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What do you expect on Wednesday?

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


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #54315 on: October 23, 2020, 07:16:31 PM »
Quote from: barton on October 23, 2020, 06:45:23 PM


I've seen bloggers refer to Ferengi as Republicans from outer space.   The analogy seems sound,  though (full disclosure)  I only followed the first two series (and a few eps of Voyager) in any regular way.   
 

Deep Space Nine on Netflix is very good.  I'll discuss it in the television thread.
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« Reply #54316 on: October 23, 2020, 07:17:13 PM »
Quote from: barton on October 23, 2020, 07:13:57 PM
Or finally watch the 90s version with Gary Sinise.   

I wondered if we were veering off-topic but I guess any story with Randall Flagg isn't really that far removed from Donald Trump.   And Kid will probably Iggy me again for saying that,  provided he knows who that iconic character is.
 

Oh, no! How will you survive all cooped up like that in the kid cage?

Don't worry, I'll write, and I'll send you a special cake with a secret file in it that you can have kid upload to his laptop. It's from the Ukraine...

 
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« Reply #54317 on: October 23, 2020, 07:17:44 PM »
Doesn't Rudy Giuliani get his star turn in Borat 2 starting on Amazon, tonight?

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« Reply #54318 on: October 23, 2020, 07:19:00 PM »
Texas could be the linchpin to getting rid of the Electoral College:

https://theweek.com/speedreads/945527/how-texas-could-linchpin-finally-dismantling-electoral-college
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« Reply #54319 on: October 23, 2020, 07:21:14 PM »
Developers will start rolling out their COVID-19 vaccines in the coming months, leaving U.S. health officials to test their long-term safety. But that won't be easy, especially given that the Trump administration quietly shut down the office responsible for ensuring the safety of vaccines last year, The New York Times reports.

Before the late 1980s, vaccine safety relied on parents, doctors, vaccine makers, and hospitals to step forward and report symptoms they feared were connected to a vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention then worked out a new system that sought out clusters of symptoms among people who receive a vaccine, and expanded that oversight during the H1N1 epidemic of 2009. This system helped the U.S. figure out which symptoms actually popped up long after a vaccine was injected, and which were just coincidental.

But in 2019, the National Vaccine Program Office was shut down in an effort to cut costs and "eliminate program redundancies," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar wrote at the time. The shortsightedness of that shutdown has come into clear view...

TheWeek.com

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« Reply #54320 on: October 23, 2020, 07:24:05 PM »
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« Reply #54321 on: October 23, 2020, 08:01:02 PM »
Quote from: UNO on October 23, 2020, 07:19:00 PM
Texas could be the linchpin to getting rid of the Electoral College:

https://theweek.com/speedreads/945527/how-texas-could-linchpin-finally-dismantling-electoral-college

That's been my thought since 2016.

But... given the direction things seem to be headed in, will the Dems want it to go away this time?

We got an overwhelming bi-partisan majority of the House to support getting rid of it in 1969, with both Nixon and Humphrey endorsing the measure. But the southern senators blocked it, fearing to lose power. (And given that it was Wallace that the move was in response to, just imaging their deeper motivation.)
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« Reply #54322 on: October 23, 2020, 08:03:37 PM »
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=117274

“Trump Campaign Draws Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters”

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The Trump campaign has been videotaping Philadelphia voters while they deposit their ballots in drop boxes, leading Pennsylvania’s attorney general to warn this week that the campaign’s actions fall outside of permitted poll watching practices and could amount to illegal voter intimidation.

The campaign made a formal complaint to city officials on Oct. 16, saying a campaign representative had surveilled voters depositing two or three ballots at drop boxes, instead of only their own. The campaign called the conduct “blatant violations of the Pennsylvania election code,” according to a letter from a lawyer representing the Trump campaign that was reviewed by The New York Times. The campaign included photos of three voters who it claimed were dropping off multiple ballots.

“This must be stopped,” a local lawyer for the Trump campaign, Linda A. Kerns, wrote in the letter, adding that the actions “undermine the integrity of the voting process.”

