Been completely ignoring politics and for nearly two days was barely on the internet.... somehow I feel like I just got out of a long hot bath, plum full of soap and bubbles. It took me about 30 seconds to feel filthy dirty again, just reading the headlines of RCP this morning. Lord forbid I read a CHT comment threat and see what hateful things are being spewed there. I would probably want to bathe again for days!
At the airport now, waiting to get back to real life. Not even sure what that is anymore. I heard there was a Vice Presidential debate where both candidates apparently lost to a fly in numerous polls. Not sure what that is about, but if a "fly" steals the debate luster, it must have been a real barnburner. Probably lots of interruptions, ignoring questions, and trying to blame the White House for a world-wide virus that started in China. But that is just my best guess.
I also heard that the second Presidential debate was cancelled because Biden refused to debate unless it was changed to virtual and Trump refused to debate if it was changed to virtual. Somehow the media narrative is that Trump was the one who "backed out" of the debate for not agreeing to the changes Bide demanded. An interesting take... blaming the person who was willing to follow the rules that both sides agreed upon... and absolving blame from the person who demanded they be changed.
Apparently there are lots of people pissed off that the President did not succumb to Covid. If it cannot kill a 74 year old that is in as bad of shape as the left claims him to be, then either the virus isn't very scary or the left doesn't really have any idea how healthy the President is. I wonder out loud what would happen if Biden caught Covid. No chance he would allow himself to be treated with any of the drugs that appear to work. At 78, would he fare as well as Trump?
Well I should get on my half filled plane here and spend the next 3 hours or so with a mask covering my face with nobody around me. Should be fun.
78 comments:
The President is f****g insane.
Makings irrational comments to people without masking
He said the cure is almost ready!
Law and order.
Biden is owed by the left
And using our house for a campaign affair
Most people were wearing masks, but no social distancing
I'm watching it live.
He's not sane anymore but he's making Scott Ass***e happy!
They were not checked out for infections.
Is Mexico going to pay for the walls?
imit immigration.
In the 2-1 decision, the court upheld a December 2019 district court summary judgment in favor of a request from the advocacy groups the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition against Defense Secretary Mark Esper, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and “all persons acting under their direction ... from using military construction funds appropriated for other purposes to build a border wall.”
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The previous judgment was also made in response to a separate filing from nine U.S. states, including California, Colorado and New York, to stop the construction of the border wall.
COVID-45 MUSSOLINI spoke from the White House balcony at rally on the White House lawn. His cultists were standing shoulder to shoulder, no social distancing whatsoever. Another White House super-spreader event.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10164732332715647&id=890775646
Coldheartedtruth may as well not bother checking out his blog. It has become nothing more than a dumping pit of shitpile copy pastes by Roger and James. There's no longer debate and discussion here anymore. Not the way it used to be when whamilton and Indy voter were here. Now its a contest between two posters who seem unable and unwilling to actually discuss anything.
Biden says voters do not deserve to know his stance on court packing. And voters don't deserve to know which judges he would nominate.
This is the guycwhose been in Washington nearly 50 years. How the hell is he inspiring to anyone?
What rat calls a s. pile is actually a place where you can get some real, informative info.
Senate Republicans Lambaste Possible Relief Deal
2:53 pm
“Senate Republicans lashed out at a potential framework for a new coronavirus deal between the Trump administration and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a conference call Saturday, warning that there was little support for a big spending bill right before the election,” Politico reports.
Trump's not going to like that, he thinks a deal may help him in the polls.
WTF?
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Friday during a candidate forum that Black Americans are safe in the state as long as they're conservative.
"If you're a young African American, an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state. You just need to be conservative, not liberal," Graham said.
The Republican senator also said he believes in some elements of police reform such as mandating the use of body cameras and de-escalation trainings but sympathized with police officers.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Friday night young people of color are safe in South Carolina — but only if they are not liberal.
I just watched a replay of Trump's insipid comments from the WH balcony. He specifically mentioned what wonderful polls he's getting. (Excuse me while I laugh.)
He mentioned Texas and Georgia (laugh). The fact that he would even HAVE to mention those two solid red states indicates what trouble he's in.
The Taliban Backs Trump’s Re-election
2:56 pm
President Trump’s reelection bid received a vote of support from an entity most in his party would reject: the Taliban, CBS News reports.
Said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid: “We hope he will win the election and wind up U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.”
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The Taliban especially like the way he acts toward women, so much like their own despicable attitudes.
And by the way, on the WH balcony Trump repeatedly mentioned what a great job he's doing for blacks and Latinos... He said that again and again, because that's where he's weak.
I noticed he didn't mention two groups where he's got REAL problems: The elderly vote and women.
First, I am not rat.
Second, you copy pasting every thread into oblivion is not informative. If you have an opinion, why cant you articulate it? All you do is bury this blog in articles of others as if you're incapable of making your own argument.
Sorry, balls. Sometimes you sound so much like rat.
Why do you never complain about F'n with his boring tweet postings? Why do you never complain about rat who posts white spaces laced with drivel?
I skip a lot of their stuff. You can skip a lot of mine.
The fact is, both Roger and I post articles of substance that you find difficult to refute. That's what bothers you most.
For example, balls, here's a short, succinct little article that you will just HATE because of what it SAYS.
Ed Rollins Says ‘the Race Is Over’
3:02 pm EDT
Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins, who is the chair of the pro-Donald Trump Great America PAC, told John Avlon: “I’m afraid the race is over.”
