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"Sorry sunshine, wrong place"
"New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was taking questions after giving a speech in Tauranga when a man with a whiny North American accent demanded that the Deputy Prime Minister prove that the Coronavirus was real. Peters' response was recorded by SBS:
"Where's your evidence that there's a virus that causes the disease?" the man said, before being interrupted by Mr Peters.
"Sit down, sit down, sit down," Mr Peters said.
"We've got someone who obviously got an education in America. 220,000 people have died in the US, where there are eight million cases to date. We've got 79,000 cases just today, probably in India, and here is someone who gets up and says 'the Earth is flat'.
"Sorry sunshine, wrong place," Mr Peters said, to applause."
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- Ray Hartmann -
"You see, this isn’t just another election. It’s an exorcism."
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13 minutes ago, Joe Bauer said:
Joe,
I read one guy who said that this was akin to Jeb Bush pleading for his audience to clap for him.
"Please clap"
We all know how that went.
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13 minutes ago, Kathy Beckett said:
I heard the most interesting thing last night. You know how trump is saying he is "immune" to COVID now, and yet we have heard a couple of people have been reinfected? I found this puzzling-- that someone could be reinfected--thought the body would build resistance to it.
Anyway, this guy was asked if trump could be immune, and he said that when we become ill we manufacture antibodies. However, in trump's case, he was given artificial antibodies so natural resistance was not developed. To top that, he was given sterioids to depress his body's ability to build up resistance. He may not be "immune" at all.
Anybody here find this fascinating, right or wrong (and coupled with the fact that I only heard it once, and may be misinformed)?
Kathy,
I don't think you were mis-informed, although I really don't know if a person can, or does, manufacture antibodies on top of what they are given artificially. The stuff trump was given is experimental, and I don't think they have gone through enough clinical trials to make a judgement one way or another.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I just play one on TV.
I was very disheartened to see trump asking people in his rally who had contracted the virus to stand up and be recognized and applauded. It's not a badge of honor. It really isn't.
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"Christians don't need Donald Trump to save them"
"Not Our Vote"
"Not Our Faith"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Rxq-PFFPw&feature=youtu.be
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- Lindsey Graham - 10/14/20
"“One of the reasons you can’t tell us how you would rule is because there’s active litigation coming to the court,” Graham said. “And one of the reasons you can say with confidence that you think Brown v. Board of Education is super-precedent is you’re not aware of any effort to go back to the good old days of segregation.”"
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20 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:
How long will it be before Trump's followers begin to turn the coronavirus into a bio-weapon?
At his rally in Florida on Monday night, Donald Trump said he wanted to go out in the audience and kiss everybody.
How long will it be before his followers want to follow suit?
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The Republican Party is objectively pro-coronavirus
By Ryan Cooper
“The hearing (for Amy Coney Barrett) was just one of several instances over the past couple weeks in which Republicans have worked assiduously to spread coronavirus across the land. The party has mutated from merely hampering efforts to control the pandemic to actively accelerating it, even among their own top leaders.”
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If the President is telling people that if you get the virus, you will be immune; and Rudy Gulianni is telling people that nobody dies from it anymore, how long will it be before they start telling people that it is your patriotic duty to become infected?
“The White House has reportedly embraced a declaration by a group of scientists arguing for a “herd immunity” strategy to deal with America’s coronavirus pandemic—days after the validity of the declaration came under question due to a number of apparently fake names among its expert signatories, including “Dr. Johnny Bananas.” According to The New York Times, on a call convened Monday by the White House, two anonymous administration officials cited the petition, titled The Great Barrington Declaration, which argues that COVID-19 should be allowed to spread through the population. The declaration’s website claims the petition has been signed by more than 15,000 scientists, but, last week, Sky News found dozens of fake names on the list of medical signatories, including Dr. I.P. Freely, Dr. Person Fakename, and Dr. Johnny Bananas.”
White House embraces a declaration from scientists that opposes lockdowns and relies on ‘herd immunity.’
“On a call convened Monday by the White House, two senior administrati’on officials, both speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to give their names, cited an October 4 petition titled The Great Barrington Declaration, which argues against lockdowns and calls for a reopening of businesses and schools.
The declaration’s architects include Sunetra Gupta and Gabriela Gomes, two scientists who have proposed that societies may achieve herd immunity when 10 to 20 percent of their populations have been infected with the virus, a position most epidemiologists disagree with.”
