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Elections 2020, Hey Jack, I Was Right. Trump And The Republicans Lost Big Time

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Saturday, April 11, 2020 10:59 AM

THG


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Trump "I Alone Can Fix it"

A mind blowing account of ridiculousness - Trump acapella deep house mix. Take a listen and share it with your own common sense.

You do realize that the same people who voted for Trump will be energized to vote for him again by this song. It powerfully reassures them that he can really do what he says, if only those Democrats and the media would stop nay-saying. I would believe, too, but only if Trump successfully orders America back to work, back to normal. He doesn't have the courage to give those orders. He sure won't take responsibility for the deaths that follow. Not my responsibility he has said.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



I've been around long enough now to know there is no way to fix stupid. Example; 6ixstringkev...

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Saturday, April 11, 2020 12:27 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Whatever you say, Ted.

I might be forced indoors along with all of you guys and gals that are terrified out of your minds right now.

But at least I like the President.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, April 11, 2020 1:59 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


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Covid-19 has revealed a lot of the booby-traps of our economy. Aside from moving our production overseas, long supply chains, and the fragility of 'just-in-time' thinking, the hollowness of our infrastructure, and the literal bankruptcy of the financial system, it's revealed the irrelevance of many jobs. That's what COVID-19 has revealed.

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Yup. No shit, sherlock.
You like digging up old posts. Why don't you dig up the one we had a year or two ago where we were discussing overpopulation and I was saying exactly that.

My post had nothing to so with overpopulation and was about the economy, so you couldn't have been saying "exactly that" when you (as you claim) had posted about over population. Overpopulation is something entirely different.
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I didn't need a fake media driven panic over a hardly dangerous virus to tell me that.
Which 'that' are you posting about, since no media are talking about overpopulation either?
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Not only are there already far too many people for the planet to provide for
That has nothing to do with COIV-19.
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but most of our existences are merely superfluous to boot.
And that has nothing to do with COVID-19 either. Not only that, but it's not true. There's a lot of work to be done on this planet.
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Nothing has changed now except for the fact that our current circumstances have clued a bunch of idiots into the truth that I've already known for a long time.
It's a 'truth' in your mind only. And it's still in your mind only, since I can't figure out which 'truth' you mean.
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And yanno what? If you and I notice it here, how many of the big brains and powerful people at the top of the food chain that look at us as nothing but numbers have noticed it too?
Noticing what, exactly?
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Those that will institute Agenda 2030 probably will not agree with your idea that people without jobs to do aren't superfluous. They certainly aren't going to start paying everyone without jobs $600 per week to do nothing for long either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)

But you just disproved your original post.

I'll let you figure out how.

BTW, you've claimed over and over how you've gotten over your paranoia about 'them'. I think COVID-19 has put you back into a deeply irrational place where you can't distinguish your paranoia from reality.

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Saturday, April 11, 2020 2:14 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Overpopulation is very tightly wound with the economy.

If your tiny brain doesn't get that, there's no reason for me to even bother reading the rest of your post.

I don't converse with morons.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, April 11, 2020 3:01 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"Overpopulation is very tightly wound with the economy."

How so? You surely are smart enough to explain that.

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Sunday, April 12, 2020 7:18 PM

THG


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Axelrod: There is lots of good news for Biden in this poll. CNN's John King and political analyst David Axelrod discuss a new CNN poll showing former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump by 11 points after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dropped out of the race.


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Sunday, April 12, 2020 7:26 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


lol.

Hillary had way better chances than that.

Biden is toast. Dude has been silent while all of this has been going on and not opening his stupid demented mouth is the best thing he can do for his campaign. He's going to get destroyed in the debates.

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Sunday, April 12, 2020 7:38 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"Elections 2020"

And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?

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Monday, April 13, 2020 4:53 PM

THG


tick tock

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Bernie Sanders Endorses Joe Biden in Surprise Announcement


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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 9:38 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Noam Chomsky kinda, sorta, endorses Biden:

Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders and why Trump's reelection would be an "indescribable disaster"

"Suppose Biden is elected. I would anticipate it would be essentially a continuation of Obama — nothing very great, but at least not totally destructive."

"There is a difference between Trump, who is a sociopath, and Biden, who is empty and can be pushed in one direction or another."



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 9:58 AM

THG


Trump meltdown, tick tock

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Trump Uses Briefing To Defend Administration’s Response To Pandemic


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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 11:20 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Meanwhile in reality...

Trumps approval at 45.2%.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 11:43 AM

THG


Trumps Target...

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 11:53 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Meanwhile in reality...

