6ix
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| 11/12/2020 06:47 PM |
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i wish I could share your optimism, CK. But seeing how he is systematically firing any and everyone that could potentially stand in his way of remaining in office indefinitely, I think there is only a 50% chance Biden is sworn in on January 20th. And I'm completely serious.
Shoot, he should be impeached for simply putting the country in harm's way if only to serve his ego. Prime opportunity for a terrorist attack. The country is for the taking right now. We already knew he isn't at the wheel (never cared to be,) but what about all the adults that are supposed to be in the room supervising him? All the baby-sitters are being fired leaving us extremely vulnerable.
Maybe he is egging on potential hostiles in order to start a war which would allow him to stay in office also. He is so evil that I wouldn't put it past him. This is straight up dictator stuff.
The amount of fury I have towards anyone that voted for him is at extreme levels right now. |
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Orange Crush
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| 11/12/2020 09:21 PM |
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Not 50% more like 5%. It’s an insane crackpot ploy with minimal odds of success.
But the simple fact that Trump allies are whispering about this and contemplating it should be cause for immense concern. It just goes to show how far off in the deep end of the pool the repubs are. As it was put correctly “ We may be one presidential tweet away from this gambit becoming orthodoxy for much of the Republican Party.”
Any notion of being able to collaborate with this bunch is ludicrous. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 11/13/2020 09:53 AM |
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i wish I could share your optimism, CK. But seeing how he is systematically firing any and everyone that could potentially stand in his way of remaining in office indefinitely, I think there is only a 50% chance Biden is sworn in on January 20th. And I'm completely serious.
Those he are firing are at the receiving end of long-held grudges and Trump is finally getting his pund of flesh (in his mind) Esper tried to distance himself from the Lafayette Square fiasco, Haspel (soon to be fired, I'm sure) refused to politicize some intelligence, etc.
Trump is not capable of long-term strategy....this is just him tossing the tpys out of the pram, to quote our British friends. He'll soon realize how easy it will be just to stay in FL and lash out when the felling moves him, while surrounded by adoring members who will assuage his bruised ego.
I have spent the last 4 years dismayed as our institutions have failed us....but there is no way he can prevent the inevitable on Jan. 20. He can make (and will) make it painful, but we all need to focus on the job ahead and let him have his histrionics.
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Cosmic Kid
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| 11/13/2020 02:05 PM |
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Per Greg Miller from the Washington Post....
- Biden 306, Trump 232 with all states called
- Trump ends AZ lawsuit, abandons 'voter fraud' hotline, tells Geraldo he'll do 'the right thing
- Trump law firm calls it quits
- PA won't do recount
- MI judge rejects GOP lawsuit
(me again) Trump is also 1-14 in lawsuits filed re: the election, and his one win was a minor victory re: a handful of mailed-in ballots in PA...numbers so low it is not even a rounding error.
He is done....we still need to remain vigilant, but don't get distracted by his tantrums.
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Orange Crush
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| 11/13/2020 02:29 PM |
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Yes Trump is 95% done. Yes you'll just have to get through his antics.
But the big problem here isn't Trump. It is the growing list of Repub enablers...Mitch, Pompeo, Graham, etc.. Supposedly the sane ones. Supposedly the guys Biden will have to deal with for the next 4 years. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 11/13/2020 03:01 PM |
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| Mitch is the real danger...Trump was just his useful idiot for the last 4 years. As I noted upthread, he will now revert back to form and obstruct anything the Biden admin wants to do. |
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Dale
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| 11/13/2020 03:14 PM |
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Trump may trash the White House and as many government agencies as possible on the way out but he's leaving.
Mitch won't be able to play the spoiler roll to the degree he has so far since his co-conspirator will be holed in at Mara Lago. It's one thing to be an ass when your boss is an ass but with Biden in there trying to make things work Mitch's schtick won't go over as well. Not saying he'll be a willing partner, he won't, but he'll have to cooperate to some degree. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 11/13/2020 06:25 PM |
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| I dunno, Dale....he did pretty damn well blocking everything under Obama. |
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Orange Crush
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| 11/22/2020 03:50 PM |
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If this is the measure of what Biden will offer in next four years, then good luck.
(Yes that Erin Brockovich, still one of my all time favourite movies)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/19/dear-joe-biden-are-you-kidding-me-erin-brockovich?fbclid=IwAR1xQ00wbU6CbvboIpKqVbwjhoi2RZrNbQSv9ci5dhxnuDvAWil0d0qHlHk |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/13/2020 06:20 PM |
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Someone linked this today
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/12/13/electoral-college-jfk-trump/
Seems like the endless lawsuits and the electoral college ploy is just a rehash of a 60year old script. |
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longslowdistance
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| 12/13/2020 06:37 PM |
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| As bad as 45's refusal to bow out is (so far), it's not as bad as the months long sh*tshow of Hayes following Grant. The southern Dems struck a deal that sent middle of the road Hayes to the white house in return for removing the US Army from southern states and ending reconstruction. Jim Crow followed, 100 years of sanctioned oppression. Trump has amassed a huge war chest from suckers donating to stop the steal, but actually it was mostly sent to Trump's campaign war chest. More mischief likely will follow. |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/29/2020 08:21 PM |
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Brilliant end game.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/senate-covid-relief-bill-1.5856707?fbclid=IwAR3zxFdBQJt9gzDP1k-eG2n2QzHJWyyDo-QvCiFBdg4POnXyh3QsNzV4A6s |
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Orange Crush
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| 12/29/2020 08:43 PM |
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| “Open wide and swallow Mitch” |
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79pmooney
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| 01/04/2021 07:02 PM |
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The vaccine rollout - turning into a nightmare. About 1/4 of the shipped vaccines have been administered. Some areas are so far behind that the vaccines will have expired or outlived their refrigeration and will be tossed. Seems that every aspect of the chain plays a part. The US government - nobody's in charge. States are saying the locals need to deal with the mess. "Locals" boil down to hospitals and others who have been in a war zone for months and cannot take a break to deal with anything new.
Once again, we need somebody in charge. It's January 4th. It will be 16 more days of chaos before Biden even gets to address this mess. He's walking into a scene where nothing works. It may be weeks or months before any sense of order can happen with the vaccines.
The hard work of the rollout should have started early last summer. Getting intern types to compile lists of good contacts at every level. And contact them to get them on board. Military supply types to create orderly plans to get the needed work to be done in the proper sequence. Maybe line up military hospitals, medical people, soldiers, etc. to administer the vaccine to not overload the front line workers further. All of this could have been done ahead of time without knowing anything about the vaccine or its requirements.
I was hoping ot get my shots as an over 65 in April. Planning now to lie low 'till June/July. |
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Orange Crush
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| 01/04/2021 07:56 PM |
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Local would be State level coordination. Same here in Canada. Vaccine rollout planning happens largely Provincial not Federal. The States in turn will have to coordinate the health regions (we have five or six of those in BC) who then coordinate with individual hospitals. With a public health care system those coordinations are well established it’s how the system operates. With a largely private system good luck.
I think what you may also be seeing is effect of rushed rollout with insufficient logistics planning. Here in BC ramp up is slow. Germany and Netherlands still have to administer their first dose. As they said months ago Covid is perfect evidence of superiority of public health care. That blame can be spread across decades and across party lines. |
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