I'm not opposed to voter ID; I'm opposed to using voter ID as a voter suppression tool.
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I'm not opposed to voter ID; I'm opposed to using voter ID as a voter suppression tool.
whatithink
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I'm not an advocate of the 2 party state or the lack of proportional representation. I also think everyone should be required to vote, like Australia, but accept that I am probably extreme on that one. Money in politics is the biggest problem, both parties are bought and paid for.
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
How did I know you would?
43 state wipeout in 2024
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
The rate of cheating is ALWAYS correlated to the opportunity to cheat. Going to the poll, showing your ID and voting is by far a better way to reduce the opportunity to cheat than mail-in ballots. If enough people don't believe in our voting system, it will come crashing down one way or another. It doesn't matter who is "right". I believe there is a dangerous underestimation of the importance of "faith" when it comes to our political and economic systems. If faith continues to erode, our problems have only begun.
met61
GOLD
...intelligence > wisdom = @dad4
...have the AYSO U16 also referee on weekends...take the time/money saved and earned to teach and implement financial IQ...the 3-4 MLS practice nights a week are replaced with podcasts on investing and books such as Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
...college is secondary. Perspective.
Getting harder and harder to cover for Lord Fauci
vanity fair here
www.vanityfair.com
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In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan
A spokesman for Dr. Fauci says he has been “entirely truthful,” but a new letter belatedly acknowledging the National Institutes of Health’s support for virus-enhancing research adds more heat to the ongoing debate over whether a lab leak could have sparked the pandemic.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Exactly
what-happened
GOLD
What's wrong with passionate people at the lectern? Potato, Potato, depends right?
I’m in agreement about loving mai-in voting and election integrity.
If an engaged voter wants to request a mail-in ballot, I’m all for it… just not a fan of mailing ballots that were not requested by said voters.
How did I know you would?
Errr...there was a split second I sighed and said "do I really want to do this...it's going to be such a pain in the ass"
Your "competent professionals" are volunteers looking at the marks and trying to decide whether an indentation was decided one way or another with two lawyers screaming in their ears. If you actually made them "professionals" they'd be captured just like any other groups pulling a salary.
I actually agree with most of your recommendations but note that with the extreme polarization these days, even supposedly "independent" boards like the Fed, the NLRB, or even the SEC are not really "independent" but are captured by interest groups and parties. Even supposedly non-partisan school boards are captured by either pro-union or anti-union candidates these days.
I also don't agree the US is "fine" given the margins several recent races have fallen in...a little fraud is enough to tilt the system....and given now what's going on with the school boards its become even more vital since the margins in those contested elections can be tight (again, my friend lost by less than 40 votes to the union candidate).
These wouldn't be an issue but for the extreme polarization of the country which is pulling the politicians in the two directions...otherwise you wouldn't see the impact that you do in the Senate which has no gerrymandering. Yet we only have maybe 7 true centrist senators, and of those 7 most of them are captured by special interests (Manchin/Murkowski) and/or are among the worst of the worst when it comes to politicians (Romney).
If the bottom drops out over the winter (and I think at this point there is more of a 1/3 possibility that it happens, more than 50% if we get another COVID freak out), I think the Ds could very well be slaughtered in 2022...they also have until no later than January to pull the Senate and gubernatorial races out....maybe March for the House...afterwards everything gets baked in (due to retirements, money, etc). The Virginia governors race will be illustrative for how much the anti-Trump California playbook can limit the damage (I also think if the Rs lose this Virginia is going to tear itself apart....it's unsustainable state with confederate flags waiving proudly in the southern part of the state and Arlington being San Francisco blue).
2024 is a long way away. At the rate of deterioration Biden is going through, I think there's a reasonable chance he doesn't even make it to 2022. But if he is no longer president, it does give the Ds a chance to reset. Now they'll have to reset with Kamala (who hasn't even managed to do a good job as Veep in selling herself and makes Selina Meyers look like a political savant, at least so far), but we won't really know until we know and she will have a honeymoon period being the first female president and an African American one to boot. Who knows, even if she is an awful campaigner she might prove to be good at governance (yeah, I made myself laugh at that but again we don't know what we don't know).