Said Rollins:
“What happened after the first presidential debate is every Senate race saw a 3- to 4-point drop for Republican candidates across the board. So campaigns are panicking and it’s the first time in a long while that they are being outraised. The potential is there to lose not only the presidency but the Senate as well…and to see the kind of wipeout we haven’t experienced since the post-Watergate year of 1974.”
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Sorry that's so grim, balls, but let that serve as a reality check for you, and for Ch, and for all of you.
Roger Amick said...
The President is f****g insane.
Makings irrational comments to people without masking
October 10, 2020 at 1:09 PM
Roger Amick said...
He said the cure is almost ready!
October 10, 2020 at 1:10 PM
Roger Amick said...
Law and order.
Biden is owed by the left
October 10, 2020 at 1:12 PM
Roger Amick said...
And using our house for a campaign affair
October 10, 2020 at 1:13 PM
Roger Amick said...
Most people were wearing masks, but no social distancing
October 10, 2020 at 1:14 PM
Roger Amick said...
I'm watching it live.
October 10, 2020 at 1:15 PM
Roger Amick said...
He's not sane anymore but he's making Scott Ass***e happy!
October 10, 2020 at 1:16 PM
Roger Amick said...
They were not checked out for infections.
October 10, 2020 at 1:18 PM
Roger Amick said...
Is Mexico going to pay for the walls?
Look what CHT has missed
and a bunch of By Taegan Goddard
Oh, he wouldn't have missed that because the lying plagiarizing POS "pastor" james refuses to credit the blog he plagiarizes from constantly.
ROFLMFAO !!!
When I say what I think is going on about the President, you all insult me and call me alky.
Balls, years ago you defended George Bush for everything, even when he was being used by the neocons who lied about WMD and got us into the Iraq war.
Bush has repeatedly regretted believing Cheney and the other neocons.
You said that you are a conservative, but Trump has been withering from NATO and you don't disagree, despite Vladimir Putin is thrilled, because he will be able to expand the Russian empire.
And when the bounties were put on our soldiers, you said it's fake news.
The Republicans have embraced this horror story. Despite the fact that the President doesn't care about anyone but himself.
And instead of proving me wrong you will insult me.
When I say what I think is going on about the President, you all insult me and call me alky.
You are a troll
And rather than succinct postings the deranged left prints entire articles.
They appear to thing who post the longest and most often wins the "argument".
Guess the old phone book was the winner.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Joseph A. Wulfsohn
@JosephWulfsohn
There was virtually a media blackout of the Steve Scully controversy despite it dominating Twitter for the past 24 hours.
NONE of the other TV networks bothered covering it on-air.
NYT described it as “some Trump supporters seized on Scully’s tweet.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-largely-avoids-steve-scully-controversy
Corporate media means refusing to cover the news.
And obvious unethical behavior between debate moderators and partisans.
October 10, 2020 at 1:18 PM
Roger Amick said...
Is Mexico going to pay for the walls?
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that President Trump’s use of emergency powers to allocate millions of dollars in funding for the construction of a southern border wall was illegal, the latest blow to the Trump administration’s effort to limit immigration.
In the 2-1 decision, the court upheld a December 2019 district court summary judgment in favor of a request from the advocacy groups the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition against Defense Secretary Mark Esper, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and “all persons acting under their direction ... from using military construction funds appropriated for other purposes to build a border wall.”
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
LOL. Presidential debate moderators are deactivating their social media accounts because their own posts expose them as partisan hacks.
Sunlight destroys moderators with their own words.
And actions.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Patrick Howley
@HowleyReporter
BUSTED: A SECOND Ghislaine Maxwell nephew worked for Obama-Biden Admin, and actually worked in Obama-Biden White House (plus for Clinton Foundation) in addition to the nephew who worked for Hillary at State Department. He tried to scrub the truth. CAUGHT!
https://nationalfile.com/two-ghislaine-maxwell-nephews-worked-for-obama-biden-and-clinton/
Boy was Biden/Obama closely tied to the sex trafficker and child rapist Epstein.
Epstein didn't kill himself...
Sunlight is killing the dems
The Taliban Backs Trump’s Re-election
2:56 pm
President Trump’s reelection bid received a vote of support from an entity most in his party would reject: the Taliban, CBS News reports.
I’m old enough to remember when liberals were no longer for endless wars. 19 years not enough in that shithole you disgusting pile of shit?
Trump Says He Wants All Troops in Afghanistan Home by Christmas, Going Further Than Security Adviser
Anonymous Myballs said...
Biden says voters do not deserve to know his stance on court packing
You lying sack of dog shit!!!!! He did not say that you dumb ass!!!!!n As for packing.....YOUR SIDE JUST DID IT!!!! STOLE A JUDGE FROM OBAMA WITH AN EXCUSE AND THAT SAME EXCUSE DID NOT HOLD FOR NOW!!!!! God I hope he does and you guys get to live with the next 30 years like you were hoping for conservative....that Amy cunt will let her faith determine the law.....fuck her!!!!
Four words can save America:
Donald Trump, you're fired
12:23 PM
Opinion by Joseph J. Ellis, American historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for "Founding Brothers." He is the author of "American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us."
