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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.

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More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

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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.

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DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

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Huge disruption to the day.

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Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Hamilton Samuels]

Bill Barr is killing Americans but sparing terrorists.

In July, the U.S. attorney general directed his Department of Justice to resume the death penalty. Since his directive this summer, he’s used lethal injection to kill five federal Death Row inmates.

Barr executed five murderers, rapists and torturers of children and the elderly. Men who inflicted unimaginable pain and suffering on their victims and surviving families. Barr unapologetically resumed capital punishment after a two-decade hiatus, “bringing justice to the most horrific crimes.” Barr’s tough on crime.

Unless, of course, he’s not.

Barr also decided this summer to skip the death penalty for a pair of foreign ISIS terrorists who clearly qualified for the ultimate punishment. Shockingly, Barr wrote a three-page letter dated Aug. 18 to British Home Secretary Priti Patel to say he won’t seek the death penalty for two terrorists in U.S. military custody in Iraq. The despicable duo, nicknamed “The Beatles” because of their British accents, are accused of kidnapping and beheading several hostages in Syria in 2014, including James Foley, an American journalist.

And Barr’s assurances to Patel went further, saying that even if a death penalty were imposed, “It would not be carried out.” That’s right, he’s both killing Americans and guaranteeing not to kill terrorists. This disparity is offensive and needs to change.

https://news.yahoo.com/why-america-shielding-foreign-terrorists-215057182.html

Barr would have fit in perfectly in Central Europe, the 1933 edition. He is only following the orders from his Kommandant.

[bambu.]

Anti-Trump Administration … LOL

[Hamilton Samuels]

The Christmas gift that keeps on taking lives:

Researchers with the University of California Los Angeles looked at over 10 million patient and health records spanning Dec. 1, 2019, to Feb. 29, 2020, and records from the previous five years, and found a troubling trend.

Patient visits to UCLA hospitals for coughs spiked 50% compared to years past, surpassing the average number of visits for that specific issue by 1,000, according to the study.

They also noted a “significant” increase in patients admitted for emergency treatment due to coughs, and patients hospitalized for acute respiratory failure.

Researchers argue the unusually high number of visitors, patients and hospitalizations may indicate that the coronavirus had silently arrived and begun establishing a foothold undetected on the West Coast around Christmas 2019.

If true, that would shake up the current narrative of the virus’ origins in the country.

https://news.yahoo.com/covid-19-silently-arrived-us-200241020.html

[Hamilton Samuels]

“A lot of you were at previous rallies,” he said, “you never heard me talking about Space Force. We built a new, think of it, a new branch of the United States military, United States armed forces, called Air Force. I never talked about that, that’s something we never talked about, I only figured that one out after I became president.”

Kid's & Red's hero has some difficulty with the truth.

[bambu.]

All fires on the West Coast.

This is north suburban DC today:

Yes, what happens if you try to drive thru floodwaters.
I'm working on a plan if ever that happens to me, caught in the line of traffic with nowhere to go for days.
I'm thinking campervan with toilet, food, water, bed, internet, microwave, over, solar power + batteries, tv etc.

[bambu.]

Afghan soldier Hekmatullah, who killed three Australians, flown to Qatar ahead of peace talks with Taliban
 
By defence correspondent Andrew Greene
48 mins ago

An Afghan soldier who murdered three Australian soldiers has been flown to Qatar ahead of US-brokered peace talks with the Taliban.

The prisoner, known as Hekmatullah, has spent seven years in jail after killing Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic, Sapper James Martin and Private Robert Poate in August 2012.

The ABC has confirmed the former Afghan Army sergeant was on board a flight that took six prisoners to Doha.
A Taliban spokesman says all six prisoners are in "good health".

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Meanwhile, Aussie trooper/troops are possibly up on war crimes charges.
Not if bambu were king.
 


 

[Hamilton Samuels]

Donald Trump keeps piling up the evidence that he has neither the smarts nor the character to be president of the United States. He's "in over his head," as former first lady Michelle Obama put it, and he has "no moral compass," as former Defense Secretary James Mattis was quoted in Bob Woodward's new book, "Rage." Exhibit A is the president's fumbled response to a coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 192,000 Americans.

It is hard to argue with Obama and Mattis after the latest political contretemps over his recorded comments to Woodward.

On the issue of smarts. It would seem likely that any leader willing to engage in wholesale public deception would not admit this to a bestselling author in a recorded conversation to be made public shortly before a presidential election. Yet that's exactly what Trump did early this year when he described for Woodward during phone chats in February and March the lethal transmissibility of the emerging virus — "You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed," adding that it's five times more deadly that the flu — while at the same time insisting in public statements that the disease is fleeting and easily eradicated.