It is a tall order and I stand by the statement that Trump might have done himself a favor by losing. If nothing changes, we are headed for a wipe out so large it might send the Ds back into the wilderness for decades.
they are going lose midterms , all recent history suggest the president party loses the mid years in first term .. the question is will it be 2010, 2018 type slaughter for Dems . If it was held today they would get demolished
VA is def one to watch , they aren’t having quite the same luck with trying to tie Youngkin to Trump like the Dems did a good job of doing in CA. I still think the Dems eek out the race, state legislature is also up for grabs … even if the Dems win , but it’s close( and it should be) that should sound alarm bells , but it won’t
Kamala is terrible, if she was any good they’d have her out speaking way more often than she does . The Dems prefer a half alive human in Joe to Kamala , that’s how bad she is . It’s kinda shocking how bad she is at politics
she didn’t even make it to a primary in 2020, and this was with all the institutional backing , and media fawning over her . She was polling 3rd in her own state . Please run her in 2024
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
Damn, this doesn't paint a pretty picture.Getting harder and harder to cover for Lord Fauci
vanity fair here
In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan
A spokesman for Dr. Fauci says he has been “entirely truthful,” but a new letter belatedly acknowledging the National Institutes of Health’s support for virus-enhancing research adds more heat to the ongoing debate over whether a lab leak could have sparked the pandemic.
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Instead of helping to lead a search for COVID-19’s origins, with the pandemic now firmly in its 19th month, the NIH has circled the wagons, defending its grant system and scientific judgment against a rising tide of questions. “It’s just another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance of transparency,” said Stanford microbiologist Dr. David Relman. “Given all of the sensitivity about this work, it’s difficult to understand why NIH and EcoHealth have still not explained a number of irregularities with the reporting on this grant.”
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As scientists remain in a stalemate over the pandemic’s origins, another disclosure last month made clear that EcoHealth Alliance, in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was aiming to do the kind of research that could accidentally have led to the pandemic. On September 20, a group of internet sleuths calling themselves DRASTIC (short for Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19) released a leaked $14 million grant proposal that EcoHealth Alliance had submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
It proposed partnering with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and constructing SARS-related bat coronaviruses into which they would insert “human-specific cleavage sites” as a way to “evaluate growth potential” of the pathogens. Perhaps not surprisingly, DARPA rejected the proposal, assessing that it failed to fully address the risks of gain-of-function research.
The leaked grant proposal struck a number of scientists and researchers as significant for one reason. One distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic code is a furin cleavage site that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells. That is just the feature that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had proposed to engineer in the 2018 grant proposal. “If I applied for funding to paint Central Park purple and was denied, but then a year later we woke up to find Central Park painted purple, I’d be a prime suspect,” said Jamie Metzl, a former executive vice president of the Asia Society, who sits on the World Health Organization’s advisory committee on human genome editing and has been calling for a transparent investigation into COVID-19’s origins.
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Meanwhile, members of the DRASTIC coalition have continued their research. As one member, Gilles Demaneuf, a data scientist in New Zealand, told Vanity Fair, “I cannot be sure that [COVID-19 originated from] a research-related accident or infection from a sampling trip. But I am 100% sure there was a massive cover-up.”
Hüsker Dü
DA
Foaming at the mouth, babbling gibberish, drunk at the end of the bar going on about some fantasy in their heads kinda thing (or fantasy some opportunist put there), be my guest, hear’em out . . . meanwhile back in reality there is business to do and all the silly fools insisting they get their 15 minutes just slows down progress.
3:15am Husker? I think we all know who has drinking problem. Go get some sleep dude and try and be honest for once in your life. Lying and cheating is not good for one's soul, just saying.
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