(CNN)
The obvious issue of greatest concern to most prospective voters as we approach the presidential election is the still-raging Covid-19 pandemic. President Donald Trump, now infected himself and staging reckless photo ops, claims that he has done a brilliant job of managing the crisis, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans. Candidate Joe Biden has urged a national mask mandate and says "our nation's Covid crisis is far, far from over." Polls suggest that most voters will cast their ballots based largely on the verdict of that all-consuming issue.
Meanwhile, longstanding historical trends measured before the pandemic indicate that slightly more than 40% of the eligible electorate likely will not vote, for reasons that drift between indifference and sardonic contempt for politics in general. Ironically, the United States, the first liberal nation-state in modern history, has one of the lowest turn-out rates of any advanced democracy in the world. That needs to change before the election, now less than a month away.
For four reasons, we are at an inflection point that will determine the direction of the American story long after the pandemic has receded into the middle distance. Those who have never voted before, and will never vote again, must not miss the most consequential election of their lifetime.
The first reason is climate change, a truly apocalyptical threat to civilization as we know it that seems invented by the gods to avoid solution by democratic governments. Why? Because public opinion will only mobilize to stop sending carbon into the atmosphere when the disastrous effects of global warming become undeniable even to those who try not to see it. And by then it will be too late, because atmospheric temperatures will be rising catastrophically. Kiss all our coastal relics goodbye and tell all your children and grandchildren to forgive us when prolonged droughts, floods, and famine become the new normal. We are already abysmally late to the game on this emerging crisis. Four more years of a president who regards climate change as a hoax will make it almost impossible to get ahead of the curve. We will look back at Trump as the American Nero who tweeted while California burned.
Second, what Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called "the arc of the moral universe" will move downward or upward -- away or toward justice -- on the results of this election. Trump's presidency has demonstrated that a sizable portion of the White population indeed regards King's dream as a nightmare. For them, White Lives matter more, always have and always will. And Trump has been willing to play the race card up in appalling ways, even giving quarter to white supremacist groups and racists from the fringe to the center.
His defeat would not mean that we are entering post-racial America, a delusion that accompanied the election of President Barack Obama. Racism has been a cancer in the American body politic for three centuries. It is never going away completely. But we can keep getting closer to King's dream, an updated version of Thomas Jefferson's words in America's founding document that begin "We hold these truths to be self-evident." Biden's election gets us back on the upward arc.
Third, America's already problematic status as a "city on a hill," the global leader of the liberal order, would end in a second Trump term. A Pew Research study shows that America's standing around the world has fallen to historic lows amid the pandemic. Those isolationists in rural America and elsewhere who currently endorse "America First" would likely discover quickly in a second Trump term that -- to put it hyperbolically but bluntly -- a world where Chinese is the international language, the Yen the common currency and autocracy the political model is not to their liking or interest.
To be sure, a Biden presidency would need to repair the damage Trump has done with our European allies, reject the impossible mission of serving as the police force for the world and perform the clear-eyed strategic assessment about the size and mission of our military establishment that never successfully occurred at the end of the Cold War. He should also update those international institutions the United States created after World War II. Given our economic and military power, American destiny abroad is still manifest, though it needs to be shorn of hubristic versions of American exceptionalism and delusions of unlimited resources. None of that would occur in a second Trump presidency. "Make America Great Again" actually means rejecting American greatness.
Fourth, and finally, the very fate of the American republic is at stake. Trump regards himself as above the law,
takes Vladimir Putin and other dictators and strongmen as role models,
makes no secret of his desire to remain in office for life
and has dismissed the prospect of his defeat in November as evidence that the election is rigged, refusing to guarantee to abide by its results.
All these autocratic tendencies make the unthinkable quite probable. A Trump second term could make the November election the last act of the American republic. Yes, it could happen here.
As the election looms, efforts to disenfranchise voters are already underway in several battleground states where Republicans control the legislature, most visibly in Pennsylvania, Florida and Texas. Russian hackers are busy flooding the internet with disinformation, even more than they did in 2016. In order to offset these efforts to rig the election and produce post-election chaos that is decided by a politicized Supreme Court, there is one simple and unanswerable response:
overwhelming voter turnout, a clear mandate to go forward rather than backward, an unmistakable message saying,
"Donald Trump, You're Fired."
He said today that the virus will just disappear.
I think that withdrawal from Afghanistan is a mistake.
Judge Dismisses Trump Lawsuit In Pennsylvania
5:10 pm
“A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania seeking to block the use of drop boxes as receptacles for mail ballots, require ballot signatures to match voter registration records and allow nonresident poll watchers at polling places, ruling that the president’s claims of potential fraud were ‘speculative,'” the Washington Post reports.
Kansas is lovely this time of year $$$$%
being made as the real hard working people bring in the crops of #2 yellow corn and soybean.
Warm and sunny.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I think that withdrawal from Afghanistan is a mistake.
Yet you were for exiting 12 years ago
And you know I’ve been consistent and said get out of that shithole since W’s 2nd term
You can’t do anything with tribalism mentality.
Leave a FOB to quick strike and get the fuck out
37 posts
29 are from Roger Amadick
Rasmussen has Biden ahead more than the other polls
Average9/24 - 10/951.642.0Biden +9.6YouGov10/4 - 10/65142Biden +9The Hill10/3 - 10/64540Biden +5FOX News10/3 - 10/65343Biden +10Reuters10/2 - 10/65240Biden +12CNBC*10/2 - 10/45242Biden +10Rasmussen9/30 - 10/65240Biden +12JTN/RMG*10/1 - 10/35143Biden +8SUSA10/1 - 10/45343Biden +10CNN10/1 - 10/45741Biden +16USC9/26 - 10/95342Biden +11IBD/TIPP9/30 - 10/14946Biden +3NBC/WSJ9/30 - 10/15339Biden +14Monmouth*9/24 - 9/275045Biden +5
Cali,what bothers me is the President is an isolationist, even though he's ignorant about the consiquntions. Vladimir Putin is trying to reconstruct the Soviet Union. In Europe and the Southwestern Asian region.
