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<PERSON> The GOP has always been terrible on the economy. Tax cuts that aren't paid for and explode the deficit; widen the wealth gap; lead to recession.
This coming from someone who personally benefits from Republican tax policy. But I choose to vote for my country's best interest, not my own. I guess that's the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
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Libertarianism is such an easily disprovable joke. Ready? There is such thing as market failure. Companies will dump poison into the air and water to turn a higher profit, killing people in the process. The libertarian answer is that that company will go bankrupt and/or people will choose not to buy their product. But it’s too late, people are already dead and that’s not okay in a society. Therefore obviously companies need to be regulated.
The other half of the Libertarian punchline is that libertarians and small-government republicans don’t actually exist in reality. They love to claim the mantle until there is an election or a vote. Then they are afraid to vote “no” on any spending because they want to get re-elected. So they cut taxes but spend the same as democrats and just explode the deficit.
Then there’s the fact that real life “libertarians” like <PERSON> want the government to be just small enough to fit into our doctors offices and bedrooms. Give me a break.
The small government idea has always been an excuse to not vote for things like the social safety net because you don’t like them. Then you forget about your ideals when it’s time for the government to tell people who to marry.
And finally, and worst of all, Libertarianism provides cover for otherwise decent people to vote for the racist Republican Party. “Well I don’t like his social policies but he’ll cut regulations.” But the sad reality is they’re fooling themselves.
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I personally believe we need a "new deal" to put millennials and Generation C's to work rebuilding the Nation - farming, small businesses, infrastructure, new ways to vote using automation, new automated systems and data analysis methods to sort the avalanche of information and protect systems from cybercriminals and infiltration, and serving communities - and get paid to do it.
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Hello, <PERSON>, this is a stellar article, or beginning to a book we all need to read. The only thing I would request is a paragraph on presidents get elected due to their ability to put together or raise or just contribute billions of dollars to convince people they should be elected. We need to have a "stockpile" of commercial space, video space and radio ad technology space ready and waiting for anyone who runs for the top office to use without having to spend their own money or trade away their souls for the opportunity.
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<PERSON> is identity politics made into a single person. This is why she is so unappealing. Unless you too are an African-American immigrant Muslim you have almost no reason to vote for her. She sent to congress to speak on behalf of those in her district. Instead, she speaks on behalf of herself and her narcissistic religious and ethnic grievances. In doing so, she represents the worst of impulses of the Democratic party. Rather than encourage more Omars who engage in this kind of naval gazing boring fury, the Dems would do better to find people who really do speak for a broad range of people.
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“I have become woman physically, psychologically, glandularly and legally.”
Thanks to male power a man can become legally a woman as it does not harm powerful men when do so. But it is impossible for a man to become a woman physically or psychologically. The trans movement gravely harms women when it implies men can take on our struggles as it implies women can remove them by pretending to be men.
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@voxandreas
Hopefully the Dems retain the lessons they learned from 2016. <PERSON> has nobody to blame for 2016 but herself - she ran a horribly planned and presumptive campaign. Here in Wisconsin she lost the primary to <PERSON>, yet considered our state so in the bag that she didn't come here to campaign even once. Her sole argument for being president was that she deserved it, and that doesn't resonate with as many people as it needs to. <PERSON> didn't win in 2016 so much as she lost (and still won the popular vote).
<PERSON> came here twice, and flipped our state (clearly it didn't take much). The Democrats should continue to be successful if they follow the playbook <PERSON> has laid out. At least until the GOP figures out how to more effectively cheat or disenfranchise blue voters, but that's a different conversation.
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I think <PERSON> as <PERSON>'s VP pick is a great idea. That said - here in Wisconsin it's impossible to ascribe low African American turnout to a lack of enthusiasm for the candidate. That may be a factor, but the GOP's aggressive and transparent (and largely successful) campaign of voter suppression in parts of our state where African Americans live - the campaign that forced voting during the pandemic and reduced Milwaukee from close to two hundred polling locations to five - is much more likely to blame for low African American turnout in Wisconsin.
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Whether it be those who disproportionately fight wars and conflicts, to those who suffer the most from pandemics (lack of preparedness notwithstanding) as a society - the mega-rich, as a group, are immune to these vicissitudes of life. Indeed they often financially benefit at the expense of the onuses inflicted upon the masses.
Should more civic, socially and economically sound-minded politicians ever occupy Congress and the White House then I would hope that taxes on corporations and the mega-rich fall in line parallel to their income and net worth.
I am and will never be a Socialist. Really, who needs to be a billionaire when the nation as a whole is suffering?
I find it ironic that the modern day Republican Party continues to attract so many middle to lower income hard working individuals who believe their best interests are being served.
The Democratic Party needs to return to a more centrist position and stop alienating the Frustrated Majority. The Progressives are to the Democrats what the Tea Party was to the old Republicans.
Independents like me and middle of the readers are no longer being spoken to by either party.
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A staunch conservative by any measure (e.g. Gatestone Institute) once praised by <PERSON> is now denigrated by after stating his recollection of events. Nothing new here.
Republicans, many of whom were stridently opposed to <PERSON> in the last primary, fall in line with <PERSON>’s predictable accusations.
<PERSON>, once the recipient of twitter tirades by <PERSON>, dutifully falls in step with <PERSON>. Perhaps his wife’s support of her President over the sanctity of her marriage and respect and support for her husband has some role.
The Senate, we are told, is made up of individuals who first and foremost are elected to uphold our laws and ethos as a country. If the circumstances were a Democratic president going through the impeachment process, we know the Republican response to witness testimony. If the witnesses are liars it will be plain to see. The argument that they have nothing to add or give fuel to the arsonist attacks of Democrats is insulting.
As an Independent I want to listen to what witnesses have to say. I want to judge the veracity of their sworn testimony. I want to hold my Senators responsible for their vote
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Followed this admirable lady for quite some time. I admire her courage, persistence, and perception. She already has moved Uganda towards a desired goal. The ossified powers that be in that beautiful and fascinating land have no answer to her expect use of force. They are intellectually bankrupt. <PERSON> know this. The "leader" speaks in sophomoric terms. If there ever was a case of arrested intellectual development its that guy in comical hats. He really fancies himself a thinker but in reality he is just another brutish thug in power of which Uganda has seen many.
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I recall taking a statistics class way back and the professor kept repeating that the integrity of the data is everything. Garbage in garbage out is how he put it. Basically the problem here is respondents were giving false answers deliberately --they were lying --perhaps with malicious glee. I think this is the point the polling outfit , the Trafalgar Group, kept repeating. Stop wasting so much ink on a simple problem: childish lying intended to throw the spanner in the works. It is not easy to fix.
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Thank you for explaining Facebook's Oversight Board. I am not sure what to call its members -- 'oversighters' doesn't sound right, so I will call them 'overseers.'
With the advancing power of AI, the overseers of Facebook could help society avoid terrible blunders. For example, the overseers could have told us that <PERSON> does not have a nuclear program in 2003, instead of newspapers that were publishing disinformation. This could've avoided war of aggression that cost hundreds of thousands of human lives.
When <PERSON> was touting hydroxychloroquine, an unproven cure for Covid-19. the overseers could have told us to avoid it. While <PERSON> is touting unproven physics such as string theory, with Facebook's powerful AI, the overseers could have steered us toward the truth. So instead of wasting years with string theory, <PERSON>, for example, could have made scientific discoveries, making a name for himself.
The overseers, with Facebook's AI, by steering us toward "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," could help us make a great leap forward.
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<PERSON> writes, "But to manage the reopening safely, we need massive levels of testing and contact-tracing ..." Later he suggests experimenting with "reopening in areas with fewer infections", or opening parks and beaches.
Of course, all of what <PERSON> suggests risks avoidable infections, and since this is a deadly disease, especially for blacks, the elderly, obese people, and those with diabetes, heart disease, etc., such proposals would create danger of preventable deaths.
Politician <PERSON> said he would accept the risk to his life from reopening the economy, but many vulnerable people haven't consented to these risks entailed by <PERSON>'s proposed experiments.
As far as beaches are concerned, we can imagine a family going by car, and social distancing on the beach, thus avoiding spreading the deadly infection. However, if we consider the Los Angeles area for example, many would go by the Expo light rail line, or buses such as the Santa Monica 10. Thus, <PERSON> proposes, in effect, risking preventable deaths. Neither does <PERSON> present any ethical arguments to justify risking other people's lives.
The ruling class seems hell bent on the dangerous reopening of the economy, which is expected to kill people, since the rulers are in a better situation for protecting themselves and their loved ones. We need to question and reject their rights-claims to rule over us.
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<PERSON> indeed so, not to mention the total lack of coverage regarding the many passengers being citizens of Canada with tremendous academic and professional credentials. The US has been totally silent on that, had it been 60+ US citizens to loose their lives, the press would have been much different. All this to say that not only did the US initiate these actions, it totally ignored humanizing it since it’s not their citizens who lost their lives as a result. Shame.
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If there was ever a hope for civility and insightful commentary during these times of moral turpitude, it was during NPRs <PERSON> and <PERSON>. We came to see it as how gentlemen discuss politics and life, with intelligence, preparation, honesty, and respect. Our thanks go to these two exemplary people, who have brightened our outlook and given us hope through the darkest of times in a generation. Sincere and best wishes to <PERSON> in his retirement, as we look forward to more of <PERSON>’s wisdom.
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Parents and other adults in my life should know that it has been much more difficult to maintain friendships and a sense of stability due to the pandemic. I think young people face the unique challenge of not being able to have a normal school experience. I wish adults understood that we are just as stressed about the situation as they are, and that it's very difficult to find coping mechanisms to deal with not being able to have any social interaction and have any normal activities. Honestly my relationship with my parents has exacerbated since the start of the pandemic. This was due to the stress of the virus, job security, and some other personal issues. There were many arguments that took place regarding socializing. Tension has definitely increased in my household since the start of the pandemic. I think <PERSON> means that the pandemic is definitely affecting the development of adolescents in many ways. It's affecting our social skills, our work ethic, and our ability to build our identities. I definitely agree that this is a very difficult time to be young. I think my mental health and social life are significantly worse than they were pre-pandemic. The pandemic allotted an opportunity for my mental state to completely decline, which led to some pretty significant issues that I have endured. I continue to try and keep a positive outlook, but being alone in the pandemic definitely heightened certain insecurities and made me more aware of my mental health.
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I believe that the 2020 presidential elections was extremely critical to the future of our country. This election would decide how the continuation of the pandemic will be handled, as well as how the divide of the nation and social and racial injustices will be addressed. While the results of the election were still pending, I was very nervous and I caught myself watching the news religiously as well as constantly updating the electoral map on Google. Until various news channels projected <PERSON> as the presidential elect, I was completely frantic. Some of the strategies presented in this articles were helpful, but none of them really helped me to managed the looming anxiety that came with this election. When it was announced that <PERSON> was the presidential elect, it made me so hopeful for the future of the country. I believe under <PERSON> presidency, the nation will be able to address the pandemic in an educated way that corresponds with the advice of scientists and doctors, as well as battling climate change and social injustice. I think <PERSON> will work towards unifying the country and properly handling these pressing issues.
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Perhaps, if the media would give him less of the attention he craves, the <PERSON> would just fade into the trash heap of history. The media spurs on his outlandish behaviors and the reason he ran in the first place. Choke off his media coverage to what is important and leave him with no options. Should he lose, and I fervently hope the American electorate comes to its senses, <PERSON> will become what he really is and has been all along - a glitch in the greater scheme of things like everyone else.
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Part of Dr. <PERSON>’s success is because Governor <PERSON> has been willing to listen and defer to her expertise, unlike <PERSON> and his tumultuous arrogance undermining Dr. <PERSON> and the scientific and intelligence communities. Yes, we are blessed here in Ohio with people of reason and intelligence to recognize what they know and don’t know.
Where is God when we need Him?
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You go girl. I deliberately set out in my 30's to have a much sex as I possibly could with as many men who were interested. For me, it was a response to a very constrained 50's upbringing which deemed that only married sex was best and acceptable. I found out otherwise. I also discovered I could "own" my own body. I doubt I could have discovered that miracle without spending time with many men. Besides, it was fun! And, I've never gotten pregnant or had an STD! So, I applaud women who are in this same journey!
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How very liberal of you <PERSON>. As a former psychotherapist and skilled communicator I've come to realize that most of what you recommend, while high-minded, will do NOTHING to change a Trumpie's mind. The only hope we progressives have is to organize, organize, organize in all communities and demonstrate by our works, not our words, that our policies are better than those of <PERSON>.