China and Russia in the know

White House insiders say Trump's strategy has been to somehow manage the direction of Woodward's book by granting interviews and access. Given the firestorm of bad press that has resulted this week, the plan seems to have fallen short.

Among secrets Trump shared in an apparent effort to curry favor with the author was boasting about a new, top-secret nuclear weapon of which even China and Russia are unaware.

Well, they are now. How smart is that? 

On the issue of a moral compass. Trump told Woodward, and repeated in his own defense Wednesday, that he downplayed the virus to avoid public panic.

But does that ring true? Beginning with Trump's dark inaugural address crying out about  "American carnage" in urban streets, to his midterm election warnings in 2018 about immigrant caravans "invading" the United States, to his most recent dystopian contention that the Democratic Party is on a "merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children," Trump has never shied from stoking fear when it served political ends. He's all about panic.


Trump the superspreader

It seems far more likely that in the January-March time frame, Trump was really more worried about panicking the stock market after the Dow Jones Industrial Average had hit a then all-time high in February. An honest assessment of the coronavirus threat might tarnish his economic argument for reelection.

Moreover, it's one thing to urge calm in a crisis. It's quite another to utterly misrepresent what Trump was told would be the worst health crisis since the flu pandemic of 1918 that killed at least 50 million worldwide. Wouldn't it make more sense to educate the public about the lethal threat of COVID-19 so Americans, particularly Trump supporters, would be keen on social distancing and wearing masks?


Instead, Trump dismissed the wearing of masks for months and did not urge social distancing until mid-March. Studies have since shown that tens of thousands of lives could have been saved if he had acted just one week sooner.

And finally, where was Trump's moral compass when it came to his most avid fans? He knew early on how easily the virus spread through the air. "Deadly stuff," he told Woodward on Feb. 7.

Yet he kept holding reelection campaign rallies: five in February and one in early March. Experts would later call these superspreader events. (Another in June in Tulsa, Oklahoma, might have led to the death by COVID-19 of Herman Cain, a former pizza chain executive who ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.)

Thanks to Trump's less than thoughtful decision to confess to Woodward in real time, we now know more than enough about Trump's ability to handle his job and lead our nation. He can't and he won't. 


https://www.usatoday.com/opinion/

And that's from America's moderate news source.

[bambu.]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/trump-slammed-after-celebrating-kim-jong-uns-good-health-as-the-us-covid-19-death-toll-nears-200000/ar-BB18UBgy?li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000

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It's a ploy.

[facilitatorn]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-bedford-public-schools-trump-quiz

No place for such bias in our schools

It was definitely all of the above. Trump’s bias should not be spread to schools. It should not be in any part of the government.

Republican racism, sexism, and xenophobia have proven to be degenerative conditions that lead to deeper and deeper levels of vile idiocy.

You should get yours treated by a professional soon before it’s too late.

[kiidcarter8]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/trump-slammed-after-celebrating-kim-jong-uns-good-health-as-the-us-covid-19-death-toll-nears-200000/ar-BB18UBgy?li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000

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It's a ploy.

Has ZERO to do with corona virus, Bu.

[barton]

I'm working on a plan if ever that happens to me, caught in the line of traffic with nowhere to go for days.
I'm thinking campervan with toilet, food, water, bed, internet, microwave, over, solar power + batteries, tv etc.

Based on about a thousand of your previous posts,  wouldn't you prefer to power your camper with coal?   

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-leads-but-plurality-thinks-trump-will-win-election-poll

The Monmouth University survey released on Thursday also suggests that a majority of voters believes there are so-called secret Trump voters in their communities who keep their preference to themselves.




yep

[Hairy Lime]

All fires on the West Coast.

This is north suburban DC today:

Yes, what happens if you try to drive thru floodwaters.
I'm working on a plan if ever that happens to me, caught in the line of traffic with nowhere to go for days.
I'm thinking campervan with toilet, food, water, bed, internet, microwave, over, solar power + batteries, tv etc.

Or just go with your standard "not leaving my mom's basement" shtick. Much safer.

[Yankguy1]

I agree with that. My biggest fear.

[bambu.]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/trump-slammed-after-celebrating-kim-jong-uns-good-health-as-the-us-covid-19-death-toll-nears-200000/ar-BB18UBgy?li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000

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It's a ploy.

Has ZERO to do with corona virus, Bu.

Trump should get marks for trying.