Trumps approval at 45.2%.

Biden's approval is 45.6%
www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/joe_biden_favorableunfavorable-
6677.html


The election probability is the same as a coin flip -- 50/50.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 1:00 PM

THG


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President Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden’s White House bid Tuesday, formally throwing his support behind his former vice president and the now-presumptive Democratic nominee.


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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 2:29 PM

THG


And again Biden destroys Sanders...Also, the republicans lost a Wisconsin supreme court seat to a labral. Wonder is they wish they hadn't insisted the primary go ahead when it did. Oops...

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Apr.14 -- Former Vice President Joe Biden won the Wisconsin primary on Monday, nearly a week after the state held controversial elections that forced voters to defy a stay-at-home order to cast their ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic


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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 7:17 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:
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Meanwhile in reality...

Trumps approval at 45.2%.

Biden's approval is 45.6%
www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/joe_biden_favorableunfavorable-
6677.html


The election probability is the same as a coin flip -- 50/50.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



Biden isn't actually doing anything.

He isn't even saying anything.

This is good for Biden. He can't even talk for 5 minutes without making it completely clear that he is not mentally capable of water cooler discussion of a new TV show, let alone running a country.

You dummies backed the wrong horse for sure.


Trump will destroy Biden in the debates.

I'll bring the popcorn.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 6:06 AM

THG


Democratic Rout in Wisconsin Looms as ‘Clarion Call’ for Trump

WASHINGTON — The surprise defeat of a conservative justice in a statewide Wisconsin election — despite a show of support from President Trump — drove Republicans and Democrats back to their 2020 electoral playbooks on Tuesday, as both parties examined whether a surge of enthusiasm and on-the-ground organization among Democrats could help them capture that critical battleground state in November.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/democratic-rout-in-wisco
nsin-looms-as-clarion-call-for-trump/ar-BB12D2c6?ocid=msedgntp


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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 10:58 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Democratic Rout in Wisconsin Looms as ‘Clarion Call’ for Trump

WASHINGTON — The surprise defeat of a conservative justice in a statewide Wisconsin election — despite a show of support from President Trump — drove Republicans and Democrats back to their 2020 electoral playbooks on Tuesday, as both parties examined whether a surge of enthusiasm and on-the-ground organization among Democrats could help them capture that critical battleground state in November.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/democratic-rout-in-wisco
nsin-looms-as-clarion-call-for-trump/ar-BB12D2c6?ocid=msedgntp


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It was a Primary vote that just happened to have local stuff on it too, dummy.

Nobody who was voting Trump in November was enthusiastic to go to the polls and risk The Coomph just to make Trump the nominee when that's already set in stone. Most voters on either side are morons and probably didn't even realize that there were actual official votes on the ballot, and of course nearly everyone voting in the Democrat primary hit the button to vote straight Democrat down ballot.

Don't let the Legacy Media headlines on non-stories like this poison your brain and set you up for your massive failure again in November.

Do yourself a favor and distance yourself personally from the November election for your own mental health.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:11 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


What Trump’s bizarre love of Mutiny on the Bounty actually reveals about him

As Jordan Hoffman writes at Vanity Fair, it’s possible the president confused Mutiny on the Bounty with some other movie involving a mutiny. Or perhaps he fell asleep halfway through. Or maybe he’s never seen it and is just making stuff up.

But it’s also possible he’s seen it, many times, and doesn’t get it. In this scenario, Trump’s well-documented love for the film Citizen Kane is instructive, since he expounded on it in a 2002 interview with documentarian Errol Morris. (You can watch that interview here.) Trump was exuberant in his love for the film in general and for the character of Charles Foster Kane specifically — a megalomaniac demagogue who builds an empire but ends up empty and alone. The point of Citizen Kane is that all of the title character’s fortune and fame couldn’t fill the yawning maw that was at the center of his being, which his famous dying words, “Rosebud,” signify. (Rosebud is a sled he was playing on when he was taken away from his mother as a child.)

Trump’s affinity for Kane apparently does not stem from the actual story of Citizen Kane, though it seems eerily parallel to many parts of Trump’s own biography. Instead, during the interview with Morris, Trump made it clear that he sees the movie as a story about a man who chose the wrong woman, and whose troubles are linked to her.