He is ignorant
Hey goat fucker....1 post from you is more than enough of your dumbfuckedness!!!!!!! Sure glad you can still count even though you live in mommy's root cellar!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!
$$$%
being made as the real hard working people bring in the crops of #2 yellow corn and soybean.
Of which you have nothing to do with!!!!!! Good to see the Kansas senate race is showing D strength !!!!!!!!
A polling analysis in 8 tweets.
@Pollwatch2020
1) Nuggets from Joseph Cotto’s interview of Patrick Basham of Democracy Institute. A DI poll showed Trump winning nationally and in the Electoral College:
Basham addressed why Trump’s national lead went from +3 to +1 and why Trump’s Battleground State lead went from +7 to +4.
2) It was because Democracy Institute shifted from a 2-way to a 4-way race. He believes some are “parking their votes” with 3rd-party candidates. He senses some of these will move back to Trump or Biden, with more going to Trump. He also thinks more undecideds will go for Trump.
3) Believes in the “SHY TRUMP VOTER”:
“The shy Trump voter is not only real it is larger than last time.”
Is not just a rural voter under a haystack:
“The shy Trump voter is much more likely to be in fact . . . an African American in an urban setting. A Suburban white woman.”
4) “Those are votes for Trump that if they come in are going to surprise people because they are the ones who are least expected to support him.”
There is even a shy Trump vote in MD-7 (Kim Klacik district)
Says Klacik is doing great in the race.
@kimKBaltimore
5) On YOUNGER VOTERS:
“We believe . . . there are going to be significantly fewer younger voters.”
“We think there will be at least a million fewer votes from that group in total.”
6) OTHER NOTABLES:
New Hampshire is a mini-Minnesota. The war and peace issue is big in NH. NH likes Trump's refusal to go to war.
Trump is “in very very good shape there [NH].”
7) Basham is confident Trump will win Florida. Trump can’t take FL for granted but, “Florida at the moment is bordering on comfortable for Trump.”
He believes Florida is getting beyond Biden’s grasp.
8) “There will be a greater number of Trump Democrats in 2020.”
Trump is leading in Minn. and Penn.
The polls I have been reading, indicating that there is no silent movement, younger voters are deeply concerned about the President.
His support among 60+ is much higher than with Hillary Clinton.
New Hampshire is leaning toward Biden
Florida is a toss up
<Ohio set a single-day record of 1,840 new cases, and Oklahoma of 1,524.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The polls I have been reading, indicating that there is no silent movement, younger voters are deeply concerned about the President.
His support among 60+ is much higher than with Hillary Clinton.
We weren't talking about your ignorant opinion based on media driven polls there sport. We are talking about expert analysis of a comprehensive poll by a firm that doesn't have any skin in the game. (except maybe where British interest are concerned).
Florida is a toss up
No, it's really not. Biden is not doing nearly well enough in the Democrat heavy southeast Florida counties.
Trump is the most dangerous president in history.
It isn't conservative vs liberal politics he said that he will not accept the peaceful transfer of power.
Among Cubans yes, but people over 60 are going towards Biden in huge numbers.
Florida has a lot of retired people, and the President has threatened Social Security and Medicare.
They aren't going to vote for Trump again
RCP has Biden 3.7% lead in Florida
I look at the numbers, not right wing Twitter pages
HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS
Ain’t no fucking Rocky Top tonight
October 10, 2020 at 3:29 PM EDT
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania seeking to block the use of drop boxes as receptacles for mail ballots, require ballot signatures to match voter registration records and allow nonresident poll watchers at polling places, ruling that the president’s claims of potential fraud were “speculative.”
In a sharply worded opinion issued Saturday morning, U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan of the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that the Trump campaign has no standing because of the lack of evidence of actual fraud.
“While Plaintiffs may not need to prove actual voter fraud, they must at least prove that such fraud is ‘certainly impending,’ ” Ranjan wrote. “They haven’t met that burden. At most, they have pieced together a sequence of uncertain assumptions.”
Separately, Democrats argued that a Republican effort to send nonresident poll watchers to polling places violated state law and was a blatant attempt to intimidate Black voters in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania is widely expected to be a close race between Trump and former vice president Joe Biden — as well as a potential ground zero for voting problems, in part because ballot processing may not begin until Election Day.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Among Cubans yes, but people over 60 are going towards Biden in huge numbers.
More than Cubans. Biden/Harris/Democrats = Socialistas to Latinos.
but people over 60 are going towards Biden in huge numbers
No, not at all. You're about as much an expert in Florida politics as you are in history.
Trump Keeps Appearance Brief
President Trump addressed supporters from the White House, his first public appearance since returning from a three-day hospitalization due to coronavirus, Politico reports.
The crowd of 500, despite wearing masks, was “packed together below the Truman Balcony where he spoke. According to a person familiar with the event, more than 2,000 guests had been invited.”
