“Take comfort in the fact that the only democratic party candidate with any chance of beating him is all but locked in.”
Not the only democrat. But definitely the sure bet.
“Hillary won Montgomery County where Blacksburg is located and won the state by 300,000, the national total by 3M, so, so much for lawn signs.”
Yup. It was a mere 78,000 votes in 3 states to create this electoral anomaly. And it took a weak Hillary, the Russians and a topedoing by Comey to make it happen.
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Considering the other guy is an Independent, actually Biden is the only Democratic Party candidate.
As for 2016, it took the belief that the GOP, senators, congressmen, and the normal checks and balances as well as agreed upon norms would rein in the candidate and keep things from getting crazy. Those safeguards—most notably principles concerning rule of law, anti-Sovietism turned anti-Russian imperialism, and fiscal conservancy— were shown to be papier-maché concepts to cover the ambition for naked political power and tax cuts above anything. But Justin Amash is no longer in the GOP despite one of the best conservative voting records, Mitt Romney is apparently unsafe at a conservative conference, and if a Fed employee actually meant their oaths to the Constitution, they’re being looked at with suspicion instead of pride.
Va Tech beat Miami. Has nothing to do with a travel ban. Or sour grapes.
Of course, excellent goal tending by VA tech, that’s what I thought you meant.
I never attended Va Tech. Some of my relatives did attend and shared the dorms near that asshole shooting thing. Still has nothing to do with the original question
I’m assuming the original question had something to do with lawn signs cause that’s what I was responding to in your post. If not maybe try to stay focused and respondents will do the same.
I live in a red state & the local news paper online comment section & local forums were swarmed with far right & conservative posters during the Obama years who were completely irate. They had long lists of books & links condemning President Obama just like @Kennebec_Captain & the other anti-Trumpers have against President Trump. Obama was going to change our country for the worse & things would never be the same. We were doomed! It was only the very few elites in New England & on the west coast who really wanted Obama & the rest of the nation were helpless victims. Obama stole the elections. Woe was us, woe was us. Needles to say, countless times I was called a leftwing dingbat for seeing through the partisan politics propaganda & telling those nuts to stop with all the drama & come back to Earth.
To all of you left leaning anti-Trumpers who dominate gcaptain forum, let me tell you this, its going to be okay. If all of those right wing nut jobs could lose 2 elections & make it through 8 years of Obama you left wing nut jobs can accept a lose election or 2 & make it through another year or 5 with Trump. It’s not the end of the world or the end of our country. Stop eating up so much political propaganda. As an independent who votes Libertarian, Democrat & Republican I’ve seen this play out from the middle before. We’ll make it through this.
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You assume there is some parity between the two parties/political movements. There isn’t. I’d love to see a quantification and qualification of the differences between how the right commented on Obama versus how the left dealt with Bush II or the first term of Trump. Thing is, it already exists. This was a study by journalists, and from 2014, there is a clear difference between how the two sides play the ‘game’. And the republicans have shown their hand—fiscal conservatives? Nah, only when the dems are in office. Rule of law? Nah, subpoenas are only subpoenas when the Supreme Court says so. Imperialist Russia? Nah but keep helping the GOP!
And that article was 2014!
To all the right wing nut jobs like the Librarian, SP. don’t listen to the propaganda. If Bill Clinton and Obama didn’t storm your homes to take your guns away despite the endless insistence that that would happen, maybe you should pay attention. All they did with a dem Congress was give everyone health care. The only thing the GOP did was try to pay themselves and then whine that they needed majority to do the other things they pretended to care about more than money.
As for symmetry in how the right or left treats the incumbents? Enjoy:
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It was never about who chose what. The signs showed me we all had choices, and different opinions well beyond my neighborhood and beliefs.My brother will always be dear to me for being rather civil by saying to me in an adult way “Check this out” on the way to a well anticipated sports event. JamesBrown , you have one vote, as do I ,suggest you use it for your particular party. I don’t rely on news media to curtail or influence my one precious vote. I rely on actual results that have helped or not helped our country and the many tax payers.