Morris has spoken about the interview on multiple occasions, reflecting on Trump’s “irony deficit disorder.” In one interview, Morris marveled at the seeming disconnect between Trump’s understanding of Citizen Kane and the fairly obvious moral of the film:

If I were Donald Trump, I would not want to emphasize that connection with Kane. You know, a megalomaniac in love with power and crushing everything in his path. The inability to have friends, the inability to find love. The moral that Trump takes from Kane—I mean, it’s one of the great lines that I recorded. I ask, “Do you have any advice for Charles Foster Kane, sir?” You know, let’s get down to the psychiatric intervention. How can we help this poor man? He’s obviously troubled. How can we help him? Donald, help me out here!

And Donald says, “My advice to Charles Foster Kane is find another woman!” And you know, I thought, is that really the message that Welles was trying to convey? That Kane had made poor sexual choices, poor marriage choices?

It’s not. It’s really not.



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:00 AM

THG


Trump approval rating has sharpest drop in presidency, big gender gap in Gallup poll

WASHINGTON — A new Gallup poll released on Thursday shows the biggest drop ever in ratings for President Donald Trump and reflects the consistent gender gap in approval between men and women.

The poll, conducted between April 1 and April 14 with a margin of error of 4%, shows that 43% of people surveyed approve of Trump’s job as president while 54% disapprove.

Gallup’s previous poll found that 49% of respondents approved of Trump’s job performance while 45% disapproved.

“The six-point decline in the president’s approval rating is the sharpest drop Gallup has recorded for the Trump presidency so far, largely because Trump’s ratings have been highly stable,” Justin McCarthy of Gallup wrote.

FiveThirtyEight’s aggregate of polling shows Trump with a 44% approval rating and 52% disapproval rating among likely or registered voters. Trump experienced a spike in approval in late March as the U.S. began to grapple with a sudden increase in confirmed coronavirus cases — but that approval increase has since declined in April, the aggregate of polling shows.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/trump-approval-rating-ha
s-sharpest-drop-in-presidency-big-gender-gap-in-gallup-poll/ar-BB12NQrM?ocid=msedgntp


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Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_app
roval-6179.html


45.7% RCP aggregate, which is still well above his pre-Coomph ceiling and outside of the last few weeks is still at or about the highest marks he's had during his entire presidency.

No reason at all to celebrate, buddy.


Also, that poll was conducted before anybody got their Stimulus checks and while millions of Americans were still (and many are still) unsuccessful at securing unemployment because their state governors shut down businesses. (That poll would have been done after they got the checks, had Democrats not spent an entire week obstructing it).


You better hope that Democrats are successful at scaring the shit out of enough people that they cancel the debates, because Trump is going to make Biden cry and revert to a childlike state if they go toe to toe on national TV before the election.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:05 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


What the Index of Leading Indicators tells us about the 2020 Presidential election

The Index of Leading Indicators as it stands after March’s figure of -6.7% – the worst monthly decline ever recorded – was reported April 17th. As of now, it suggests that the next 4 to 8 months of the economy are going to be the worst since the Great Depression. If the awful news continues into the 3rd and maybe even 4th quarter, voters are going to be extremely unforgiving.

At a feral level Trump knows this. That’s why he is left with a “Hail Mary” pass, hoping that if the economy is “opened up” in May the virus will miraculously abate, and that if it doesn’t, he can blame others.

More at https://angrybearblog.com/2020/04/what-the-index-of-leading-indicators
-tells-us-about-the-2020-presidential-election.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:36 AM

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Originally posted by second:
What the Index of Leading Indicators tells us about the 2020 Presidential election

The Index of Leading Indicators as it stands after March’s figure of -6.7% – the worst monthly decline ever recorded – was reported April 17th. As of now, it suggests that the next 4 to 8 months of the economy are going to be the worst since the Great Depression. If the awful news continues into the 3rd and maybe even 4th quarter, voters are going to be extremely unforgiving.

At a feral level Trump knows this. That’s why he is left with a “Hail Mary” pass, hoping that if the economy is “opened up” in May the virus will miraculously abate, and that if it doesn’t, he can blame others.

More at https://angrybearblog.com/2020/04/what-the-index-of-leading-indicators
-tells-us-about-the-2020-presidential-election.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



Agreed...

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https://microsoftnews.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/polls?ocid=mse
dgntp

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Sunday, April 19, 2020 11:20 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
What the Index of Leading Indicators tells us about the 2020 Presidential election

The Index of Leading Indicators as it stands after March’s figure of -6.7% – the worst monthly decline ever recorded – was reported April 17th. As of now, it suggests that the next 4 to 8 months of the economy are going to be the worst since the Great Depression. If the awful news continues into the 3rd and maybe even 4th quarter, voters are going to be extremely unforgiving.

At a feral level Trump knows this. That’s why he is left with a “Hail Mary” pass, hoping that if the economy is “opened up” in May the virus will miraculously abate, and that if it doesn’t, he can blame others.

