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Risk your life processing cattle in a factory during a deadly pandemic.

Which is further evidence that Republicans have no fucking clue what capitalism is. It sure as shit ain't about people donating money to build a worthless monument.

If autopart store managers want to pretend to be epidemiologists, then it makes since that epidemiologists should start following criminally link sports figures. I assume the next time a need wiper blades, Bob Costas will be there to help me out to complete the circle.

Yeah, I don't think this is a coincidence. I think Guo is likely the big fish here. I'm guessing it was that investigation that was keeping Bannon "at sea."

In a similar vein, I think it is too easy to get into the mindset that Democrats are looking to change things (being progressives) and the Republicans are looking to protect things (being conservatives.) I think the Democrats do a shit job of showing how the Republicans are actively whittling away at things which have long been valued. Take higher education: the debate is framed that the Democrats are pushing for "free" college, which the Republicans are resisting. What's lost in that is how Republicans have systematically defunded public universities, to the point that it is no longer affordable without incurring massive debt. They both are pushing for change: Democrats looking to make it more affordable and Republicans making it less affordable. Either way it changes, and I think if you give voters the choice between more affordable or less affordable, they'd go with Democrats.

Well, killing the patient would certainly hurt the viruses ability to spread.

I mean, he is right that he is only President because of the anger and hatred generated by a black man being President.

Fuck. I did not know that.

Planning is part of it. But commitment is probably the bigger issue. When budgets are tight, it's tough to commit funds to something that may not be an issue in your term. There is a reason that NY State identified a need in their epidemic planning, but then cut it from their budget.

If Trump loses NE-2, which I feel fairly confident he will, it would bring the total back to 269 to 269, with the House deciding the Presidency. Biden wouldn't need Arizona, NC, or Florida (Nevada is already in Biden's column on the count.)

So, the polling on it was really bad, but the fake news didn't cover it. Then why was the polling bad? Which was idiotic from the start, and not just because it was obvious from early on that Covid was dwarf the H1N1 numbers. The terrifying thing about H1N1 was not the lethality, which was actually on par with a bad flu season. The terrifying thing was that it was killing young people. 80% of the deaths were people under the age of 65. 11% under 17. But, as with most things Trumpian, they are too stupid, lazy and arrogant to actually do the basic research to understand why H1N1 was a big deal. Even now, after over 160,000 American fatalities, they probably haven't done basic background research on other pandemics to understand historical context and to understand where previous failures were. This is not political philosophy; it is just stupidity. [Could you imagine if COVID was similarly impacting young people at those ratios? There is no reason why the next version won't. We need to get our shit together on how we deal with diseases.] The whole thread is weird. He gives some weird attack on the Obama admin, and then says that Biden wasn't really a player in it. So...?

On the Sweden anti-body tests, it was not a random sample. They were out of cities, and self-selected. link to autoparts store...wait, not that would be stupid.

Ah, sure, Sweden. They have the sixth highest death rate in the world, not including micronations. We should definitely be following them. I mean, if you compare Sweden, a country with with one of the lowest population densities in Europe, to NYC, one of the highest population densities in the world...something, something...let's play some football.

Yeah, it seems like it would be pointless to start negotiating anything at this point in the term. There is no diplomatic agreement that would be executed in the next 5 months, so it would be a waste of Putin’s time. Which means this isn’t about diplomacy.

Preet Bharara has his teenage sons doing “housework” - researching which House candidates he should support. They select one per day in August, and Preet gives the candidate a $500 donation, and of course tweets about it. Aug 14 was my future rep Kara Eastman, but he has also singled out Texas candidates. I like Preet.

I think I came pretty close with this post four months ago. I do wish the Dems had pushed some objective criteria for relaxing social distancing requirements, but the Covidiots reopened so quickly, that there was never really a discussion on how to reopen, just reactions to announcements. Fortunately, as with so much of this, the football thing is being driven by the conferences and the NCAA, not Dems or Trumpists. The masks policy in stores is being driven by large box stores, like Walmart. 2020 - the year that Walmart and the NCAA were more interested than the federal government in protecting public safety.

I think you may underestimate how much olds rely on the post office. They receive and pay bills, and get late charges when it’s untimely. This isn’t about voter suppression; it’s about late arriving birthday cards. The Dems should be hitting this hard.

That would be staggering. Here’s to hoping. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Particularly after being part of the reason for the problem. And, yes, if you worked to elevate the Christian Right in Republican politics, you absolutely paved the way for Trump. Here’s a suggestion: if you’re going to be a political nihilist who won’t follow the news, get the fuck off the political board. Sell your “I’m above it all” bullshit somewhere else.

Not voting or voting 3rd party is being neutral after seeing 4 years of Trump’s presidency and being confronted with the possibility of another 4 years. Being neutral in that situation makes you a shitty person.

You answered your own question.

Trump wants to make sure people think of Obama when they consider Biden. Biden wants the same thing. Is this bipartisanship?

So, here's a good case study on the mentality which makes #DefundThePolice necessary: County board buys sheriff a 1.85M mobile command center with Covid relief funds. So, the rationale for this boondoggle is that the vaccination program would be run through the police, by police (who are not trained in public health), utilizing tools that are customized for law enforcement, rather than vaccination programs. It's just fucking insane that they can vocalize, and maybe even believe, it. A couple of other points, specific to Omaha/Douglas County: - 80% of the population in Douglas County are Omaha residents. I would guess another 10% are in small connected towns and unincorporated suburbs. It is not a rural county. It's maybe 20 miles E/W and 10 miles N/S. It's not the fucking Australian outback. Getting rural residents vaccinations is trivial. - If you drive a county sheriff van into North Omaha (predominantly black community) or South Omaha (predominantly Latino community), it is going to be counter-productive in trying to get vaccinations to the residents. They are already reasonable suspicious of government run vaccination programs; it's extremely stupid to compound that with adding cops to the mix. - The Douglas County sheriff office does not patrol Omaha. They aren't the police force responsible for crowd control/security at large events in Omaha. That's the OPD. Even the small towns in the county have their own local PD, although I imagine they request help if bad shit is happening...which, is probably once in a decade. The sheriff maybe patrols the county roads, and of course enforces county orders, like evictions. Even on a purely law enforcement basis, they don't need a fucking RV.

Well, they do tend to vote Republican.

He did, many years ago. Trump sniffed out something was off and bailed on it fairly quickly. Probably about the most impressed I’ve ever been with Trump.