“Trump kept his comments to the cheering crowd shorter than usual, speaking for less than 17 minutes.”
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Commonsense, you have been telling us that, scientifically, masks do no good.
WHY, THEN, WERE THE TRUMP AUDIENCE WEARING THEM?
Of course, being "packed together," could offset some of their effectiveness.
2,000 were invited to that White House event.
500 showed up.
I will prove you wrong again and again and again
The Biden campaign is getting out the vote.
Biden supporters flock from other states to door-knock in Arizona, where it matters
Alex Rosado, a member of Unite Here Local 11 in Los Angeles, is hitting the streets as a canvasser in Phoenix. “I want to make sure that I’m one of the people responsible for getting [Trump] out of office.”
(Maria Hernandez)
By MELISSA GOMEZSTAFF WRITER
OCT. 10, 2020
5 AM
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PHOENIX —
Alex Rosado hasn’t hugged his father in months, and he blames President Trump. Rosado said the president’s failure to contain the coronavirus pandemic has kept him away from his dad and made him want to work that much harder to make sure Trump loses the election.
So Rosado, a bellman in Los Angeles, left his home in his “guaranteed blue” state and relocated temporarily to Arizona, a battleground where he believes he can help defeat Trump.
They are going door to door.
Plus the President campaign is almost broke
Older voters in the key state of Florida appear to be moving away from President Trump.
In 2016, the president swept the 65 and older demographic in Florida and across the nation. But polls suggest that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is pulling many of those voters back to the Democratic Party.
Senior voters are a critical demographic because they turn out at the highest rates in every election. In Florida, where Trump and Biden are polling neck and neck, they could be decisive this year.
A new survey from the AARP finds Trump and Biden virtually tied in voters 65 and older. Four years ago, Trump won that demographic in the Sunshine State by a 17-point margin, according to exit polls.
The same AARP survey shows that Biden has an edge with non-white seniors, including Hispanic voters like Teresa Gavaldá, a 79-year-old Cuban-American living south of Miami who plans to vote for the former vice president this year.
When she first became a citizen in 1970, Gavaldá registered Republican, citing then-Senator and liberal Republican Jacob Javits as one of her heroes. But she soon turned to the Democratic Party, and she says she now votes straight-ticket blue.
“I vote every election and I have taught my kids and my grandchildren that they need to vote in every election,” she says. “They have to have a say in their government.”
She says she learned about the importance of voting when she witnessed the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro came into power in the 1950s.
“I didn't like what I saw,” she says. “I was very upset, the whole nine yards.”
Gavaldá, who says she likes her Medicare Advantage health insurance plan, favors liberal proposals such as “Medicare for All” – a policy proposal that Biden has not endorsed. But she fiercely pushes back against claims from the right that Biden is a socialist.
"The right has no clue what socialism is," she says pointedly. “Americans have no idea what it is to have a dictator… [they] don't know what can happen if you elect the wrong person."
In the lead-up to early voting, which begins Oct. 19 in many Florida counties, both Trump and Biden have spent millions on advertising to try to turn out supporters like Gavaldá — and convince voters who are still on the fence. Many of those ads feature topics that seniors care about, such as Social Security and prescription drug prices. Biden has tried to target President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans.
That message may fall flat with many Trump supporters. A Pew Research Center poll from August found that just 39% of Trump supporters considered the COVID-19 pandemic one of their top issues, compared to nearly 9 in 10 voters who listed the economy as very important. James Armes is one of those voters.
Armes, a retired General Electric employee who retired to Palm Coast in northern Florida, plans to support Trump again, just as he did in 2016. He says he left his home state of Illinois in 2009 because it was too liberal, claiming Democrats “ran all the business out of the state.”
He says President Trump has “done a fine job” with the coronavirus response in the U.S. And he believes Trump will replace the Affordable Care Act, protecting health insurance from what Armes calls “Obamaism.”
He adds that Biden, a long-time practicing Catholic, is “Catholic in name only” because of his views on abortion.
“He's not pro-life. And if you're not pro-life, you're not Catholic. You're lying,” he says.
Randy Lascody of Central Florida is a Catholic — a “cradle Catholic,” he says. The retired National Weather Service meteorologist voted for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in 2016 because, he says, he saw both President Trump and Hillary Clinton as “dividers.”
But this year he’s thinking about casting a vote for Biden. And in the swing state of Florida, with its 29 electoral votes, Lascody’s vote could make a difference for Democrats.
Lascody, also from Illinois, was “born a Democrat” but says that as he got older, he began voting for the Republican Party because of its stance on taxes.
“Now, as I retired, I don't want to be a staunch old grump,” he says. “So I see myself more middle of the road now. I like to say I want to progress in my character and my beliefs as I get older.”
Trump’s Twitter habits and the way the president talks about other people — especially immigrants — have no appeal to Lascody, whose wife immigrated to the U.S. from Chile.
“I'm leaning toward Biden because we just need somebody that's not going to be so harsh toward other people and speak with a civil tongue,” he says.
Because of social distancing, Lascody says he’s avoided uncomfortable conversations with friends regarding the election. His main gripe is the lack of civility in political discussions, and he says he’d like a leader who can unite people.
“Everybody is at each other's throats,” he says. “I think that it's terrible as a country.”
Lascody’s biggest issue with Democrats, and something he says is important to other retired seniors, is taxes. Many seniors live on fixed incomes, and the idea of a new administration raising taxes could “scare a lot of elderly people.”
