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With this administration, "mild symptoms" probably means they just intubated him. Seriously.

Generally seen as reliable?

In regards to Biden, how long do the rapid tests take? They would announce a negative immediately, so the delay either means the test hasn't come back or he's positive.

He was tested this morning, no results yet.

Biden better be negative and if he keeps polling the same, should absolutely stay in his basement which needs to be encased in a literal bubble. I've long had a fear Biden would contract this. I didn't anticipate Trump maybe giving it to him. Also, I would hope in the event Biden were to get sick that everyone would rally behind Kamala. And she would have risen to the occasion.

Biden landslide may be coming but I'm terrified about an increasingly desperate Trump who lacks any of the "adults in the room" that constrained him early on. Brace yourselves everyone.

Im going to believe that's when the tax story dropped.

Trumpers: "well, that's just how smart he is, getting out of paying taxes." Fuck the military. Fuck paying taxes. Maga!

Yes. Biden winning isn't enough. They need to take the Senate to accomplish anything. If you haven't donated yet: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/getmitch. I did $100 and $50 to Jaime Harrison, Graham's opponent.

I assume if there's 3, theres no way McConnell let's it go that far. In other news, McSally losing is going to be so fucking gratiftying. Just dropped $100 for Crooked Media's Senate fund. They're gonna raise $30 million at the pace they're going. That'll be a nice bump for those races.

Collins on record saying new president should appoint replacement. Need two more. I'm not sure if I see it. I don't think Romney will as he wasn't involved in the Garland fiasco and can maybe keep a clean conscience. On the other hand he voted to remove the President doing the appointing from office so there's that. Supposedly Grassley said he wouldn't vote on one during an election year but I doing McConnel launches his ram someone through strategy without Grassley in line.

Not sure if already posted but this sounds promising. I think it probably just provides another reason for them to ram it through before the election. Landslide, take the Senate, pack the court.

Murkowskie, Collins, Romney and..... ?

My heart goes out to her family and America but I wish they would have weekend at bernies'd it for a few months. Some voice recordings, deep fakes over Zoom. It could have worked. Just vote out Dotard band the republican Senate, and this will be okay. Like someone said up thread, either new president picks or you pack the court.

Yeah, Trump uses this and then rams through whoever regardless of outcome. Democrats better use it too.

Fuck heroin, man. Still enraged about this. His struggles kept him from broader success after Harlem River but he was one hell of a talent. His stage presence solo on a good night is some of the best I've seen.

I saw him last fall. He seemed irritable and rushed his set, skipped about 5 songs from the set list. First time I saw him a coupme was once of the best live performances I've seen in my life. This was not that. I assumed he was just having a bad day but looking back I wonder if he was trying to get back to the bus to get a fix. I never met the guy but his music and performances were so personal and I spent so much time with it, this feels exactly like losing a close friend. Devastated and my heat goes out to his family.

Fuck. One of my favorites. Was just listening to him today and thinking about how great it will be this see him live again when things are back to normal. Incredible talent. Sucks.

You serious? Is there reporting it's Liz? That would be incredible and tell me Biden understands what's needed.

Started watching the full Axios interview. He starts by bragging about restricting travel from China and Europe. There were probably ten times more cases in the US than either of those places by the time the bans were in place. That did nothing. If that was the extent of the interview, it would be horrible and seriously hurt any other president.

I came here to see if there was any discussion of this. That's terrifying. One of the two personal contacts I know who have had Covid is a woman in her 50s with no complications who has had serious cardiac problems after having Covid. Information like this really changes the personal risk calculation and if more people were aware of these risks, we would hopefully be taking this much more seriously. Interested in the limitations of the study.

We were going to do it back in January and the appraisal came in oddly low so it didn't make sense. Have just been watching rates since then. A couple months ago multiple lenders started quoting me a points requirement for the loan, no non-points options. It's a big loan, falls in the "high-cost conventional" in my area so not sure what that does for Fannie being able to purchase so that might drive up the rates.

I'm still looking at doing a cash-out refinance. Every lender I've talked to has said that points are required for a cash out right now. So I'm looking at 3.375 plus $4700 in points. My questions to the Surly mortgage wizards....is this what you're seeing on cash out? Are banks just viewing these as riskier so are making sure the'yre getting paid? Have you ever seen this before? When I was looking at this before, the cash out versus straight refinance difference was an eight to a quarter of a percentage point. Final question. Do you see rates staying low? The points required were $12000 three weeks ago, $4700 now but with so much economic uncertainty I could see that changing again. Wish we were in a different situation to take advantage of of the lower rates but we need the cash to pay off a HELOC so a straight refi isn't an option. On the plus side, by paying off the HELOC, I'm cutting the I'm paying on the total home debt substantially so the break even point ends up only being about two years out. This is is a good deal for us but would rather have the $4700 in my pocket instead of the lender.

Or deaths trail being sick, which I think is typically the case. You get sick, then you die. I'd wait two weeks.

I lived next door to Bernie Tiede in Hyde Park when he was out of prison. He had been living in an apartment behind Richard Linklater's house just down the street before then and then Linklater rented the house next to us for him. Nice guy in all my interactions with him. It was strange to think about but we were never worried. Just a weird Austin thing when those things had been disappearing. Linklater also had a pig that would wander into our yard on occasion.