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Ohio Republican Senator <PERSON> said, “Instead of overturning the will of the voters [by removing President Trump]…I think it’s much better to allow the voters to have the information and then to actually take this [information] into the election.”
What Ohio Senator <PERSON> and other Republicans who say the same stuff mean is:
• Enable presidents including President <PERSON> defy duly elected Congress’ Constitutionally authorized subpoenas thereby overturning the will of the voters who elected those representatives and ignoring the will of the voters with respect to those office holders (Vice President <PERSON>, et. al) who follow via the Constitution’s line of succession
• Presumably because they are not eligible for reelection deem only second term presidents to be eligible for impeachment, not first-termers like President <PERSON> who violate the Constitution against whom the only recourse is not being reelected.
• Help presidents like President <PERSON> conceal information from voters even though Republicans say we voters are to be informed sufficiently to determine whether to reelect President <PERSON> despite his hiding relevant, duly requested information.
Obviously, what Ohio Republican Senator <PERSON> his Republican colleagues are saying is worse than nonsense because it would denigrate the Constitution’s safeguards into nullities.
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Republicans say that the President <PERSON>’s extorting an allied country’s complicity to gain for himself personal political “favor” was inappropriate but insufficient to remove a president “overturning the will of the voters.” Instead, they say, “it’s much better to allow the voters to have the information and then to actually take this into the election.”
Obviously, the Constitution does not designate such first term immunity. Instead it circumscribes presidential powers for this obvious and critical reason: the Republican approach would grant unlimited powers to all first term presidents.
The Republicans claiming that President <PERSON>’s impeachment and removal “overturns (his) election” ignores this: impeachment and removal is critical to the Constitution’s checks-and-balances which oftentimes depend upon Congressional subpoena-driven investigations.
Worse, Republicans ignore this: President <PERSON>’s refusal to comply with Congressional subpoenas itself overturns the results of Congressional elections.
Perhaps even more perverse than all that is Republican’s enabling President <PERSON>’s concealing responsive information denies we voters exactly the information Republicans say we voters should employ to decide whether to reelect President <PERSON>.
Clearly, the Republican scheme violates their oath to defend the Constitution and to execute impartial justice.
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Too quick to shut down nuclear power plants. That is why they're having grid issues. The intermittency of wind and solar just make them SEEM to be a possible solution to climate change while wasting the time, money, and human resources that could be marshaled to actually mitigate, if not resolve, this upcoming planet-wide environmental catastrophe!
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We need to utilize everything to aid while we're in this crisis. For example re-purposing x-ray and other high energy imaging equipment to mass sterilize PPEs. Food sterilization using irradiation by Co60 could also be ramped up to have localized sterilization stations allowing safe reuse of masks. Install UV-C lights into fixtures in closed stores and hang up racks of PPEs, after spraying down and cleaning, to sterilize. We need to think outside the box before we find ourselves buried in one.
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It is clear from the events of the last few days that the election was decisively won by the Democratic Presidential candidate, <PERSON>, while <PERSON> lost the Presidency.
This is a democracy, where the loser of an election must hand his power over to the winner of the people's votes. This was not a close election, the win was decisive and in too many States. The Popular vote, won fairly by the winner by over 5 million votes so far, is still growing. The only one trying to influence the election was the loser, who earlier this year got impeached by the House, messed up our Postal Service, ignored the Pandemic and instead of protecting our citizens, endangered their health and security by his behavior and actions. Elections matter and respecting the result of our votes is essential.
Our democracy is not prepared for an impeached President who is a liar, power hungry and desperate, knowing he will be under indictment soon, who is supported by Republican elected officials, also afraid of losing their power.
We must not allow any outgoing President to make new appointments and firings after losing reelection, and to endanger our country's security in any way for his own selfish interests. He was the wrong person for this important, complex position which needs an individual with strong moral values and respect for our Constitution. Lets Move On!
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This decision is one of the proofs why health care must be separated from employment. Health care is every person's right, and no employer has a right to interfere with health-related decisions. Please, see the light, especially in the middle of a pandemic, with millions loosing not only their jobs but also their health care: we need to change to a single payer health care system. I have Medicare, which works extremely well. Get employers and private health insurance out of our health care.
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I've been waiting for someone to say this, so thank you, Mr. <PERSON>.... and as for all the Dems who prefer other candidates - and I am one - it's about time to realize that our first choices are not making the cut, so it's nearing time to get on board with the one who is. That said, I hope that he chooses a hard-working moderate to round out the ticket: <PERSON> for Veep!
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I agree with a number of these comments, and I don't believe that communication is his strong suit, although it could be with time and maturity. My take was that he was prepared to attack <PERSON>, and was just waiting for a chance.... Unfortunately, when he thought that he'd found it, he didn't have his facts straight, so he wound up not just rude and inappropriate but also factually incorrect. He lost our admiration in one fell swoop. I hope that he listens and learns and matures - he could be a formidable force.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you <PERSON> and the many who commented on your article! I’m so sick of the many reasonable being drowned out by the minority fringe, including those at the top of out government, whose only concern is ME! My money, my power, my desires.
If we (me and many of you) can’t find a way to take back our country, we’re going to lose it. We already have a narcissistic authoritarian in the White House, do we want to go the way of Russia, N. Korea, China, and others who have no freedom?
I don’t! And I will not allow a fringe group of radicals to steal it!
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Well said by all (except <PERSON>)! America and our democracy are threatened because of these unabated lies. It may not have started with <PERSON>’s “alternative facts” comment, but when tens of millions of adults (??) jump on the bandwagon, don’t even want to look for the truth, divide our country, promote hate, and wait for the call to start a civil war, it’s well past time to put a stop to it. Starting at the top.
Children test parents.. “how far can I push the limits without being stopped?”. But these are not children, and they pose a great threat to all of us. By all means, go after these companies and individuals; they are teachable. If it hurts enough, they’ll stop.
Then we must be vigilant, and nip new upstarts in the bud.
Opinion, clearly stated as opinion, may be legal, but it must not be allowed to present as fact. Too long we’ve tolerated this dangerous speech and behavior. Its time to act!
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I'm a South Carolinian <PERSON> voter. I have to ask if SC results even matter for Dems. The state is not turning blue anyways. The ultimate results will not make a big difference in the general election. Now, if the DNC actually invested in SC to at least make it purple, then we could have a discussion on how SC matters.
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The look of the crowd crying for this military leader is sad. It is this passion for the Old Guard* that is pervasive in the Middle East that we should have been more aware of before Iraq. Even I knew about it at the time, because I read books, and I was a real life janitor back in those days. Yes, Iran needs democracy, but military efforts will not influence that movement, it will do just the opposite.
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“There’s really no safe way to do it at home,” said Dr. <PERSON>, a dermatologist in New York City. “There’s probably a 25 to 50 percent chance you’re going to have some sort of complication.” Despite this warning, editors decided to run this article? This is a serious lapse in judgment.
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During a time when we need to stay at home, <PERSON> thinks it is a good idea to still hold elections, most of which he will lose. When it comes to his candidacy, his care of people’s health is hard to find. So let’s continue sowing division and endangering people’s health for an ideology for which <PERSON> has so far in his career done very little to make a reality.
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I have zero fear of being “rejected” from a bubble. As someone who, over a decade ago, had a mean girl enter my social circle and through gossip and just plain jealousy ejected me from it, my need for validation through cliques and other forms of social exclusion is non-existent. As a matter of fact, I get a little shiver of schadenfreude watching the queen bees and the social rulers wilt in their new reality. Does this make me a mean girl, too? Not really. I’m much more sensitive now to the outcast and the uninvited. And they’re actually far more interesting than the bubble.
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“... what matters most is conveying that this fictional woman is out of your league, but you’d still have a shot with her.
It may seem like a little thing...” This is NOT a little thing. This thinking and representation of this thinking in literature, film, gaming, and pretty much every genre of entertainment that men consume is what spawned the likes of <PERSON>. When men are fed a daily buffet diet of visually stimulating women soley for the purpose of stroking their egos, those egos are going to get hurt out in the real world when they attempt to hit above their belt. They will get mad. And they will sometimes kill.
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<PERSON> Your point made on the differentiation of those who are able to stay up to speed with their classes vs those who have obstacles that prevent them to perform to the vest of their ability should be made a bigger deal, in my opinion, because it is one of the biggest issues I see kids my own age struggling with. The desire to make students become better leaders should be better advocated for, and a way I think this could be made possible is through more small group activities, like tutoring or after school homework help.
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I feel like I relate to the student named <PERSON> because I often think about the topic he discussed. I agree that it is so dangerous that we have kids who are growing up thinking that because someone is different than them they are not as worthy to this country etc. I think that because I am white, I do have so much privilege in this country, but I am so grateful to be raised understanding what it means to have white privilege and how to use it to help those who are faced with injustices in the system. I think that both sides of my family have shaped my political beliefs, and since they are both so different , I have been allowed to develop my own beliefs.
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<PERSON> did not win. The Secretary of State and brother/governor <PERSON> purged a million Democratic voters from Florida, produced a confusing ballot, stopped counting the votes, and the Supreme Court installed him, with <PERSON>’s son and <PERSON>’s wife both benefiting with a job and a superPAC respectively, and the 5th vote being cast by <PERSON> who later much regretted her vote.
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Yes! It’s all that you say! It’s a fantasy, it’s a dream come true to see, it’s simplistic, it never could have happened, yet it’s so satisfying to see merit and acceptance and inclusion win out over the hate, small-mindedness, fear, and violence this country has coddled for far too long. Movies do point the way. So do laws and elections. If you want fairer representation on the screen, we are going to need to fight harder for it in real life. Anything that inspires hope and possibility now are welcome. Thank you, <PERSON>!
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The USA should be supplementing the income of essential worked including store clerks truckers and other workers who in regular basis are undervalued. They should be receiving the extra $600 a week on top of their salaries. Unemployment should only make people whole they should get only what they are no longer able to earn. We need to give workers who are puytong themselves at risk a hazard federal
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This might be naive...but why are they shortages already? there has only been 5000 cases ppl are panicking creating artificial scarcity.
Panic needs to end and this needs to be put in perspective 100000 cases in a population of 1.3 billion in China is not world ending. I wonder if the medicine will be worst than the illness. We need to calm down.
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There's another way to look at <PERSON>'s 'profile in courage'...