"Last month, at the request of The New York Times, three epidemiological teams calculated the percentage of the country that is infected. What they found runs strongly counter to the theory being promoted in influential circles that the United States has either already achieved herd immunity or is close to doing so, and that the pandemic is all but over. That conclusion would imply that businesses, schools and restaurants could safely reopen, and that masks and other distancing measures could be abandoned."
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Amy Coney Barrett says she will keep ‘open mind’ about Trump unilaterally delaying election
“Does the Constitution give the president of the United States the authority to unilaterally delay a general election under any circumstances?” Feinstein asked the nominee.
“Well, Senator, if that question ever came before me, I would need to hear arguments from the litigants and read briefs and consult with my law clerk and talk to my colleagues and go through the opinion writing process,” Barrett replied. “So, you know, if I give off-the-cuff answers then I would be basically a legal pundit and I don’t think we want judges to be legal pundits. I think we want judges who approach cases thoughtfully and with an open mind.”
Consult with my law clerk?
Consult with my law clerk?
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16 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said:
How long will it be before Trump's followers begin to turn the coronavirus into a bio-weapon?
At his rally in Florida on Monday night, Donald Trump said he wanted to go out in the audience and kiss everybody.
How long will it be before his followers want to follow suit?
Steve Thomas
The Republican Party is objectively pro-coronavirus
By Ryan Cooper
“The hearing (for Amy Coney Barrett) was just one of several instances over the past couple weeks in which Republicans have worked assiduously to spread coronavirus across the land. The party has mutated from merely hampering efforts to control the pandemic to actively accelerating it, even among their own top leaders.”
Steve Thomas
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How long will it be before Trump's followers begin to turn the coronavirus into a bio-weapon?
At his rally in Florida on Monday night, Donald Trump said he wanted to go out in the audience and kiss everybody.
How long will it be before his followers want to follow suit?
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https://fusion.inquirer.com/news/giuliani-trump-italians-philadelphia-columbus-day-20201012.html
"At the event in Northeast Philadelphia, (October 12, 2020) Giuliani spoke off the cuff about issues such as the Democratic Party being “controlled” by Black Lives Matter and what he described as the president’s outstanding handling of the “Chinese Communist virus.”
“People don’t die of this disease anymore,” he said, adding that Democrats were overblowing COVID because they wanted to frighten people."
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Somebody convinced Eric Trump that this was a bad idea.
Eric was set to hold a campaign rally at a Michigan gun shop.
One of the gun shop's former employees, whom the gun shop fired because he was screwy in the head, was one of the militia guys involved in the kidnapping plot against the Michigan Governor.
Cooler heads prevailed.
I don't want to hear anything more about Hunter Biden.
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Early voting started in Georgia today.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, voting lines in Atlanta started forming at 4:00 AM, and people are waiting as long as 3 hours to vote.
As my wife put it, Donald Trump made the mistake of telling Americans that they couldn't vote. That's the one thing you should never do.
As she put it, "Don't tell us you're not leaving. We'll tell you, oh yes, you are."
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Flood of Democratic Mail-In Votes Swamp Republicans In Key State Early Balloting
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrat-absentee-ballot-record-gop_n_5f83b2a8c5b6e6d033a43a75
In Wisconsin, about 146,000 people voted by mail in 2016. So far this year, about 647,000 people have voted by mail, many in Democratic strongholds.
A full 36% of the total number of all votes in 2016 in Wisconsin’s overwhelmingly Democratic Dane County, which includes Madison, have already been cast by absentee ballot, the Times reports. But voters in Republican-leaning regions in Wisconsin are generally voting early by mail no more than the previous average, according to the newspaper.
The pattern is being repeated in Pittsburgh, North Carolina’s Chapel Hill, Houston, and in Tampa, Florida, according to the Times.
Republican voters may have taken to heart President Donald Trump’s repeated dire and unfounded warnings about faulty mail ballots, while Democrats ignored them. Bad weather, fears of catching COVID-19 and long, slow lines could further discourage GOP voters who wait for Election Day to head to the polls.
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This coming one week after Michigan.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
"The FBI and Law Enforcement must focus their energy on ANTIFA and the Radical Left, those who have spent the summer trying to burn down poorly run Democrat Cities throughout the USA!"
