He’s never dropped his naive belief in herd immunity perhaps because he had someone take his statistics tests in college. A quarter-million dead soon means that by the time a vaccine comes to the general public, minus a “flu season” there will still be a quarter-million dead from COVID-19. And there will be a reality…
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Perdue (R-GA) May Be McConnell's First Falling Domino
Back in July, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman had a story that Trump knew he was in trouble: “What Do I Do? What Do I Do?”: Trump Desperate, Despondent as Numbers Crater, “Loser” Label Looms. Down at the end was this tidbit: Nervous Republicans worried about losing the Senate are now debating when to break from…
Jeb! Bush even weighs in as Trump just praised QAnon for the first time: GOP becomes GQP
“The circus of it all, the meanness, the lies, the conspiracy theories…” Apparently GW Bush isn’t appearing at the GOP RNC event next week, so Jeb! decided to draw a line at least in terms of what might be left for the GOP. Obama calls out Trump for spouting conspiracy theories as Trump tweets them in…
Bernie Sanders Allies Super PAC Launches First Major Ad In Support Of Joe Biden
I’m loving this: x YouTube Video A super PAC created by former top aides to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign is set to air its first television ad, aiming to win over progressives who remain skeptical of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s center-left politics. The 30-second ad from America’s Progressive Promise features footage…
Microbes that consume methane absent from the first methane leak found on Antarctica's seafloor.
Antarctica is estimated to have a quarter of the world’s marine methane stores. Methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas ( 25% more potent than the greenhouse gas CO2), accelerates global heating, aggravating the planetary climate emergency and collapse of biodiversity. The first methane leak discovered in Antarctica is on the Wilkes Subglacial Basin seafloor near the Ross sea…
George Will voting for his first Democrat this November because it's also about national security
Considering his long-time support of the Chicago Cubs, Will was a typical conservative. He remains so. But this is something, something. Will predicts a Biden landslide. As Trump says, “we’ll see”. GOTV. The measures necessary for restoration of national equilibrium are many and will be protracted far beyond (Trump’s) removal. x I like Joe. But…
Mary Trump's book sold nearly a million copies on its first day of release
Looks like plenty of people are reading that book Donald Trump desperately wanted to deep-six. CNN: Mary Trump's tell-all book had sold a staggering 950,000 copies by the end of its first day on sale, publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday. That figure, which included pre-sales, as well as e-books and audiobooks, is a…
The “Negro National Hymn” to be sung before the first NFL games – reactionaries haz a sad
It is a surprise to some who haven’t spent time in African-American cultural institutions that Lift Every Voice and Sing is a standard for many events. It never substitutes for the US national anthem. It is equally surprising not to know the lyrics of a song that is much more fun and more religious to sing…
Ted Lieu's first campaign ad is amazing
Lot to unpack here…. so review and leave a comment as to what you think… x Today I released my first campaign ad. It was produced by my kids. Let me know if you like it.https://t.co/OeXvghcnGv pic.twitter.com/CuFKMzdrZB— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 21, 2020 Trump was desperate for this rally. It was held for the same…
Tulsa is a BUST for Donald Trump’s first political rally. I guess a shrinking willfully ignorant.
President Donald Trump faced a very small crowd in Tulsa after promising a full venue with large overflows. He got neither. BIG FAIL! Tulsa proves Trump's falling polls are accurate x x YouTube Video Watch the episodes here. Trump is conducting an experiment on his own supporters by gathering them in small confines. Trump promised a…
qualified immunity: Trump's unhingery continues in COVID first wave because facial shotgun blast
Angry that Dick Cheney’s cardiologist called Trump’s Tulsa rally “criminal endangerment”, Trump cleverly references Cheney’s gun accident, probably because he associates John Bolton with the Bush administration. These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or…
My first experience with Police Brutality on a POC and it affected me. I was 16.
There are many people angry and hurt and I get that greatly ! I have been angry for a long long time about Police brutality. I have witnessed it for years in different situations but the first one affected me so much that I fought back and was only 16. I was working at the…
Need Some Eyes For This Video Purporting To Show McAtee Shooting First.
x x YouTube Video LMPD is saying that this video shows that David McAtee fired first. There is no sound on the two videos. And to be honest, I am having a difficult time seeing where McAtee fired a shot. I am being sincere. I was wondering if the rest of you Kossacks could…
Joe Biden Vows To Create A DOJ Police Oversight Board Within The First 100 Days Of His Presidency
Good: In a meeting with black Wilmington leaders Monday, Joe Biden said he will create a police oversight board in the first 100 days of his presidency. The former vice president and presumed Democratic presidential nominee met with about a dozen community leaders at Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, including U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt…
What came first the COVID-19 or the Scrambled Egghead?
Republicans were not always Neanderthals when it came to science and climate. In 1901, the Theodore Roosevelt administration established the USFS, the United States Forestry Service. Along with that came the establishment of 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks, and 18 national monuments by enabling the 1906…
Karl Rove accuses America's first Black president of 'political drive-by shooting'
Karl Rove is back! And in related news … what the hell is this wart on my asshole? I should get that checked. Anyway, George W. Bush’s Svengali, whom the second-worst president in our history affectionately referred to as “Turd Blossom,” is back to take thinly veiled racist swipes at our first Black president. Here he…
the first sign of GOTV complacency might be to suggest an anti-Trump landslide
In August 2019, conservatives worried about the turning tide against Trump enough to worry about anti-Trump landslides as Trump’s Ukraine shakedown was still roiling. The next month brought the specter of impeachment. Let me point out for the hundred-eleventieth time: anything can happen between now and November 2020. Polls aren’t worth much now. But they do…
revisionist histories of COVID-19 and arguments about Americans, first
Death on February 6 means exposure during January puts the lie to Trumpian arguments about his own inaction. Needless to say Trump will continue to demonize some abstract other as those unemployed by COVID look for new jobs. A person who died in Santa Clara County on Feb. 6 was infected with the #coronavirus, a…
Trump makes it clear: Corporations First, People an afterthought
This is what the new slavery looks like, antiseptic slavery. When one reads between the lines of every Donald Trump press conference, it is clear he is all about making corporations whole; people damn. Hell, he is even willing to risk the lives of Americans by having them go back to work above and beyond…
KS-Sen: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) Wants To Send The First Woman Physician To The U.S. Senate
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of State Senator Dr. Barbara Bollier’s (D. KS) U.S. Senate campaign: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) As a nation, we’re going through a crisis like we’ve never seen before in our lifetimes — and now more than ever, we need leaders who…