The economy has tanked, coronavirus is spreading through the Republican heartlands, and at least one of the Supreme Court Trump Tax cases may succeed revealing <PERSON> a fraud just as the 2020 Republican Convention occurs.
<PERSON> has set himself up as the 'write-in savior' Republicans could nominate, minimizing their loses in November.
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<PERSON> 10 scariest words: "We're from the government and we're here to help you".
I wonder if he felt that way when government doctors tended to him after the assassination attempt?
Like most Republicans (then and now), it's only scary when they help 'other' Americans.
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@TOBY Really? My good friend’s young adult daughter often refuses her medication has had multiple psychotic episodes. These result in bruises, black eyes, and worse for the rest of the family. Her mother loves her and always tries to refrain from calling the police for help. Not because she is scared of them, but because due to daughter’s record, she gets taken to jail not treatment. This by the way is the fault of the judicial system, not cops. The last time, to quote her, her daughter was “bouncing her head against the concrete like a basket ball’. They called the cops because when this girl has a psychotic break she is also crazy strong and wild. The family were scared she would kill her mother so they called police.
Her would give her life for this child . If anyone has empathy and compassion for this girl it’s her mother. What it does not accomplish is “freedom to self de-escalate [her] agitation.”
I also had a severely bipolar roommate; I learned this afterwards from her embarrassed parents. Nothing could reach her once the paranoia that the people in the walls were spying on her and feeding her images to bugs to eat her eyeballs. It got scary & made no sense. Nothing penetrated her paranoia.
For these and the countless others out there like them, our cry should be “Fund adequate mental healthcare. Early and as long as needed.”
If my friend’s daughter was able to be in long term treatment, she wouldn’t have been interacting with police.
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@Nancy I agree that police shouldn't be our executioners.
I also have children myself and would never engage in a physical altercation with the police in front of them unless THEIR lives depended on it. As a responsible parent, I would never want to set that type of example in front of my children nor would I want to chance them getting hit by a stray bullet aimed at me.
Plenty of blame all around here in this situation.
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@Bret
Maybe you should think about the thieves in the right wing party "Partido Popular" and <PERSON> which is way more akin to <PERSON>. When they were in power, they slashed budgets for anything not related with their "business", specially education. Some laws that they implemented they were so criminal they the EU ordered them to take them out, for example, the evictions law, when you are evicted in Spain, not only you become homeless, your debt stays with you forever and now you have to pay for nothing, nice right wing law isn't it ?
If you don't believe me do a search for the news about "desahuciados spain", obviously the sites will be in Spanish because it is a Spain's problem and nobody in the US cares.
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It doesn't matter, all of those H1B visas have already been taken until next year.
Indian outsourcing companies grab all the available visas on the very first day these are issued, leaving next to nothing for the remainder of the year, not to mention other countries or companies. And with the ban to get green cards, those workers will take the knowledge and the system weaknesses to their countries. Just don't cry if somebody in India hacks your bank.
And by the way, if "American" companies continue to either outsource jobs or bring foreign workers for white collar jobs, don't you think your children are not noticing ? They are, and today, many are starting to think that to study hard or difficult careers is for losers, so, what do you think is going to happen ?
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@George this not correct, in the last election while all this was going on dems made gains on every front, and it’s very very likely they will flip the senate, and take the presidency. in the end the republicans have destroyed their “brand” and pushed moderates and independents away from them. if this impeachment was a net negative for dems they would have been upside down during that last election, it was clearly a referendum, but, they won s almost every race tgg hg year contested.
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really is pretty funny that these tech people and their businesses that have been going around bleeting ad nauseam about being super great and positive since their inceptions are all basically the worst thing to happen to civilization and culture since the advent of the cotton gin, i suppose the old saying is true, you always wind up being the very thing you said you hate, in this case, hideous corrupt corporate money grubbing criminals...
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@KS The big fallacy now, the final hurdle we must overcome, is to imagine that the NYTimes is any more legitimate than Fox News. They have lost that pretense through years of abuse of basic editorial standards. Look no further than the "very fine people" hoax which it pushed for years, and never issued a retraction for its flagrant misrepresentation of <PERSON>'s words.
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This speech policing and silencing of dissent seems to be a distinctly left wing tendency currently. I can think of no prominent examples of someone from the Left being canceled by the Right.
Our institutions, like the media, big tech, and academia need to quickly and intensely grapple with their propensity to silence perceived wrongthink rather than debate it, and through increasingly totalitarian and draconian means. The very concept of an open and free society hinges on them doing do.
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<PERSON> could also point out that when the Fed key strokes ‘money’ or rolls over maturing Treasuries to get new ones being offered, these go on to a ‘balance sheet,’ so to speak that is owned by the public.
She ought to become more aware also about the ability fir the Fed and Treasury to employ basic or common accounting practices to offset erase these sums (rather than have the Treasury borrow anew to finance maturing Treasuries, you just erase the Treasuries at the same time you eliminate the need to borrow).
Perhaps we can get her to comment on why the Fed does not simply erase the book entries on their ledgers now, and what meaning does that have for the concept of the overall debt. Buy with key strokes, then erase the entry on the asset side that is based on this money-apparition. It can be done.
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@Monte please explain WHY they need an offsetting ledger entry.
This is something monetary theorists made up when figuring out basic principles for managing the Fed. It is theory.
Give me a real reason why the Fed has such ledgers.
If the Fed throws its ‘asset’ ledger into the ocean, what would happen in the real world?
Well, one good things that the public would not need to borrow such sums to pay off maturing Treasuries or use taxes either if that is how you chose to retire these things. Remember, they were bought by key strokes, apparition-money.
So WHY?
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22000 gun owners march without incident and the the NYT and its readership opine like they rioted. Mr. <PERSON> would have us believe that gun rights advocates are arming for a race war. How is banning guns going to stop the lunatic fringe from arming? Or are all gun owners lunatics by his calculus? By extension he calls me a racist and denegrates my personal choice because I own a gun. But doesn't it say something positive about our society that a large group can congregate with responsible gun ownership on display without violence. I never used to give credence to the slippery slope argument on the right that gun control leads to confiscation. I used to think reasonable people could find reasonable accomodations, but after hearing the spirit of the left, I have my doubts. The basic reasoning is that I can't own a gun because it makes those who don't uncomfortable.
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@nastyboy
Monuments typically aren't a good way to teach or memorialize history, while reasoned, scholarly research captures history much more meaningfully. (Otherwise, you could make the same argument that the Iraqi people had no justification to topple statues of <PERSON>.) We, as a society, suffer no loss of insight or knowledge that comes from the act of removing monuments that were intended to send the message that the slave owning class had lost the war, but has won the peace.
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I attended a meeting at our local high school in upstate SC yesterday. Parent after parent stood and said to open the schools with most supporting no masks and no social distancing. I just sat there quiet knowing the state would ultimately make the final decision. I don't know which was scariest. The realization my kids and I were living in a clueless twilight zone or that I was looking to the SC government to save us.
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I live in Upstate SC. <PERSON> has always been hated by far right kooks for not being far right enough. They used to call him a RINO. Now he is as kooky and hateful as they are and they love him. <PERSON> would sell his soul to the devil for reelection as well as our country down the river because he has nothing else in his sad life. I'm wishing <PERSON> the best and he will have my vote but it's hard to be optimistic in our sad state.
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When I came to New York City almost four decades ago I said to myself: "This is the place of my dreams". And I stayed.
I learned a few things since. NYC is tough and rough. NYC is expensive and doesn't roll out the red carpet to anybody. NYC can chew you up and spit you out in a NY minute. And NYC is not the US.
I would never live anywhere else. Because of this city I became an American, worked hard, made money, and sent a good chunk of my taxes to places like Arkansas and Tennessee where I would not dream of setting foot.
To all whiners: just leave already! And take these hordes of tourists with you. We'll be fine with those who stay and those who will keep coming.
That its, with the true New Yorkers.
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America is a democracy in which all votes count the same? Are you serious, Professor? When the Dakotas with 1.6m people elect twice as many senators as California's 40m people, for a disparity of 50 to 1? When gerrymandering gives 80/20 majorities to a minority party? When the "electoral college" makes most large states irrelevant and awards the presidential election according to the whims of a handful of voters? Really?
Don't ignore the three obese elephants in the room just to focus on the mastodon of plutocracy.
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@Mattbk
Hey, <PERSON>! The "Founding Fathers" lived 250 years ago and they were not gods. (Yes, I know. That's a big disappointment to you.) They made some mistakes and the Electoral College was a big one. They could not have foreseen how many states there would be today, nor how the population of the country would be distributed among them. It was a totally different world.
Time for some rational changes to our electoral system. One person. One vote.
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<PERSON> described him as “the most accomplished man in Europe in riding, shooting, fencing, dancing and music.”
Now that, my fellow travelers, describes a very accomplished human being. What a remarkable man. To be the most accomplished at any one of those things would be quite an accomplishment. To be considered the best in all five areas of endeavor is astonishing.
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I'm not sure you guys know what countries are in East Asia. It consists of China, Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea, and Japan. Leaving North Korea out of the picture as a country barely plugged into the global economy, none of those countries have experienced a plummet in their currencies. Yen has actually gotten stronger against both the dollar and Euro. East Asia is not on equal or similar economic standing as Latin America or the emerging European countries; East Asia belongs to an article about poor countries facing a debt crisis as much as Western Europe does.
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<PERSON> Even if we agree that those countries are indeed East Asian countries and assume that is the conventional and popular understanding, do you not see how Eurocentric it is to characterize East Asia by its weakest economies while making sure to not paint Europe with the same broad a brush?
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@R.P.
You are incorrect as to where the trees are harvested from to make toilet paper. It is not from tree plantations. It from Canada's boreal forests. You missed the point of the post you; commented on.
<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-americans-tree-to-toilet-pipeline-is-destroying-canadian-forests-2019-03-01" target="_blank">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-americans-tree-to-toilet-pipeline-is-destroying-canadian-forests-2019-03-01</a>
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@R <PERSON>
There are many earbuds that have a function that allows sounds to filter in to raise awareness of your surroundings. Or just use one earbud. If someone needs the motivation of music or books to exercise then there are ways to make it work and still be safe.
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<PERSON> doesn't want law or order. He wants chaos, he stokes it and does a happy jig every time it occurs.