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We thought this was a Chinese problem. We instituted heavy travel restrictions for China and thought that would be the end of it. Similar elementary logic behind installing wall to keep out illegals. We all know the real world doesn’t work like that. We went to sleep thinking we were safe over the past 8 weeks while the rest of the world was melting down, our government did virtually nothing to prepare our society from the onslaught that we are seeing now. Inability to test people in the past month created the appearance that we are safe from the outbreak ravaging the rest of the world. Meanwhile travelers of ALL RACE either returned home to the US or visited from abroad were quietly bringing the virus to our communities and unknowingly allowing it to spread and incubate. The explosively high percentage of positive test results we are seeing now is a direct result of the confluence of these factors. Had we began to prepare and gotten ready starting from two months ago, we would have put measures in place to slow down outbreaks. Instead we are now reacting to outbreaks that have been quietly brewing for all this time. Its like reading two month old news and using that info and data set to make life or death decisions today. The perfect storm is here. Thank you for keeping us safe America.
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Covid may be one of key events that triggers the start of dystopian societies. Chaos around the world will likely strengthen the argument for surveillance state way of governing. Governments of the free world will continue to appear to be weak to its own people. Some governments may use the people’s fear as justification for surveillance thus empowering themselves. <PERSON> and perhaps others in the US dreamed of this kind of power. <PERSON> may be the spark that helps them start that movement.
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Very early in the <PERSON> administration <PERSON>, in speaking about <PERSON>’s violation of norms and guidelines, said that one does not normally write down an instruction for the babysitter, “Do not put the baby in the microwave.“ Obviously, he said, we now see that it does need to be written down. What did he do that was legal but dangerous? Now write laws to stop future presidents from such conduct.Norms and guidelines of executive behavior & operation need to be encoded into law.
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My friend lives on 42nd Street & Ninth Avenue. The Times Square hotels are full of homeless men who are not getting the services they need. He has been spat at, shoved, hit, threatened, cursed and suffered a specific hate crime. It is scary walking around the Times Square area now.
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In this picture there are three girls, the first girl who is holding the flashlight is a nun who is helping the two girls who are brushing their teeth. The setting takes place in a bathroom in an orphanage while the power is out. The girls in the photo look like they come from a place that is really hot because of their coloured skin. In the picture it looks like there is a lot of kids in the orphanage because there are a lot of toilets in the bathroom.
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<PERSON>... In India, they practice Hinduism, Muslim and Jainism which don't have Nuns. You will only find Nuns in a place were it is a Christianity religion. And Btw, it is called a flashlight and not a torch. A torch is a stick with fire on it. If a flashlight had fire, I I sure hope that the person holding it is ok because of all the hot plastic melting on their hand and they would probably die from suffocation from the heat of the plastic, or die from electric shock because don't forget there is a battery in a flashlight. But other than that I think that you understood the picture fine.
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<PERSON> I'm in the process of making final preparations to stay home during this mess. While I usually hate being cooped up in the house for even a few days, I'm very thankful to have a nice home as a shelter for however long it takes to get through this. I'm seeing the glass as half full.
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<PERSON> What an attitude you have, along with an inability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. His concerns were valid, and he was disconnected after waiting 2 hours to cancel the charge thru the credit card issuer. Time was of the essence, and he did the best he could under the circumstances.
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The United States is a failed state, a broken republic, and despite what the risible "love-it-or-leave it" faux patriots say, it is time to rethink the Constitution. The ridiculous slant of the Senate, and the antiquated nonsense of the Electoral College---not to mention the disgustingly perpetual election cycle fueled by The Almighty Dollar---are prime examples of why we need a parliamentary system with a strictly limited campaign season and an equal amount of campaign money to each party.
Don't whine at me about freedom of speech or the equalization for smaller states. Despite <PERSON> immoral contention that campaign donations are a protected form of "political speech" (in his ludicrous defense of the Citizens United decision), another judicial ruling demanded that we live by "one person, one vote" and not by "one dollar, one vote." Moreover, those smaller states have done something abhorred by the founders of the republic: the trampling by the minority of the rights of the majority. A republic is also called a "constitutional democracy;" the majority, whether the anti-democracy right likes it or not, rules the day and the minority's rights are to be respected.
Currently, the minority doesn't give a rip about anyone's rights but its own. That is how a failed state fails.
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This piece is a laudably well-researched expose of the lengths conservatives will go to prop up their morally and ethically bankrupt philosophy. It comes as no surprise that the right-wing "apparatus errorum propagationi" pulls off a twisted mutation of the English lexicon worthy of a science-fiction-horror epic.
The right cannot truly defend the indefensible, lest they be seen for what they are: racist, xenophobic, parochial, insular, patriarchal, oligarchic, misogynistic, self-centered, fascistic, and nationalist. Therefore, their only real option is the attempt to impugn and discredit the opposition, and blatant falsehood is a welcome addition to the conservative toolkit. Ms. <PERSON> demonstrates the existence of said tactic brilliantly by parsing the rhetoric of nonsense and blather routinely dumped by the right-wing media and its cultish followers.
Ever since I read Ms. <PERSON>'s "Stiffed" I have been always eager to read what she writes.
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@Jason I also wonder if a younger President understands younger people's need, I wonder If the reverse could be said about older presidents. When you look at the graph, you see that more older presidents are being picked, how does this compare with your 3 points. Do younger presidents need to win the older population.
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What do you notice:
I notice that the east side of the country has climate problems that are having too much rain and having hurricanes. Both of these are based on an abundance of rain and water, however as you move to the west side of the country, you see that the problems have to do with a lack of water.
What do you wonder:
I wonder what is different in the counties that are different then their surroundings, for example on the west coast there are places where there is extreme rainfall right next to extreme wildfire risk. I wonder how these outlier counties affect the ones next to them.
I also because I live in New Hampshire wonder what this graph means when saying that new Hampshire is at high hurricane risk.
Name: My title for this graph is: "Is climate change is changing counties climates for the worse?"
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Well, America is #1! We’re number 1 in Coronavirus cases, #1 in inequality, #1 in healthcare costs, #1 in education costs, and #2 in so many things that we can take no pride in as a nation. Leadership in both parties has been so pro-business, bought and paid for by corporate lobbies and special interests. We have, since <PERSON>, been sold leaders who excel in “selling the snake oil” policies that have undermined US-from NAFTA, to banking reform that repealed Glass-Stegall, to the Patriot Act, and The Wall. It’s all snake oil that offers scraps from the banquet that tax cuts have been. Bread and circuses. We don’t learn history, much less remember it, but <PERSON> fiddled while Rome burned. No one is trying to unite the country. No one is trying to build and strengthen democracy. Both parties are trying to divide the pie, amongst themselves, by dividing US into smaller and smaller pieces. It’s not red v blue, black v white, gay v straight, or even business v labor. It’s power v the rest of us, using the vast gains of tax cuts to buy it, keep it and corrupt democracy itself. Labor has the numbers, and in any honest government, the numbers would prevail. And yet, they don’t. The only way to change this is to stop drinking the “kool-aide” delivered to us as news, delivered to different groups of people who WANT to believe different things. Media obliges, telling us what we WANT to hear-but never telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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The politics of destruction is what the GOP has been playing since <PERSON> said “Government is the problem.” Every institution the GOP gets its hands on, they sabotage-from the Post Office to the VA, the EPA to now the White House-to PROVE government is bad, so they won’t have to support it. My way or the highway politics....”give me my way or I’ll hurt you, you’re not the boss of me,” childishly selfish and nationally sociopathic behavior. Yes, it started with <PERSON>, but the <PERSON> didn’t help. They embraced it-giving them their way regarded of the cost
to the only body that could oppose them. Home of the brave? We’ve become a nation of political cowards, too afraid to stand up for principles like justice, decency and fairness. We got bullied by <PERSON>, and laid down. It won’t change until we stand up.
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How do we know that <PERSON> will be inaugurated? How do we know that Republican legislatures won’t suddenly vote to overturn election results and name their own electors? Why do we assume the rule of law and customs and norms and civility will prevail? <PERSON> and the Republicans would slash and burn laws and norms for their own gain. I don’t trust for one single moment that Republicans have any respect for laws and norms anymore. By the way, we have to stop calling them Republicans. That circus ended long ago. It’s now the <PERSON> party.
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@Ian I have never had empathy for these people. I’ve tried to understand them, but frankly their attitudes are repugnant to me. More important, they have absolutely no interest in understanding those of us who are liberal or progressive. I’m done trying to take the highroad.
Oh, and by the way – – when my parents were first married they were bone poor but they didn’t wallow in it and grab onto ignorance instead of trying to pull themselves up. I too have had some lean times in my life but I didn’t resort to falling for cheap scams To try to make myself feel better.
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<PERSON> is running scared --- scared of being prosecuted.
If he cannot rig, with Chinese and Russian help, a 2020 win. he may claim without proof that mail-in ballots are fraudulent, and then try a military coup. His recent military attack on DC protestors may have been just a warm up.
Alternatively, <PERSON> may be pushing for a pardon from <PERSON> if <PERSON> agrees to resign. Before that, <PERSON> would pardon <PERSON>, <PERSON>, et al., then resign, then get pardoned himself.
<PERSON> is playing a "chicken game" with <PERSON> and the Senate Republicans. <PERSON> appears to be intentionally trying to lose the election, taking the Republican Senate majority down with him.
<PERSON> and the Republicans may accept the pardon route. It may be their only chance of avoiding defeat and, in some cases, prosecution.
Republicans could then in August nominate someone like <PERSON>. <PERSON> would be a sure loser.
All of them remember well that almost 50 of <PERSON>'s aides, et al.. were convicted of felonies. <PERSON>'s accomplices, like <PERSON>, know that <PERSON> need not pardon them. He could let them be prosecuted as he let his long-time lawyer, <PERSON>, be prosecuted and imprisoned.
July should be an interesting month!
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Dr. <PERSON> must take off the gloves before it is too late.
As <PERSON> book and interviews make clear, <PERSON> is EVIL, even sadistic, as just noted by a former Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, familiar with <PERSON>'s dangerous behavior, and after reading <PERSON> book and watching her TV interview.
Sadists enjoy causing pain and humiliation to their perceived enemies. <PERSON> perceives almost everyone who doesn't worship him as his enemies. Sadism explains a lot about <PERSON>'s behavior.
It is clear <PERSON> in not troubled if hundreds of thousands or even millions die of Covid 19 due to his inaction.
Dr. <PERSON> must now resort to the directness and lessons he first learned playing basketball on the playgrounds of Brooklyn. One cannot reason with a seeming psychopath!
Time is running out for Dr. <PERSON> to neutralize <PERSON>!
<PERSON> knows he is cornered. The Manhattan DA is after him and no one can stop that.
His goose is cooked!
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At the very best of times, if you are 24 years old and have four children, life will be challenging for you.
The NY Times is complaining about human error and misjudgment all the time in covering COVID-19. They should do the same about life mismanagement.
Anyone can make a mistake. One unplanned pregnancy is a mistake. A series of children is a woman unprepared for life in general who needs more than a place to live.
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@Tedj Would you deliberately buy shoes that make your feet bleed? If you bought a pair once by poor judgment, would you continue to wear them?
There's being born into misfortune, and there's temporary hard times you had no way to avoid, and then there's not learning from experience. Don't infantilize people by regarding them as helpless when their choices compounded their situations.
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<PERSON> is one of the few politicians who is a decent man and is looking to serve all the people in this country rather than all the corporations in this country. He has started a political movement that is unlikely to end, either within or outside the Democratic party. The Democratic party made two mistakes that gave <PERSON> the victory in 2016: sided with an entitled and uninspiring candidate and ignored and maligned <PERSON>'s followers. I hope that by only repeating the first mistake but fixing the second one does not lead to 4 more years of <PERSON>. And I hope that <PERSON> learns that holding office should mean that you and your family should keep a HIGHER standard of behavior than anyone else.
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The challenge of our times is not COVID but rather, our inability to understand that apparently opposing view points can only drive us to a better outcome by a collaborative approach.
It is puzzling for me that this article does not address a key stakeholder in this equation: the patient. How well informed are they? In my view, we failed to admit our ignorance and communicate that to patients. One side of the aisle went with “it is a game changer” the other believed every poorly designed retrospective study (including some potentially fraudulent) that showed the game changer was not. The standards for publication even in the most prestigious medicine journals declined dramatically. Medical organizations went on to publish multipage guidelines with no evidence whatsoever. Wasn’t a better message to state that we knew very little and that the best way to move forward is to admit this, convey this to patients and allow them to decide? And to explain this clearly. Patients are not signing up to an intervention versus no intervention (just placebo). All these studies compare what we do for many diseases that can land you in Intensive Care: supportive care to that same supportive care with an additional unproven intervention.