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Goal tending? Wrong sport Mr Brown. And I drove through many more counties than Montgomery.
A Polish scientist MAY have found a cure for Covid-19:
The Polish are willing to share with the world…
Hopefully Trump don’t hear about this, otherwise he may try to “buy” this for the benefit of Americans only:
PS> Or he claim that he was the one that found the cure.
Here’s James Fallows on the situation at the airports:
the aviation-safety question, What if?
At America’s busiest airports yesterday, we saw the consequences of “minimum necessary” thinking in What if? circumstances. The Trump administration decided to ban travel by most foreign nationals who had recently been in Europe, as a way to reduce exposure to and spread of the coronavirus.
The people in charge of the policy apparently thought: Here’s a way to minimize infection from foreigners . Judging by results, they didn’t ask or think about the next round of What if? questions:
What if everyone (naturally) rushes to get back at the same time, before airlines cancel even more flights? What if the flood of passengers swamps the airport’s normal capacity, and so ends up in big lines: lines in the jetway to get off the planes, lines at passport clearance, lines for baggage collection and Customs, lines—ah, the bitter irony—for medical screening, to separate out those who have been in high-infection zones? What if some or many of the people in these jammed lines were already infected? What if the hundreds of people packed together for hours in these scrums lost all “social distance,” from countless strangers, while penned up?
Cheryl Benard, who got stuck in the lines at Dulles Airport, chronicled the resultant chaos in The Washington Post :
When I inched closer to the front, I could see that a scant six immigration desks were in service. Two additional desks to the left had less traffic. These are ordinarily for people in wheelchairs; now, the wheelchairs were mixed in with the rest. When I asked a security guard about the other lines, he told me they were for people with a confirmed corona diagnosis. There was no separation for this group—no plastic sheets, not even a bit of distance. When your line snaked to the left, you were inches away from the infected.
It wasn’t that much different during 9/11. I was in an airport for two days and all the hotels were booked. Horrible experience. I feel for those in that situation.
There are no “cures”; the article makes it clear what was found. You are still looking at over a year of testing any possibility, growing the cells needed for the vaccine, and doing that on a mass scale. Vaccines are not cures. Hell, even after you get a flu shot, which is also a virus, it takes two weeks for it to become effective. There is even a vaccine for Ebola now. But, two weeks is a lot of time. The way people are freaking out, the only thing that will be left by Sunday is babies, teenagers, and a lot of left over toilet paper.
The link at the bottom of the article is to a very detailed (and way over my head} exploitation of experiment done by the Polish scientific team:
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Sharing studies such as this is common in medical journals and scholastic papers. I went the Mechanical Engineering route. So, I’m way outside of my area too. But, I’m very familiar with Google Scholar.
The main abstract of the paper states the purpose of their research:
“results of our work provide a structural framework for the design of inhibitors as antiviral agents or diagnostic test”. This is nowhere close to a vaccine, but it does give a basis for other researchers.
If you’re really bored, check google scholar for coronavirus and you will read of research going back decades.
It’s not even aimed at vaccine; it’s aimed at testing and possible treatment of the sick.
Exactly.
The coronavirus pandemic is in its early days. But the scale and force of the economic and medical crisis that is about to hit the United States may turn out to be as formidable as Perry’s famous voyage was. Two weeks ago—it already seems like an infinity—I was in Italy, writing about the first signs of the virus. Epidemics, I wrote, “have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.” This one has already done so, and with terrifying speed. What it reveals about the United States—not just this administration, but also our health-care system, our bureaucracy, our political system itself—should make Americans as fearful as the Japanese who heard the “distant thunder” of Perry’s guns.
Not everybody has yet realized this, and indeed, it will take some time, just as it has taken time for the nature of the virus to sink in. At the moment, many Americans are still convinced that, even in this crisis, our society is more capable than others. Quite a lot was written about the terrifying and reckless behavior of the authorities in Wuhan, China, who initially threatened doctors who began posting information about the new virus, forcing them into silence.
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