And yet somehow, a significant portion of people seem to be convinced he's the man to stop it.
If it wasn't so tragic, the dystopian reality of this would be hilarious.
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Why not apportion votes on a congressional district basis, as Maine and Nebraska do?
At least then there'd be some semblance of all votes and states actually mattering. For example, under that system, based on the house seats following the 2018 midterms, 13 of Texas' 38 votes would go to the DNC, 5 of Illinois' 20 would go to the GOP, 4 of Virginia's 13 to the GOP, 5 of Georgia's 16 to the DNC, and so on. Seems much, much fairer than winner takes all.
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Spot on, I voted for <PERSON> in my first election, 2016. I was initially swayed by <PERSON> but later realized she is exactly how you described, the left-wing of a broken system. I like Vox, but I see them as the same, in favor of Vice or Jacobin. I am also looking forward to voting for AOC in 2024.
It's very refreshing to hear I'm not the only one.
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Police brutality effects us all. The militarization of the police effects us all. The President and Sen. <PERSON> suggesting the military commit war crimes against US citizens is not color specific.
Stop pushing the narrative that white people have no interest in these issues or that police brutality is solely a problem for the black community. Dividing us only makes it that much easier to continue the status quo.
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@C.H. Totally. I get exhausted from the anti-Trump talk, even though I'm no fan of <PERSON>, and I unplug to catch my breath, and then it just gets worse, and I'm spouting out grievances against <PERSON>.
I do believe this is the worst we've seen.
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@Matt I'm more worried about the US losing its longstanding European allies. Surveys out of Germany show Germans favor China and the US equally. If we continue to embarrass ourselves, back out of nuclear agreements, and then whine because said agreement isn't going the way we want it to, destroy the economy through mishandling of a global pandemic, get ourselves banned from entering the entire Schengen Zone, and ditch efforts to combat climate change, China will rise in influence and relevance in Europe as a global power. <PERSON> it is.
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In this picture, the man in the mud looks in pain or in distress. It looks as if the people standing are trying to hurt him or take from him. They have ripped, bloody clothing and it looks like they are coming at him in an aggressive manner. I can see that they are in mud so he could have been dragged into it for whatever reason they had.
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I think expecting messiness is one of the most valuable tips. We, as Americas, need to be prepared for the worst. Cheating could undergo or if the result of the re-election do not please certain people, they may or may not get angry and react. Being patient is also a key tip to following the election. It may take time, but we will all find the results in due time. The authorities need to process the votes and finish the counting, and mail in votes and/or vote halting will increase the wait time.
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How about you offer your services to the <PERSON> administration to get back in there and work exclusively to shore-up democracy so that your efforts to disintegrate it cannot be repeated in a future Republican administration. Make what you did unethical in a way that is binding. What you did was immoral and unAmerixan. Now go and make it illegal.
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<PERSON> failed America by failing to investigate the connection between <PERSON> and Russia. I hope the new administration will now be forced, with this latest Russian attack, to find out exactly what continues to go on between <PERSON> and <PERSON>. If we don’t think <PERSON>’s current silence on this current breach is an admission of guilt in opening up the government to <PERSON>’s wholesale collection of US intelligence, then we’ve learnt nothing. <PERSON> has sold American intelligence to the highest bidder.
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The "every man for himself" mentality starts from the top. In the case of pure clinical necessity, the nurses in COVID units, anesthesiologists, and intensivists not only deserve but require priority, and after that even a total shotgun measure would be fair.
It seems strange to open the article with a quote from a hospital executive when plenty of hospitals have made a matter to vaccinate hospital executives first, and therefore speak from a point of relative security compared to the masses.
To take on a narrative of healthcare workers ripping each other apart, I feel, does a disservice to healthcare workers in all settings who are facing pent up stress and death. This article merely mimics a sentiment which is already being propagated on social media.
The most relevant line should be that many hospital systems appear to display mismatched priorities in vaccine release and should open the line to criticism on vaccine release strategies.
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Nobody quite has that answer officially, and until we get more people vaccinated we likely won't. We have to maintain all social distancing and mask measures until we get a chance to understand it.
Unfortunately I think people will in fact get bolder with outings and things will still get temporally worse even as the science gets better.
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<PERSON> that you and your wife were in a hot zone for the last 3 weeks and were not screened at any point along the way, you are at an elevated risk of exposure. I hope you and your wife self-quarantine at home for 14 days so you don't help spread the wildfire.
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I'm guessing from the Editorial Board's bizarrely heavy focus on <PERSON>'s employment at McKinsey as a junior analyst that he ain't their guy and they will be endorsing someone else on January 19.
Given that level of concern, are they going to be asking <PERSON> to explain why she hired McKinsey to do consulting work when she was a professor at Harvard? And whether she repudiates that decision today? And are they going to ask her about whether she tried to talk her daughter out of working there for 3 years? And if they aren't asking those questions, why not?
Seems like those are fair and necessary questions given the focus of this interview.
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Why would you compare the US management of COVID to the UK and think this is not too bad? The UK has mismanaged the pandemic with confused messaging, delays in shutting down, a bit of a go at a herd immunity hypothesis, poor testing and tracing. Italy was the first country outside China to be hit by the pandemic, it hit an elderly population, and we all had plenty of time to learn from them. Just think, there was a day in July when Belgium and the VIctorian state of Australia had the same number of infections, around the 700 mark, and have a look at them now. Victoria, 46 days to date of no community acquired infections. Belgium, over run. I think you should campare the US with countries that have managed the pandemic better, not the worst cases. Perhaps even learn from them. We look at the US and feel such pity and sorrow. It’s challenging undoubtedly but it didn’t have to be that bad.
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It’s not just the gross mismanagement within the US. This is a global pandemic and it needs international collaboration to beat it, because while it is still spreading anywhere, it endangers us all. The US could have helped lead this international effort which would benefit all of us. Not only did it not lead, it undercut international effort, undercut the WHO and emboldened leaders like the Brazilian President. Please vote this man out for all our sakes.
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In this picture, I can see two women, maybe a mother and daughter, walking through the streets or an alleyway that is full of trash. Their outfits make it look like they are wealthier or cleaner people. Their expressions make it look like they aren't used to this environment and that they are used to cleaner environments.
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Looking a the image, It looks like they are on some type of dock. There could have been a flood which is what caused the overflow of water. The water looks dirty like there's dirt or sand in it. It looks like the kid is laying there. It looks like he is cold and trying to keep the water out of his ears.
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My identity is not complete, it is developing and changing all the time. At the moment I identify with a lot of things: I am woman, I am biracial, and I am of the Jewish and Latinx race. The current presidency has taught me many things about myself and about my family. Because this presidency is so divisive, I hear different opinions all the time and its interesting to live such a divided yet unified life.
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What do you think of when reading the words "women's work" and "men's work" what obligations and responsibilities do you think of? In my head, these words mean nothing. There is no such thing as "women's work" or "men's work", if there is work that needs to be done it should be not be put into a category on if a woman or a man should be doing that particular responsibility. <PERSON> was an extraordinary person, yes, she had her initial beliefs, but in the past years she witnessed a tide rising, and with her passing, a tsunami is now on the horizon. With her supreme court slot vacant and <PERSON> as president, women and people of the Queer community are now coming to terms and realizing that now is the time to panic and that now is the time to fight and speak up. RBG will hold a lasting legacy and will continue to be a symbol of balance and justice.
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Why do people even go to chain restaurants? The food is mass produced in factories and shipped to the locations. Go to locally owned restaurants and eat real food. For example, here in the southwest (L.A. and San Diego), there are many outstanding family-owned Mexican restaurants, but tons of people still go to El Torito, Del Taco (blech), and Taco Bell (double blech.)
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I'm sure that nature will immediately yield to our all-powerful human will/desire. Sarcasm aside, people are stupidly NOT learning from history. The 1918 pandemic had flattened more than ours has when people back then started behaving normally again, and then that pandemic killed even more people. Our pandemic has only slightly flattened, but we're going ahead and reopening things. This lunacy will result in more deaths, just because the economy and making profits are clearly more important than anything else. Since we've clearly got unlimited billions of dollars for military carnage, let's reroute that money toward helping people stay away from work longer. Oh, silly me — the military-industrial complex shoves lobbyist money into the pockets of Congress members, so nothing will change.
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I would have loved the school shut down. My high school had a partial shut down when I was in 11th grade. I'm in my 40s now. The teachers went work-to-rule, a partial strike that eliminated all extra-curriculars. Everything I felt obligated to participate in suddenly evaporated. If that came with the lifting of pressure to spend eight hours in a stressful environment, I would have been over the moon. Take a class from the security of my own room? Yes please. Avoid interactions with people targeting me for abuse? On board with that. Some challenges build a person up. Others just break you down without offering any alternative to aspire to. I missed out on positively formative experiences by being in school. No one was there to listen. I didn't know how to voice my needs. Some kids might miss out with schools being shut. Others will benefit. It seems like the mental health of only one group is taken seriously though.
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<PERSON> mocks opponents, reporters, protesters, and even former employees, cabinet members and business associates. His humour is crude but even his critics have conceded they can find him funny. He mocks, is mocked and mocks right back at his mockers. When it's all a mockery, satire and humour doesn't have the punch it has elsewhere at other times.
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"<PERSON>, the former Senate staffer who alleges <PERSON> sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, has said she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment."
This quote says it all. <PERSON> admits she did not accuse <PERSON> of sexual assault 27 yrs ago. Since then, hers and everyone else's recollections of events can have changed dramatically, so there is no way to get to the "truth" of this issue, no matter how much it is "debated" in the press. However, it does seem curious that this accusation comes out now, after <PERSON> became the presumptive Democratic nominee, and not at an earlier date. After all, he served as US Senator for nearly 40 years and VP for 8 years, so why did she not come forward publicly sooner and make her accusations. Timing seems too convenient vis-a-vis the upcoming election.
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@Melbourne Town You prove my point exactly. When <PERSON> was "first" nominated to serve as a "national" political figure, he was "immediately" challenged on sexual harassment charges. <PERSON> has been a national figure for over 40 yrs but this particular claim has never arisen before now, when he is the presumptive nominee and in good shape to beat President <PERSON>. And as I also stated, Ms <PERSON> failed to accuse him 27 years ago of sexual harassment.