Biden has promised not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year.
With five weeks left until polls close on Nov. 3, Lascody says he could still be persuaded to change his mind — if Biden were to reverse his pledge on taxes.
But he’s in the minority. Gavaldá and Armes — like so many other voters across the country — say there’s nothing at all that could change their mind.
RCP average
Average9/21 - 10/748.044.3Biden +3.
7FOX 35*10/6 - 10/74346Trump +3Reuters9/29 - 10/74945Biden +4CNBC10/2 - 10/45046Biden +4Quinnipiac10/1 - 10/55140Biden +11USA Today*10/1 - 10/44545TieUNF10/1 - 10/45145Biden +6NYT/Siena*9/30 - 10/14742Biden +5Susquehanna9/23 - 9/264643Biden +3St. Pete Polls9/21 - 9/225047Biden +3
I would like to introduce you to someone.
She has a doctorate in education, along with two master degrees. She is a teacher who taught high school students, emotionally disturbed students, adolescents at a psychiatric hospital and community college students.
She's a military mom and grandmother, and has been active in an organization that supports military families.
She's an author who wrote several books including a memoir and a children's book- Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops- for kids whose parents are on active duty.
She's a fashion icon and even did some modeling in her 20s.
She's a vocal advocate for breast cancer and founded, in 1993, a not-for-profit organization (BBHI) "...that provides an educational breast health awareness program (free of charge) to all public, private, and parochial schools, other groups and organizations in the state of Delaware."
She helped found Book Buddies to provide books to low income children.
One of the Biden Foundation's main focuses was preventing violence against women.
Did I mention she's a badass? It was a natural instinct of hers to protect her husband on a campaign rally stage.
This is one strong, hard-working woman, with class, experience and a sense of humor!
She loves God, her family & country!
She is Dr. Jill Biden.
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Four words can save America: Donald Trump, you're fired
Opinion by Joseph J. Ellis
Oct 8, 2020
(CNN) - The obvious issue of greatest concern to most prospective voters as we approach the presidential election is the still-raging Covid-19 pandemic. President Donald Trump, now infected himself and staging reckless photo ops, claims that he has done a brilliant job of managing the crisis, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans. Candidate Joe Biden has urged a national mask mandate and says "our nation's Covid crisis is far, far from over." Polls suggest that most voters will cast their ballots based largely on the verdict of that all-consuming issue.
Meanwhile, longstanding historical trends measured before the pandemic indicate that slightly more than 40% of the eligible electorate likely will not vote, for reasons that drift between indifference and sardonic contempt for politics in general. Ironically, the United States, the first liberal nation-state in modern history, has one of the lowest turn-out rates of any advanced democracy in the world. That needs to change before the election, now less than a month away.
For four reasons, we are at an inflection point that will determine the direction of the American story long after the pandemic has receded into the middle distance. Those who have never voted before, and will never vote again, must not miss the most consequential election of their lifetime.
The first reason is climate change, a truly apocalyptical threat to civilization as we know it that seems invented by the gods to avoid solution by democratic governments. Why? Because public opinion will only mobilize to stop sending carbon into the atmosphere when the disastrous effects of global warming become undeniable even to those who try not to see it. And by then it will be too late, because atmospheric temperatures will be rising catastrophically. Kiss all our coastal relics goodbye and tell all your children and grandchildren to forgive us when prolonged droughts, floods, and famine become the new normal. We are already abysmally late to the game on this emerging crisis. Four more years of a president who regards climate change as a hoax will make it almost impossible to get ahead of the curve. We will look back at Trump as the American Nero who tweeted while California burned.
Second, what Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called "the arc of the moral universe" will move downward or upward -- away or toward justice -- on the results of this election. Trump's presidency has demonstrated that a sizable portion of the White population indeed regards King's dream as a nightmare. For them, White Lives matter more, always have and always will. And Trump has been willing to play the race card up in appalling ways, even giving quarter to white supremacist groups and racists from the fringe to the center.
His defeat would not mean that we are entering post-racial America, a delusion that accompanied the election of President Barack Obama. Racism has been a cancer in the American body politic for three centuries. It is never going away completely. But we can keep getting closer to King's dream, an updated version of Thomas Jefferson's words in America's founding document that begin "We hold these truths to be self-evident." Biden's election gets us back on the upward arc.
Third, America's already problematic status as a "city on a hill," the global leader of the liberal order, would end in a second Trump term. A Pew Research study shows that America's standing around the world has fallen to historic lows amid the pandemic. Those isolationists in rural America and elsewhere who currently endorse "America First" would likely discover quickly in a second Trump term that -- to put it hyperbolically but bluntly -- a world where Chinese is the international language, the Yen the common currency and autocracy the political model is not to their liking or interest.
To be sure, a Biden presidency would need to repair the damage Trump has done with our European allies, reject the impossible mission of serving as the police force for the world and perform the clear-eyed strategic assessment about the size and mission of our military establishment that never successfully occurred at the end of the Cold War. He should also update those international institutions the United States created after World War II. Given our economic and military power, American destiny abroad is still manifest, though needs to be shorn of hubristic versions of American exceptionalism and delusions of unlimited resources. None of that would occur in a second Trump presidency. "Make America Great Again" actually means rejecting American greatness.
