infected from COVID-19.
Should be an interesting few months ahead.  Surely the more Trump rallies cancelled the better for the Dems.  And the less Joe is out there - likely the better as well.

Trump’s propaganda rallies are barely covered in the media because they have zero news value; its Trump rambling, ranting and lying about his perceived enemies in the least presidential way you can imagine.

And outside of coverage, if you think the content of those rallies would pull independents into his camp, you have a deep misunderstanding of the source of Trump’s negatives.

There is a good reason why Trump’s camp has already floated the idea of skipping debates.

On the COVID-19 response; there can’t be any question that the Trump Administration botched it, and that Americans are well grounded in their belief that Trump is not a trustworthy leader in an emergency.  Where would we be with earlier testing and leadership more focused on transmitting facts and useful information to the public than they are saving their skins politically?  You can have that debate with yourself.

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On the COVID-19 response; there can’t be any question that the Trump Administration botched it, and that Americans are well grounded in their belief that Trump is not a trustworthy leader in an emergency.  Where would we be with earlier testing and leadership more focused on transmitting facts and useful information to the public than they are saving their skins politically?  You can have that debate with yourself.

And worth saying, this is not even getting into the fact that the Trump Administration may be purposefully repressing testing so that Trump can point to the "numbers" he thinks help him politically.  A possibility that can't be dismissed based on the facts.

This is an Administration that sees the virus as a PR issue first and foremost.  Look at how they reacted to the shutdown of Israel.