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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

[Echo4]

  Summarize a couple main points,  with the link.  (for example,  Josh's link to the counselor

For most links, either the URL or a couple sentences might do.

But for WaPo links, "a couple main points" don't give them the ready option to go read the rest.

There - just a pair of sentences, to explain my main points.

Oops, that was a third sentence. Oh, wait!

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Anthony Tata did not have the votes necessary to get confirmed by the GOP-controlled Senate as President Trump’s undersecretary of defense for policy, the third-highest civilian post at the Pentagon. On Thursday, Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee canceled his confirmation hearing 90 minutes before it was scheduled to begin. On Sunday night, the Pentagon announced that Tata has withdrawn and, instead, has been “designated as the official performing the duties of the deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.” That circumvents Congress.

“Tata’s nomination was controversial following statements he made that included calling former president Barack Obama a ‘terrorist leader,’ suggesting that former CIA director John Brennan should prepare for execution or suck ‘on a pistol,’ and saying that Islam is the ‘most oppressive violent religion I know of,’” Dan Lamothe reports. “Tata retired as a brigadier general in 2009 under a cloud after the Army inspector general found that he had at least two extramarital affairs, despite adultery being a crime in the military.”

Contrary to the president’s claims, Article II does not give him the power to do whatever he wants. A hallmark of Trump’s tenure has been his disdain for the “advice and consent” function given to the Senate for appointments by Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 76 that requiring the Senate to confirm a president’s pick for important jobs was a critical “check” on the executive branch “to prevent the appointment of unfit characters.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/03/daily-202-trump-makes-another-end-run-around-gop-controlled-senate-by-stretching-delegation-authority/

Using acting appointments to end-run around the Senate's advise and consent powers is standard operating procedure for this administration (see Cuccineli, Kevin) but you won't hear a peep about that here from certain deplorables who only defended that function when it was being used to block a Democratic President from appointing a judge to the Supreme Court.

[facilitatorn]

They will carefully step over or around your body, or on it if it's more convenient, or kick it if you annoyed them, then move on.


Heh

Yeah - that's why we are for outlaw and disorder - and you.... not so much

FIFY.

[Echo4]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/08/02/lockdown-worked-for-the-rich-but-not-for-the-poor-the-untold-story-of-how-covid-19-spread-across-toronto-in-7-graphics.html?fbclid=IwAR0qHqTEyYXxf8tq07otvVdoJTfjq2FLZzF2IPX8hmUg5593Mdk6Ix8sT2c

[kiidcarter8]

pay site

[facilitatorn]

http://www.emptywheel.net/2020/08/02/killer-clown-attacks-americans-freedoms-and-dr-fauci/

It’s an Ohio story, replete with half-nelsons and lubricant (usually someone’s tears).

[facilitatorn]

http://www.dcreport.org/2020/08/01/trump-and-the-radical-republicans-push-our-economy-over-a-cliff/

The trump “admin” is a net loss for everyone.

[facilitatorn]

http://thebulwark.com/the-craziness-is-exhausting-people/

A retired Scranton trucker put it even more vividly in a recent Politico story on Pennsylvania voters: Trump was supposed to Make America Great Again, but “now look at us! We’re going down the shitter, and he’s the one flushing.”

[Echo4]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/health/fda-hand-sanitizers-list-expands-trnd/index.html

Over 100 hand sanitizers are now on the FDA warning list.

[Echo4]

http://thebulwark.com/the-craziness-is-exhausting-people/

A retired Scranton trucker put it even more vividly in a recent Politico story on Pennsylvania voters: Trump was supposed to Make America Great Again, but “now look at us! We’re going down the shitter, and he’s the one flushing.”

Oh, he's pissing and shitting on us before he flushes.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.insidernj.com/covid-19-coast-coast-feds-mia-virus-spreads/

[Echo4]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-convinced-crime-is-rising-in-the-u-s-theyre-wrong/

[Echo4]

http://www.insidernj.com/covid-19-coast-coast-feds-mia-virus-spreads/

Good article.

The discussion of long term lingering damage, while frightening, understates the incidence of it in people with no prior visible symptoms. In this case, I speak of the heart inflammation seen 2.5 months after diagnosis, but we are still early in tracking post-"recovery" issues.

[barton]

Finally, regarding posts that boil down to "Trump is a horrible corrupt person who sucks at governing" -- YA THINK???   Could we just stipulate that members either a)  know this,  or b)  will never ever accept this,  at least in any public interaction?    Similarly, posts that boil down to "Trump admin handling of CV outbreak stank."  Again,  got it.   I don't need these realities to rent every single unit inside my head.   I don't need to fire up my outrage machine for every incompetent and often self-serving and often mean-spirited act of a public official.   I already understand that many elected officials are high-functioning sociopaths.   

That kind of fatigue leads to normalization.  And I don't think Trump is unaware of that.  Stacking one outrageous abuse of power on top of another is the plan.  And getting so tired of hearing about it that you no longer care is how he wins....

Good post, including parts I didn't quote here.  No worries, I still care.   Still read news, and a fair number of links posted here.  I'm trying to suggest adjusting the feed so that outrage fatigue doesn't drain the battery and leave people hopeless.  We all (cough) need adjustment. 

A kindred problem is "doomscrolling" .....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/coronavirus-doom-scrolling-stop/2020/07/29/2c87e9b2-d034-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html?hpid=hp_lifestyle1-8-12_scrolling-0802%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

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DA is Investigating Trump and His Company Over Fraud, Filing Suggests

Law & Order!