More at https://angrybearblog.com/2020/04/what-the-index-of-leading-indicators
-tells-us-about-the-2020-presidential-election.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



Agreed...

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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.


https://microsoftnews.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/polls?ocid=mse
dgntp




Of course you do. Because you're working with half a brain and you just read something that made you feel good.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, April 19, 2020 11:35 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Ted:

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
What the Index of Leading Indicators tells us about the 2020 Presidential election

The Index of Leading Indicators as it stands after March’s figure of -6.7% – the worst monthly decline ever recorded – was reported April 17th. As of now, it suggests that the next 4 to 8 months of the economy are going to be the worst since the Great Depression. If the awful news continues into the 3rd and maybe even 4th quarter, voters are going to be extremely unforgiving.

At a feral level Trump knows this. That’s why he is left with a “Hail Mary” pass, hoping that if the economy is “opened up” in May the virus will miraculously abate, and that if it doesn’t, he can blame others.

More at https://angrybearblog.com/2020/04/what-the-index-of-leading-indicators
-tells-us-about-the-2020-presidential-election.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



Agreed...

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https://microsoftnews.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/polls?ocid=mse
dgntp
]


Also Ted:

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Originally posted by THG:
Record government and corporate debt risks ‘tipping point’ after pandemic passes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/record-government-and-corporat
e-debt-risks-tipping-point-after-pandemic-passes/ar-BB12QriZ?ocid=msedgntp


T

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Confused today, are we Ted?



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Sunday, April 19, 2020 1:10 PM

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Political prophet Allan Lichtman: Trump is more likely to lose because of coronavirus
Allan Lichtman has a record of correctly predicting presidential elections — and he thinks pandemic could doom Trump

Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the nonpartisan political newsletter Sabato's Crystal Ball, largely echoed Lichtman's analysis.

"This is a story that is still being written. I do think the precarious state of the economy does pose a potential threat to the president, because his re-election pitch was so reliant on a good economy," Kondik explained by email. "I'm sure this is part of the reason Trump and so many other Republicans are supporting such an expansive stimulus package: As the party with more power in Washington, they stand to take more of the blame if the response to the public health and economic crisis is seen by the public as lacking."

Lichtman also told Salon last week that if Trump loses as a result of the coronavirus, his opponent is almost irrelevant; it simply won't matter whether the Democrats have nominated Biden or Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Trump's potential defeat has "nothing to do with Joe Biden whatsoever," Lichtman said, although in his formula Biden is not "charismatic," meaning that Key 13 would turn in Trump's favor. "Remember, the basic theory behind the keys is that elections are essentially votes up or down on whether or not the party holding the White House should get four more years."

He added that while he is not advocating for any candidate, "this notion that [Sanders] is unelectable is just false. You and I have talked about this before: the whole notion of electability is nonsense. Except for these once-in-a-generation candidates [he earlier cited Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama] — we have no idea who is electable."

More at www.salon.com/2020/03/27/political-prophet-allan-lichtman-trump-is-mor
e-likely-to-lose-because-of-coronavirus
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, April 19, 2020 1:21 PM

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Allan J. Lichtman
April 12 at 3:35 PM ·

WHERE "THE KEYS TO THE WHITE HOUSE" STAND TODAY. The theory of "The Keys" is that Presidential elections are referenda on the party in power. If 6 or more Keys are turned against the incumbent party, or FALSE, they lose, 5 or fewer and they are re-elected. The Keys have not missed an election since they were developed and first used in 1982.

Allan J. Lichtman, the Prediction Professor, had not yet made an official call on "The Keys" for 2020. THESE ARE NOT FINAL CALLS. America's situation is in a state of great flux, but the incumbent Republican party is currently 4 Keys down, with 4 undecided.

The 13 Keys to the White House:

1. Party Mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections. FALSE

2. Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination. TRUE

3. Incumbency: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president. TRUE

4. Third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign. TRUE

5. Short-term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign. UNDECIDED

6. Long-term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms. UNDECIDED


7. Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy. TRUE

8. Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term. UNDECIDED

9. Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal. FALSE

10. Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs. UNDECIDED

11. Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs. FALSE

12. Incumbent charisma: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero. FALSE

13. Challenger charisma: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero. TRUE

www.facebook.com/AllanJ.Lichtman/photos/a.173103113211195/804406610080
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Trump's plan is simple: vilify Democratic governors and agitate for the end of shutdown orders. Then, “reopen the economy” and spur a massive turnaround in the nation’s economic prospects just in time for Trump to be reelected in November. If the pandemic recedes, he can claim he was entirely responsible; but if people continue to die, he can place the blame on Democratic governors.