These multiple local studies by different health care systems may actually slow progress by competing with enrollment in better powered, larger studies such as RECOVERY and those organized by the US NIH.
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@Moreen <PERSON> @Micky You are both raising some of my greatest concerns. That in the rush to develop vaccines and treatments, with expediency driving the studies, testing them in the vulnerable populations who need them most (and who are more difficult to recruit into studies for many reasons)--such as older adults and persons of color--will be excluded. Time, experience, and forethought are required to reach the target populations. Thanking <PERSON> for bringing these cautions to light.
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Some really great comments here, and wanted to give some responses at <PERSON> prompting. First, of course, there are some exclusions (such as severe comorbidities) that are necessary exclusions for the safety of older adults, but many trials had poorly justified exclusions (any hypertension?). Second, it's essential to test vaccines in older adults: (1) herd immunity requires >75% of the population to be immune, and we won't get there without including older adults; also many settings have exclusively older adults (like nursing homes); (2) vaccines often need adaptations in dosing, adjuvants, etc. to be effective in older adults. Expertise and guidance is readily available to help with assistance in enrolling older adults into clinical trials (contact the American Geriatrics Society). Finally, thank you to the many older adults who offered to volunteer for trials--yes, your participation is essential, and your help with benefit the world.
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Thank you. The more people who speak about alcohol as a way of medicating, the more informed we all are.
I starting drinking daily at 15 in boarding school (I could buy at 15 in a nearby city) and I understand now (in my 50s) that it was a GREAT, accessible way to medicate my anxiety.
In my late 40s, after two and a half decades of daily drinking, I opted to walk into the rooms of AA and found a group of people who share my issues with alcohol, but more importantly, most share my issues with anxiety, with feeling they just didn't (or don't) fit in.
For years I'd tell my wife walking into a dinner party, a restaurant to meet people, into a party, that I was uncomfortable, but knowing me externally she found this hard to believe and recently confided she through I was fishing for compliments in these situations.
About 18 months ago (and two years into sobriety) I couldn't figure out why the constant personal issues I have with money and relationships we still occurring even after I removed alcohol from my life. Thankfully, I had a doctor prescribe me anti-anxiety meds and then six months later diagnose me with ADD and prescribe SSRI meds.
The change has been striking and my life has changed significantly. I'm grateful I stopped drinking first. Then got frustrated with the lack of ongoing change after the fog of daily drinking lifted, and grateful I can now address my lifelong issues with lying, money and relationships with anxiety lifted and ADD symptoms lowered.
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<PERSON> - thank you. This is a beautiful piece on food, family and community. I'm also intrigued that so many comments are from New England. Who know what that means?
I grew up in Maine with a strong family connection to Food but not so mutch on the community side. Since college I've cooked for housemates, girlfriends, climbing partners in the desert and in-laws. Only recently in my 50s I've confess to understand the community part. Simple food made with love and no expectations is my goal now. The fact I connected to so many of the comments assures me i'm on the right path.
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I see what you mean <PERSON>, fair point. But you know, states have their little senses of pride / identity, and so it might not be that easy to get Iowa to renounce their first position. What would be fairly easy though (and I am offering this advice for free, just out of the kindness of my heart) would to still have Iowa go first, BUT, simply forbid white Iowans from voting. See? Problem solved!
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I don't know if people remember this but at one brief point, maybe three years ago, the Democrats (well let's try and be fair: some Democrats) considered having the President removed by having him certified crazy / mentally incompetent. They already had a few medical "experts" lined up, professors from Yale if I recall.
Even they, however, saw that the optics of this would be a little hum... dubious from a pure democratic standpoint. So they went and looked for some slightly better pretext. Too bad for them, they could not find better than this Ukrainian thing.
And now they will have to live through the agony of another humiliating electoral defeat, again, at the hands of the same man. Oh wow.
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<PERSON>Repeatedly it's been said "wear a mask in public where it is not possible to social distance". They are not saying wear masks even when no one is around. Simply have it ready to use when you are in public and can't keep your distance. I don't see how an empty trail is "being in public". Public is people.
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<PERSON>
The only thing I disagree with is blaming the selfishness on younger adults. Come on now, how many pictures have we seen of middle aged adults out protesting against wearing masks or being asked to lock down. Or the middle-aged couple pointing guns as peaceful protesters walk by.
My 80+ year old parents have friends in that republican bunch that call it the Chinese virus etc etc.
But yes, somehow many have lost a vital understanding for the need for personal sacrifice for our community. How to do our civic duty.
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Of course he's a killer.
All conservato-republicans carry the idea that killing people is acceptable if they are not good at making money, which is, of course, absurd, because in order to make money you have to take it from somebody else, so every good money- maker makes money by creating non-money-making people, who then need to be killed because they are a burden on society.
<PERSON> cares only about money, "the economy," which, by the way, he inherited from <PERSON>. <PERSON>'s handling of the pandemic is based on protecting the economy, and he certainly doesn't care if he kills tens of thousands of people to keep his money and the money of his ilk.
All of this is obvious. The jaw-dropping reality is that our country went and elected this thing that now occupies the White House.
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This is what you do: you borrow X million dollars, you waste them in parties and gold toilet bowls and/or you hide them in real estate to be undervalued for tax purposes, then you declare that you lost the X million dollars and you don't pay taxes, then you declare bankruptcy and your creditors have to pay for your parties, gold toilet bowls, and tax-undervalued real estate. Out of bankruptcy, your credit is shiny: you borrow X million dollars...
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This graph shows all infectious diseases and how dangerous and fast they spread, with most diseases that are able to spread fast being the least dangerous. I notice that the bird flu is the most dangerous out of all the diseases on the chart while measles spread the fastest. I wonder why the coronavirus is still an estimate and why it has a range for its fatality rate.
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Looking at this graph I notice that out of the 1,640 people that were surveyed most people paid a minimal cost of a thousand dollars for an engagement, but then looking at the end of the graph there is a slightly larger bar showing that there are a surprisingly large amount of people who would go out of their ways to buy an expensive marriage ring, In the second graph I see that it does not really match up with the histogram ontop.
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Thank you, <PERSON>! I came here to say that very thing. I feel this entire series is in danger of losing its way after a strong start. These “conspiracy theories” need to be called out explicitly as the lies & fantasies that they are. The reporters need to fact-check & report not just the rumors—we have enough of those—but the true story. For example, don’t leave it to a sound clip of comedian <PERSON> debunking the pizza-pornring lie, but explicitly state that the entire story was a lie, made up by people intent on subverting the truth & actual journalism.
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After listening to episode 5, I was looking forward to hearing this interview. I was sadly disappointed. I wish the interviewer had pushed further, had probed deeper, asked more “why” questions, and had listened without interruption more often. <PERSON> started by saying he felt he had been “irresponsible”—THAT’S exactly what I wanted to hear about. All through episode 5 I kept thinking that word; what does “being responsible” mean to <PERSON> now? Instead, I felt like I was listening to two bros inarticulately discussing sneakers or the latest movie. I came away with even less understanding of this man & his subscribers.
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<PERSON> No, the CNAs did not sign up to care for a virus that could not only kill them it could also kill their families at home. I am sure you do not realize that most of the CNAs are paid minimum wage or just barely over. Many of them work several jobs trying to make ends meet. You'd probably be surprised to learn that even with working two or more jobs they still qualify for food stamps, because the pay is so low. If the CNAs become ill there is no health insurance. and no one to care for their children if needed. You indicated you give "empathy to losing one's job," how about empathy for losing a love one because you brought the virus home, because you had to work to keep a roof over your family's head.
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I suffered from the age of 12 to age 45 with severe cramps. I missed two to three days of school every month. I used to read all of the articles in teen magazines about exercising and better diet to cure painful cramps. It never worked for me. All of the over the counter drugs made me sick. There was nothing available. At age 16 birth control (the PILL) was prescribed. I stayed on it for years. Finally at age 45, a doctor submitted an authorization for a hysterectomy. Previously, all my other physicians told me that because I was in child bearing age, my insurance wouldn't pay for it, even though I never wanted children. I was so traumatized by the pain and not being able to enjoy my life that all these years later, I still read articles about heavy and painful periods in hopes that a cure has been found for women.
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You have to ask why does NYC have more cases then pretty much anywhere in the world when there was ample warning. Is the answer that <PERSON> <PERSON> and <PERSON> (who I like as a centrist democrat) were grossly negligent? They let schools, bars, restaurants etc. be open when we knew the virus was already in the country. The health commissioner is on record (youtube video has since gone viral) exhorting New Yorkers to go out during the early days. And now New York is exporting cases to all over the country giving the USA the dubious standing of most cases and in all probability most deaths in the world.
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I am sorry but the article smacks of this omnipresent class envy. It is using a few isolated incidents to vastly exaggerate and generalize. I was invited by a friend to the Hamptons event the article references and I witnessed first hand a large majority practice respectful social distancing . A few people did act irresponsibly and that is inexcusable . The event was permitted by the town .
Every week there are a huge number of non-permitted street parties with minimal social distancing in Lower East Side, Brooklyn and Bronx. Last week there was a daily party in Bed Stuy with over 200 people. No masks of course . But of course nothing will be written about those.
Let’s be honest most of us stuck in the sweltering city with the homeless and rising crime would leave in a heartbeat if we could. And when we see people who are economically more successful enjoying their lives with means to have house calls and chefs etc., a sense of silent anger emerges. It’s completely unreasonable, of course. They are keeping the economy going and they have full right to spend their money on themselves and their families— the way they choose. They are not telling people like us and the author how to live our life , what right does the author and similar commentators have to tell the well-off about how to live theirs. Let’s mind our business and let others mind theirs and focus on becoming successful so we can also have our beachside cottages.
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The article that caught my attention this week was “Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results”. In an ideal free market, companies can take whatever measures they want to attract more customers so as to gain higher profits. However, the US is not just a free market, the government also plays a role in regulating the order and stability of the market. Departments like supervisory authorities have the responsibility to ensure that business runs smoothly without violating the laws. Robinhood, which does not violate any law apparently, has a considerable impact on those elementary and naive investors. Although the age limit has already been set in the US for investing, people with no investment experience are still vulnerable and easy to be cheated or blackmailed. Most of them do not even know how the stock market works before they play. Therefore, they will not know where the commission will occur and they will be charged. On the other hand, if one has figured out the rules of the market game, he or she will definitely suspect something is wrong if no commission fee is charged. America, as the world’s biggest economy since 1871, shouldn’t feel shame about this kind of phenomenon? As the judiciary system is judging <PERSON> company, the US government should also think about the cause and danger behind the incident.
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I’ve Protested for Racial Justice. Do I Have to Post on Social Media?
Protesting for racial justice is originally a just behaviour to maintain racial harmony. Such a just cause was supposed to receive appreciation and support from most of the people. However, the nature of our human being changes from time to time. People nowadays are too suspicious that everything seems to have a profit-oriented purpose under their perspective, which also frustrates people’s compassion.
Social media, in fact, is simply a platform to publicise your stories and interacts with one another. Anything that catches people’s attention will quickly circulate on the Internet and make a big difference. Given that racial justice in the U.S has not been respected and honoured, it is definitely important for us to show our determination to protect racial justice. As long as you are putting up something that is positive, no one will intend to criticise for your visual signalling.
Do you wonder why someone is criticised for something that looks like passing on something positive? Well, the evil for the human being is just personal benefit. To win a good reputation and public awareness, those people post something with compassion and love at first. The turning point of their character is the time they post for their personal benefit like commercial advertising. As a teenager, if you are really concerned about racial justice, just be yourself! Remember, you are just a common teenager fighting for justice!
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During the pandemic, I have participated in various group activities both in school and at my leisure. Even though playing online video games with friends aren't really anything new to anyone in the 21st century, I feel like the fact that its not a choice anymore but an obligation to not go out because of the pandemic has definitely come with some stress and anxiety. Academically, even though the online learning process used to be uncomfortable, it gets less uncomfortable not because we are getting used to it but because we have to get used to it.
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I believe that teachers should have the ability to express their free speech and that there should be no exceptions to that. Students are allowed to express themselves and their political affiliations and so they should be allowed to do the same as well. So far as the teacher or student, isn't imposing their beliefs on students or other faculty members or being biased in any way because of political affiliation, everyone can express their freedom of speech without the stigma and fear that comes with it. I wouldn't ban free speech but i would take measures to ensure that no one is being treated unfairly because of their political affiliation.