Fourth, and finally, the very fate of the American republic is at stake. Trump regards himself as above the law, takes Vladimir Putin and other dictators and strongmen as role models, makes no secret of his desire to remain in office for life and has dismissed the prospect of his defeat in November as evidence that the election is rigged, refusing to guarantee to abide by its results. All these autocratic tendencies make the unthinkable quite probable. A Trump second term could make the November election the last act of the American republic. Yes, it could happen here.
As the election looms, efforts to disenfranchise voters are already underway in several battleground states where Republicans control the legislature, most visibly in Pennsylvania, Florida and Texas. Russian hackers are busy flooding the internet with disinformation, even more than they did in 2016. In order to offset these efforts to rig the election and produce post-election chaos that is decided by a politicized Supreme Court, there is one simple and unanswerable response: overwhelming voter turnout, a clear mandate to go forward rather than backward, an unmistakable message saying, "Donald Trump, You're Fired."
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Pennsylvania Emerges as ‘Tipping Point’ Battleground
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Washington Post:
“Both sides now see Pennsylvania, with 20 electoral college votes, as a must-win prize on the path to the 270 needed to win the White House.
“They also increasingly view the battle for those votes as one that could well continue beyond Election Day — with a growing list of balloting disputes and lawsuits setting the stage, if the race is close, for a contested election reminiscent of the Florida drama that transfixed the nation after the 2000 election.
“Not only is Pennsylvania allowing anyone to vote by mail in a general election for the first time, but all the state’s polling places also have new voting machines, and the rules that govern the vote have been shifting in recent weeks, as the two parties in a state with divided government battle in the courts on multiple fronts.”
yawn @ boring as fuck Jane and Akky.
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Opinion
Manic Panic on the Potomac
Will Mitch ditch the Donald?
By Maureen Dowd
At long last, a top Republican is distancing himself from Donald Trump.
Literally.
Mitch McConnell has been boasting to colleagues and to reporters in Kentucky that he knew better than to go to the Amy Coney Barrett super-spreader event in the Rose Garden or set foot on that 18 acres of magical thinking known as the White House because he could see that the president and his team were courting danger. At 78, the wily Senate majority leader, a polio survivor, wasn’t taking any chances.
“I actually haven’t been to the White House since Aug. 6," he said at a news conference back home, “because my impression was their approach to how to handle this was different than mine and what I insisted that we do in the Senate, which is to wear a mask and practice social distancing.”
McConnell did more than physically distance himself from Trump. He politically distanced himself as well, throwing cold water on the president’s whiplash-inducing reversal on a stimulus bill.
After torpedoing negotiations in a tweet on Tuesday because he thought the Democrats wanted too much, the steroid-pumped president did a triple axel and tweeted to Congress to “Go Big!”
“I would like to see a bigger stimulus package, frankly, than either Democrats or Republicans are offering,” he told Rush Limbaugh in a manic two-hour call on Friday (during which he dropped the F bomb about Iran). “I’m going the exact opposite now.”
Clearly, McConnell does not want to invest whatever capital he has left in reviving Trump when the guy seems doomed.
Why bring up an issue that really divides his Republican members weeks before an election that might be a wipeout — with the Senate in the balance?
McConnell is all about winning. He knows a loser when he sees one.
As Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, told The Times, Trumpworld is at a dangerous pass:
“The knives come out, the donors flee and the candidate throws embarrassing Hail Marys.”
Proving once more that there’s no bottom to how low he’ll go, McConnell explained to reporters in Kentucky that he wasn’t ready to push a stimulus deal because “the situation is kind of murky, and I think the murkiness is a result of the proximity to the election and everybody kind of trying to elbow for political advantage.”
So it’s fine to elbow for political advantage and push to replace R.B.G. with an arch conservative who would threaten health care and abortion rights in proximity to the election. But a bill that would help millions of suffering Americans as the economy goes down the tubes? Nah. That’s too murky.
Speaking to Limbaugh, Trump had a rare moment of sounding vulnerable, before he returned to his bombastic self.
“I said, ‘How bad was I?’” he recalled. “They said, ‘You could have been very bad. You were going into a very bad phase.’” The president continued: “This looks like it was going to be a big deal. And you know what that means, that means bad, because I’ve lost five people, at least five people who were friends of mine, one in particular, like an incredible guy who went in there, into the hospital, he was dead within three days.”
Trump mused, “I was not in great shape,” and said that without that special cocktail, “I might not have recovered at all from Covid.” (Pretty much the opposite of what he had said the day before.)
So was it sinking in?
Was any of it sinking in?
The damage he did to the country by dropping the mask and putting on a blindfold?
The danger he put his family, staff and supporters in, with his portrayal of mask-wearing as effete
— the spiritual successor to casting liberals as latte-loving, tree-hugging, Volvo-driving, kale-eating losers.
No sooner had Trump admitted that things could have gone very badly than he began spreading bogus claims about the virus again,
telling Limbaugh that the “cure” was now available.
And even with Anthony Fauci declaring that the ceremony in the Rose Garden was officially a super-spreader event,
and with Nancy Pelosi taunting Trump on the 25th Amendment,
the tweaked-out president was fantasizing about more super spreaders.
He was busy concocting another White House crush on the South Lawn with another bizarre Evita turn on the balcony for Saturday,
and on Monday, he’s scheduled to travel to Florida for what he called “a very BIG RALLY!”
Was it sinking in that he’s losing,
that his greatest fear could be coming true?
Were the physical and mental stresses of Covid and steroids mixing with his febrile fear of hearing “You’re fired!” from the American people?