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In the NY public school system, all coaches must be licensed teachers. This erodes the talent pool of people eligible to coach school teams. (I am an Athletic Director of a public school; I assure you this is true.) As a result, parents who can afford it send their kids to outside teams at the extra cost of time, expense, more wear and tear (imagine being a 16 year-old who pitches for his school team and his club team), less focus on academics, etc. I appreciate the sense that we don't want to professionalize youth sports, but where the city helps prevent it, private industry does it in spades. Imagine that.
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<PERSON> is the most progressive? Surely not. He’s the “nothing significant will change” candidate, right? Fracking is not on the table, et al. Check out how many oil and gas exec’s are a part of his team. He’s the clear choice for sure, but it bears remembering that <PERSON> chose <PERSON> to soothe establishment DC. Ergo, <PERSON> is a creature of, if not the epitome of, establishment DC. He’s the banking and credit card champion of Delaware. Hardly going to be progressive. Important to be realistic.
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The headline of this article is misleading. In the tweet he also affirmed the imminent attack defense. Please keep reporting accurate so it is not vulnerable to attack. Here’s the full text of the tweet; “ The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist <PERSON> was “imminent” or not, & was my team in agreement. The answer to both is a strong YES., but it doesn’t really matter because of his horrible past!”
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We need to consider a two week shutdown (only necessary ventures outside) either regionally or nationally. This can’t be led by private organizations ad hoc. We need leadership from government leaders. If feds aren’t up to task (evidence suggests this is the case), state governments should step up.
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Those who object to the possibility of 'court packing' should realize that the Republicans have been doing just that for more than a decade; refusing to confirm Pres <PERSON>'s picks, thus leaving a great many federal judge positions unfilled when Pres <PERSON> left office. Mr. <PERSON>'s call for reform makes a great deal of sense - particularly the idea of ten-year terms for SCOTUS and all federal judgeships.
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"He certainly branded the Democrats very effectively with socialism, defunding the police, shutting down the country and ending fracking. <PERSON> escaped but a lot of down-ballot Democrats didn’t." And main stream media played their part with non-stop coverage of <PERSON> whenever he opened his mouth or took to Twitter to spew his nonsense. Responsible jounalism it was not!!
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Completely disagree with this entire article. <PERSON>'s biggest mistake was failing to prosecute the bank executives and wall street executives for causing the Great Recession. There is a lot of anger about this, and failing to do something about it just allows demagogues like <PERSON>/Fox news to re-appropriate the anger. Americans want justice, it's the foundation of our society. Justice must be served!
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Completely missed in this headline: <PERSON> has more than a 10-point lead on Bloomberg! The centrist bias continues, so desperate for a "moderate" than we're seriously considering another billionaire with little political experience who has wish-washed on political identity to take advantage of the moment. <PERSON> has no principles except he wants to be president, and he will do anything/pay anything to get it.
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In describing "the palace as a cold frozen tundra," Ms. <PERSON>, you are reminded that a tundra, according to Oxford, is "a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen." "Frozen tundra" is thereby redundant (not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous - Oxford).
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One time, when <PERSON> was pitching, <PERSON>, his catcher, began walking to the mound. Upon seeing him coming, <PERSON>, not wanting his input, waved him off saying, “The only thing you know about pitching is that you can’t hit it.” <PERSON> turned and returned to home plate. Just imagine the possibilities if <PERSON> had been able to have the same command with manager <PERSON>.
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@J.M. The pharmacy is not responsible for obtaining refills from the physician. That is a courtesy. It has unfortunately become so common that the population expects it and many physicians require the request to come from the pharmacy. Many require it to come from the patient.
If I were you, I would never ask the pharmacist to accomplish this for you. This is part of what has made the pharmacy overburdened. The expectation needs to be on 100 % accuracy all the time. This is not a Walgreens issue. This is industry wide.
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Please stop expecting the pharmacy to stand still while the rest of the world advanced ahead. Please, stop calling us and expecting us to answer by the third ring. Use the app to refill your prescriptions. Touch tone them in. Sign up for a text message to notify you when your Rx is ready. Please, for all of our safety and sanity, limit the number of times you call.
While we are working, I can promise that we are working for whoever is standing in our waiting room. We are more concerned that you are promptly assisted and taken care of than we are our metrics. If you want us to fill the Rx at dangerous lightening speed, then by all means, stare us down while you stand and wait, tapping your foot, and ask us what is taking so long! That contributes to errors far more than any metric that I see tomorrow.
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Why don’t stores have a surcharge for those who don’t wear masks? Post a sign: If you enter the store without a mask or don’t wear a mask while in the store, your purchase will have a surcharge of 20%.” Of course it won’t stop those who out of spite for their fellowman will wander a store without a mask not intending to buy anything.
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As <PERSON> wrote: “Imperfect men have been impowered and permitted to run the world since the beginning of time. It’s time for imperfect women...to join them. We’ve been living by the old rules that insist that a woman must be perfect before she’s worthy of showing up. Since no one is perfect, this rule is an effective way to keep women out of leadership preemptively.”
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The RNC went all in to find some black and brown faces to present on tv. It was laughable because they all seemed so serious about how great the president is. Fast forward to 2024, candidate <PERSON> and the DNC will be praised for their inclusiveness in having some white folk speak at the convention.
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@Sirlar
How do you know what <PERSON> will do with his profits?
His history shows he has routinely invested huge money in companies both expecting companies to succeed as well as fail. <PERSON> has both wins and losses. The economy is not hurt. And yes, capital gains tax rates need to increase.
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I think I have more bad habits than good habits. I bite my fingernails, go to bed late, procrastinate on my homework, etc. My good habits are hygiene and turning my work in on time (for the most part) but that's all I can think of off of the top of my head. I've bitten my nails ever since I was little and it's become z regular thing that makes me cringe and make other people cringe. I'm never able to go to bed late due to school and extra-curricular activities, but mostly it's also because I'm on my phone, which could be set as a separate bad habit. I've acquired the good habits from common sense. Turning my work in on time also comes from the fear of failure, and it keeps me going.
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I've been doing theatre for about two years now, and though it's fun and the people are lovely, I have thought about quitting when it got hard. I remember one particular week in the middle of a show we did last semester. It was really close to tech week and we were struggling to get the set done. Though it was very detail-oriented and would probably be a nightmare for anybody, I had considered quitting. I cried a lot that week from stress. I felt like it was my fault and I couldn't stop thinking of all the things that weren't done. But from staying after school during weekends and some non-rehearsal days, and from the help of the other set director at the time, we got it done. It made me feel proud, of both myself and them. Although, that set wasn't that sturdy since several pieces fell down. (yikes) What kept me going was the people I worked with, and the idea that it might get done and I'll be so satisfied when it does. That's still what keeps me going.
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<PERSON> I completely agree. Voting should be accessible to everyone, and people should not have to risk their lives to fulfill their civic duties. Especially those more susceptible to COVID-19. I am also happy to see that your governor has postponed things until this pandemic has calmed down. I hope that my governor will do the same.
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<PERSON> I disagree. While it is impossible to guarantee that every person is voting for themselves, there are always ways of mitigating it. There is a higher chance that the results will be tampered with but only by a small percentage. The amount of people that get to vote from mail in ballots are much greater than the amount that could be possibly be tampered with.
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The modern GOP is everything that <PERSON> loathed. A party of fanatical, ideologically driven extreme-Right Leninists. The opposite of what <PERSON> cherished: Pragmatic, cautious, reality based policy making with a view to improve on the best that was inherited from the past through reforms but gradually adopted and by broad consensus.<PERSON> is not alone, but a member of a gang of Right Wing Jacobites with definite Fascist leanings. Considering some of your past writings, you have some nerves in calling upon him.
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The US is a mortal disease to the very idea of democracy everywhere. It is like Covid a deadly virus that inspires far too many psychotic would be or ruling dictators around the world. Not to mention the genocidal maniacs or sheer maniacs it has propped up and defended for years from Saudi Arabia and Israel, to Indonesia. Nice to see the chickens have come home to roost. Schadenfreude indeed.
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@Yogi29073
Japan had already weathered extensive fire bombing campaigns that incinerated large parts of their paper and bamboo made cities. These fire bombings, collectively, were at least as devastating as the atomic bomb drop. Many historians now look at the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan as the turning point for the Japanese leadership.
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The greatest conspiracy theory of the last four years was the theory that the President of the United States was a secret Russian agent. Many people reading this comment probably still believe this, given that every major media outlet promoted this conspiracy theory for over three years, including and especially the Times.
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@Greg
Seeing that he frequently (always?) does whatever he wants, <PERSON> must have been marched at gunpoint, if the Secret Service decided to move him to the bunker. You did put "trying to make him appear as though he was cowering..." in parentheses.
<PERSON>, USA, I hope you encourage other embarrassed Republicans to look to the future of this country on their local, state, and national candidates rather than the political party. To move forward, everyone needs to look beyond party and support candidates with proven records rather than paid-for rhetoric and advertising.
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@Rob
It is obvious with their outspoken support that there are many qualified leaders with their endorsement, already seeing “plans.” They are highlighting strategic American goals, pointing out what will be stopped or reversed.
Previous candidates for the nomination, their well-known and "citizen" supporters, political, business, faith leaders within and outside the Democratic Party, and people from all walks of life are specific in their recognition that Mr. <PERSON> is preparing with some of the most remarkable and dedicated people of this time to restore the reputation of our country and its principles to ourselves and to the world, while at the same time, actively moving forward for "liberty and justice for ALL.
President <PERSON>'s service leadership style will continue. <PERSON> is definitely well-prepared to be president, and he obviously does not hesitate to confer with and take the advice of others.
The pandemic has revealed the depth and breadth of another virus - racism and the need for systemic change. It is crucial that constructive change must happen now in all areas of American life.
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@Charles What this article fails to include is the realities of the current Afghan government. As much as we've tried to build Afghanistan into a functioning democracy, in practice it is still a bunch of warlords united only because we throw money at them. Understandably, the United States can’t continue dumping the billions of dollars we spend in the country without oversight so US troops remain in the country. Take US money and aid out of the equation and Afghanistan quickly turns into the pre-2001 safe haven it was for terror groups. This would represent the biggest US foreign policy disaster since Vietnam, and mean absolute political suicide for whoever decided to withdraw.