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I see the desperation of food insecurity every day and it is getting dramatically worse. I volunteer at a mobile food sharing group in rural Arizona, <a href="http://manzanitaoutreach.org/deliveringhope" target="_blank">http://manzanitaoutreach.org/deliveringhope</a>/
In partnership with St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix,we take our truck out into the food deserts in the Verde Valley and distribute about 40 lbs. per family. Our numbers have gone from serving 1500 families per month to 6500 (20,000 folks) in May and even more in June. We also distribute children's books, about 3000 in May. We know numbers will continue to skyrocket, but because of the flexibility of being mobile, we can likely handle it. That is, unless our volunteer crew is hit with Covid. If there is a silver lining, it's that we know that, so far, America doesn't have a food problem; we have a distribution challenge. That may change. While the people we see are used to privation and struggle, they are now also very frightened about what is coming. I am too.
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In a dystopian present, optimism seems like whistling through the graveyard, but it is programmed into our DNA and it is vital. We are descended from thousands of generations of survivors. We look around now at a would-be dictator, craven sycophants in power who abet him, corporations who conspire with him, and institutions that were designed to check such venal impulses but have proven fragile and largely impotent. We see how ignorance and racism, instead of diminishing, are being fanned and used to entrench these autocrats while harming our nation.
But there are several hopeful factors to focus on and use. A good majority of Americans are opposed to these rats and a large part of the world agrees with that majority.
The pandemic is showing how consumers drive the economy and how essential workers matter more than many better paid suits. It is showing the need for a functioning federal government and sensible regulations. It is showing how science informs effective action.
Also, the pandemic has exposed global autocrats (<PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>) as inept tinhorns to their own populaces. People united are a threat to such tyrants. And a final point, most of <PERSON>'s cabal are ignorant thugs and cheap hoods. Americans should be able to rout and oust these two-bit mooks if we decide to. And I think we will. We can undo this mess. Then maybe we can have a civilized national debate about justice for all. We have done it before.
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"Is Your Child an Orchid, a Tulip or a Dandelion?"
This article got my attention this week due to the title. I know you shouldn't choose what to read based on that alone, but I couldn’t help myself. I've never been compared to a flower before, so I wanted to see what that meant.
As it turns out, I found this article helpful. Being different isn’t something that's usually praised in our society. But stressing how everyone's different in one way or another helped me. I found it beneficial to learn about hyper sensitive people, and how “the brains of such people have unique characteristics”. I wouldn’t call myself highly sensitive, but I do have moments. It was helpful to read about ways to help that, including different therapies and techniques. I also enjoyed learning how there are other people struggling. It really highlighted how no one is the same, and we all react to things differently. Growing up, I never got to learn how things like super sensitivity existed, because society doesn’t like to have those conversations. It was extra intriguing to learn how boys with hyper sensitivity “suffer more shame and rejection, even violence and anger directed toward them”. This fact saddened me due to the fact that people don’t really talk about mental health in males, and how males need to act a certain way to fit society’s standards. Since reading this, I hope that I can better identify characteristics of the “three different flowers”, and help in any way that I can.
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"How to Ask if Everything Is OK When It’s Clearly Not"
I'm glad that we're finally talking about it: Mental Health. As well as it being brought up during these times. Personally, I’ve been struggling, and feel as if many can relate as well.
Being at home during these tough times has it’s ups, as well as it’s downs. Lately, I've found myself scrolling endlessly through social media for hours a day. Sure, it’s fun to look at funny memes. But it's not fun looking at people who you feel the need to compare yourself to. You tend to ask what you don't have, rather than what you do, which can highly affect your mental health. And it hurts my heart to see everything that pops up online about what has been going on in our world and country recently. Which leaves me feeling hopeless as to what I can do whilst stuck at home.
This article reminded me how others might feel similar, and how not everyone can reach out and ask for help if they need it. When Dr. <PERSON> said “plant a seed so that when they do need support, they’ll know you’re somebody they can reach out to”, it really hit close. This article helped me reach out to some friends that I haven’t talked to in a bit, and gave me some tips of how to approach them.
I hope that everyone who has read, and who will read this will get something out of it. With articles like this, we are slowly destigmatizing issues with mental health, because mental health isn’t wrong, nor should it be treated as such.
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Most of the objections to trans women competing in women's sports revolve around the argument that undergoing male puberty bestows trans women with physical advantages in muscular development, bone density, skeletal structure, etc.
But what about early transitioners who do not undergo male puberty, resulting in phenotypically female development, indistinguishable from genetic females, including wide pelvic structure, etc., despite having XY karyotypes? Early transitioners have no physical advantages whatsoever.
It greatly complicates what many here seem to feel is a cut-and-dried issue, does it not?
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I'll never forget the time I was driving home after work and spotted a strange craft at a low altitude, perhaps a thousand feet from my window on the driver's side. Headed the same direction as my vehicle, it was slowly ascending.
The sleek craft was predominantly silver in color, metallic-looking. The fuselage that served as a compartment for the craft's occupants was roughly cigar-shaped; attached on each side were two long, flat, winglike structures, and at the rear were smaller wings, one of them in a vertical configuration. Three thin metallic legs extended from the craft's underside, with black, doughnut-shaped objects at their ends. Two humanoid creatures were plainly visible through the craft's windows; dark lenses concealed their alien eyes, and they wore headgear with a bill in front.
As I was trying to decipher the odd, blocky markings ("N5447W") on the tail of the craft some sort of tractor beam seized my vehicle, nearly forcing me into a ditch. Fortunately, I was able to wrest free of the beam and bring the vehicle to a stop. Through my windshield, I watched the craft slowly disappear in the distance, and then I drove home, badly shaken.
I will remember this chilling close encounter as long as I live.
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70 million Americans support this type of country where the rich and powerful betray our country and break our laws and pay no price.
The majority of white college-educated men voted for this just a month and a half ago. It’s not ignorance. It’s not purely a protest about being left out of the economy. It’s a total conscious abandonment of the basic ideals we say this country stands for. The majority of male accountants, engineers, doctors, stock brokers, and teachers knew all this and votes for this. That’s the glaring tragedy of America today.
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Ask yourself voters, is this the USA you want? Do you want to live in a country where brave honest war heroes are fired for telling the truth and criminals who are friends of the president get soft treatment? Is this what law and order means to you? November 2020 is a test of the character of this country.
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As a Yakama Nation Woman I wish <PERSON> a good journey to the other side and I hope she meets up with All the Family that has gone before her because that what we Yakama's believe happens when one passes on . I Pray that <PERSON> and the Senate can find it in their hearts to elect another woman, specifically a Native American woman to SCOTUS. She would definitely round out this Court on behalf of all Americans. Especially, women in general. How can you have 9 Justices who are Male, and 1 of them African-American, and 2 Women, with 1 Open Spot deciding on female bodies? I surely pray that <PERSON> will do the right thing and nominate a Female, Native American (preferably) but not required to SCOTUS. I pray for this relief from <PERSON>.
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Great job <PERSON>!! So sorry I missed this article when it first came out as I just started subscribing to the NY Times in July 2020. I am so happy to see you featured in this article to show all the wonderful work you have done.
<PERSON>, is my friend and a fellow Yakama member, she is such a good person as you can see in the article. However, she also made 2,500 masks during the pandemic and donated them at her own cost for fellow Yakama members who needed them. I am so proud of this lady because she truly is an awesome person!
I absolutely love all the positive comments that have been shared regarding <PERSON>'s work for the Yakama Nation and preserving our way of life on the river.
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<PERSON> ahh, but <PERSON> wasn't sympathetic to their needs, was he? He was just (masterfully) playing a character created by <PERSON> in a performance that even <PERSON> would envy. That 48% bought a bottle of what he was selling speaks to an achieved in acting unrivaled in modern times. Despite his boasts to the contrary, It's probably the only thing <PERSON> (if that's the actor's real name) has done better than anyone else since the beginning of time.
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Or, could it be that he has truly mastered the ancient art of snake oil salesmanship like none who have come before him and vast swaths of the population bought a bottle of what the fictional character masterfully crafted by <PERSON> was selling. Maybe it's as if <PERSON> was so mesmerized by <PERSON>, or there was some void deep in <PERSON>'s soul that made it impossible for him to ever break character for the rest of his life? Surely such method acting could convince 70 million or so of our friends and neighbors......right?
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Sadly, Mr. <PERSON> uses his column to focus on his fears of social justice and what it might mean to people like him (educated white conservatives who don’t understand what’s happening). He uses already tired terms because he’s perpetually behind the times. Instead of attempting to understand what’s happening by listening to the voices of “wokeness” on those voices own terms, he chooses to judge like a typical conservative white guy. Oh well, he again misses another opportunity to learn.
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20 years ago the WTO protests in Seattle turned into the Battle of Seattle, and I have friends and family who experienced first hand the damage done by the brutal actions of SPD. The chief of police denounced his own actions and resigned, spending his time talking thereafter about the mistakes that police made in making things worse. But decades later, nothing seems to have been learned from those terrible nights. The police force chose to be disgruntled with disobedience and they acted like both spoiled children and punitive parents with no maturity. Flying in a correspondent for a brief period to submit a basically conservative leaning look at a very progressive and still very young movement is not helpful for translating to the public what is happening to American cities. NYT needs to learn more from the movement, not just listen to its critics.
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The WHO helped spread the coronavirus in four principal ways. First, in public the WHO disseminated China’s false narrative that the virus was not transmissible person-to-person. The WHO in its public statements supported the Chinese government’s attempt to prevent the imposition of travel bans and quarantines on travelers from China. It was these travelers who turned an epidemic in central China into a global pandemic. China’s substantial undercounting of its coronavirus cases and deaths lulled the U.S. into not taking precautions it would otherwise have adopted. They delayed declaring the coronavirus epidemic a “public health emergency of international concern” until Jan. 30.
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This country is a Constitutional Republic NOT a democracy ..
We are the United States of America . United by the Constitution . According to Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution States voted to join the republic under the laws then. . been that way all the time . Now the democrates want to change that , Why ?
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@cjdaus
Spot on, and this just out.
<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/dangerous-misinformation-news-corp-employee-s-fire-coverage-email-20200110-p53qel.html" target="_blank">https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/dangerous-misinformation-news-corp-employee-s-fire-coverage-email-20200110-p53qel.html</a>
She probably won't be working there much longer!
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It is the people like Ms. <PERSON> who are the embodiment of American values. <PERSON> is at the opposite end of the spectrum, cloaked by the (former) respectability inferred by his position. She must come forward and tell the story of why she resigned. The country needs many more people like her to speak out. Their integrity cannot be denied.
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I think that this is a stock show. I think this because there are a lot of people that are taking pictures of the ram. Most of the time at a stock show the animal is presented and there is an auctioneer. Usally they are trying to sell the animal for the most amout of money. The highest bidder gets the ram but they have to pay fro it upfront.
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I think that these escomo people are trading food with one another. I think this because They seem to be putting food in each others hands. I also think that these people are part of a small village that is mobile so they can hunt animals in the artice to eat.
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If <PERSON> wants to win, he simply has to put his programs forward without the words "socialism" and "revolution." Just calm down and make the case for his - as you say - very normal, Western Democracy proposals. What is the egotistical need to keep shouting "socialism" and "revolution?" It's unnecessary and, in the United States of America, self-defeating. And also untrue. Social Democracies in Scandinavia are neither "socialist" nor "revolutionary." But <PERSON> seems to want to make a point more than he wants to win an election. Which, sadly, leaves us with <PERSON>.
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This year it's not about turning out more young Democratic votes in New York or California. More numbers in Blue States don't do us any good. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. That's all that matters in terms of the Electoral College. Who can win there? Maybe <PERSON>? Four years to restore environmental regulations, voting rights and international alliances, even if Congress is gridlocked, is not a bad way to begin recovery. This is not about nostalgia, but laying the groundwork for the future. Then in four years (hopefully younger) progressives can put forth and campaign on their vision of a new America in a new world. But nothing can happen without winning those three key swing states first.
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Personally I am an extremely easily distracted person most of the time. I tend to be most unfocused when I am doing school work especially when it does not interest me. However I am also unfocused with everything I do. For example I tend to start doing a task then start doing something else in the middle of that. For the most part I can make myself concentrate on things If I convince myself it is important enough to do so. When it comes to things like homework if I notice I am really struggling to work I try to exercise because it helps clear my mind. Most of the time my go to is a run. Afterwards I am refreshed and able to focus much better. Another thing I have noticed about my ability to focus is that if I am burnt out I find it almost impossible. What I mean by this is during times that I have had to focus already for a while makes it harder to focus on other things later. For example after taking a long test in one period it is extremely difficult to have to take other tests that day or do a lot of homework. So over all I would say that it can depend but generally speaking I am an extremely distracted and unfocused person.