6:59 AM · Oct 12, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
What is orange and has mush inside and you get rid of in early November?
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1 hour ago, Cliff Varnell said:
Or pursuing a policy of “herd mentality” [sic] usually referred to as “herd immunity” which will result in the unnecessary deaths of millions.
Cliff,
Make no mistake about it.
Herd immunity means culling the herd.
You weed out the weak, the sick and the infirm.
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Regeneron board member and executive sell $1 million in stock after Trump touts treatment
“The New York Times reported that Trump’s financial documents reveal the president’s three family trusts held investments in Regeneron as well as pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, which itself is a major shareholder in Regeneron. His 2017 filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics disclosed shares in Regeneron, but they did not appear on his 2020 filing.
A Regeneron company spokesperson said Goldstein and McCourt’s stock sales were pre-planned through a mechanism designed to avoid accusations of insider trading and were automatically triggered by the stock hitting certain levels.
After NBC News asked for copies of the plans, Bowie said, “The plans themselves are not public.”
Accountable Pharma, a campaign of the watchdog group Accountable.US, said the sales raised potential ethical concerns for the Trump administration and the drug company executives and called for an “investigation.”
"This is the latest case in a clear pattern of President Trump pumping up stocks with his 'miracle cure' hype and pledges of taxpayer dollars while drug company executives dump their shares and guarantee they come out ahead whether their treatment works or not,” spokesman Eli Zupnick said in an email.
“There should absolutely be an investigation to determine whether there were any improprieties regarding these stock sales, including any potential government action taken to enrich President Trump or his political advisers," he wrote.”
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Don't forget what we're fighting for.
The Dream has just begun.
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It's nice to see that Donald Trump won a major endorsement today.
From the Taliban.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/10/taliban-endorses-president-trump/114258900/
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8 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said:
A real nightmare scenario: The eight closest battleground states might send competing sets of electors to Congress
CONTESTING THE VOTE: THE ROLE OF CONGRESS; What the House and Senate Could Do, or Not Do, in Picking the President
By David E. Rosenbaum November 30, 2000
Rosenbaum was writing about the election in 2000.
“Under a 1934 law, electors meet in their states to cast their votes for president on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December -- Dec. 18 this year. At least six days before that -- Dec. 12 this year -- each governor must certify who his or her state's electors are and send a ''certificate of ascertainment'' to Washington. The states, under the law, are supposed to have resolved all disputes over their electors by Dec. 12, and the choices made then are ''deemed conclusive.''
“But what if Mr. Gore prevails in court in Florida, a recount shows him with more votes in the state than Mr. Bush and the court orders state officials to submit a slate of electors pledged to Mr. Gore? What if the state legislature thumbs its nose at the court and insists on Republican electors? And what if the court proceedings take so long that the Dec. 12 deadline is missed and the Gore electors are not chosen until later?”
In 2020, the first Monday after the second Wednesday is December 15th.
If the Electoral College has not decided by December 14th, the matter is given to Congress who meet to count the electors on early January. The winner is chosen by a majority in the House and a majority in the Senate. If Congress can’t decide, it’s referred to the Supreme Court. The Court may refuse to hear the case and send it back down to the Legislative Branch.
The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the Senate Floor Congressional Research
https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/cf80c40a-29bc-4d1b-9dec-541dff2349b6.pdf
“The Constitution mandates that Congress convene at noon on January 3, unless the preceding Congress by law designated a different day. P.L. 113-201set January 6, 2015, as the convening date of the 114thCongress. The 115thCongress convenedon January 3, 2017.Congressional leaders announced the 116thCongress would convene January 3, 2019.
Other first-day activities may occur as a consequence of specific circumstances, such as providing for a joint session with the House to count electoral votes after a presidential election”
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51 minutes ago, Joe Bauer said:
Melania ... where's my Prednisone!.
Joe,
I'm not so sure they're speaking anymore.
DT gives me the DT's
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55 minutes ago, Ron Ecker said:
I remember Saul Weingeroff, the dapper cane-carrying manager of a tag team.
Ron,
Bruno Sammartino was my hero. :-)
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The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
in Political Discussions
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What to do when your cult goes belly up.
The original Heaven's Gate cult website is still online:
https://www.heavensgate.com/
They respond to emails.
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