Indeed! Today’s Republican Party is 1950s McCarthy-ism on a grand and unrestrained scale. McCarthy was only stopped by his own alcoholism and the fact that he attacked Eisenhower’s beloved US Army. No one with sufficient power has stood up against Trump-ism. It’s up to each and everyone of us to join together and vote him (and his minions) out of office.
Greg
July 2019 was the Hunter-gate big reveal. Hard to make October Surprise with fixin's past their sell by date.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...thers-campaign
Such delicious irony in people trying to make an issue out of Biden's son's activities. It's kind of like 2016 when if you listened you'd almost get the impression that Republicans had a problem with somebody lying whether they were or not. With the current president and his family treating the White House and the government as an arm of the family business complaining about this? Really?
"Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle. Mr. Kettle, meet Mr. Pot. Talk amongst yourselves and feel free to sample the canapes."
Tom Ambros
From where I sit, one side is at times unable to deliver on promises either due to incompetence or being stonewalled by political opposition. The other side trades in lies and misinformation. That doesn't mean there has never been misinformation from the Democrats, but to imply equivalence is, IMO, wrong.
On the topic of "they're coming for our guns," it's such obvious fear mongering considering what it would take to overturn the 2nd amendment. The overwhelming majority of support on both sides of Congress and ratification from a large majority of states. But, you know, if Biden gets elected those guns will just disappear...I think single issue voters are just looking for an excuse to vote for someone without having to admit they actually support the full platform.
"I guess you're some weird relic of an obsolete age." - davids
I agree with you for the most part, especially in 2020. But I think historically there’s plenty of fear mongering to go around.
Anyway, I voted straight ticket Democratic this time and will continue to do so until we see more interest in truth and justice and equality from the GOP, ideas completely lacking in 2020’s GOP.
La Cheeserie!
Irony works on the one committing the incongruous acts only if one has enough self-introspection to look at oneself in the mirror. Modern-day GOP (and by that, I mean the GOP of the last 12 years or so) is devoid of the introspection needed. Though it's also quite possible it really can't see its reflection in the mirror. Given its figurative blood sucking tendencies (e.g. redistribution of wealth upwards), it wouldn't surprise anyone.
every time I see our wartime president (whoops, we surrendered to C-19), about to take a rally stage I think of, and play if my laptop is handy, this:
Everyone seems to think these are separate events. How would one party take over the government while leaving guns in the hands of its citizens? Or take guns without taking over the government. These are basically the same thing. You might do one before the other, but eventually you are going to have to do both to stay in power.
Gun people sure make it easy to find them too. Not smart. If you really think someone is going to come and take away your guns, why make it so easy for them to find you. For starters, don't friggin' join the NRA.
Well, UWisc just cancelled its match this weekend against Nebraska. Both the starter and 1st back-up for UW tested positive, as did ten others associated with the program. As others here have said a month ago, this was coming and is quite predictable. UW played a grand total of one game before cancelling the match...
The city of Madison is averaging ~250 positive cases for the last seven days, yet the mayor doesn't see it fit to impose stricter requirements. It would appear as if people are inured to it all...
Current inpatient number stands at ~120, or 3x what it was when it was really bad previously.
Just about an hour ago, there were two masked kindergarten teachers who took a group of ~15 unmasked toddlers on a walk of the neighborhood streets, with none of the toddlers masked...
All this, in a town derisively called the People's Republic. Out of control.
Washtenaw County in Michigan with the University of Michigan asked the undergraduates to isolate and remain socially distance from last week until Nov 3. I think they wanted to get in front of the Football season opener on Saturday night vs Minnesota, the season home Opener against MSU this weekend and Halloween.
Of course, some students now being 100% online, decided to go somewhere else. Las Vegas, Hamptons etc. So while attempting to stop the spread in Ann Arbor, they just sent the potential spread to other areas.
We really are fighting losing battles without national coordination being driven by the White House.....
Don't fret, Jared's got our collective back(s). The White House is "...getting the country back from the doctors." No need to worry!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/polit...ors/index.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...e-country-back
I sincerely hope that at some time in the not-so-distant future, Mr. Kushner is brought to justice (legally and fully in respect of the Constitution) and gets to occupy the same jail cell where his father once resided.
Greg
A Maryland family battled covid-19 at the same time as Trump. It devastated them. | Washington Post
Marine One landed on the White House lawn just before dusk. As its rotors came to a halt, the helicopter’s door swung open and out stepped Donald Trump.
The president had just spent three days in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recovering from covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. And in a scene that would be set to dramatic music and tweeted to his 87 million followers, he climbed the steps to a White House balcony, took off his face mask and recorded a video urging the country not to fear the deadly disease.
“Don’t let it dominate you,” he said into a camera on the evening of Oct. 5. “ . . . We have the best medical equipment. We have the best medicines. All developed recently. And you’re gonna beat it.”
Thirty miles away, Carlton Coates Jr. sat in an Annapolis funeral home, staring at the casket that contained the body of his older sister.
Carol Coates had battled covid-19 at the same time as the president. But instead of a suite at Walter Reed, the 46-year-old Black teacher self-isolated in the basement of her family’s home. And instead of the experimental cocktail of antibodies that Trump was given, she received get-well cards from her fifth-grade students.
Carol had taught nine miles from the White House. But her illness unfolded in what seemed like a different universe than the one the president described.
The virus has killed more than 227,000 people in the United States, but it has hit some communities harder than others. Blacks and Hispanics are nearly three times as likely as Whites to contract the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And African Americans are more than twice as likely to die of it.
“Don’t let it take over your lives,” Trump said during his triumphal homecoming video.
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