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Based on personal experience I think that teachers should not be allowed to wear things that express a political view. Part of the reason that I think this is necessary is because associating yourself with a certain movement or viewpoint could result in some students feeling threatened at school which is supposed to be a safe space. One example of this is the thin blue line flag,as mentioned in the article this flag often represents an opposition to the BLM movement. Personally I would feel more uncomfortable to know that my teacher doesn't agree with fighting for human rights. When you look at other examples of other political propaganda similar ideas can be conveyed. For these reasons I think that teachers should be presented as neutral when it comes to political affiliation in order to avoid conflict in the classroom.
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Anybody who knows anything about Market Fundamentals knows that the Market Indices are grossly overvalued, particularly with regards to historically sustainable Price/Earnings ratios, amongst other metrices. Much of the bloat is due to tax cuts for the affluent, who have to blow their free money somewhere. <PERSON>'s Trillion+ Dollar Annual Budget Deficits (this, in a supposedly healthy economy?!) Artificially sustain the Boom in Equities prices. There also seems to be collusion between the Donor Class and the GOP, who are desperate to jigger and fiddle the economy through the 2020 General Election, and gaming the system by the big banks and corporations, hoping to ingratiate themselves to the mercurial Trump Administration, in return for sweetheart deals, more deregulation, and other goodies that are in absolute opposition to the best interests of the country. The DJIA has increased over 10-Fold in the past 35 Year-- obviously much faster than the Economy as a whole has grown.
Most of that growth is just "on paper" with no underlying basis other than a sophisticated Confidence scheme which could finally burst at any moment. That is the Neo-Liberal Economy for you.
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<PERSON>, it is a burden that the Republican Caucus in Congress will easily slough off. The GOP resents being imposed with burdens of any kind, be they "Tax burdens", or the burden of the weight of moral responsibility. Less than a handful of Republicans will ever speak out against what would be a manifest war crimes-- namely, the deliberate targeting of Cultural sites, and places of historical significance to Persian heritage.
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@Science Teacher State courts are constantly asked to do the same thing. And do it. It's not a "conflict between branches of government". It is a legal mechanism to compel a sworn public servant to do their job, whether it be to get a lower court clerk to docket a pleading or a city council or manager to enforce an ordinance. There is - theoretically, anyway - a remedy for every injury.
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@LSR Wouldn't a writ of mandamus achieve that same outcome much quicker? The head of the GSA does NOT have the power to hold the country hostage. She takes an oath to serve the public, regardless of what her boss tells her to do. That's what mandamus is for...where no other remedy lies.
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Every now and then, I wonder if another Civil War will break out in the un-United States of America.
There are enough weapons to go around. <PERSON> has intimated that if he is not re-elected, violence might break out.
What has happened to a once great country?
<PERSON> -- Australia.
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@MGL
"or while they sleep Republicans are destroying the Constitution and laws that upheld American values, a model to the world."
You forget that model includes LBJs lies about the Gulf of Tonkin, <PERSON> version 2, and his lies about <PERSON>, the CIA and its lies about torture and Guantanamo.
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Upon hearing of her passing I immediately turned to music: the Eroica. The funeral dirge of the second movement, it seems to me, not only mourns her passing, but the likely passing of democracy in America. Yet the rousing finale lifted me from my torpor. It is <PERSON>'s equivalent of "We Shall Overcome". I hope so. I really hope so.
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I would love to play chess with <PERSON>: he's incapable of seeing past the next move. Did anyone brief him of the long-term consequences of killing Iran's military leader? Did anyone even think about it?
A new military commander is already in place in Iran; and he doesn't appear to be exactly cozying up to <PERSON>.
Also notice that impeachment has disappeared from the news. Hmm...
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@Doug I share your insights and perspective. I have been very angry and disillusioned by the type of coverage - and non-coverage - <PERSON> received during the primary to date. It's as if his campaign was so inconsequential, he didn't deserve equal and unbiased coverage. I actually considered ending my NYT and Washington Post subscriptions because of their biased coverage of <PERSON>. The good news is: It's clear from this shift to <PERSON> - and the reasons for it - that the Democratic Party is corrupt itself, which is good information for all of us to have. I'm seriously considering not voting in November, which would be breaking a 48-year record of voting in every presidential election since 1972. And - I still might cancel my subscriptions...
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I got sick the first week in February and couldn't get tested then, in mid-February, or now. I am part of a vulnerable group who could get hit hard by this virus. Fortunately, most of my symptoms have abated, but I still have the cough. Staying home and self-quarantining for the past five weeks has made the difference, but I'm still not completely recovered, and I don't know if I'm still contagious - all because I wasn't tested when I first got sick or now, because I'm not sick enough! I'm in a hard-hit area of California, and I seriously believe the virus was here much earlier than has been reported. There are many, many people who are sick and the number of cases is vastly underreported. I don't believe containment has worked and now, people like myself can't get tested, even though they have been sick for weeks. What a mess!
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I flew on Southwest this week and all middle seats were left open, and it was considered a full flight, and I noticed one person who boarded the plane who was not wearing a mask. Shortly after, there was an announcement that everyone is required to wear a mask, covering their mouth and nose, for the entire flight. I thought SW did an excellent job informing everyone of new practices to minimize cross contamination.
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My mother has advanced Alzheimer’s and lives in a memory care facility. I haven’t seen her in almost a month. If this continues for another six months, or longer, will she know who I am? I would imagine that most of the residents in her facility have DNR orders. This is an awful, cruel disease. Why make it worse by depriving them of being able to see their loved ones? To what end?
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One thing that I notice is that women make up 52% of the essential workforce. I wonder how this percentage has changed over time as recent waves of gender equality in the workforce have influenced the employment of women in certain sectors. This impacts my community since there are a number of women who work in the health care industry who have reached out asking for community assistance to create PPE and assist in any way that we can. A headline I came up with is “Women Are Essential to Our Communities, in More Ways Than One."
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I notice that coastal states on the East Coast, along the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, are at a heightened risk for hurricanes. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the states are at risk for a variety of climate change effects, like water stress risk, wildfires, and extreme rainfall. I wonder how each of these conditions are related to one another. For example, extreme heat and water stress seem to go together, but in the Midwest, there’s a sudden shift from extreme rainfall to extreme heat. My county is at a high risk for hurricanes. While we thankfully haven’t experienced a hurricane directly impacting the Massachusetts coast, there has been an increase in hurricanes closer to the Gulf of Mexico. The remnants of the hurricane make their way up the coast until it impacts communities in New England as well, albeit at a smaller scale. A headline I would propose is, “The Silent Threat: The Real Impact of Climate Change."
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Are NYT journalists trying to find the truth about the origin of the virus - investigative journalism? There is enough chatter about the involvement of the P4 lab in Wuhan, the Wuhan institute of virology, and the synthetic (not natural) origin of the virus from published papers in nature and science, and the communist party of china's decision to gain power over West by this destruction. Likewise investigation of the WHO.
I dont know how CIA, NSA, is dealing with this and how they missed this and are probing this?
Can NYT find out if this virus was indeed synthetic with the help of a US team of virologist.
A huge watermelon is buried in a sandwich and no one noticed it until mid March is too much for me to believe.
I hope NYT will investigate the truth and publish the truth with no arm twisting by any body (govt, orgs like UN, and huge corporations) who worry about their bottom line.
All I need to hear is the truth. Can NYT dedicate a column for this and deliver to the world?
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China hid the truth and must be punished via boycott. American manufacturing must rethink who is a friend and who is a foe.
WHO was not aggressive in finding the truth to warn. If WHO is the watchdog of the health then it better be excellent at its job at its job or disappear.
There is no room for mediocrities, being diplomatic and cozy, and not being blunt and angry when the job is about life or death. Need tough, arrogant, and brilliant peoplewho would serve humanity for this job.
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Humor in memes is something I always try to look for when trying to send one to my friends. If it can’t make you laugh, then it’s probably not a good one to send. I believe that humor is a type of coping mechanism that some people just have to use because they have a hard time expressing their feelings. I agree with the article about using humor in difficult moments because sometimes people are just going to be able to understand it better if they see it as a joke, and then later on see it on the news or word of mouth and they will realize how much of a tragic situation it is at the moment. Instead of making the memes all “boring”, humor will add some touches to expand what the original circumstance is and then help the people or teens approach the situation a bit better. For example, my little brother who is only ten loves looking at memes on several platform. The only way he really knew that the coronavirus was a big deal was because of a meme that said it was going to kill off everyone -- as a “joke”. He laughed about it for awhile but later started to be concerned if that was actually true and seeked my parents for approval. Of course, they reassured him that we were going to be fine but without that meme my brother (who sent it to all his friends) did not think of this as a big deal until now.
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<PERSON> Yes, I agree with you completely on how memes have their pros and cons and although they are funny to look at, they do come with their consequences. A meme can be portrayed in many different views and it is up to the person creating it to make it as less intentional as possible to not stir up any confusion between others.
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The slower recovery under <PERSON> was partly due to the fact that republicans never went on board with stimulus legislation big enough to help the economy. They did exactly what they are accusing the Democrats right now , which is to let things turn to the worst to make the president look bad.
If no new Care act is passed you can be sure this recovery will be even slower.
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Most states have decided that they can live with rising death count and overwhelmed hospitals so they can keep the rest of the living population happy and pretend the virus is gone.
Their bank account balance sheet specially around the holiday shopping season has to be the priority and people should be able to travel all over the country to stuff themselves with turkeys dinners.
The vaccine is coming soon apparently so might as well try to forget that 2020 even happened
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Only one senator summoned the moral courage so obviously needed. The Republicans blocked witnesses and then hide behind the idea that having no witnesses somehow shows there was not sufficient evidence. Nonsense. The House Managers clearly proved their case. This article is right. The senators are afraid. The Chief Justice noted that the Senate was the world's greatest deliberative body. Maybe it was. It sure didn't look like that during the impeachment vote. Credits all around to Senator <PERSON> for his courage.
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I think NYT was right to run the opinion piece. It is difficult to hear perspectives one does not share, particularly when it is easy to see a reprehensible consequence of the action being advocated, but it is important to see that such advocacy is out there. The phrase "law and order" isn't universally interpreted. It doesn't mean Mom and apple pie, something safe and good, to everyone. Rather than an appeal to law and order at this time, there should be an appeal toward understanding and listening to the voices of people who have a very different experience from white Americans.
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Passengers on flights are afforded woefully minimal space these days. All you’re getting is a tight place to sit. Perhaps people should accept the fact that they are not entitled to keep that recline space for themselves, any more than they are entitled to wider seats or more leg room. The seat in front of you can recline. Those are the terms - you’ve not choice but to accept it, and you’d be wise to expect it. If the person in front of you doesn’t recline then rejoice that you’ve been gifted with an extra few inches of face room for your flight. But you have not bought the right to that space, so stop feeling like you’re being cheated out of it when the person who has purchased it uses it.
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<PERSON> Man, there is nothing in these <PERSON> emails that comes remotely close to the stuff <PERSON> has done. Not even close. Did you read the story?? Even in this cooked up nonsense it was shown that no meeting between VP <PERSON> and anyone from Ukraine ever took place. At worst, it would be a case of daddy peddling that failed.
But credibility matters. The fact that this is so clearly fraudulent IS the story. Cooking up a last-minute false story to sway an election is supposed to be a big deal! The only reason we're even sitting here kicking around that nuance is because the FBI - even while steered by Trumpians - has dismissed this. So exactly what straw are you grasping at to pretend to find merit here??
<PERSON> and <PERSON> are attempting to influence an election through fraud, and are doing a really flimflam job of it. We people of ethics will wait for this to be added to their list of future federal charges. You just sit back and keep dodging the point.
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Can we please get off the Billionaire obsession? <PERSON> earned it himself. Daddy did not set up schemes for him to perpetuate and pass down to his children. <PERSON> does not play balance sheet bingo marking up his assets and marking down his liabilities.
Bloomberg provides many essential tools used globally by all players in capital markets. In building the company <PERSON> certainly proved he listens, hires people who listen and acts accordingly. To whom does DJT listen? And look at his hires that have lasted. Any of them move the needle for anyone but themselves. Has the great builder currently in office built anything? NO and NO. They collectively have only destroyed. (For us local NY/NJ how about that new rail tunnel under the Hudson? Oh wait there isn't one and there is no funding in the current budget for one either)
The Unites States of America is not and never will be finished. We grow. we change, we adapt. <PERSON> knows this and is the candidate to return us to our path.
