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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

[josh]

A great FB post from up north.

Edmonton Public Library

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[bambu.]

writes Miranda Devine.

At which point, anybody who wants honest reporting stopped reading.

I'll take a guess and say that what she detailed is exactly true.

And he still won.

He did.
And the best of luck to him...he's going to need it.
He visited Australia in 2016.
ScoMo likes him...and ScoMo said he Biden
likes Australia and ANZUS.

[josh]

https://funwithmacovid-19reporting.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-new-color-coding-for-ma.html

Governor Baker is going to follow the Trump model for COVID-19 control.

Redefine the levels so that there are fewer red cities and towns.

My town was red. Now it isn't. But our level of COVID-19 hasn't changed, just the code.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.vice.com/en/article/m7aeea/what-does-a-biden-presidency-mean-for-australia

[bodiddley]

I hope Harris will be as remarkable a veep as I imagine she could be,  and will blaze a trail for others,  including AOC.   When every single thing Kid says about a politician is a lie or distortion,  you know that person has brains and talent.

I'm not sure how you can be a remarkable VP.
But I do think Biden will be more of a delegating leader than a micro-manager.

And the Veep position has been more significant since Gore, CHENEY, Biden, and Pence who often softened and translated Trump tantrums, tweets and raves into normal policy for the Congress and media.

Good point on ,-la Harris potentially paving the way for AOC.  Trailblazing.  Kamala should be the frontrunner for 2024 (Bernie, Hillary and probably Liz Warren will be too old -- and after two old fart boomers, folks will be ready for the younger generation.  Hell, Biden even pre-dates Boomers, as he was a war baby, born just less than one year after the USofA entered the conflict.  It's hard today to imagine a major war in Europe and the US just sitting it out for 2 years.

As for kiid, he's always been a racist on Team Whitey.

[bodiddley]

AOC is a huge political talent.
Intelligent, charismatic, able to frame issues and raise money.
Potentially the next Obama.
She'll need a bigger platform soon enough.
Senator seems to fit. 
But also could be part of the House leadership.
She's going places.

Certainly possible that Biden could tap Gillibrand for a cabinet position and appoint AOC senator.  Gillibrand obviously ambitious and a cabinet position would give her greater national prominence.  She didn't get too far in her first presidential go in 2020.  Right now she's lacking the name recognition and oomph to move her into serious contention. 

So Biden puts Gillibrand on the national stage by naming her Sec of Labor or Education -- or something else fairly high profile.  Biden gets the progressive wing of the party on board with his presidency by appointing AOC as NY Senator. 
Looks good to me.

[bodiddley]

From Twitter:

the people who can’t find the right Four Seasons want you to believe they uncovered 40,000 fraudulent ballots in Philadelphia?

[bodiddley]

Probably the wrong time to bring this up, but I keep forgetting to mention it.

Hunter Biden really was a piece of work.
When he was still married, he started living with his brother's widow, and still found time to knock up a stripper.  Kind of impressive in a sordid way.  This is when he had a cocaine problem.  Good thing a major Ukrainian gas company was paying him $600K a year for doing nothing, that always helps one get through tough times.

[luee]

A communist who kept Amazon out of NYC. A rogue politician who went against other democrats in the area. A supporter of boycotts against Israel. Like Trump, invented conspiracy theories and called reality a hoax. AOC lane.

[facilitatorn]

Amazon is in NYC, just with fewer tax breaks because AOC stood with those who had the taxpayers’ backs.

Putting her in the Senate would be excellent, but it would have to fit Andrew Coumo’s ambitions. He might do it to save Schumer from having to contend with her in a primary.

Highly highly populist socialism is what will unite the rising generation and the working class. It becomes a more influential and driving political force in each cycle, aided especially now by right wingers accelerated die off due to opioid abuse, suicide, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, and Rona.

Highly populist socialism is the political orientation that most closely matches the religious and moral imperatives of Christianity which still has a lot of adherents in this country.

Ranked choice voting, which is beginning to take root in this country opens the door to socialists coalescing as a party and surpassing republicans to stand with Democrats as the top two parties passing back and forth control of the political direction of the United States.

[facilitatorn]

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/goodbye-ivanka-forever.html

[luee]

Cortez was against HRC and against Biden, refusing to support a centrist democrat. Driving many independents and moderate democrats to look to Trump. She represents the type of government that drove citizens to flea Cuba and similar Latin American countries in droves.

[luee]

AOC said she might quit politics, as some centrist Democrats blame progressives for House losses, NYT says

https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-says-she-may-quit-politics-dems-blame-progressives-losses-2020-11

[Hamilton Samuels]

AOC said she might quit politics, as some centrist Democrats blame progressives for House losses, NYT says

https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-says-she-may-quit-politics-dems-blame-progressives-losses-2020-11

Whiners gonna whine.

[bodiddley]

It'd be an interesting confab.
You'd need Biden, Cuomo, Gillibrand and AOC all working in concert.
Who knows, maybe Hillary could broker the deal ...

I can see the plus side for:
Gillibrand - national platform/name recognition
AOC - moves to a higher level; well-positioned for more
Biden - gets to hand the progressives a triumph that doesn't really affect his agenda & Biden needs women in his cabinet
Cuomo (?)  - gets praise as a team player and reaches out to progressives