Theda Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology at Harvard University, put it this way: “That’s ... Trump’s entire strategy, and you can see it in the way he talks about this.” She added, “I think there really is popular anger among middle income people, particularly living in whiter, less metropolitan parts of these key states” about stay-at-home orders, but “it’s being goosed along by some of the same advocacy groups on the free market right.”

But there’s a problem for Trump: the public, including the vast majority of Republicans, largely supports social-distancing measures, and new polling shows that half of Republicans are concerned stay-at-home orders and social distancing measures will be lifted too quickly. Research shows that many Americans began social distancing before urged to do so by the government, and likely wouldn’t stop even if such orders were lifted. In short, the anti-shutdown-order protests don’t mirror public opinion. And in order for Trump to benefit from their potential impact, they need to — and coronavirus needs to spare rural America (which it isn’t.)

Coronavirus has now become part of the fabric of Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign — one aimed largely at dividing Americans on sociopolitical and cultural lines. But the biggest question still remains: will it work?

www.vox.com/2020/4/19/21225195/stay-at-home-protests-trump-tea-party-r
eelection


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Sunday, April 19, 2020 5:44 PM

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The onus should be on Governors, whether they are Democrats or not.

They asked for it, and in this instance they were right.


Trump needs to simply remove the national emergency, allow New York City to keep theirs without giving them any shit about it, then allow states to do as they will. Then just sit back and watch those without stay-at-home orders being enforced locally prosper while the rest look for handouts.

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Coronavirus has now become part of the fabric of Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign — one aimed largely at dividing Americans on sociopolitical and cultural lines. But the biggest question still remains: will it work?


Fuck Vox. Vox knows all about dividing Americans on sociopolitical and cultural lines. That's their bread and butter.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Coronavirus has now become part of the fabric of Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign — one aimed largely at dividing Americans on sociopolitical and cultural lines. But the biggest question still remains: will it work?


Fuck Vox. Vox knows all about dividing Americans on sociopolitical and cultural lines. That's their bread and butter.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Vox is dividing? 6ix, do you remember your Red-baiting from yesterday? Do you remember how the GOP always says their 2nd Amendment gun rights are superior to any number of mass shootings? GOP says abortion is murder? GOP and preserving the Confederate flag and statues to Confederate Heroes? GOP claims Christians are an oppressed minority? GOP wants prayer in school? LGBT rights? Gay marriage? Obama was born in Kenya said Trump? The GOP is dividing.

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Sunday, April 19, 2020 6:03 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Coronavirus has now become part of the fabric of Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign — one aimed largely at dividing Americans on sociopolitical and cultural lines. But the biggest question still remains: will it work?


Fuck Vox. Vox knows all about dividing Americans on sociopolitical and cultural lines. That's their bread and butter.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Vox is dividing?




lol yes. Vox = dividing.

Vox is home to the most rage-bait divisive headlines and the most racist "journalists" in the US.


It's alright though. Vox won't be around much longer.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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lol yes. Vox = dividing.

Vox is home to the most rage-bait divisive headlines and the most racist "journalists" in the US.


It's alright though. Vox won't be around much longer.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6ix, you are so clever. The Southern Strategy is the Republican party's successful plan of getting the white southern population to shift their views from Democratic to Republican. The southern population was almost entirely Democratic, but with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 their views became Republican, making it difficult for the Republican Party to win back the support of black voters in the South in later years. In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

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Sunday, April 19, 2020 8:17 PM

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Racists.

That's what Democrats are and always were.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Racists.

That's what Democrats are and always were.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Who said anything about racism?

“Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to statewide mail-in voting,” Trump tweeted. “Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans.” --
Trump’s Vendetta Against Mail-in Voting Could Cost Him the 2020 Election
www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trumps-vendetta-against-mail-in-voting
-could-cost-him-the-2020-election


“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-
reform-coronavirus


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Monday, April 20, 2020 1:05 AM

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Racists.

That's what Democrats are and always were.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Who said anything about racism?




I did. Then you did. Then I did again.

I seriously think you're retarded sometimes.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 7:56 AM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


https://www.oddsshark.com/politics/2020-usa-presidential-odds-futures

Trump is barely holding his own against an absent, brain-dead, non-candidate.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Racists.

That's what Democrats are and always were.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Who said anything about racism?




I did. Then you did. Then I did again.

I seriously think you're retarded sometimes.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I seriously think you're insincere, 6ix.