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You have to hand it to the Russian disinformation service. They learned how to commoditize spreading lies. <PERSON> can go to a website, kremlinlies.com, and buy 1 <PERSON> and two <PERSON> conspiracy theories on their prime day and here we are. I think <PERSON> did it because there was no shipping on the Russian doctored laptops sent to the Delaware repair shop. Free shipping is very important when campaigns are low on funds.
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Plan B, for what? There are serious issues with <PERSON> allegations that bring her truthfulness, timing and intent into question. At best, this is a smear campaign. At worse, it is a disinformation campaign to drive a wedge between women voters and <PERSON>. It is intended to deflate the biggest bloc of voters who can’t wait to vote against <PERSON> on Election Day. Anything musings about “what to do” else is either naïveté or sour grapes. <PERSON> has a record as a decent man. I will be gladly voting for him on Election Day. If you are sick of <PERSON> and want to restore some normalcy to our country, you should ignore this and do the same.
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32%. That his how much the economy has contracted in the last quarter under <PERSON>'s miserable failure to lead. 32%! His tweet about postponing the election was distraction. The economy and the country will better off once he has been dispatched back to a civilian life. I hope <PERSON>'s loss is so great that any questions about doubts are moot. He is a stain on the history of this country.
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So the deal is - no vote before the election in return for no changes to the court composition if and after <PERSON> takes office? And what about after the election before <PERSON> takes office? No deal. This is surrender and there is no need for it because nothing is gained by this deal.
I say no deal.
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<PERSON> So if Texas is close in an election, it gets to be first. Close a second time, then first again next time. Why is this fair? Certain "close" states will come to dominate this process to a similar but perhaps somewhat less degree than Iowa and New Hampshire have done. How about dividing the country along geographic lines and then doing a random pick from each geographic district each election?
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<PERSON> Point well taken. Would that the things you mentioned were the ONLY socialism examples in America today. Big Oil subsidies can't be overlooked. Most of us are not aware that taxpayers pay them when they drill a dry hole. But closer to home you've got the U.S. Armed Services, Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, local & state police forces, fire departments, public schools. I'm sure I missed some.
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<PERSON> "Give this one a little bit of time. As the reality of the situation settles in, and as the extent of <PERSON>'s culpability in completely mishandling the crisis becomes fully apparent, his numbers will tank." It's ALREADY so bad that <PERSON> is even starting to tell, and get caught in boldfaced lies to support <PERSON>'s ineptitude in handling this crisis. <PERSON> & Birx are even starting to mollycoddle the WH's spin. Once they stop that in order to save lives, the numbers of U.S. cases and deaths will be so far "off the charts" <PERSON>'s most ardent "deplorables" will be calling for his resignation. MAGA hat burnings will blow up the internet.
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<PERSON> We are being gaslit by everyone from CNN to <PERSON> himself over the supposed "success" of NYC. Every article I have read on the state of NYC and COVID seem to walk circles around the fact that the virus burned through the population and is very likely the reason why it is mitigating now.
<PERSON> is lucky. It helps to have a brother as an anchor on CNN.
I hate how involved politics have been in this pandemic.
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"Health experts in New York City thought that coronavirus cases would be rising again by now. Their models predicted it. They were wrong."
Yes, they were wrong, but not for the reasons people think. <PERSON> absolutely failed at containing the virus in NYC. His executive order put the COVID positive elderly in nursing homes, effectively killing them. He slashed 400 million from the Medicaid budget in the middle of the pandemic. He did not have the MTA cleaned until. He had this bizarre fixation on threatening the Jewish community for their relatively benign gatherings, but cheered on protesters and told contact tracers to not ask if people attended protests.
Cases and deaths are dropping in NYC very likely because all of this and more allowed the virus to do what viruses do and absolutely ravage through a population before mitigating (you saw this during the 1918 Spanish Flu in Philadelphia after the Liberty Loan Parade).
I think it's very possible that NYC will not experience a second wave not because of successful containment, but because of incompetency and failed leadership.
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A fire drill. This is a fine experiment for all of us to discover exactly how much protein, fat, calories, vitamins and others we actually will need in the pantry' for the future contagion threat. To stay healthy day after day as the pantry dwindles. Where we will need to avoid all contact for perhaps a month or more. When grocery resupply chains break down because of the extreme deadliness of the super pathogen that experts say will happen at some point, and the rational fear of contagion death. Many will learn useful lessons in these coming weeks about what it really takes to be a survivor when that happens. Apartment dwellers will be at a huge disadvantage as food runs out. I've read that Mormons are told to keep a year's supply of food on hand, not bad advice.
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I would not be surprised if many of these people also think Noah's Ark really happened. Or <PERSON> and <PERSON>. American schools have been a failure in preparing most citizens for the 21st century and external realities as we now know them to be. Combine that with the human mind's multiple thinking defects and you get what we see today. As the famous Spanish proverb says, "Hope is the last thing to die." And it's patent by now that America is not going to be great again, an impossibility, and that China is rising at full speed by the day.
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@Socrates
It should come as no surprise that these people are voting against their own interests, and those of the Earth and its future sustainability. A lot of them honestly believe Armageddon is just around the corner.
Evangelical Christianity - particularly the "prosperity gospel" section of it - toes an extremely fine line between religion and cult.
When you boil it down, most religions are made up of age-old traditions that are passed down generations: traditions rooted in worshipping a deity of faith, and shaping one's life around that deity's prescribed code of ethics, with both aspects being of critical importance.
Cults typically strip out or greatly devalue the ethical piece, leaving only the worship as the key priority.
The fact that so many Evangelicals see <PERSON> as direct vessel of God - or, for some, as a reincarnation of <PERSON> himself - tells you all you need to know.
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<PERSON>'s handling of the pandemic, and his leadership so far in general, has been pretty much what I expected: not universally awful, but obviously far less competent than the alternative would have been (and was, until last year), marked by the same swampy, heartless and ill-informed decision-making that I have come to expect from Conservative parties in Canada. I do commend him for having the wherewithal to delay Calgary's re-opening when it was apparent that doing so was not yet safe, but that's about as far as I'll go. Unfortunately, it just seems like Alberta can't have nice things... there are too many Republican-esque, die-hard "provincialist" types here who keep voting against both their and their country's best interests. I'm not saying <PERSON> and the NDP were perfect. But at least she saw the big picture, and wasn't incorrigably corrupt.
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Claims that the A1 protein is difficult to digest are not supported by research. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_milk" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_milk</a> for citations.
Similarly, there is no evidence that hemp is any more "regenerative", whatever that really means, than most other annual crops. It craves nitrogen, which is in some cases leading to increased fertilizer use.
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Yes, given that <PERSON>'s campaign leaves moderate Dems and Republicans nervous about his ability to win and what it would mean if he does, and the other would-be contenders seem unable to galvanize strong support this close to November, I'm sure that a chaotic, corrupt populist is a graver danger to what remains of the Republic than a grimly-competent plutocrat.
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I pray that when we get this horribly mismanaged situation under control that those responsible for the atrocities described in Mr. <PERSON>’s piece are held to account. These ivory tower CEOs are totally out of touch with what’s going in the trenches and I’m appalled at the narrow mindedness of their decisions. Bean Counters, that’s all they are!
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I’m tired of worrying about half the country who haven’t done anything to better their lot in life and I don’t mean economically. Rather than make any kind of effort to educate themselves on the issues, they deny science, resort to magical thinking and cry socialism. It’s all about their white grievance. I’m white, I’m educated and I’m a liberal/progressive who migrated to this country 31 years ago from Canada so my family could avail ourselves of the opportunities that this country represented. Yes, past tense. It only took a mere three decades to enable this disgruntled minority to turn the tables on a once great country. They just don’t yet know what they have wrought.
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@Keith Why I wonder do you say "I work harder" instead of "I work more" which is apparently what you mean? Sounds like a value judgment showing bias and self- righteousness that only proves the point that women's work is less valued.
Would you say the same about men who chose to work less or would you respect their choices? I suspect the latter.
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The main advantage seems to be taking your dogs with you since most hotels/motels don't allow them or charge extra. You really miss your pets' company. I know many ppl. who want to get home from vacation just to see their dog.
When I've stayed at campgrounds with RV's most ppl. had dogs. Motel 6 gets old. Nowdays motels are used to house the homeless in urban areas anyway.
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Politics is the barrier that career politicians erect between problems and solutions inherent in operation of the business of US government. Why is the barrier put in place? Work on the barrier creates jobs for politicians.
<PERSON> objectives and skills are focused upon, expressed and demonstrated in top operations of the business of government ... see top results he's produced over the period he's been in the chair ... and to stay above the distraction of machinations that take place on each side of the barrier beneath him.
No doubt the idea of true leadership is difficult for liberals to grasp as they're often focused upon committee rule scenarios .... skirmishes that occur on both sides of the barrier between problems and solutions in operation of the business of government.
It's fair to say political skill, political success is the objective of politicians, let success in the business of government fall where it may.
<PERSON> interests and objectives are opposite if consonant to those of politicians, President <PERSON> is focused upon success of the business of government he runs, let the politics fall where they may.
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Hmmmmmmmmm, as an above the fold opinionater working for the leading <PERSON> media in the country why didn't you opine and enumerate, in December or January, a list of actions needed to stanch US spread the virus?
It appears you've come face to face with the notion that hindsight often is 20/20, Mr. <PERSON>, and your partisan attack on the president is reprehensible.
Ideas are dime a dozen. Execution is the true test. Perhaps you should convert your Opinion talent to production of concrete plans to aid the country in this time of need.
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<PERSON> is a bully, a pathological liar, and an admitted sexual predator who is <PERSON> personal hand puppet and a threat to democracy itself. If the opposition does not nominate and rally behind a candidate that can defeat such a deeply flawed President and man, then we will suffer the consequences of our own complacency—a nation of <PERSON> (or perhaps now, a nation of <PERSON> is more apt). Unless <PERSON> is voted into historical oblivion, all other worthy causes—the fight against climate change, homelessness, racial inequality—all will suffer. Complacency is the enemy now. Resist, organize and vote.
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The utter hypocrisy of shooting an unarmed African-American man in the back 7 times juxtaposed against members of that very same police force driving past a white man, armed with an assault rifle and who had just shot 3 people, is mind blowing. This cannot possibly be explained away by poor training or a national trend towards militarization of police forces. Rather, it can only be explained by a police culture that systemically identifies black and brown people as THE enemy. Meanwhile Republicans at their convention extol “law and order”—yet another thinly-veiled racist trope cynically designed to stoke fear ahead of the election. How can we have true law and order if it is not fairly applied? The law must be colored blind. And until it is, there can be no order.
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Fear of income loss and fear of medical expense are only two of three major disincentives to seeking health care.
The third is fear of deportation. Without a serious attitude adjustment on the part of the administration, COVID-19 will run wild in the undocumented population, and be transmitted to the population at large.
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The standard for criminal proceedings is presumption of innocence; for civil it is balance of probability. Surely, deciding whom to elect (or whom to appoint to the bench) is a civil matter.
That said, based on the evidence I've seen so fear, I would say the balance of probability falls to <PERSON>. He has copped to having been excessively familiar with others; criminal assault is another matter.
False memory syndrome is real, and the most likely explanation I can posit. Those suffering from it present as entirely credible, except that their memories are inconsistent with the facts, and often self-contradictory.
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As many other readers have noted here, elections have consequences. As a resident of Texas, I'm dismayed that our Republican "leadership" includes the rogue's gallery of <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON> (truly, the worst of the worst), <PERSON> (wait, HE'S the worst of the worst) and <PERSON>, execrable men who continue to be reelected, some many times over. My fellow Texans, mostly in rural and small-town areas, are rabid <PERSON> supporters. I haven't an iota of sympathy for Republican voters who love guns, hate abortion, socialism (but don't touch their Medicare!) and liberals, and who are now suffering economically, and with Covid and mask resistance, physically as well. The same goes for the Republican voters in Kentucky. They vote against their best interests over and over, the very definition of political insanity.
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@CJT If <PERSON> loses the nomination, I'm fairly certain the DNC won't have anything to do with it, unlike with <PERSON> in 2016. It will be because more Democrats think <PERSON> is the sensible, sane choice to go up against the incompetent demagogue <PERSON>. And at any rate <PERSON> is NOT <PERSON>. I'm sorry, but "Socialist Revolutionaries" are in the minority of today's center-left Democratic party. Given that young people/"Bernie Bros" have again demonstrated they don't show up to vote, your "spite vote" for <PERSON> won't keep me up at night.
