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Tuco

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. That would be staggering. Here’s to hoping. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Trump wants to make sure people think of Obama when they consider Biden. Biden wants the same thing. Is this bipartisanship?
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. You can just smell the pettiness.
  13. At this point, it is way more important he lives long enough to get crushed in the election. He dies now, and a lot of people won't show up to vote against him (and his enablers) and his supporters will see him as a martyr. After 11/3/2020, I hope he drowns in his own pink froth, knowing that a majority of Americans have rejected him.
  14. Which is why I volunteered to be a poll worker this cycle. Intimidation tactics are less effective if the line is shorter. The election commission website was stupid though in that it said you had to volunteer “120 days (roughly 3 months) before the election.” Yeah, apparently they seem to think each month is 40 days. So I don’t know if I got my app in on time.
  15. I think you will start seeing a change to his approval rating, but not much movement in a head to head with Biden. And that marginal improvement may come at the expense of cooling enthusiasm with his base, many of whom think Covid is just hype. Sooner or later (probably sooner), he’s going to get frustrated and break free from his new campaign manager’s leash and return to his old message.
  16. No one gets paid that way. We will continue to devote a significant part of our federal budget updating our nuke capabilities. We are buying a new Columbia class sub every two years to make sure those pesky jihadists can’t see it when we park a nuke off the coast of Afghanistan.
  17. They are looking for donors, not voters. There is a lot of money in California, some of it held by idiots.
  18. 2020 - The year the American public had to rely on the NCAA for moral leadership on a public health issue. Good job, NCAA. I don’t say that often.
  19. I watched Blood of Heroes the other day. (on Tubi) It was complete bomb back in '89. I enjoyed it then, and still do, but can see why it was a bomb. It has all the trappings of Mad Max, but is basically just a simple little sports movie. The action is subpar, but the cast is impressive, albeit difficult to spell: Rutger Hauer, Delroy Lindo, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio. Written and directed by David Peoples, who wrote screenplays for Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Unforgiven, and 12 Monkeys. Between the cast and dialogue, the characters are more natural and believable than you get out of a typical 80's post-apocalyptic flick. Not a bad way to kill a couple of hours on a rainy day. It's basically Bull Durham if Nuke was a hot Asian chick and everyone played in bondage gear.
  20. It's telling how many of those topics are defensive. It's not like they want to bring up Golf, or Mueller, or Hogan.
  21. NE-2 moves from lean R to Toss-up. Kara Eastman doing good work. She raised 715k last quarter, which was around 200k more than Bacon. Of that, 288k were in small dollar donations (<$200 each), and, of course, $0 in corporate PAC donations. Bacon had 59k in small dollar donations. Bacon still has over a million in cash on hand, and will start having a PAC run TV ads for him starting next week. The next 108 days are going to be a battle. Eastman's page
  22. The third point on the above Axios article is just a picture of McEnany's binder. Fitting that is starts with "Absurd."
  23. A know a woman who ran for Senate in Nebraska. She was raised in a small town in rural Nebraska. Her father is a Republican, and she was running for the Dem nomination. He said he would vote for her should she win the nomination, but he wasn't going to change his registration to Dem to vote for her in the primary. He had been registered for x number of decades, and continuing that streak was more important to him than supporting his daughter, who he claimed he preferred over the Republican Senator (Sasse). This is about teams, not policy. The thing about an early development of a vaccine is that it is completely out of line with everything the President has been pushing. If he had told Americans to sit tight for a year, minimize contact, and hold out for a vaccine, then it makes sense that he would be vindicated. Instead, he told people it would disappear on its own. He was clear that the economy was more important than fighting the disease. I don't know if he ever said it directly, but certainly others in the Republican Party pushed the idea that the only path through was just to go on as normal, and eventually herd immunity (from everyone catching it) would cure it. The sooner a vaccine is developed, the more evident that this malpractice has costed 10's of thousands of lives that could have been saved had we just put a greater priority on slowing the virus. I don't expect Trumpstains, or even the casual voter, to see it that way. I'm sure that a quick vaccine development will reduce fear, which helps the incumbent. But, for fucks sake, they killed a bunch of people do just to get a limping economy to move a little faster.
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