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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

[kiidcarter8]

Cant save the nation - but can help while he is POTUS:

https://twitter.com/marianaatencio/status/1026788730651242496

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/GOPPollAnalyst/status/1026886587471327232

[Hamilton Samuels]

Which, Wilbur!

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross could rank “among the biggest grifters in American history,” according to a Forbes report that details claims he wrongly siphoned or “outright stole” millions of dollars from former business associates.

The magazine spoke with 21 people who know Ross, who formerly headed private-equity company WL Ross & Co. All told, Forbes said, the allegations come to more than $120 million in aggregate value.

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/70D2B598-9A3F-11E8-A4AF-37432B060B06

"The best people."

[facilitatorn]

Which, Wilbur!

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross could rank “among the biggest grifters in American history,” according to a Forbes report that details claims he wrongly siphoned or “outright stole” millions of dollars from former business associates.

The magazine spoke with 21 people who know Ross, who formerly headed private-equity company WL Ross & Co. All told, Forbes said, the allegations come to more than $120 million in aggregate value.

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/70D2B598-9A3F-11E8-A4AF-37432B060B06

"The best people."

You beat me to it. GOP crime incest and financial fuckery further nailed to the table.

That whole way of life is a scam built on marks like Kid.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/08/06/new-details-about-wilbur-rosss-businesses-point-to-pattern-of-grifting/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[LarryBnDC]

Does America have any of these new go-faster missiles?

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/china-hails-a-successful-test-of-a-new-hypersonic-weapon-that-could-slip-a-nuke-past-us-defences/ar-BBLzB2o?li=AAgfLCP

China hails a 'successful' test of a new hypersonic weapon that could slip a nuke past US defences

China has successfully tested a new hypersonic aircraft, a potential "hypersonic strike weapon" that could one day be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads and evading all existing defence networks like the US missile shields, according to Chinese state-run and state-affiliated media, citing experts and the domestic designers.

The Xingkong-2 (Starry Sky-2) hypersonic experimental waverider vehicle designed by the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics in Beijing can reportedly achieve a top speed six times the velocity of sound.

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No more need for ground troops...no more need for them to have to fight in the ridiculous manners of the past...grenade to grenade, rifle to rifle, bayonet to bayonet, cannon-fodder for tanks, machine guns etc...as in WW2, WW1, and wars since.
Now, as mommy-dearest once told young bambu..."don't worry, it'll be "one flash and you're ash warfare" soon".

Wow

Interesting that they didnt keep this a secret.

Meanwhile USA announced same over the winter and even talked about the ‘Son of Blackbird’ the SR-72.

But this is why you keep assholes away from nuclear codes.

There’s money to be made in preparing for nuclear war but unlike conventional war there ain’t no profit to be made by actually having one.

China has a stock market, too.

[facilitatorn]

Looks like America is finally ready to bury republican governance back in the 19th century where it belongs.

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/a-look-at-some-of-the-straightforwardly-popular-ideas-of-the-radical-left.html

Just got to get politicians willing to follow the will of the people into a saner better future.

Lock up the grifters. Send them to the kiddie cages set up along the border.

[facilitatorn]

In the special election in OH12, the gauge currently reads Dem +9. At current heading, the House flips 70 seats in November with a Dem Senate majority of 2 seats.

Though trump being trump may be enough for O’Connor to come back and take this thing in November.

[bodiddley]

The Manafort case is interesting.
Usually white collar crime goes unprosecuted and high-level tax fraud is pretty easy to get away with.  This is rather standard stuff for a lot of international business folks.  Hide your money, do a shell game with shell companies in tax haven islands, shuffle things around, forge paperwork and make up fake loans if you're genuinely dishonest, and illegally save millions in taxes.

Manafort was cheating like this for a decade or more, and would have kept getting away with it, except for the odd confluence of national political prominence and a special investigator.  This is basically the norm, and not an isolated case of tax evasion.  And this will be the end of it, no one else will be audited or prosecuted.

EDIT: Juan Cole has a similar take, though he focuses on the political corruption:
Manafort’s alleged Corruption is How America Works, not Deviance

[facilitatorn]

On the flip side, a good night for workers in Missouri. Also congratulations to Wesley Bell, stepping up to lead reform in his county.