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@Paul If you are talking about the general failure to reduce the deficit under the <PERSON> administration I agreee with you. However, if you polled the average Republican I believe you would find that most would prefer a reduction government spending. <PERSON>'s failure to do so is more of a broken campaign promise than a shift in party platform.
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<PERSON> says the administration had great success in combatting the virus. No action - yes no action - by <PERSON> in January, February, and half of March caused tens of thousands of extra deaths of Americans, over one million infected, both numbers the highest in the World. This is not success, it is dereliction of duty by an incompetent and lazy president, when he had all the information in early January (if not December) to take positive action to curtail the pandemic weeks ahead of when he did (mid-March).
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Are Democrats born with a D on their foreheads and Republics with an R on their foreheads and rarely change (consistent with their parents voting habits). How many Republicans vote in their first election as an R and never change their vote, while the Democrats vote as a D, and never change their vote. Are there statistics on this inertia? Of course racism is also pervasive in America (30%?) and drives a persons voting habits at the federal level. Does it reduce over the decades?
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Beautifully written and thank you for the for the striking rebuke. I honestly thought this was photo shop fake news when I first read it in social media this morning. I never thought even <PERSON> could stoop this low, and I sincerely hope my Christian and secular friends alike can one day again be served by an intelligent, ethical and moral leader.
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Let's openly discuss the economic cost of each life. It's the elephant in the room. Opening back up might cost an additional 250K lives in the US over the next 12 months? Let's contrast that with the hope that 20 million people go back to work, averaging $50K a year in income. That works out to $4 million earned in 1 year for each lost life. Let's be honest with ourselves, we're really not worth that much.
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I think all Democrats should register as Republican. The minority powers that be will roll out the red carpet and do everything they can to get all those newly registered Republicans to vote. Thus far voting is still done in private - be it in a booth or by mail - so then all us subsives vote blue all the way. Beat them at their own game.
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My iPad (aka Padi) is my go-to for, well, everything! I realized I’d crossed a line when I was reading in bed and started to doze off - and tried to close it like an actual book. Now when I’m reading an actual book I find myself touching the page to turn it! Having to manually do that is like having to get up and walk to the television to change the channel...
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On the job question.
Mr. <PERSON> may teach philosophy but he doesn't know much about bureaucracy. The decision to cut empty potions had been made when the person was still working so that position being empty was not considered when making the cuts. So holding the position filled is not depriving anyone of any decision making information, it is in fact maintaining the situation as it was when the decision was made until it is implemented so that the results would be the same as anticipated at the time the decision was made.
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Why is it that people think history only began when they graduated college. No Ms. <PERSON> the <PERSON> was not the inventory of current day Republican political theory, that honor largely goes to <PERSON>. It was his vision for identity politics, a way to mainstream the Southern Agenda.
I don't think <PERSON> thought he would be that successful, but is was the buying into identity politics by a good portion of the left that assured the fulfillment of the <PERSON> agenda in the form of <PERSON>.
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This is completely inadequate. Choke holds by themselves are not the problem. Choke holds that are held for excessive periods of time by sadistic cops who want to kill black people are the problem.
The toxic culture of the Minneapolis police department will continue to murder black people whether it is by choke hold, guns, or other forms of lethal force.
Until the Minneapolis police department is dismantled and rebuilt from scratch with de-escalation, cops who live in the communities they police, and service in mind, this racist cancer will continue.
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I am feeling hopeless. I have been calling and emailing my local officials for months about police reform after <PERSON> was murdered in my city. Although they make promises, they take no meaningful action. The Minneapolis city council president is someone I campaigned for and fundraised for, yet she does not do what she says she will do. She and her colleagues make bold promises and get national coverage in papers like this one, but they do not do what they say they will do. I vote, I sign petitions, I post on social media, and I have been out in the streets at countless protests over the last several months. Nothing changes. The people we elect to represent us do not do what they say they will do or what their constituents demand. I am ready to just go back to just folding my laundry because I don't know what else to do to make change. I have been researching what other countries I can move to.
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<PERSON>. I did well on the SAT and ACT and that meant when I got to the US Naval Academy, an engineering institution, I was able to deal with the challenges of differential calculus, engineering classes, etc. Lowering the bar because you wrote a good essay doesn't mean you'll survive classes in the hard sciences or engineering. And in all honesty the same could be said for softer subjects in the humanities if they were actually graded properly rather than the socio-political views they were indoctrinating students to believe.
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@RSSF Sadly, California became a one-party state controlled by the Democrats since they took over the state house in 1994. They have held uncontested control ever since and the Democratic party in California is controlled by self-proclaimed far left progressives. I have lived all over the world and returned to the Bay Area four years ago. I am always surprised at the level of progressive propaganda you read in all the local papers and see on local televisions stations. And invariably, the questions of racial justice are present in at least one news story every night. After all that indoctrination, it's surprising it took this long for Berkeley to take this step toward de facto racial quotas, which any objective person knows will become unofficial policy.
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<PERSON> winning in 2016 shifted me from being a Republican to an independent. His attacking peaceful protesters on June 1, with a smiling Attorney General alongside, has made me a Democrat. Mr. <PERSON> is right about the worse-than-craven state of the Republican Party. It is increasingly fascist in its orientation, though people like Senator <PERSON> will stupidly but genuinely never acknowledge it. There is no room for independents anymore. You're on one side of this or the other, whatever you do or don't do.
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To me, card collecting by adults has ruined what baseball cards should be -- something for kids to collect and play with. Nobody loves their sports heroes the way kids do and collecting favorite players -- or even every player on a hapless Mets team -- was a huge amount of fun. The best was digging through a huge bin of cards packed in three sets of clear plastic looking for packs that had a Mets player visible. That was like finding gold. $4 for a pack of 14 cards hoping that one has an embedded splinter of a bat? No thanks. But I still buy one or two packs a year, still hoping for a Met -- any Met.
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That man paid an even higher price than many people could have imagined: suppressing his anger in the face of so much hatred and scorn from the younger Blacks in the 1960's who felt he capitulated too much cost him, as he ended up with the hypertension and diabetes that would lead to his untimely death at only 53 years of age!
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I'm deeply troubled by the expressions of schadenfreude on display here. Yes, this woman committed an egregious offense, and yes, she deserves to be punished for it. But no, she doesn't deserve everything that's happening to her, IMO. Based on the [limited] information that's coming out about her, she clearly has mental health issues that need to be addressed (or maybe they already are). But taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune doesn't exactly show humanity's best side here.
As someone who has been in Mr. <PERSON>'s shoes (though not to that extent), I think the mob mentality and reptilian brain response is overriding logic and compassion here.
She's obviously suffered a great deal, and stands to suffer even more with the criminal charges. So when is enough, well, enough?
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What about whistleblower laws??
As a retired pediatrician, I offer this observation: Health care professionals are now being expected to work in conditions for which they would have been written up or terminated for use of unsafe practices which don’t meet safety regulations or standards just 6 weeks ago.
As a former physician manager, I’ve seen staff get sanctioned for violating “Standard Precautions.” Now, nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and other hospital workers struggle to protect themselves and patients with inadequate PPE. These conditions would not pass any regulate OSHA or hospital reaccreditation audit.
We are living in very scary times.
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You are wrong, just wrong. Please open your eyes to facts, and don’t create “alternative facts.”
Race is related to social conditions. Read the NYTimes article about the epicenter in Queens, NY. People of color, immigrants living together in small apartments, only able to get one meal a day.
Decades of health disparities with people of color on the short end of the stick.
The lack of information and empathy in your comment is disgusting.
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<PERSON>, I completely agree. The reason why people don't want to take action is the hit it would take to the economy. With all the factories that emit carbon dioxide. Such as all the fossil fuel industries. shutting those down would cause many Americans to lose their jobs. But I feel we should try and convert to clean and renewable energy sources. The people losing their jobs in fossil fuel industries have the opportunity in renewable energy manufacturing. Action like changing from fossil fuels or other ways need to be taken now.
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During the past four years, not much has been done during the climate change crisis. We need to take action. Not just for our well being. But for wildlife also. Wildlife is quickly dying off due to our actions. Corals percentages are dropping at an insane rate. Plenty of fish loses their home due to corals dying. Animal species are close to extinction now. Wildfires are becoming more often and intense. Destroying human homes but also acres of forest where animals use to live in. There is no more time we can wait. Action needs to be taken.
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If this were a one-time thing on <PERSON>'s part, I could see his punishment as something of an injustice. But this article makes clear he has a history of like behavior. So, open-and-shut case--just as it would be if any of us did the same thing on our Zoom calls, history or no. Except the New York Times wouldn't be writing long, somber, let's-look-at-all-sides thinkpieces about *our* unemployment.
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@PAULR
"I have seen the plan to place social distancing..A polite way of saying a quarantine...Into American cities of all sizes."
Interesting. Could you please tell us, briefly, what that plan was and where you found it?
Otherwise, you see, you're just another anonymous guy on the Internet saying "I have seen things that i cannot divulge, but you should be very afraid!"
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<PERSON>
It helped us take the house in 2018. Not one <PERSON> endorsed candidate in a purple district won. It was mainly the suburban women who flipped democratic. <PERSON> hasn’t done anything to win over large Democratic coalitions, he's actually gone out of his way to ignore and anger mainstream democratic voters.
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I am one of those democrats that agrees. I will be voting <PERSON> come November. Anyone who sees the looting and violence going on knows the adults have lost control. There are gangs and small militias policing neighborhoods in IL and NY. We need to have an uncomfortable conversation on police brutality. We also need to address crime stats and who is disproportionately committing it. The left and right are in denial that both issues exist.
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<PERSON> Thank you for mentioning the amazing <PERSON>. She is only person, I believe, who has actually sort of gotten an endorsement from President <PERSON>. Somewhere, sometime in the recent past, I recallI that <PERSON> said, "I love me <PERSON>."
Love her too!! She's great!!
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<PERSON>.....!!!!!!!!!
<PERSON> had t-shirt silk-screened and ready before she even said, "I was that girl."
<PERSON> wouldn't answer <PERSON> question about how she would pay for her programs when <PERSON> asked her three times...no sense of humor.
<PERSON>, perfect but not Black...sorry, <PERSON>.
<PERSON>....she's the one!!!!!!
