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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/2020/09/expand-the-court.html

[josh]

That was in March.

"That's how good we're doing."

IHME projects that we'll have 378,321COVID-19 US deaths by January 1, 2021.

>> Rush Limbaugh: "It's now down to 60,000. What happened to 240,000? What happened to 100,000 to 200,000? What happened to 240,000?"
>> Brian Kilmeade: "The fact is, when someone says 200,000 people die, oops, I mean 60,000. And it's not going to be right away, it's going to be in August. That's how good we are doing and how off the models were..."
>> Bill O'Reilly: "The [death toll] projections that you just mentioned are down to 60,000, I don't think it will be that high..."
>> Candace Owens: "FACT: we went from 2.2 million, to 100,000, to 60,000 predictive #coronavirus deaths because the models were always bulls**t, the media was always lying, and the virus was never as fatal as the experts that are chronically wrong about everything, prophesized..."
>> Laura Ingraham: "They were off by a factor of 33 from 2.2 million projected COVID deaths at the top, which was terrifying to a little bit more than 60,000 deaths projected today..."
>> Mark Levin: "We've seen these numbers, these so-called models and the data over the last six to eight weeks. They have fluctuated wildly. Millions might die. Hundreds of thousands might die. Now, they're saying 60,000 give or take, maybe less than 60,000...."
>> Tucker Carlson: "Sixty thousand deaths -- that's a very big number. ... Yet, at the same time, it is far fewer than many expected. It is a much lower number...."
>> Martha MacCallum: "You cannot help but look at the numbers that caused it and the models which were incorrect that really were one of the biggest push points to shut down the United States economy. It is quite possible that you're going to end up with numbers of fatalities in this Covid-19 tragedy of those that have been affected that will be south of the numbers in the 2018 flu season..."
>> Dinesh D'Souza: "Most people have no idea how way off the #Coronavirus models have been. A nutcase virus denier who predicted ZERO deaths would be closer to the mark (ie to the current 60,000 projection) than the best-case scenarios, taking into account social distancing, of 100-240,000 deaths..."
>> Jim Hoft: "STUNNING! IHME Reduces Their Model Predictions AGAIN! — Now Say Peak Is ON EASTER and Only 60,000 Deaths ...Like a Typical Flu!"

[josh]

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/5-charts-about-public-opinion-on-the-affordable-care-act-and-the-supreme-court/

[bambu.]

Problems is...most Americans don't seem to want to wear masks, wear glasses/goggles, social distance, ..in public, stay home, isolate, lockdown, curfew.
"Freedom"!

Not a mask in sight at that sand bar bash in Wisconsin.
 

[bambu.]

US riot cities should invest in water cannons. They're very effective...set the temp to 'super- chill' and watch the mood of the protesters/rioters dampen.
There's something about being hosed along the streets and into gutters they don't like.

[kiidcarter8]

Real Clear seeking new polling to get Biden's average up?


https://election.usc.edu/


But look at the trend....as I said.

[kiidcarter8]

2/3 Democrats think Biden should name his SCOTUS choices


https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/52-likely-voters-think-senate-should-delay-confirming-scotus-nominee-until

[LarryBnDC]

US riot cities should invest in water cannons. They're very effective...set the temp to 'super- chill' and watch the mood of the protesters/rioters dampen.
There's something about being hosed along the streets and into gutters they don't like.

Maybe that cash should be invested in the citizenry...

[LarryBnDC]

2/3 Democrats think Biden should name his SCOTUS choices


https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/52-likely-voters-think-senate-should-delay-confirming-scotus-nominee-until

Fuck that.

[kiidcarter8]

McSally battling

Registered voters in Florida split almost precisely evenly for president, 47-48 percent, TrumpBiden, while it’s 51-47 percent among those most likely to vote. In Arizona, the race stands at
47-49 percent among registered voters and 49-48 percent among likely voters. None of these
differences is statistically significant.
Ditto for the Arizona Senate contest, in which a 50-45 percent match among registered voters
between Democrat Mark Kelly and incumbent Republican Martha McSally is a still-tighter 49-
48 percent among likely voters.

[barton]

https://t.co/aKe5P4YFbY?fbclid=IwAR0riGNDSjncr9JJD-IXqCAEcDxpHvaT0EucA5gH9p75bsVASsnicqK9NSk

One of the folks on Trump's list is a member of the group that inspired Handmaid's Tale.

The dogma lives loudly within her.   Though her adoption of two Haitian babies leads me to think that something genuinely spiritual also lives there.   

[barton]

Red takes his corn-beef on white with mayo.

According to RBG's grand-daughter, Rurhie's choice was Trump would not name her successor.

“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,”

Yes,  if Ward hadn't been sealioning me (that quote had already been posted,  and ignored,  by our sardine-loving mammal),  I might have bothered to point that out.

[barton]

Here is a story that presents a microcosm of the problems with racial animus and violence in this country.   My wife referred to this story as "the dog poop execution." 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hetle-prather-springfield-killing/2020/09/22/e377c568-62e6-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html

[oilcan]

US riot cities should invest in water cannons. They're very effective...

Latin American dictatorships were very fond of water cannons.   

[bodiddley]

Pretty damning AP article marking the crossing of the 200K dead threshold:

the nation’s COVID-19 death toll has reached 200,000 — nearly half the number of Americans killed in World War II, a once unfathomable number that the nation’s top doctors just months ago said was avoidable.

Over the past six months, the Trump administration has prioritized politics over science at key moments, refusing to follow expert advice that might have contained the spread of the virus and COVID-19

“On public relations I give myself a D,” Trump told Fox this week. “On the job itself we take an A-plus.”

Absurd.

In hindsight, Trump says, there’s nothing he would have done differently

Damning and absurd.

“I did the best I could,” President Donald Trump said.

Damning and pathetic.

On March 31, the nation was still grappling to understand the scope of the pandemic. Schools were disrupted, people sheltered at home and professional sports were paused. But the ascending lines of mortality on the chart said things were going to get way worse.

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stood next to the president to explain the numbers. The doctors said that models of the escalating pandemic showed that, unless the country adopted masks, practiced distancing and kept businesses closed there would be 100,000 to 240,000 deaths. They stressed that if the U.S. adopted strict measures, the deaths could remain under 100,000.

“We would hope that we could keep it under that,” Trump said then.

Maybe the virus will just magically go away in October, as Trump has promised it will many times.