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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 #59085 on: December 04, 2020, 11:39:51 AM »

Norway under 400 confirmed cases of CV per day
Finland under 500 cases per day.
Norway 5000 cases / day.

Sweden with an infection rate 7x greater than Finland and 6x Norway.
Quite a success.

This is useless information when compared to the US geography and the makeup of its society. But thanks for sharing. It'll make the likelihood of taking a Viking ocean cruise in the Baltic Sea more enticing for some.

I disagree.

It is illustrative of the differences in how things are handled and the results they get.

We have seen the same things from one state to another in the US, as well.

So, question. I live in one of three Northern NJ counties which border each other, and each has a far greater (two to three times as many people per square mile) population density than LA County. So, wtf is wrong with California that it is struggling far more than these counties here? 
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #59086 on: December 04, 2020, 11:40:39 AM »

What's that smell? Rudy?

https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-fart-on-camera-confirmed-by-michigan-state-representative-2020-12

The fart heard around the political universe from Rudy Giuliani this week was no deep fake, according to a Michigan lawmaker.

President Donald Trump's personal attorney went viral overnight Wednesday over a clip of him apparently passing gas during an election hearing. Later, a second video emerged showing a different fart.


This information is more useful than the Scandinavian COVID-19 numbers, clearly.

Fuck you, josh. People need a laugh. too, you morbid bastard.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #59087 on: December 04, 2020, 11:42:03 AM »

Norway under 400 confirmed cases of CV per day
Finland under 500 cases per day.
Norway 5000 cases / day.

Sweden with an infection rate 7x greater than Finland and 6x Norway.
Quite a success.

This is useless information when compared to the US geography and the makeup of its society. But thanks for sharing. It'll make the likelihood of taking a Viking ocean cruise in the Baltic Sea more enticing for some.

He's comparing Sweden to other Scandic countries.  Making a point about the dubious efficacy of the "herd immunity" approach,  which Sweden has finally abandoned.

All fine, but becoming an irrelevant tale, given the emergence of the vaccines.

It really isn't.

It has both application to the hundreds of thousands of additional Swedish citizens who will catch COVID-19 between now and the vaccine, compared with so many fewer in its neighbors and to any states willing to learn from it in the US.

But it also instructive for future pandemics.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #59088 on: December 04, 2020, 11:45:24 AM »


The former vice president has picked Antony Blinken to be his Secretary of State and Janet Yellen to be his Treasury secretary, and the frontrunner to be Biden's Secretary of Defense is Flournoy. All three are White.
"I don't think they can politically do that," said a source familiar with the transition. "I don't think they can get away with tha

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/biden-attorney-general-search/index.html

This is the sad part -

cant hire 4 qualified white people.
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« Reply #59089 on: December 04, 2020, 11:48:19 AM »

Norway under 400 confirmed cases of CV per day
Finland under 500 cases per day.
Norway 5000 cases / day.

Sweden with an infection rate 7x greater than Finland and 6x Norway.
Quite a success.

This is useless information when compared to the US geography and the makeup of its society. But thanks for sharing. It'll make the likelihood of taking a Viking ocean cruise in the Baltic Sea more enticing for some.

I disagree.

It is illustrative of the differences in how things are handled and the results they get.

We have seen the same things from one state to another in the US, as well.

So, question. I live in one of three Northern NJ counties which border each other, and each has a far greater (two to three times as many people per square mile) population density than LA County. So, wtf is wrong with California that it is struggling far more than these counties here?

I'll try to come back to this question after my class that starts in 45 minutes, but perhaps the ~25% greater percentage of infected individuals in NJ than CA might have something to do with it.
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« Reply #59090 on: December 04, 2020, 11:51:36 AM »

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« Reply #59091 on: December 04, 2020, 11:54:54 AM »

Fuck you, josh. People need a laugh. too, you morbid bastard.


Siding with Josh on this one

But good question re:  Cali and No Jersey
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #59092 on: December 04, 2020, 12:04:58 PM »

China Bought Dominion In October


Russia bought trump in 1987. The GOP threw themselves in as a bonus gift in 2016.
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« Reply #59093 on: December 04, 2020, 12:07:03 PM »

“All cybersecurity experts who have given electronic voting machines any thought agree that these machines have got to go,” Halderman says.

President Trump also agrees, having stated in the past that there should always be paper backups to go along with every vote, even when people vote electronically. This can be done both by printing out a receipt for voters, as well as keeping a paper log at polling places.

None of this occurred in 2020, however, especially in nearly every key swing state where President Trump was leading, only to have it stolen away from him with mystery votes for Biden that were delivered in the middle of the night.

Amazingly, the same Dominion voting machines used in the 2020 election can be purchased by anyone on eBay. This is how Halderman obtained the ones he used for his mock election.

“These were archetypes of the very same equipment used today in many states – Georgia, and parts of Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Florida and Pennsylvania,” wrote Nicole Casal Moore for The Michigan Engineer News Center.

The moral of the story is that these Dominion machines should not be used in American elections, or in any elections for that matter. Halderman says so, and so does every other election expert out there who knows how these machines work and how easily they can be hacked



https://patriotrising.com/new-york-times-admitted-in-2018-that-dominion-voting-machines-are-hackable/
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« Reply #59094 on: December 04, 2020, 12:08:53 PM »

What's that smell? Rudy?

https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-fart-on-camera-confirmed-by-michigan-state-representative-2020-12

The fart heard around the political universe from Rudy Giuliani this week was no deep fake, according to a Michigan lawmaker.

President Donald Trump's personal attorney went viral overnight Wednesday over a clip of him apparently passing gas during an election hearing. Later, a second video emerged showing a different fart.


This information is more useful than the Scandinavian COVID-19 numbers, clearly.
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« Reply #59095 on: December 04, 2020, 12:13:24 PM »

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« Reply #59096 on: December 04, 2020, 12:14:02 PM »

I happen to agree that the Dominion machines should go.

But the Chinese news is old, not new, Kid.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/chinese-parts-hidden-ownership-growing-scrutiny-inside-america-s-biggest-n1104516

Nor are theirs the only voting machines that should go, and I've been saying that for years.

They are vulnerable, which is not the same as hacked.
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« Reply #59097 on: December 04, 2020, 12:14:51 PM »

China Bought Dominion In October


https://billlawrenceonline.com/china-bought-dominion/
You will swallow anything, won't you.

He will, but in this case, he is only guilty of consuming the news late.
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« Reply #59098 on: December 04, 2020, 12:18:39 PM »

More about Gabriel Sterling and other GOP election officials who are pushing back against the conspiracy theories and violent threats....
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/04/941284401/as-trumps-election-pressure-campaign-hits-republican-officials-some-hit-back
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« Reply #59099 on: December 04, 2020, 12:28:33 PM »

China Bought Dominion In October


https://billlawrenceonline.com/china-bought-dominion/
You will swallow research anything, won't you.

If important enough, yes

The other side here seems to not want any information
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