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As someone who was “fully earnest” in the 80s and remains so today, I take exception to the notion that we somehow were ok with income inequality and the status quo. I started organizing then to preserve affordable housing and protect tenants in the the gentrifying Upper West Side. I saw what was happening then and didn’t like it. This led to an entire career working in the affordable housing field. There were many like me on the front lines, some like <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> hold elective office and continue the fight for social justice. We may not have been the yuppies or creatives of that era who talked the talk but we walked the walk.
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One of the sad outcomes of the vitriol of the <PERSON> supporters is that many of them will not vote for another Democratic nominee. I guess they prefer 4 more years of <PERSON>. In 2008, I quickly changed my allegiance from <PERSON> to <PERSON> after he won the nomination. I didn’t understand the anger in my fellow <PERSON> supporters that delayed them doing so. So I say to my brothers and sisters supporting <PERSON>, keep your eyes on the prize. Support the nominee as I will enthusiastically support <PERSON> if he wins though he is not my choice now.
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@Tim thank you, I am a <PERSON> supporter and agree on the programs yuo list. but, from what you describe of your views, it is not accurate to call yourself a libertarian, large "L" or small. Libertarians believe healthcare should totally be handled by the market and would never go for "$100 million is enough for crying out loud", which i also agree with.
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<PERSON> i have indeed traveled abroad, and even more importantly i have studied and taught comparative political economy. if we're "on the top of the world", why do we have lower life expectancy and vastly more expensive and in many cases worse health care? Why do we have no paid family leave, when other countries get 6 weeks to six months? Why do we have greater inequality? Less vacation time? I can go on.
As <PERSON> used to say, you've been hornswoggled, my friend.
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The upcoming issue of work at home or office or combination has been with us for sometime. The solution varies but really is controlled, in general, by the type of business. As usual, an answer or at least a road to a solution can be found in our past history. This was a long time issue during the gas crises of the early 1970's. Simple: we could not get a sufficient amount of fuel to get to work. All kinds of combinations were used. however , once it was over, we all went back to the car to the office. Why? People need people, It was harder to sell or close a deal etc by telephone. What was needed was the eye to eye, face to face boy to body contact. It was and still is the key factor. Granted today's technology is better now. However, people need people.That is what it is about.Human nature will solve the problem.
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Comments heretofore set forth appear to blame <PERSON>'s reaction through his current conduct of laying traps and building walls to block <PERSON>'s agenda. True, but he is allowed to do so by our rules. I, an a avowed <PERSON> opponent, blame the Republicans
in supporting him and allowing him to do ' what he has and what he is now doing. This blame starts with local government all
the way up and through the Federal government. Especially the Senate and its leader from Kentucky. Had all of them paid the slightest attention to this Country, we would not be where we are
today. Their selfish agenda put us here. They are soldiers of their
party, the cowards of their Country. They put <PERSON> where he is
and where we are today
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Must as it pains me to admit to my recent revelation, I've come to the conclusion that universal suffrage is vastly overrated. Why should people who produce nothing and take no responsibility for their lives or the proper raising of children that they chose to have get the right to vote themselves money and freedoms away from the rest of us? Thats the "escalating probabilty of disaster" of the glitch in the matrix.
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Ah, the inevitable "we all need to come together and rally around our President" call from the left.
Well, I'll treat Mr-76-out-of-a-class-of-85 draft dodger <PERSON> with the same sense of fair play, compromise, and best interests of the nation that you Democrats treated <PERSON> with.
#Resist
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@a.p.b. Believe me, the whole process was created and run by incompetents:
1. Training manuals were wrong.
2. No training on counting cards (ballots) a new process.
3. Cards had results on both sides making sorting the count extrememly confusing.
Ability is low; needs are high--a sure disaster even for <PERSON>.
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@Chinnavadu The Dem Party of Iowa thought the chairs were mind readers--no training, wrong manuals, scripts were wrong, boxes of information were incomplete. No matter how smart, chairs were left to their own devices trying to make an antiquated, unfair process work. Hopefully this will end the caucus and install a proper primary.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic will be remembered as one of hectic moments in history. Over the past couples months, many people have experienced some type of stress relating to the the pandemic. I will always remember first time I heard about the virus, and next thing I knew, the NBA was shutdown, schools were closing, and everywhere you went you had to wear a mask. On a positive note, I believe that the pandemic is going to reshape the economy, as well as common health practices of the world. Before the virus, most people took the small things for granted. No one appreciated how much sports meant until everything shut down, and the same goes for trips to the store and being able to sit in a restaurant. The pandemic has helped me realize to be grateful for the things I have, and I’ll remember it forever.
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Although many families were unable to see each other during these unprecedented times, my family decided that enough was enough and we were going to spend the holiday together. When it came to Thanksgiving this year, we all agreed that spending it together would be our best bet. I understand that many families may disagree with what we did, and many may say that our decision was selfish and egotistical, but we kept our distance among one another and remained at a safe distance to protect our loved ones. As Covid continues to rage across the country, we will continue to remain distant from one another and get through it together.
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I don’t really ask my parents for advice. This is because the problems that I have are problems in the modern world. Even though my parents have lived longer than me, the world around us has changed so much. When my parents are young, there were to smartphones, ACs, or any other piece of technology. They have to live in poverty due to the war. Nowadays, our lives are much easier due to the rapid growth of technology. Most modern problems are much different from older problems. My parents aren’t able to solve these problems, so they find the answer that appeals to them the most or creates their own answers. This is why parents are unreliable. I believe the best person to get advice from is someone from our generation. These are people like friends, siblings, cousins, and more.
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Even if the Coronavirus is all over the news, I am not a tad bit concern about it. Schools in Asia have been shut down due to the outbreak, so we do all our assignments online. This is worse than being at school because you lose the urge to work. Other than the stress that it has given me, the Coronavirus hasn’t affected me or the people around me yet. I believe the virus isn’t something we should be scared of. The symptoms aren’t that frightening, so the only people who should be worried are elders and babies. I am not worried about catching the virus, because I have been a “temporally shut-in” for over three weeks. As a “temporally shut-in” I don’t really socialize much during the outbreak. This is not good for my social life but at least I don’t have to worry about getting contaminated by the things or people around me. I spend most of my time in my room and only go outside to exercise. Even if I do come in contact with people, I can just wash my hands and use hand sanitizer. To be honest, all the Coronavirus cases that I have heard of so far all involved an idiot who refused to go to the doctor. I don’t know why people are so worked up about this virus because I believe that if we all followed what doctors and professionals told us to, the virus would have been dead by now.
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None of this is at all mysterious: Trumpist Movement consists of God, Family, Country. The left despise all three. Religion is constantly denigrated in the liberal media. Family is entirely optional. Country is a systemic racist entity which needs to be wholly expunged. <PERSON> has created a massive and permanent conservative movement based on the above. Get used to it.
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Most interesting the invidious distinction between "college educated" and the rest. The clear implication is that this is explained by the superior intelligence of the "educated". An alternative explanation is that the college degreed have been subjected to four years of leftist ideology that rules the campuses of America. Also what the article makes clear is that <PERSON> is most certainly not a Republican in the traditional mode but is a cultural traditionalist. He is president of the "basket of deplorables". Republican administrations from <PERSON> forward have not resisted PC and the control of the culture by Hollywood,academia, east coast/ west coast media plumping instead for fiscal conservatism as their main focus. <PERSON> is correct when he repeats at every rally that he is not a politician. I do believe <PERSON>'s many accomplishments stand alone to his credit. But the real battle is, as <PERSON> says, for the soul of the nation. Will this great mass of Americans,the college uneducated, remain in a state of cultural subservience to the Coastal states or will they have recognition of their own hopes and dreams?
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Thank you, <PERSON>, for this beautiful piece. I am sorry for your and <PERSON>’s loss. I have often asked friends and strangers, “Are you okay?” Sometimes I say, “You doin’ okay, buddy?” Or to strangers, when I sense something is amiss, “Do you need help?” The strangers sometimes say yes and I do what I can. It never costs me. My friends sit down for a talk and our friendships deepen. I am often amazed at how much the smallest gesture of human kindness can genuinely strengthen and protect people and make it possible, especially in these dark times, to keep putting one foot in front of the other, but it’s true. And I am really amazed that being a good friend or a Good Samaritan is not that hard, when you actually think about it. So, thank you again for this beautiful — and thoughtful — piece. I wish all a good Thanksgiving and a much better 2021.
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When I saw how beautifully <PERSON> and <PERSON> were received in Australia, and later in Africa, I said to myself, “Uh oh, this won’t last,” and sure enough, they were chased out of England. I think dull <PERSON>, duller <PERSON>, and the tabloids overplayed their hand, and now <PERSON> and <PERSON> are gone. They obviously wanted to work hard and contribute to the Monarchy while being a little less — or maybe a lot less — indentured, which they surely were. What’s wrong with that? Besides, no accomplished American bi-racial woman was going to put up with that racist rubbish for very long. I think <PERSON> and <PERSON> are terrific and I wish them well. I think they’ll do just fine and help a lot of people along the way.
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Personally I was not given a real phone until 8th grade so I wasn't allowed to have much personal liberty (like I had to have everything checked by my parents before I could go anywhere), so I never really thought about being tracked. However I think once they are old enough to own an independent device (like a phone in 6th grade) we should be able to see where they are via their phones but we don’t need to actively track them to the point we become overbearing helicopter parents.
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<PERSON> I agree that parents shouldn't abuse the power of tracking their children so that they can have a healthy and trustworthy relationship between one another. I also think parents should know where their kids are not only for emergency cases but also because they have a right to and to prevent their child from potentially doing things or going places they shouldn't.
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First -my bias. I am in my seventies, and the sole proprietor of a six employee coffee shop in a small city. In mid March, prior to any bailout, I elected to close my shop for two weeks in an effort to lessen the chance of being a venue to spread the new virus. California soon instituted social distancing but allowed shops such as mine to remain open.
On April 1 the shop reopened. This was after contacting each of my staff to ask if they wished to come back or not. All of the staff were informed that I would pay them for the time they had been off. They asked to return.
The shop reopened with shorter hours and pickup service only. No one is allowed into the shop, employees wear masks,and I do not enter the shop at any time when anyone is there.
Patronage is down 75% and expenses are barely covered. Why stay open? I stay open because my employees have families and need to get paid. It is my experience that people want and need to work. There is more to a job than just a wage, there is a sense of purpose, a need to belong.