[barton]

Nice shakeup in OH 12.  A squeaker is not good news for repubes.

Republicans look poised to eke out a victory in the last major congressional bellwether before the November midterm elections. But a razor-thin margin in a suburban Ohio district the GOP has held comfortably for decades confirms that the party’s grip on control of Congress is shaky.

Troy Balderson, a Republican state legislator who secured a late push from President Trump, appeared to hold off Democrat Danny O’Connor on Tuesday in a special House election in and around Ohio’s capital city of Columbus. With all precincts reporting, Balderson led 50.2 percent to 49.3 percent, although the race remained too close for the major networks and the Associated Press to call. Rather than explicitly concede, O’Connor rallied his supporters for a November rematch both candidates knew was coming regardless of the night’s result.

“We’re not stopping now,” he said late Tuesday. “Tomorrow we rest and then we keep fighting through to November.”

[whiskeypriest]

Nice shakeup in OH 12.  A squeaker is not good news for repubes.

Republicans look poised to eke out a victory in the last major congressional bellwether before the November midterm elections. But a razor-thin margin in a suburban Ohio district the GOP has held comfortably for decades confirms that the party’s grip on control of Congress is shaky.

Troy Balderson, a Republican state legislator who secured a late push from President Trump, appeared to hold off Democrat Danny O’Connor on Tuesday in a special House election in and around Ohio’s capital city of Columbus. With all precincts reporting, Balderson led 50.2 percent to 49.3 percent, although the race remained too close for the major networks and the Associated Press to call. Rather than explicitly concede, O’Connor rallied his supporters for a November rematch both candidates knew was coming regardless of the night’s result.

“We’re not stopping now,” he said late Tuesday. “Tomorrow we rest and then we keep fighting through to November.”

I suspect that what we saw last n8ght we will see a lot of in November. Dems closer than they have been in ages in Republican districts - but Repos winning. They knew what they were doing when they redrew their districts to project their majority.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Fear of doing their jobs, and the community knows it:

https://articles.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/newark_police_boss_cops_didnt_do_their_jobs_when_m.amp

[LarryBnDC]

Fear of doing their jobs, and the community knows it:

https://articles.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/newark_police_boss_cops_didnt_do_their_jobs_when_m.amp

"We don't want you to be weak. We want you to do what's just and what's right, but we do want you to be strong. We need you to protect us, our community, our children and our families."

— Mayor Ras Baraka

[barton]

Nice shakeup in OH 12.  A squeaker is not good news for repubes.

Republicans look poised to eke out a victory in the last major congressional bellwether before the November midterm elections. But a razor-thin margin in a suburban Ohio district the GOP has held comfortably for decades confirms that the party’s grip on control of Congress is shaky.

Troy Balderson, a Republican state legislator who secured a late push from President Trump, appeared to hold off Democrat Danny O’Connor on Tuesday in a special House election in and around Ohio’s capital city of Columbus. With all precincts reporting, Balderson led 50.2 percent to 49.3 percent, although the race remained too close for the major networks and the Associated Press to call. Rather than explicitly concede, O’Connor rallied his supporters for a November rematch both candidates knew was coming regardless of the night’s result.

“We’re not stopping now,” he said late Tuesday. “Tomorrow we rest and then we keep fighting through to November.”

I suspect that what we saw last n8ght we will see a lot of in November. Dems closer than they have been in ages in Republican districts - but Repos winning. They knew what they were doing when they redrew their districts to project their majority.

Quite possible... some areas have renormalizing of districts tied up in court well past November.  And many gerrymanders remain unchallenged. 

Dems seem to be going Left,  a mirror move of the Right swing among Repos.  Rashida who ran to the Left of her main challengers in Michigan looks to be a cinch in November, will be first Muslim woman in Congress.   Ocasio-Cortez is becoming a pattern.   

What scares me a little is the option of smartphone voting now,  I think in WVa.   

[LarryBnDC]

This is the guy who jumped on the Trump team early and defended Trump’s refusal to release his taxes... and now you know why.

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/crime/rep-chris-collins-arrested-by-the-fbi-on-insider-trading-charges-and-lying-to-the-fbi/71-581613154