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The debate, while civil, felt out of touch with the current reality. Events of the last month have changed the dynamic of nearly everything; and I wish that they had dedicated more time to plans and assurance of leadership about the epidemic which is inside our doors.
<PERSON>'s promise of a woman as V-P felt tone deaf and unnecessary under the circumstances.
Now that the debating is over, let's get working on what is truely important to us all... the health of our families and our country.
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@laolaohu We are the same age. I have faith that the damage will be repaired, because our children and grandchildren are smarter than we were. They are more aware of social issues, the environment, and economic justice. It's time to move aside and let them get to work on fixing things.
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@Kevin : yeah, that's very "realistic" -- that in a time of panic and pandemic, you want to DISSOLVE the nation and create absolute chaos and possibly Civil War.
I thought there were some bad ideas floating around, but yours takes the cake.
And why CUOMO who has never run for President, and when there is a presumptive nominee who has won most of the primaries? You would simply toss out the votes of your own party members, to spite <PERSON>?
The hardest hit parts of the US are in BLUE regions, and they sure aren't coping all that well. Also: look at a map, dude -- the SOUTH (if you draw a straight line across the US) would include half of California, including LA and San Francisco -- and Silicon Valley).
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@Jen : I believe the pandemic would have spread less in the US, if sick workers had simply stayed home (including parents of sick children).
But my own employer pays for no sick leave nor vacation days, and obviously no health insurance. We have people working sick ALL THE TIME (but by the grace of god, we are now working at home) because they can't afford to lose a day's pay.
And this is not a low-paid retail store or fast food restaurant -- it's an office with high tech workers -- most with degrees.
Exempting companies with over 500 workers was not only stupid beyond belief, but renders that part of the bill useless -- and of course, came from DEMOCRATS <PERSON> and <PERSON>.
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The image shows us a man and a lot of people are yelling at him or trying to talk to him. It looks like all of the speech bubbles are on the other side, probably trying to convey that it’s going in one ear and out the other. All of the speakers happen to be women. He might be showing interest in what they have to say, but he’s not really hearing them. Some of the women are smiling, some appear to be shouting, and some look downright angry. The women seem to be very diverse, and the man is colorless. The speech bubbles are diverse in color as well.
It relates to today’s society because the man seems to be much larger and the one to listen, meaning he holds the power. Women have fought for equality throughout time and it’s still a struggle today. The women are shouting and trying to get their voices to be heard.
I can't personally relate to this, but it's definitely a struggle in our society and it needs to be fixed. I think the image makes a good point, and though not all men are bad at listening and consider themselves to be "superior", we need to normalize women having just as much say in things/power.
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This year has been a roller coaster, and I feel like the drop is never going to end. I feel like it's changed some of us for the better, and for some the worse. I can't picture anyone coming out of this feeling the same. This experience has helped me realize that people need each other more than we know. The world has experienced much more than a pandemic; natural disasters, an economic failure, a huge divide in politics, and a huge movement pushing for equal treatment of people regardless of race, religion, economic background, etc.
If I were to choose an artifact to submit, I would be stuck between my face shield and several photos (each of different people/things). Over the summer, I got into a relationship and I had no idea that it was going to be such a challenge not to see my boyfriend. I have several photos of him in my camera roll, and unfortunately, only one of us together. There's this one photo where we have our face shields on and we're sitting on my front porch (at a distance). He's playing his guitar and singing to me. This kind of represents love during quarantine, and I think it'll be important to future generations.
I also have several photos saved in my camera roll that have to do with the Black Lives Matter Movement. The article says, "The danger is that if we don't have somebody preserving it, they will say this situation was not as bad," and I think no one will be able to capture how bad this year has been.
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Perhaps this is a sign that our country is coming a little closer together, if <PERSON>’s base is starting to realize that the president does not have their best interest at heart and doesn’t care about sacrificing their health for his moment of ego boost in the sun. As COVID-19 is no respecter of political parties, we can all only be thankful that the low turnout means less of a spread to all residents of Oklahoma.
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Mr. <PERSON> defense of noise seems particularly tone deaf when you put it in the context of personal preferences. We look at reviews to see if the chef as a classic menu, makes bold choices, serves comfort food, or whatever. That’s the purview of the restaurant reviewer. We also look for the type of ambience we want, and would also expect a restaurant reviewer to cover that. We also consider service and making our choices, and the restaurant reviewer includes that. What’s the problem with indicating noise level, which is certainly just a part of ambience? Weather, like Mr. <PERSON>, you like a loud environment, or as a substantial majority of commenters indicate, you want something quieter, what’s the problem with including that in the review and then letting people factor that into their decision.
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I read the headline of the opinion piece with dismay. Sending kids to school so that parents can go back to their jobs?
Putting everyone in danger because we don't know how to do parenting is a no-brainer.
Suck it up! If the people caved in like this during the great wars, well we'd all be singing from a different songbook.
Parents will have to wait until it is safe for everyone. I get tired of people quoting figures of deaths as acceptable on any level and think that maybe there is something to be learnt by us in the civilised West with regards to the value of life, whether it is one or a million. Collateral damage is not ok!
Look at yourself in the mirror before you ask someone else to risk their life so that a slumlord can get his rent, or a banker can extract their usury, or the peddlers of fatty products can entice you back into their temples of doom. I could go on for days on reasons why people "need" to go back, however there is only one reason not to, the greater wellbeing of society.
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@Passion for Peaches I am also an embittered child who has been treated unfairly, but not by my parent. My elder sibling concocted a whole series of untruths and has managed to take charge of all the inheritance that was to be left to all of us. It is not a huge amount, but it was the fact that none of us were left a piece of our heritage. Our family has dissolved where only a few of us ever speak, let alone meet. How am I supposed to resolve this? Sue her and ruin my parents reputation for fairness. They did nothing wrong. My sister is just a thief!
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Once again the Times finds something on the Democratic candidates and tries to make a big deal, like it is without equal.
Please they running against someone who obstructs justice daily, breaks laws willingly and betrayed allies and this country with their ignorant handling of the viral pandemic.
Now is not the time for what aboutism.
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There appears to be a complete lack of accountability. The classic excuse if tripped and fell does not play in the video era. The only officer who check on the victim’s condition was cowed by the mob. No one did the right thing until they were caught and exposed.
Sickening
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I am not worried about the integrity of this election in particular.
Discussions of fairness in American democracy is not how to fair the system is to everyone but how fair the system is to the parties.
But, ignoring parties, and looking at social status, we see an unfairness, a lapse of integrity so great it puts Russiagate to shame.
First, we encounter the great lie of American democracy: we have a system that claims political equality for everyone, no matter their social status.
1 As long as there is class and large inequalities, there can be no equality of power- money is power, time is power, and the upper class always have more. We can see this in the issues of the time- take fracking for instance. 'Banning Fracking' is not an issue that affects most of the population on a day to day basis, but yet is highly debated on our TVs. This is ruling class disagreement, not a rift between the actual population.
2 40% of Congress are millionares! The pay of the job puts the rest into the middle class- it is impossible for working representation to exist. Plus, they are almost all beholden to corporate interests. The working class has much lower turnout compared to privileged classes- voting is not relevant nor easy.
Second, we have all the technical faults I don't have room to get into: electoral college, felon voting, lobbying, voter registration, no recall, two party system, etc.
And so to worry about superficial details as mail fraud instead of the bigger picture is silly
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<PERSON> I don't like the <PERSON> argument "But he's rebuilding the economy!" either, but for completely different reasons.
When economists discuss the quality of the economy, what they ultimately mean how the much profits rich people are making. They will talk about the improvements of more jobs (more people being exploited) but never the qualities of these jobs.
The economy doing good or bad doesn't concern most people. Their personal finances do, but this is never reflected in GDP and the like.
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How do you know? Yes you need A LOT of negative pressure rooms and you better install bars on those windows. Did those complaining about that forget that all Western countries have quarantined their own citizens that had been airlifted? I'm a pulmonologist and this is exactly the hospital I would want in Wuhan right now, as far as I can tell from afar. And no, they won't have patient advocates and music therapy there and maybe the patient's won't even be able to order gluten free food 😱.
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There has been a death of a German who had traveled to Egypt already when he got sick. But more importantly, Germans have diagnosed a huge number of early cases and it takes about 10 days for critical illness to set in based on what we know so far. Lastly, it's possible that the strains on Germany are less virulent. Wait a week and you will almost certainly see dozens of deaths.
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Just want to clear up a couple of frequent misconceptions here in the comments. 1) Many hospitals are non-profit and that doesn’t prevent wasting money on lavish buildings and salaries. 2) Single payer doesn’t solve a hospital crisis like this. In Europe as in the US hospital revenue has plummeted due to decreased elective procedures. Doesn’t matter who pays you, the government or private insurance, if you can’t bill them.
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Doctors everywhere tend to be unable to apply rational thought to their own actions. I say this with affection and admiration for my fellow physicians. But working with fever, working while obviously contagious, these are common traits that are not helpful. The morbidity and mortality of this disease and others are increased by fatigue. It’s not helpful to die because you worked beyond reason. It’s not helpful to contaminate colleagues and patients because you insist on working while ill.
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Yes, <PERSON> was born in Thailand. Her father was an American citizen. So, she was an American citizen at her birth. I’m so tired of reading comments like this. People, I learned in seventh grade what the requirements are to be President. You have to be 35 years old, and born an American citizen - that means a citizen at birth. It doesn’t matter WHERE you were born if at least one of your parents is an American citizen. How come nobody questioned <PERSON> birthplace (Mexico) or <PERSON> (Canada)? Oh, right, they are both white male Republicans.
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I’ve heard the same story ... but, coming from a Jewish family, it wasn’t the end of a ham that was cut off before putting it in the oven, but a large brisket that was too big for the roasting pan!
Happy and safe Thanksgiving to all my American friends and family!
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In 1998 Affirmative Action was gutted and many folks black and white said it was no longer needed. Since then black employment in the private sector has dropped and schools ave become more segregated. The people running the country, Gen X for the most part,...the upper bosses and long term supervisors, were raised by pre-Civil rights era parents, and had grandparents that came from a time when racism was violently enforced. During the recession significant changes were made in law enforcement that altered the workplace nationally. Pension reform caused the immediate (within 30 days in some cases) retirement of everyone age-tenure eligible. At that point, circa 2010, I had over 20 years in Law Enforcement and I had an idea of what would happen when organization memory is wiped. When "everyone gets a fresh start" including the guy with ten violations, fired on the 11th, who skated until he murdered someone on the 20th. Law Enforcement is only as good as the applicants and the pools was tainted during the recession.
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He was investigated for using force against a person that refused commands and decided to talk on phone. Rather than ever having to deal with that again, he plays basketball with kids. I was that cop also, in 1996. I had accumulated several use of force complaints. None of them valid and everything I did was moral, legal, ethical and within policy. That said, if you win too many hands at a casino they think you're cheating. My last major use of force almost resulted in a prison sentence. At that point I refocused on why I was at work. I realized that I got paid hourly, whether I did anything or not, and the only thing I really had to do was answer the radio when the dispatcher notified me of a call. I read a quote that people wanted the law enforced but didn't want to see how it was done and agree with it. Playing basketball with kids, reading books in class to third graders, helping little girls set up lemonade stands, parking the police car and walking up and down the street shaking hands with business owners. That's the reality of the emasculated cop. When the public loses trust in the police crime doesn't go up. When the cop goes apathetic and doesn't trust the taxpayers the crook wins.
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@Bradán
Declining resources are, indeed, a key factor in the our own (likely) collapse. Agreed: birth control and simple living on a massive scale are what we need.
For <PERSON>, though (using these ideas), the interesting question is why we haven't focused on birth control and simple living, not the depletion of resources as such.
For <PERSON>, collapse comes because the elites who have the power don't address the problem of the declining standards of living. The reason they don't address them is because, from their point of view, things are going great. Popular immiseration means lower wages means more profits for the elites, so they keep going with the status quo. Naturally this doesn't turn out well for the elites in the long run, but who's paying attention to that?
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Excellent article. There's one important note about the difference <PERSON>'s ideas and <PERSON>'s. <PERSON> doesn't think that the problem can be quantified: "the framework for explaining collapse could probably not be subjected to a formal, quantitative test" (p. 192).