Trump: 'I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world' – video

The president called himself 'the least racist person' after he was accused of racist behaviour once again. In his comments on Tuesday, Trump also accused one of the people he has attacked, the Rev Al Sharpton, of being a racist and claimed his presidency has been a success for African Americans

GOP Crowd chants ‘send her back’ as Trump attacks Ilhan Omar – video

www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/jul/30/trump-claims-least-racis
t-person-in-the-world



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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:46 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Racists.

That's what Democrats are and always were.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Who said anything about racism?




I did. Then you did. Then I did again.

I seriously think you're retarded sometimes.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I seriously think you're insincere, 6ix.

Trump: 'I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world' – video

The president called himself 'the least racist person' after he was accused of racist behaviour once again. In his comments on Tuesday, Trump also accused one of the people he has attacked, the Rev Al Sharpton, of being a racist and claimed his presidency has been a success for African Americans

GOP Crowd chants ‘send her back’ as Trump attacks Ilhan Omar – video

www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/jul/30/trump-claims-least-racis
t-person-in-the-world



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Al Sharpton is a prime example of an extremely racist Democrat. Thanks for bringing that one up. And boy, does the good reverend REALLY hate Jews too.

Fuck Ilhan Omar (who incidentally, also hates Jews). There are legitimate reasons to send her back. If she hadn't interjected herself and her brand of Socialism into the political arena, chances are nobody would know about any of them.

In Omar's case, it's not racism. You can't be any more racist against Muslims as you could be against Scientologists.



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Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president. But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized New York buildings for almost $1 billion. The debt includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term, financial records show.

Steps away from Trump Tower in Manhattan, the 43-story 1290 Avenue of the Americas skyscraper spans an entire city block. Trump owns a 30 percent stake in the property valued at more than $1 billion, making it one of the priciest addresses in his portfolio, according to his financial disclosures.

Trump’s ownership of the building received a smattering of attention before and after his 2016 campaign. But the arrangement with the Bank of China — and its impending due date in 2022 — has gone largely unnoticed.

The revelation complicates one of Trump’s emerging campaign attacks against Biden: that the former vice president would be a gift to the Communist country and America’s chief economic rival.

Trump has denied he has any conflicts. But he rejected calls to fully separate from his namesake company, which comprises more than 500 businesses and includes properties in nearly two dozen countries, after he was sworn into office. He still owns his business, though he asked his adult sons to run it. His holdings were placed in a trust designed to hold assets for his benefit from which he can draw money at any time without the public’s knowledge.

“While Trump is talking about the former vice president’s son financial dealings, in Trump’s case, it is the president himself who has a company he still owns and profits from that has financial relationships with the countries that he is supposed to be negotiating with on behalf of the American people,” said Robert Maguire, research director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

“There are definitely legitimate questions that are raised by Hunter Biden’s actions,” Maguire said. “They are not even in the same ballpark as the conflict of interest questions raised by President Trump’s continued relationship with his own company.”

More at www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Al Sharpton is a prime example of an extremely racist Democrat. Thanks for bringing that one up. And boy, does the good reverend REALLY hate Jews too.

Fuck Ilhan Omar (who incidentally, also hates Jews). There are legitimate reasons to send her back. If she hadn't interjected herself and her brand of Socialism into the political arena, chances are nobody would know about any of them.

In Omar's case, it's not racism. You can't be any more racist against Muslims as you could be against Scientologists.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

Stephen Miller, who makes Trump's immigration policy, has been an ultra-racist since childhood:

Somehow, Miller’s racism got worse after middle school. “He was a shameless racist,” one former high school classmate, Charles Gould, said. “In private conversations, he constantly made disparaging remarks about African-American, Latino and Asian students at our school.” According to Univision, another classmate, Moisés Castillo, remembered Miller telling members of a school group dedicated to promoting Mexican American identity: “This is the United States. Speak English.” Another former classmate, who didn’t want to be named by Univision, said Miller once told him to “go back to your country.”

Miller continued to develop his political identity in college. As members of the Duke Conservative Union, Richard Spencer—a future white nationalist leader—said that Miller befriended him and that they bonded over their views on immigration policy. (Miller has denied that they were friends, even as he has acknowledged working with Spencer during their days together at the Duke Conservative Union.)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/stephen-miller-trump-immig
ration-suspension.html


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Friday, April 24, 2020 12:32 PM

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Al Sharpton is a prime example of an extremely racist Democrat. Thanks for bringing that one up. And boy, does the good reverend REALLY hate Jews too.