Was this why he was tweeting a maniacal video in bronzeface begging for the votes of seniors, swaths of whom may be slipping away because they feel betrayed over his failure on the virus?
Was this why he was demanding that Bill Barr indict Barack Obama and Joe Biden and calling Kamala Harris “a monster” and ranting about Hillary’s emails?
Was this why he pulled out of the debate?
Was this why he was picking a fight with Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the F.B.I. foiling a plot by a moronic militia to kidnap the Michigan governor?
Was it all finally sinking in?
Or was it just another week on Planet Trump?
How many people rely on Social Security for all or part of your retirement? Social Security is funded by the payroll deduction tax. If re-elected, Trump promised to end the payroll deduction tax.
Trump issued an Executive Order suspending the collection of the payroll tax that funds Social Security.
Trump's Executive Order suspending the collection of the payroll tax gives the Trump businesses' a big tax break.
Trump: 'We will be terminating the payroll tax after I hopefully get re-elected’
President Trump said he will be terminating payroll tax at the end of the year if he is re-elected.
Terminating the payroll tax means the end of Social Security.
Thousands of retirees (seniors) only income is Social Security.
Are any of you, especially you seniors, fully prepared for a future WITHOUT Social Security benefits?
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-we-will-be-terminating-the-payroll-tax-after-i-hopefully-get-elected-89972293841?fbclid=IwAR0s0GoBcK0ZgzI-l9ghzk_ElE5snKsUKbzQq1ahY5wxG0qyXWtZR2BCMXs
As the election looms, efforts to disenfranchise voters are already underway in several battleground states where Republicans control the legislature, most visibly in Pennsylvania, Florida and Texas. Russian hackers are busy flooding the internet with disinformation, even more than they did in 2016. In order to offset these efforts to rig the election and produce post-election chaos that is decided by a politicized Supreme Court, there is one simple and unanswerable response: overwhelming voter turnout, a clear mandate to go forward rather than backward, an unmistakable message saying, "Donald Trump, You're Fired."
It was illegal for Donald Trump to hold his nominating convention at the White House in August.
And it is morally bankrupt for Donald Trump to hold another super-spreader rally at the White House today.
The law and ethics don’t matter to this President. Nor does our health.
Some guests for Saturday's White House event on the South Lawn, which will be President Donald Trump's first since testing positive for the coronavirus, had their travel and lodging paid for by controversial conservative activist Candace Owens' group BLEXIT, according to emails obtained by ABC News.
Supporters, who are also scheduled to attend a separate BLEXIT event earlier in the day, were invited to attend a "HUGE outdoor rally" by the group and asked to fill out a form that notified them that BLEXIT, a campaign urging Black Americans to leave the Democratic Party, will be covering travel costs.
Guests were later informed they would be receiving an invitation from the White House to attend an event with Trump.
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In an email from Owens, obtained by ABC News, attendees were told "EVERYONE MUST BRING A MASK TO BE ALLOWED ENTRY ONTO THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS." and that "absolutely no exceptions" will be made.
MORE: Trump planning to host 1st in-person event since diagnosis at White House on Saturday: Sources
Still, wearing a face mask will not be required. Attendees will have to submit to a COVID-19 screening the morning of the event, which will consist of a temperature check and a brief questionnaire.
Guests will first attend a "BLEXIT Back the Blue event" on the Ellipse between the White House and the Washington Monument before heading over to the South Lawn for the president's remarks, according to a schedule obtained by ABC News.
When reached for comment, Owens told ABC News, "We are not interested in participating in your obvious media angle here to slander/attack the President regarding Covid-19." She added that Saturday's event "is about supporting law enforcement in minority communities." It is not immediately clear how many of those set to attend the event had their travel costs covered.
Joe Biden holds a 17-point lead over Donald Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic
in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, powering the Democrat to a double-digit advantage
in vote preference with the presidential election three weeks off.
In the aftermath of his own COVID-19 diagnosis, two-thirds of registered voters say Trump
failed to take appropriate precautions against the virus, 62 percent distrust what he says about it
and, eight months since its arrival in the United States, just 21 percent say it’s under control.
Also damaging to Trump: Fifty-eight percent disapprove of how he’s handled the pandemic –
essentially steady since July – and a new high, 73 percent, are worried they or an immediate
family member might catch the coronavirus (or say it’s already happened). Worry about the virus
remains a significant independent predictor of support for Biden over Trump.
The presidential race stands at 53-41 percent, Biden-Trump, among registered voters, and a
similar 54-42 percent among likely voters, with minimal support (in the low single digits) for the
Libertarian and Green Party candidates. Biden’s advantage rests on his support among women,
racial and ethnic minorities, independents and an unusually wide lead among moderates.
Commonsense, you have been telling us that, scientifically, masks do no good. WHY, THEN, WERE THE TRUMP AUDIENCE WEARING THEM?
What makes you think wear a mask is the same as a mask being effective? The science says:
1. Cloth mask are no more than 10% effective. At that point you are either making no more than a fashion statement or are just complying with an arbitrary mask wearing mandate.
2. Medical surgical mask are a little more than 30% effective in long term use.
3. By far the most effective mask are the n95 mask/face shield combination worn by healthcare workers for patients in isolation. However, they are not available to the general public.
In addition to the relative ineffectiveness of a mask, long-term wearing could lead the chronic pulmonary obstruction diseases. This is truly a case where the cure is worse than the disease.
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