<PERSON> seems to be determined to disprove <PERSON> on this point in "Secular Cycles" (co-authored with <PERSON>) and in "Ages of Discord." Exact predictions are still impossible, but we can see general factual trends. This is what is most disturbing about the U. S. today, but also potentially shows us a way out. <PERSON> quantifies things like popular immiseration, growing numbers in the elite class (e. g. nobles or billionaires), and growing polarization. It is conflict between the elites which poses the immediate destabilizing influence. Lucky for us, it looks like many of the elites are deserting President <PERSON> now that <PERSON> is projected the winner.
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<PERSON> is very good at sensing what the moment requires of him. He has a great sense of who he is and how he fits into the
moment at hand.
I'm thinking of the 2008 Campaign and how it almost came apart over Rev. <PERSON>. He hit the right tone there and saved his campaign. A conservative Priest I knew that was not an <PERSON> enthusiast in the least told me the speech "brought tears to his eyes."
In Charleston, S.C. at the service for those killed in the Church a
few days prior he slowly launched into "Amazing Grace" and
brought the Congregation along with him. That took guts.
<PERSON>, he's OK with me, just about all the time.
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<PERSON> needs chaos. An in-depth study or presentation on a particular subject would be painful and scary for him.
In chaos, he can dance and glide and avoid "capture."
I think that's the prime motivator for him. Don't get boxed in.
He desperately needs escape hatches. Other wise he will be "found out."
He needs the adrenaline high of dancing close to the flame and escaping.
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And they’re also the #1 demographic to get Covid and die from it. They’re more probable to be working those essential jobs which puts them in contact with the public. Those essential workers that Republicans and <PERSON> refused to give extra protections such as the ability to sue their employers for unsafe working conditions.
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Hello!
Fellow Georgian here and I couldn’t agree with you more. I knew from the moment <PERSON> appointed her over <PERSON> there had to be something in it for <PERSON>. For <PERSON> to go against <PERSON>’s request was a big deal. I kinda believe that’s part of the reason why <PERSON> was hell bent on opening GA so fast.
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Having "escaped" California in the 80's and still having considerable family and friends there, I can only offer a "view", as we all do. Perspective of our own life journey will always paint our personal view. Trying to find a way forward in a cooperative way will be the key. When I escaped from California I moved to Oregon. When we moved here in 1983, it was very conservative with a mind set from the Republican Governor of ........"Come visit.....leave your money......AND GO HOME where you came from" I later discovered that Oregon had a long and storied history of far right conservatism. At one time it had the largest membership of the KKK outside of the south.
Now.......Oregon is very progressive and pretty much a "blue" state, except for the south east rural area. And it is getting more and more Blue. There is also a possibility of gaining an additional congressional seat after the 2020 census.
And how did this all happen......??????
Californian's moved north to the Pacific Northwest.
So the idea that California influence will be long standing will continue. And I do think that eventually Texas will be light Blue again.
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/asia/jacinda-ardern-coronavirus-new-zealand.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/asia/jacinda-ardern-coronavirus-new-zealand.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage</a>
Good article and helps frame.....Leadership....
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@Paul so we should not disclose that certain communities are 3X more likely to contract the virus? We can’t bury our heads in the sand and ignore issues just because it seems easier or more comfortable.
Also, your argument is shamefully simplistic- <PERSON> won because he didn’t and <PERSON> lost because...??? What?!
You might actually find that gender is one of the most significant reasons why <PERSON> lost. Look at who Americans were comfortable electing as President.
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@Buzz A It’s not ok to go to work sick, but that’s why we need more healthcare coverage and a better safety net. It’s easy for those of us who have options to make such comments, but we have to acknowledge the realities of the situation- if it came down to working while sick so that you could pay your rent & buy food vs not, which would you choose.
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I agree with much of your analysis, but I also think it's simpler than that: People are exhaused with the constant assults on reason, civility, and truth. Many of us simply want decency restored. This drumbeat of hatred, coupled with incompetence, has created an atmosphere of violence and anger which has poisoned media coverage and private discourse. We don't have to call it a revolution to turn things around dramatically.
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After 4 years of fear mongering, devisiveness and nonstop coverage of boorish behavior and cowardliness, this was a balm for my soul. I far preferred this format to the screaming partisans with the signs and the hats. We are so tired of chaos and manufactured enthusiasm. The commentary seemed a little jaded...Kind of like reading Winnie the Pooh and pausing to say "you know that's not a real bear, don't you?" And finally, finally, a real acknowledgement of the awful emotional cost of all of these needless deaths. The moment of silence was a much needed moment of grace.
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MR <PERSON>'S NET WORTH:
(<a href="https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3065024/<PERSON>-wealthy-democratic-senators-<PERSON>" target="_blank">https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3065024/<PERSON>-wealthy-democratic-senators-<PERSON>>)
The 77-year-old has touted himself as “Middle-class <PERSON>” for decades – but he and his wife, <PERSON>, have a net worth of US$9 million, according to a Forbes estimate from July 2019.
The couple’s fortune is mostly tied to public speaking engagements and book royalties, according to tax returns and financial disclosures released by the <PERSON> campaign and published on the campaign’s website.
MR. <PERSON>'S NET WORTH (<a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/456599/what-is-<PERSON>-net-worth" target="_blank">https://www.the-sun.com/news/456599/what-is-<PERSON>-net-worth</a>/):
According to Forbes, <PERSON> is worth around $2.5 million.
Forbes says the senator has an estimated $500,000 in cash and investments, around $1,300,000, and has $700,000 in Government Pensions.
How did he make his money?
<PERSON> made his money through book royalties, real estate investments and government pensions.
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There won't be much to do if Mr <PERSON> leads in the votes counted by midnight on November 3.
The GOP will file lawsuits almost immediately to stop the counting in key states, much faster than in the Florida mess during the 2000 election.
The lawsuits will instantly go before the U.S. Supreme Court.
And the fix is now in at the Supreme Court for at least the next decade.
As in the 2000 election, unelected hyper-partisan judges will again tip the scales to 'elect' the party that appointed them to their cushy lifelong positions.
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Is this a joke ?You've forgotten how to engage intellectually of substance and resort to petty arguments to justify why and why not eligibility for presidency should be considered. When will you ppl wake up and realize your wisdom and intellect is being eroded every single day that you find It necessary to speak of such rubbish .How do you even give time to think of such nonsense .Your dumbness makes the rest of the world think of you as unwise in the process losing your self respect as a nation.
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@Prede it's unfortunate that these politicians haven't understood why NYC and NYS is the heart of this country . It's one if not the only city / State which is rarely affected by any form of natural disasters throughout the year .If they choose not fund or act maliciously towards this city and state .I can't see this country recovering economically .
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First of all, I'm a Republican who voted for <PERSON>.
The Democrats complete disdain for conservatives is part of the problem. The Democrats think that every Republican is evil, truly evil. They think we all support racism, hate minorities, and want the country to look like The Handmaid's Tale. That simply is not true. Many Republicans are just concerned about unchecked immigration, concerned about a spending approach that says that higher taxes is the solution every time, and want to see us come back from the attitude that every other countries needs are greater than our own.
I certainly support some liberal views. I think moving towards government sponsored healthcare is a good thing, I want to see us reduce the use of fossil fuels and promote green energy, and I want to see some of the laws protecting police misconduct overturned. I struggle with the liberal views on defunding or even abolishing the police entirely, suggesting that ICE should cease to exist, and promoting reparation payments to blacks for slavery.
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The military develops these tools to prevent people from overrunning embassies and foreign bases in hostile countries. If 5,000 people storm an embassy in Iran, the small marine guard will struggle to keep the embassy staff safe. A few of these devices in Benghazi would have been very useful that day.
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<PERSON>I do agree that masks should be mandatory and enforced, but on a fully packed plane, where social distancing is not possible, the risk is still too high because people may touch surfaces (arm rest) take off masks for drinks etc.
And why again should all the burden of this disease rest on the shoulders of the common men, and greedy companies do nothing to contribute?
Flying in the US is anyways a pain in the ... because of the market concentration, but with COVID this now becomes unbearable. Risking the lives of passengers just for the sake of profit should not exist any longer in the 21st century.
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When <PERSON> announced all these extra measures to combat the pandemic, I was already wondering who is going to pay for this.
However I thought, that this time they will ask for a special COVID relief tax on the wealthy, to offset these deficits, since we are all in this together...
But it looks like, that also this time it’s the common men who has to pay the price. The minimum wage Daily commuter who depends on the service will have to pay the price, an not the wealthy, who can go by limousine. And since this also includes a lot of essential service staff, we can see how far the appreciation goes. Looks like not much further than receiving a standing ovations...
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I have stopped reading your column for a couple of years now. This is the first time I finished reading your entire column without uttering "but, but, but ..."
I appreciate your pointing out that the GOP, by pandering so much to the far right fringes, has in the process ceased to be a political party of meaning nor ideology. It's a grievance party, bent on destroying rather than constructing and moving forward.
I appreciate even more your pointing out that the Democracts are now representative of a spectrum wide enough to be considered the new American political party. With such broad spectrum, the new Democratic Party alone serves all the political interests of this country and its people. GOP serves no such purpose and no longer deserves to be treated nor accepted as a meaningful political party. Nov 3 may provide further evidence of the irrelevances of GOP to the future of America.
In time, there may need to be a breaking up of the Democrats into two or more political leanings and interests, and thereby putting any of the "healthy tension" among these groups on national stage for the voters to understand and deliberate. Might that be a post-Trump America that may in fact be an improvement from the pre-Trump America. Who needs <PERSON> and his ilks to spend all his effort to block the Democrats initiatives without ever providing any meaningful and viable solutions? A government cannot function by blocking initiatives alone.
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<PERSON>
Leadership isn't about finding who to blame. When at the federal level, there wasn't (and still isn't) even an acknowledgement to heed the virus, and non-stop mocking these "blue-states", we can't blame the NY state governor for failing to do what the federal leadership ignored.
Remember the hoarding of ventilators by the administration (<PERSON> great contribution) to ship them only to the red states? And the PPE shortages?
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Over 30 years ago when I was training to be a volunteer EMT I met plenty of paramedics who admitted they just went through the motions on their elderly patients...and that was strictly for the benefit of the family member watching, since the paramedics knew there was no realistic chance of resuscitating grandma.
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Until schools were shut down here I was helping tutor at-risk Hispanic youth stuck in some of our lowest-performing public schools.
Most were at least a year behind what they should have known at their current grade levels, e.g. most of my 5th grade students still hadn't mastered multiplication tables.
I agree their limited access to technology will hurt them...at best they might have access to a smartphone (not a laptop or desktop) and so are dependent on the local school district for both laptops and WiFi hotspots.
Our organization has focused on providing paper packets on various grade-appropriate subjects for study...hopefully they will be able to use those over the rest of the year (no chance are they going back until fall) to not fall to far behind.
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A third option is to pass a new package of presidential ethics laws that would remove the legal ambiguities referred to by the author, so that future presidents could not comfortably do the same things. A lot of commenters seem to be looking for justice, but I will happily settle for 'never again' in this instance.
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These are interesting questions, but I think it is worth considering the original CDC guidelines, before the white house ordered them to be revised. Those guidelines are much clearer: if a person is confirmed with covid-19 in the building the building should be dismissed for 2-5 days for cleaning, regardless of community spread.
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I watched a video of a <PERSON> workshop for about 45 minutes, and that's all I could stomach. Her tone to participants throughout was smug, sanctimonious and condescending. She told her audience to "breathe" while she insulted them and told them it was not possible to have a positive identity as a white person. Her whole "theory" of white fragility has a quasi-religious aspect to it and her methods approach those of a cult. Once you are at her workshop there is no way out until you admit you are a racist. If you object in any way, if you become upset, angry, sad, argue or - get this - remain silent, well, that's all evidence of your racism. So you can either be a racist who is in denial, or you can be a woke racist who's part of the cult. I fail to see how this message of white guilt ad absurdum advances anything. Especially since she had zero to say about what white people could actually do about systemic racism, even when asked directly. Her response? "I'm going to have to sit with that..." Her message is divisive, racist, and will mostly alienate people. But hey, it's great virtue signalling for corporations and other institutions to throw 15K at her and check the anti-racist box without having to actually do anything! And newly woke white racists can do their moral inventory/flagellation internally, so they don't really have to do anything either. Except maybe have <PERSON> back for another workshop now and then. Rinse and repeat - everyone wins!
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@Theodora30 You are absolutely correct - the stand your ground defense laws are for white men only. Those types of legislation just encourage violence and protect racists. You might find the following article on women and stand your ground interesting:
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/20/how-far-can-abused-women-go-to-protect-themselves" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/20/how-far-can-abused-women-go-to-protect-themselves</a>
As for the <PERSON> case, those men deserve to go to prison for murder and hate crimes. For a very long time.
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