Fuck Ilhan Omar (who incidentally, also hates Jews). There are legitimate reasons to send her back. If she hadn't interjected herself and her brand of Socialism into the political arena, chances are nobody would know about any of them.

In Omar's case, it's not racism. You can't be any more racist against Muslims as you could be against Scientologists.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

Stephen Miller, who makes Trump's immigration policy, has been an ultra-racist since childhood:

Somehow, Miller’s racism got worse after middle school. “He was a shameless racist,” one former high school classmate, Charles Gould, said. “In private conversations, he constantly made disparaging remarks about African-American, Latino and Asian students at our school.” According to Univision, another classmate, Moisés Castillo, remembered Miller telling members of a school group dedicated to promoting Mexican American identity: “This is the United States. Speak English.” Another former classmate, who didn’t want to be named by Univision, said Miller once told him to “go back to your country.”

Miller continued to develop his political identity in college. As members of the Duke Conservative Union, Richard Spencer—a future white nationalist leader—said that Miller befriended him and that they bonded over their views on immigration policy. (Miller has denied that they were friends, even as he has acknowledged working with Spencer during their days together at the Duke Conservative Union.)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/stephen-miller-trump-immig
ration-suspension.html


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Yup. And Hillary Clinton had her nose so far up Robert Byrd's asshole she breathed racism every time he farted.

What is your point?

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Yup. And Hillary Clinton had her nose so far up Robert Byrd's asshole she breathed racism every time he farted.

What is your point?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

The point is that Stephen Miller, who works in the White House on Immigration and has power over people who aren't white and has used his power to harm them, is a stone cold racist since he was a child and there is proof of that, while 6ix is full of bullshit.

Funny how I have never found a live Republican who isn't a racist; for every time I've put a Republican under pressure, it pops out out of their blabbermouth that racism is a prime motivation of their politics. Then they have the temerity to say they aren't racist. They are bold people, but stupid to lie about it immediately after revealing their inner self. Smarter would be stop making claims their behavior does not support. Miller replied that anyone who called him a racist was “an ignorant fool, a liar and a reprobate who has no place in civilized society.” Yeah, Miller, oh we have to believe you and Trump are not racists because you two say you aren't.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/stephen-miller-trump-immig
ration-suspension.html


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Friday, April 24, 2020 8:47 PM

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Yup. And Hillary Clinton had her nose so far up Robert Byrd's asshole she breathed racism every time he farted.

What is your point?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

The point is that Stephen Miller, who works in the White House on Immigration and has power over people who aren't white and has used his power to harm them, is a stone cold racist since he was a child and there is proof of that, while 6ix is full of bullshit.

Funny how I have never found a live Republican who isn't a racist; for every time I've put a Republican under pressure, it pops out out of their blabbermouth that racism is a prime motivation of their politics. Then they have the temerity to say they aren't racist. They are bold people, but stupid to lie about it immediately after revealing their inner self. Smarter would be stop making claims their behavior does not support. Miller replied that anyone who called him a racist was “an ignorant fool, a liar and a reprobate who has no place in civilized society.” Yeah, Miller, oh we have to believe you and Trump are not racists because you two say you aren't.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/stephen-miller-trump-immig
ration-suspension.html


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If we were ever going to have a racist person in office anywhere, immigration would be the place for them.

Maybe after decades of both parties pretending that ILLEGAL immigration is a problem and lying about doing anything to fix it, finally somebody might actually do something about it.




And I haven't met a Democrat that wasn't racist either. Democrats today boil every single issue down to race and sex. It's all they ever talk about. Ever.

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Friday, April 24, 2020 9:27 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


SECOND, I believe that there's a subclass of this new aggressive white nationalist movement, and I put it to white men who are OUTRAGED! that their specialness just hasn't been rewarded in a manner they deem appropriate! They're built head to toe out of frustrated entitlement.

Of course very few people are appropriately rewarded in this society for their contributions. And I'm sorry to see that the only people who seem to be outraged are white males. And it's too bad that they want to make themselves whole by taking away from others.

But in a system where everybody but the people who make money from owning are getting royally screwed (that would be everybody who needs a paycheck), I suppose it's inevitable somebody would take issue at the way the system is treating them.

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SECOND, I believe that there's a subclass of this new aggressive white nationalist movement, and I put it to white men who are OUTRAGED! that their specialness just hasn't been rewarded in a manner they deem appropriate! They're built head to toe out of frustrated entitlement.

Of course very few people are appropriately rewarded in this society for their contributions. And I'm sorry to see that the only people who seem to be outraged are white males. And it's too bad that they want to make themselves whole by taking away from others.