Both the Trump and Biden campaigns are focused on Pennsylvania, seen as one of the most important swing states in the election and where polls show Joseph R. Biden Jr. with a seven-point lead. The Trump campaign’s aggressive strategy in Philadelphia suggests its aim is to crack down on people dropping off ballots for family members or anyone else who is not strictly authorized to do so. Ms. Kerns demanded that the names of all voters who had used a drop box in front of Philadelphia’s City Hall on Oct. 14 be turned over to the campaign, and insisted that the city station a staff member around every drop box “at all times.” She also asked for footage from municipal cameras around City Hall.

But city officials rejected the assertion that the voters who had been photographed had necessarily done something improper. The city’s lawyers forwarded the campaign’s complaints to the local district attorney, but did not make a formal referral and cast doubt on the assertions. They also said they do not track which voters use which drop box.

“Third party delivery is permitted in certain circumstances,” Benjamin H. Field, a deputy city solicitor and counsel to the city Board of Elections, wrote in a letter sent to Ms. Kerns on Monday. “The Board cannot agree with your conclusion on the basis of the information you provided. Nor can the Board, in exercising its duties, assume that an individual is violating the Election Code when that person can act as an agent for a voter who required assistance.”
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« Reply #54323 on: October 23, 2020, 08:23:25 PM »
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US could soon see the highest number of Covid-19 cases ever on a daily basis, surgeon general says

(a) CNN headline. Speaking of dumb.

(b) Duh. The total on Wednesday was the 4th highest single day in the US, per Worldometer.

(c) Soon?! You mean like TODAY, Mr. Surgeon General?!
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« Reply #54324 on: October 23, 2020, 08:47:22 PM »
43% of Black young adults in America don't obtain a high school diploma and as a result live in poverty their whole lives?
Baaah.
"If the student hasn't learnt, the teacher hasn't taught".
There should be a basic high school curriculum for students who couldn't/wouldn't be going to college but would be needing a basic high school diploma to obtain work.
eg:
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Basic english...correct grammar and spelling.
No having to write essays and spend years trying to work out what Shakespeare was ranting about.
2. General maths...add up, subtract, divide...measure.
3. Geography ...so they won't be telling Jay Leno in the street talk that the largest country in South America is Africa.
4. American history...so they'll know all about their own country. How many stars and how many stripes on the flag, for example.
5. Learn Chinese...China is buying up America.
6. Learn Spanish.

Any student wanting to go to college could do the "rocket science" curriculum.
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« Reply #54325 on: October 23, 2020, 08:51:55 PM »
Quote from: bambu. on October 23, 2020, 08:47:22 PM
Any student wanting to go to college could do the "rocket science" curriculum.

No, but it is lovely that you think so, given that you couldn't do it.
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« Reply #54326 on: October 23, 2020, 09:02:40 PM »
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« Reply #54327 on: October 23, 2020, 09:06:52 PM »
Looks like Jared is following in Donald's footsteps, building a cadre of ne'er-do-wells he can call upon for inane tasks down the road.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ken-kurson-hired-jared-kushner-run-observer-accused/story?id=73792883
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« Reply #54328 on: October 23, 2020, 09:12:20 PM »
I’d post a link to new polling, but this is more important.

http://www.axios.com/us-highest-daily-covid-cases-pandemic-start-7a222f98-af1a-4d0c-b989-a705ba20800a.html

Stay safe.

Keep marching.
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« Reply #54329 on: October 23, 2020, 09:22:09 PM »
Quote from: facilitatorn on October 23, 2020, 09:12:20 PM
I’d post a link to new polling, but this is more important.

http://www.axios.com/us-highest-daily-covid-cases-pandemic-start-7a222f98-af1a-4d0c-b989-a705ba20800a.html

Stay safe.

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US could soon see the highest number of Covid-19 cases ever on a daily basis, surgeon general says

(a) CNN headline. Speaking of dumb.

(b) Duh. The total on Wednesday was the 4th highest single day in the US, per Worldometer.

(c) Soon?! You mean like TODAY, Mr. Surgeon General?!
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