This pandemic won't last forever. If I can hold on until things start to turn around we will all start over from there. Until then we should, at least, try to help others as best we can in whatever way we can.
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Why aren't more people walking around nude? I've never heard of anyone actually dying of embarrassment seeing a naked body yet we have laws mandating that people appear in public clothed.
Being out in public without a mask is not obscene but perhaps it should be. Why aren't the same laws applicable to indecency used to stop the spread of a virus that has already killed so many.
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The first step in dehumanizing someone is to see them as "The Other." This will undoubtedly lead to more tribalism and an increase in seeing the world as an "Us." vs. "Them" split. If I was an online seller of trendy items, I would be excited. Insular groups always seek badges.
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<PERSON> I humbly suggest that this man, who lost the popular vote by almost three million votes and is only where he is by the grace of an antiquated institution called the Electoral College, is your "acting" president. And the way he acts is very unpresidential. Respect is earned, not bestowed.
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<PERSON> may superficially appear to match the English spelling of <PERSON>, but it doesn’t reflect the Russian pronunciation of <PERSON>. The purpose of Russian-to-English transliteration is to give the English speaker a chance at matching Russian letter sounds. <PERSON> is, I suppose, close to <PERSON>, but <PERSON> is not in the same ballpark as <PERSON>. No one writing a book or article today about Russian history would use CZARINA. It’s simply not a word in Russian.
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"What is accumulating is deadly: Bad finances kill countries. There is no bigger issue." No matter what your favorite issue is, the debt threatens everything--national defense, social programs, climate crisis, disaster relief. A day will come (an pandemic perhaps?) when the money won't exist when we need it. The wealthy and corporations must pay their fare share of taxes.
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Lets compare Sweden to Los Angeles County. Both have populations of about 10 million. Confirmed cases of Covid are also similar- Sweden 19,621 California 20,460. Death rates are very different however: Sweden has 2355 and LA county 948.
On this data it seems like the California lockdown has saved about 1400 lives to date. On top of that, LA county has much higher density, and all things being equal the disease would likely spread in LA faster than in Sweden. Time will tell where we go from here.
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The UK, Canada and Australia seem to have developed a coordinated foreign policy towards China. The three countries are taking almost identical actions. The extradition ban is just one example.
There also seems to be increased diplomatic co-ordination between the UK and Japan. See UK intent to replace 5G technology with help of Japanese and moves for the UK to join all these countries in the TPP.
I think we are seeing the beginnings of a new multilateral block outside the US/China/EU axis. It will be up to the next president to decide if the US retakes leadership of this new block, which is essentially made up of its closest allies, or continues to walk an "America First" strategy with decreased influence among the UK/ Japan/ Canada/ Australia.
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Dr. <PERSON> is obviously under extreme pressure from his patient who is his Commader-in-Chief. I can easily immagine Mr. <PERSON> barking at him asking him to say this and to say that; asking him NOT to say this and NOT to say that.( I can only pity the poor guy). Dr. <PERSON> should at least show his patient's negative test if there is one or if there will be one. And even a negative test is not an absolute assurance. Remember that Wuhan lady doctor who was hospitalized for several days and got well and felt well, and later tested negative in 2 succesive tests, was ready to be dicharged from the hospital only to succumb to coma two (2) days later. The hospital moved heaven and earth to save their very own but couldnt. The world has never seen an illness as unpredictable as Covid-19. While we can understand the difficulty of Dr. <PERSON>'s situation, he should not allow his patient to direct the show any further, if he wants to retain some degree of professional credebility. Because this time, other people's lives will be in put in danger and it is incumbent upon him to conduct himself professionally
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With his defiance of health protocols, I always knew it is just a matter time that Mr. <PERSON> will have an eventual reckoning with the virus. It is sad, but perhaps for the first time, he got the most convincing evidence that Covid-19 is not a hoax after all. Even the most expensive security cannot shield a President from this vicious enemy. The most powerful man in the world may have to kneel before the more powerful Almighty and beg for his life. I say this to our friends: Do not play "Dare" with this virus; it will come and get you.
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It’s difficult to have these kinds of conversations when the argument is conflating multiple issues into a narrative for their own agenda. Forget that we’re omnivores by design and require nutrients from meat/poultry/fish/etc. to be at our most healthy, and forget that we have established humane practices for agriculture (we simply need to contend with corporate farming/ranching operations), but I can’t and won’t forget that large swaths of our society have no access to the kind of food and goods that are needed for this kind of dietary practice. The debate is false because it is rooted in privilege. The truth is nutritional ideology doesn’t exist anywhere there’s hunger.
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Are we just ignoring the fact that it was the "moderate center" that lead us to this terrifying moment in American history for a politic that amounted to little more than kicking cans down the road for the next generation to deal with? Perhaps no one is interested in the existence of moderate Democrats because we finally understand it to be disastrously ineffective? Articles like this sound like little more than a desire to return to the cozy confines of the security blanket that is "zero accountability".
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I love this thought-provoking series of heroes who were only briefly, if ever, in the spotlight, and whose personal bravery and sacrifice stayed out of the history books. Of course, we learned about <PERSON> v. <PERSON> in school, but not about Mr. <PERSON>'s courage and vision.
I do have a question for the genealogists among the Times readership. Although the article says that <PERSON> and his wife <PERSON> had no children, there is a reference in the third to last paragraph about a descendant of <PERSON>, <PERSON>, meeting a descendent of Judge <PERSON>. Can a person who had no children have descendents? Or should <PERSON> more accurately be described as
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A carpenter/contractor can make changes to a home to make it easier to age in place. But you want those changes designed by an occupational therapist or other professional who knows how much room you need in a bathroom to transfer from walker to toilet, where to properly place grab bars in a shower stall, plan an entry for a future wheelchair ramp, plan correct lighting for safe navigation of dark hallways. If you are in rehab after a fall or accident, having a well planned home will make a difference on how soon you can get home.
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After watching the debates I've often pretty much thought the same thing, BUT please NOT ALL of these present and former candidates! We need Democratic senators to hold their seats plus new ones we trust will be elected. There is a lot of talent in this field but let us not lose the Senate in this proposed unity ticket.
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<PERSON>, for many years I have read you columns faithfully and watched the old POINT COUNTERPOINT format on Friday night's THE PBS NEWS HOUR where opposition was paramount and expected from each side. Now it is not what it used to be and I am pleased about that. I hear you speak with <PERSON>and I detect an increasing openness, a conciliation, an empathy, a genuine warmth between both of you. In some of your recent NYT pieces you at times delve into philosophers and theologians across the spectrum. That's not a bad thing. I wish you all the best on your journey to "glimpses of infinite goodness."
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@HL sorry but in the end, her grandiosity placed her personal interest ahead of the good of the court and the nation she served. Now we're facing a conservative majority which will work to reverse the judicial justice she had worked so hard to enact over her career. Unfortunately, this act of hubris will be her legacy.
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"Living through a time of economic, technological, demographic and cultural transition is hard." Oh I get it. The stagnant wages and abysmal healthcare the poor and middle class in America have suffered since the <PERSON> era are just part of a natural economic transition and we need to be more patient? Not sure if <PERSON> and his supporters would agree with that argument. A lot of us might think we've waited long enough.
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<PERSON> Hi <PERSON>.. Waving from Buffalo!! I look forward to reading your book.
I’ve always worried about firefighters and their exposure to the hidden dangers that could be putting them at risk and toxic chemicals they use to do their jobs. I have relatives and many friends that are firefighters in Buffalo.
These contaminants can also seep into the ground and water causing health concerns.
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<PERSON> I totally agree with you and would like to add that in addition to eating food without eating chemicals we also need to avoid harmful chemicals in other products as much as possible.. such as toxic laundry detergent and dryer sheets .. read the labels.. or buy ones that don’t use toxins. Molly’s Suds and Meliora are two great ones. Use vinegar to clean and get rid of harmful toxic cleaning supplies. Read your labels on lotion, suntan lotion, Deoderant, hair products, shaving cream, makeup, etc... and be careful of candles ... thankfully there are safer alternatives for all of these.
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Iran got Iraqi Parliament to vote to expell US troops from the country. Iran has other countries in the region questioning whether having troops stationed there is worth it. What Iran wants more than anything is to have the US out of the region. Tell me again how <PERSON> won.
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“The Constitution does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint.” Instead, “a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic.” Its members “may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.”
-Supreme Court Justice <PERSON> v Massachusetts 7-2 majority opinion, February 1905
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Since the wildfires encompassed large tracks of federal land, would it be possible for CA to invoice the US gov't. for expenses/damages the state incurred in fighting those fires? Appears the federal government needs to do a better job of "managing its forests"...perhaps Mr. <PERSON> can set an example with a photo op showing him helping to rake up the debris as he believes occurs in Finland. Of course, it would first be necessary to clear away the Antifa wildlife with pepper balls and tear gas, but I assume his elder daughter would be present with a Bible to display the sincerity of his faith in rakes.
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"...was found dead, tied to a tree branch with a computer cord around his neck."
Were his feet or legs tied to the tree, so the weight of the torso pulled on the computer cord?
Pardon my incredulity and I'm not intending to be macabre, but I'm trying to fathom how this is even physically possible to undertake by a single individual.
Amidst the prevailing circumstances in this country and the historical violence against minorities, particularly black men, the very occurrence of a hanging death should be justification alone for a meticulous investigation.
Sadly, this seems yet another dimension that coincides with <PERSON> NYT piece yesterday on <PERSON> and the invention of the rape kit, documenting how the transgressions against people without power in American society are easily dismissed.
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What an uplifting letter. This is the behavior we need to be applauding today. It really rings true when you say that fixing a speech disability is easier than fixing a character defect. Way too late for people such as <PERSON>. Thank you for sharing such a personal story.
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How about airing them with no press/audience in the room? He has to present something, but there would be no one to spar with, belittle, disparage, etc., etc., etc. I know they would not be as long, and it would just be him-alone with his words. I predict he would stop holding them so often or perhaps scientists/medical experts could get a word in edgewise.
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This is a very coherent and insightful look at the awful response by <PERSON>. But, I don’t think even a competent administration could have prevented nationwide spread given the virus’ high attack rate (also, imagine how Republican governors would react to aggressive containment and mitigation efforts by a Democratic administration). Regardless, <PERSON>’s failures cost tens of thousands of lives and at some point Democrats need to hold his administration accountable with a full congressional investigation.