But in a system where everybody but the people who make money from owning are getting royally screwed (that would be everybody who needs a paycheck), I suppose it's inevitable somebody would take issue at the way the system is treating them.

I never find arguments about the "system" persuasive. It is more like some particular people who have their hands on the system's controls are extraordinarily bad at operating the machinery of government:

Trump taking advantage of Covid-19 crisis

Based on the limited information we have, experts have observed that President Trump and his family likely stand to gain immensely from these tax cuts. We don’t know by how much exactly, since the president refuses to release his tax returns, but we do know that real estate businesses like theirs are among the largest beneficiaries of this loophole.

We all need to understand exactly how this massive tax giveaway got into the CARES Act. Look at this number: $195,000,000,000. It’s huge. The payoff to wealthy investors is enormous. When that much money goes out the door to such a small group of beneficiaries, the prospect of corruption and quid pro quo political paybacks is obvious. Big string-pulling donors may have seen this crisis as another way to recoup their political investments. That’s why we’ve asked the administration for a full explanation of its role in securing these tax breaks. We hope we will get real answers and that they will dispel any concern that this was done to benefit the president and his family. If this $195 billion tax giveaway was put in at the request of Republican senators, we need then to know by whom and why.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/23/doggett-whitehouse-corrupt-t
ax-provision-cares-act-column/2998466001
/

And why would some kinds of people be particularly bad at operating the machinery of government or business? The Greeks knew. They wrote myths, giving the gods all the shortcomings of the worst humans:

One of the things about Greek mythology that’s so interesting is just how horrible the gods are. The gods are really not exemplars. You might aspire to have the kind of power that they have, but, for the most part, they aren’t virtuous. They’re petty and selfish. The fact that they have achieved this ideal situation of having all the power, eternal life, the ability to fulfill every desire has not made them good people. If anything, it has done the opposite.

When you do get everything you want, when you do have absolutely everything, it doesn’t make you a good person, actually. It makes you kind of a terrible person.

Psychological studies have proved that that is, in fact, correct: When human beings are given ultimate privilege and ultimate power, unless they actively fight against it, their empathy immediately starts dropping. You start assuming that if I’m way up here, I must have gotten here because I deserve it. And therefore, everybody who’s down there, they don’t deserve it. So I’m better than they are, and therefore I can treat them terribly if I want to.

I think it’s so interesting that the human brain goes there and that the Greeks knew that, and they manifested that in their mythology.

www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/4/24/21233353/madeline-miller-the-ezra-klein
-show-circe-the-song-of-achilles-greek-myth



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Look at that, Second.

After years of you trying to, I converted the Russian for you within weeks.

I know. I'm amazing.

You can thank me now.


(It probably should be noted that all three of us live in states where our vote for President really isn't going to matter at all, but yanno... POPULAR VOTE!!!! lol)

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Look at that, Second.

(It probably should be noted that all three of us live in states where our vote for President really isn't going to matter at all, but yanno... POPULAR VOTE!!!! lol)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

The real difference is between Senators. In Democratic States, the Senators will remove Trump for lying to them about his work. Except for one Senator from Utah, Republican Senators won't remove Trump for being lazy and incompetent. This gives Trump absolute freedom to be lazy then lie about not working. Trump did lie this morning in order to once again avoid an obligation he has been avoiding for months. Instead, he will be on the golf course rather than working today:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Many testing sites are, and have been, open & available. Just passed 5 Million Tests, far more than any other country in the world. In fact, more than all other major countries combined! Don’t believe the Fake News!
7:59 AM · Apr 25, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1254032243770736642

Factually, Trump lied to hide the fact he hasn’t done the job of President.
Here is a partial list of the actual number of tests for various countries. I'm not gonna do Trump's job by added up the numbers for him, but the entire World has done many times more tests than Trump, the lazy goof, has done:
2,721,500
2,072,669
1,642,356
930,230
830,257
790,000
660,108
612,031
595,161
579,957
494,257
463,662
410,075
394,125
330,512
302,691
291,922
278,994
etc, etc.
www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Not really sure why it's Trumps responsibility to engineer, test, manufacture, distribute and carry out tests.

Then again, not really sure why he even bothers tweeting about it at all either.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, April 25, 2020 2:30 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


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I believe that there's a subclass of this new aggressive white nationalist movement, and I put it to white men who are OUTRAGED! that their specialness just hasn't been rewarded in a manner they deem appropriate! They're built head to toe out of frustrated entitlement.
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Originally posted by JACK:
posted without the least bit of irony or self-recognition



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