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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

[Hairy Lime]

Meadows begins West Wing shakeup

McEnany rose to prominence during the 2016 campaign when CNN began featuring her regularly as it sought to add voices supportive of Trump’s upstart candidacy to its roster of more traditional pundits. She eventually became a contributor at the network and left in August 2017 to become national spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. McEnany joined Trump’s reelection campaign early last year.




https://news.yahoo.com/stephanie-grisham-out-as-white-house-press-secretary-145559670.html

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Typical.

Well, one thing she can do is stand on her talking points no matter how illogical, or how.stupid they make her look. "We needed ice. Our captain was thinking outside the box! Liberal naysayers want everyone to think we are sinking in order to undermine the brilliant record of success our captain is making! Glub glub glub."

[josh]

In potentially good news:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/health/ihme-updated-covid19-model/index.html

Model predicts that only 82,000 will have died as of 4 months from now.

I think that's a bizarre conclusion, given that we have 1,300 dying per day at the moment, with a 35% death rate among resolved cases - granting that that is only the cases that we know about, but 35% among the cases we know about by itself blows that 82k number out of the water. So does the 1,300 dying per day. (At 1,300 per day, that would be more than 50,000 dead by the end of April, alone, and our overall trend is up, not down, in deaths per day.)

ETA: We'll be at 400,000 verified positive cases by the end of the day today. 35% of that would be 140,000 dead. And we're adding 30,000+ new cases daily. Nothing in these models explains where this big slowdown is going to come from. And there are the reports from coroners that our death toll is low compared to how many are really dying from the coronavirus.

But still, it's something... a straw to cling to. Maybe they imagine that all of us singing Sweet Caroline will help.

[kiidcarter8]

It's as if you didn't bother to read your own post, asshole.


Please.  Refrain, if you can.

I've been asking the same of you for ages.

But it's hilarious that you think "asshole" is a bigger insult than "disingenuous" or "sea lion."

uh... what?

[kiidcarter8]

We'll see how badly suppressed the total vote is, but it should have been delayed. The failure of the system to get people's absentee ballots to them ought to have been reason enough to delay things. The risk to the public ought to have been reason enough to delay things. The need to shutter a huge majority of polling places in cities due to lack of workers should have been reason enough to delay things.


I have never agreed or disagreed.

[kiidcarter8]

But your party is happier when there are fewer total voters.


why?

[Hairy Lime]

Because that is the only way they win.

[josh]

But your party is happier when there are fewer total voters.


why?

Like I said - disingenuous.

[Hairy Lime]

[josh]

We'll see how badly suppressed the total vote is, but it should have been delayed. The failure of the system to get people's absentee ballots to them ought to have been reason enough to delay things. The risk to the public ought to have been reason enough to delay things. The need to shutter a huge majority of polling places in cities due to lack of workers should have been reason enough to delay things.


I have never agreed or disagreed.

Disingenuous should have your picture next to it.

[josh]

Meanwhile, Trump continues to seek to avoid honest scrutiny into what his administration is doing:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/trump-sidelines-pentagon-watchdog-coronavirus-funds/index.html

This takes away the man in charge of oversight on the coronavirus funds without an immediate replacement.

The fellow didn't exactly fall into his position, either --> "Late last month, a group of independent federal watchdogs tapped Fine, a career official, to lead the group tasked with preventing "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the use of coronavirus relief money."

So, a group of independent watchdogs chose him for this important role. No wonder Trump wanted him gone!

[LarryBnDC]

Wisconsin Democrats wanted to extend absentee voting and even postpone the election altogether, but Republicans successfully blocked both in court. As a result, Democratic turnout is likely to be depressed because of the virus and the deadlines for absentee voting. A crucial seat on the State Supreme Court is on the ballot.




https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-election.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=436988000&action=click&module=moreIn&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=The%20Coronavirus%20Outbreak


Why is it DEMOCRAT voting will be suppressed while Republican will not?  Is this due only to the fact more Democrats were slated to vote absentee?

How did you get so old being so goddamn thick?

Oh, yeah.

White privilege.

[facilitatorn]

Meanwhile, Trump continues to seek to avoid honest scrutiny into what his administration is doing:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/trump-sidelines-pentagon-watchdog-coronavirus-funds/index.html

This takes away the man in charge of oversight on the coronavirus funds without an immediate replacement.

The fellow didn't exactly fall into his position, either --> "Late last month, a group of independent federal watchdogs tapped Fine, a career official, to lead the group tasked with preventing "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the use of coronavirus relief money."

So, a group of independent watchdogs chose him for this important role. No wonder Trump wanted him gone!

Trump is a plague profiteer. That is the policy focus of his entire administration. Honest people conducting oversight are bound to get in trump’s way.

[LarryBnDC]

Meadows begins West Wing shakeup

McEnany rose to prominence during the 2016 campaign when CNN began featuring her regularly as it sought to add voices supportive of Trump’s upstart candidacy to its roster of more traditional pundits. She eventually became a contributor at the network and left in August 2017 to become national spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. McEnany joined Trump’s reelection campaign early last year.




https://news.yahoo.com/stephanie-grisham-out-as-white-house-press-secretary-145559670.html

They built the ship Titanic
And launched her o’er the brink.
They said it was so watertight
That it would never sink.
But...

[LarryBnDC]

Will less Republicans be voting or not?

“Voters in Milwaukee, the state’s Democratic base and most populous city, have experienced significant disruptions at polling places. Election workers in the city expected more than 50,000 voters on Tuesday, but the number of polling locations was drastically reduced, from more than 180 to just five. Some voters waited in line for more than two hours, spread out over blocks as they tried to practice social distancing to guard against the coronavirus.

In other parts of the state, especially in smaller communities that tend to be less Democratic, the in-person voting process was running relatively smoothly, with wait times more closely resembling a normal election.”[/b][/i]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-election.html

[LarryBnDC]

But your party is happier when there are fewer total voters.


why?

As I’ve posted a thousand times,

When your party’s electoral strategy depends on fewer people voting it means they know their policies suck for most people.