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@sh the mayors and governors don't have an NSA or CIA to identify and analyze these threats and they don't have a CDC or FDA to design and implement containment strategies. Read the article. All of these agencies knew (at the latest) by late January we were going to be hit. The genetics papers coming out now show there was community spread in NY in February. <PERSON> has massive resources at his disposal and chooses to ignore them. He sticks his head in the sand when threatened and we all lose.
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I hope we can attribute this to <PERSON>'s animal magnetism - his ability to con almost half the people, honed from real estate and tv. Because otherwise if we can't win or if we barely win when there's a bungled pandemic and a trashed economy to hang around the incumbent's neck, we'll never win again.
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He's contagious! He walked into the white house, with lots of staff around, without his mask on! He deserves every horrible thing that could happen to him, which I hope includes:
- An emergency medivac back to Walter Reed
- A long and powerless time on a vent
- A long weak convalescence he struggles to conceal
- A drubbing at the polls
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Yes, so agree here- and this extends to all behaviors of force toward others. I remember when my toddler daughter’s friend would enclose her in this grasping hug that was clearly (well, at least to me!) an expression of dominance (and perhaps sadism). When I asked the friend’s parent for help managing her child in these forced “hug” situations she was indignant and insisted they were loving and cast me as over-protective.
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Great article! As a psychotherapist, parent and former middle school teacher, I like the concept of making friends w/the multiplicity of one’s internal chorus. Noticing when that internalized critic is getting loud and inhibiting engagement and flow in an activity is a PRACTICE and, I believe, we can get better and better at it. When are my thoughts self-aggressive? When am I getting in my own way and foreclosing opportunity? How can I restore/create a sense of play?
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<PERSON> I think you said it best here, social cohesion. America has little to no social cohesion. Part of it is geography and another is racial/economic imbalances, but ultimately it's a lack of coherent policies that are damaging this country more than anything else. The lack of universal healthcare coverage is also a huge blight that won't be addressed anytime soon even in the midst of a pandemic.
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Sorry at this point in time I would not be surprised to see other countries besides those in the EU that will look to block the entry of American tourists at this point. Unlike in Europe, East Asia, Australia or New Zealand, the total viral infections has not only plateaued but increased in significant numbers since the beginning of June (I suspect some of the protests have to do with it). No more international travels for Americans this year. Hate to be the bearer of bad news.
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This does not ring true at all. <PERSON> is hardworking, dignified and has been prolific as a freshman senator. He has been noted for reaching across the aisle. Look up his record. He is not flashy, but he does reach out to constituents - taking a motorcycle tour through every Michigan county over each of the past summers. I have never heard him slam an opponent or speak in exaggerated tones or without facts to back up his positions. He has also served in the military. <PERSON>’ years in municipal and state government were likely not as lucrative as his previous investment manager position, so in that regard I believe he has made a sacrifice. I suspect you are a voter committed to a Republican candidate regardless of qualification and record.
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Cathartic to read the anguish I feel put into words backed by historical facts. What Fox News has done to our country is so manipulative and vile that I no longer recognize friends and family whom they’ve insidiously brainwashed. Please people, change the channel. <PERSON> Save the U.S.A.
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<PERSON> With a national and global teacher shortage -- probably in no small part due to disrespectful attitudes like your own -- good luck with that strategy.
I'm sure folks are lining up around the block to start teaching in the classroom, with 30+ children, all potential vectors, in poorly ventilated classrooms and schools.
There's a difference between employees that cannot do their job remotely -- surgeons, stockists, etc. -- and those that can, such as teachers. This is why unions are so important.
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<PERSON> Those perks clearly weren't enough pre-pandemic, so good luck. What's more alarming is the clear showing of your priorities -- you stress the importance of kids being in school, but instead of trained educators, you're willing for the children to be taught by just about anyone.
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I live in Manhattan - Hell's Kitchen/Columbus Circle - and there's no way I am leaving. I'm walking and biking - might even get an electric scooter. I'm doing everything I can to support my favorite bakeries, restaurants, bookstores, wine shops, and of course, Central Park. I'm helping the homeless. I grew up in Atlanta; I know that even in a pandemic, NYC is the bomb.
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I saw the new productions of both Oklahoma and West Side Story. Both were hugely different takes on the originals. I loved the Oklahoma production so much I saw it a second time and brought along out-of-town family members. In contrast, I could not believe how awful the new West Side Story was. The live actors (dancers) were insignificant compared to the unrelenting visual assault of the oversized video. I liked <PERSON> A View From A Bridge and The Crucible a lot, but his West Side Story is painful.
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This is being carried out routinely in Australia, where we are fortunate to have very little virus circulating. Sewage testing flags regions where there may be undetected covid cases and is used as a public health tool to alert residents to get tested. I'm *so* grateful for our excellent public health systems.
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@Jo They love cheques over there! I moved to the US in 2012 and got PAID by cheque! Couldn't believe it. I had to walk to the bank every month to deposit it. In 2012! When I first moved I asked the people I was subletting from about bank account details to deposit the rent and they thought I was scamming them. Very strange. I had to google how to write a cheque because it had been decades since I'd had a cheque book in Australia.
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You were an officer in the Army that served with distinction before you became a United States Senator, your service to and sacrifice on behalf of our nation gives you the right to express your qualified opinion, even if it is critical of our nation's founder, who by his own admission was not perfect. Mr. <PERSON> has not earned the pedestal you occupy, nor the right to criticize your service. Our President has learned nothing since his disgraceful remarks disparaging Senator <PERSON>, and now gutless remarks criticizing you Senator, They have done nothing to earn the freedom your service provided.
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I watch you every week on PBS, i know you are a moderate republican, but I think your views define reality. I love this view of <PERSON>, I wish it would become the view of the nation, and the first step to a divided nation relearning how to compromise. I didn't like President <PERSON>, but he knew how to cross the aisle and work with <PERSON> when necessary. I hope <PERSON> can channel his years in congress to reteaching our legislature how to focus on good solutions and not liberal vs. conservative paralysis , Thank you Mr. <PERSON> for being sensible, and explaining it to us so that we understand. I am sure <PERSON> will hate this
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<PERSON> I respect your view as I am in the same age group and pretty much follow the same purchasing pattern ... except I don't have a dog.
But for the younger generations, they want/should/have to/must/{ fill in your word } explore the world, enjoy what life has to offer and so on.
The difference now is that, until all of this is figured out, they, the younger generations, need to do all this in a safe way.
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<PERSON> I agree. I mean even before this virus came along, you can go to Craigslist and find tons of ads offering services ranging from writing school papers, school coding assignments, taking online tests for you .... and so on.
I don't know what a good solution is, but taking a test at home is not one of them
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<PERSON> Thank you for your thoughtful and inspiring words. The young people who will inherit this country, the marginalized, the people who have lacked representation, <PERSON> speaks for these people. This has nothing to do with some idea of "political purity," this is a diverse, multigenerational coalition that the Democratic party and our great country should make its first priority to support.
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The problem is that we have a president who relishes in flouting the institutions of our democracy. Four years ago, I had faith that these institutions and our constitution would be strong enough to resist a single demagogue, but that faith has been shaken. For the first time I am genuinely afraid that our democracy and our way of life is under threat.
By contrast, I see in Mr. <PERSON> a message of compassion. It is a message that says to our most vulnerable citizens, "I will not allow you to be stripped of your freedom and your dignity." I submit to you, Mr. <PERSON>, that your position is ethically indefensible. Not voting against the current administration is an expression of consent.
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I traveled throughout mainland China and Hong Kong from January 2nd to January 17th. At each train station, I noticed temperature checks and public health officials, and had to fill out an extensive health declaration form upon entering Hong Kong. When I boarded my flight bound for JFK days later, well over half the passengers were wearing masks. We arrived in New York, where I disembarked with the masked passengers, and all of us were welcomed with open arms. The only mention of the virus was on a handful of TVs flashing various travel notices as you walked through customs (right up there with warnings about bringing in fruits and vegetables). All I can remember thinking is, "what an utter mess."
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<PERSON> Interesting. Where in China were you? You're right that Hong Kong borders always have health officials - but the longer health form I filled out was new and something I hadn't done during past trips. And the number of mask wearers was noticeably more than usual (more than half in my cabin) on my flight home.
As frustrating and scary it is that China hid (and then grossly manipulated) critical public health information, the little information that was available should have triggered certain public health measures in the US much earlier.
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A feckless mayor, an irresponsible legislature, and a governor who puts his own political future ahead of the safety of the people of this State have emboldened and enabled criminals. This environment was fed by an ill-informed media narrative and protest movement that has destroyed police morale and demonized proactive community policing. It’s not complicated, we’re seeing the results.
When examining if bail reform contributed, its obvious that more criminals on the street means more crime. Don’t just look at who got out and who had prior gun arrests, look at everyone arrested on shootings and find out what else they were arrested for since January 1 when bail reform took effect. It’s likely that many would have committed other offenses not eligible for bail, which meant there was effectively no incentive not to escalate their criminal activity and, for example, shoot someone.
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@Harvey
From what is being reported in the news, the prosecution had a protective order in place for the witness from 2018 on. In anticipation of the new law taking effect, the judge ordered disclosure of the witness well in advance of trial in December of 2019. That witness is now dead.
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And his second major mistake will be attempting to ask corporations to “go back” to work. If he tells the feds to go back to work and encourages people to gather again too soon, it will be a major setback. And if corporations follow his lead and reopen, the first person to get infected and die, will surely have big reactions and multiple lawsuits for wrongful deaths which will be tragic to people and bad for wall street and shareholders. We will all loose. Find a safe way to do broad testing or a better solution to gain confidence to all Americans.
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I find it stressful. I have had several friends whom I consider dear and they voted for <PERSON> because they were single issue voters and it was so important to them, they were willing to ignore the other horrible things he has done. Agree for the most part, we have made a truce not to talk about politics. I have an exception of a friend who I have known for 40 years, and she/they have grown more extreme in their views/thoughts. I continue to ask her and her husband not to talk politics but she can't help herself. She is very involved in fox news and talk radio consistently. The negativism is getting bad.....I am trying but, it's very, very hard. I mostly change the subject. Utimately, I believe this person is unhappy and has very extreme views which is out of touch with the general population and community....*sigh*
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