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PBS’S YAMICHE ALCINDOR MAKES SURPRISE IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO TRUMP 2020 REELECTION BID:
PBS’ Yamiche Alcindor confronted Surgeon General Jerome Adams on his statement that “African-Americans and Latinos should avoid alcohol, drugs and tobacco,” clarifying that people were offended by the language he used.
“I have a quick question for you. You said that African-Americans and Latinos should avoid cool, drugs and tobacco. You also said, ‘do it for you Abuela, do it for big momma and papa,” she said. “There are some people online that are already offended by that language and the idea that you’re saying behaviors might be leading to these high death rates.”
“Could you talk about whether or not — I guess have a response to the people that might be offended by the language you used?” Alcindor asked.
Jim Treacher is astonished at Alcindor’s journalistic efficiency:
UPDATE: “If you thought it was crazy that Yamiche would suggest our black surgeon general is racist, keep in mind she also believed Juicy Smullett.”
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6 hours ago, B-Man said:
Democrats trying to use coronavirus crisis to rewrite US election law
By David Harsanyi
I’m sorry, but you have no constitutional “right” to vote by mail. You have no constitutional “right” to vote six days after an election is over. Nor do you have any “right” to censor information related to an election. Not even during a pandemic.
This week, the US Supreme Court ruled that a lower federal court couldn’t overwrite Wisconsin’s election laws and force the state to accept ballots without any postmark deadline nearly a week after the election. Likewise, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Tony Evers didn’t have the authority to arbitrarily suspend in-person voting.
If these dictates had been allowed to stand, they would have created destructive precedents, taking elections out of the hands of local legislatures. If we discard legal norms every time there’s a crisis, we no longer have a nation of laws.
The usual suspects, of course, lamented the alleged anti-democratic animus of Chief Justice John Roberts’ high court. Liberal pundits, apparently unable to differentiate between partisan policy preferences and the rule of law, launched into their customary hysterics, denouncing the Supreme Court for disenfranchising minorities and putting people’s lives at risk.
But the court doesn’t exist to fix your local government’s incompetence or make life safer. It exists to uphold the Constitution.
None of this is to say that the situation in Wisconsin is fair to voters, who had to risk standing in lines during a dangerous pandemic. Many states have contingencies in place for emergencies. Wisconsin — while it had plenty of time to pass new guidelines — does not. That’s a Wisconsin problem, not a Supreme Court problem, not a “democracy” problem and definitely not a federal problem.
If Wisconsinites don’t like their laws, if they’re disappointed in legislators, if they’re furious at the state’s high court and bothered by the governor’s ineptitude, then there will be plenty of future elections to right those wrongs. In no version of a healthy “democracy,” however, do we override existing laws, passed by previous elected officials, through fiat.
But make no mistake, the Wisconsin case will be used in the broader push to federalize and centralize elections to create a more direct democracy — even though such efforts are antithetical to US governance.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has already proposed mandating automatic and same-day voter registration, ending ID requirements, compelling states to have 15 days of early voting and forcing states to adopt voting by mail, among other liberal pet projects. She wants the federal government to bribe states billions to adopt these standards.
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Then again, people of goodwill can disagree over the particulars of election policy.
It’s far more critical to note that neither the Senate, nor the House, nor the White House, nor federal courts have any business compelling states to adopt uniform standards regarding mail-in ballots or IDs or voting machines or much of anything else.
A national mail vote is meant to federalize the election, leaving smaller states to the vagaries of a national majority. It’s exactly the kind of situation the Founders wanted us to avoid.
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Wisconsin is discovering problems with absentee ballots, including hundreds that were never delivered
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, just like President Trump, has some issues with voting by mail and he’s a big fan of showing ID to vote.
From the NYT’s Thomas Kaplan:
Despite Cuomo's reference to "showing ID," New York generally does not require voters to show ID..-
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I don't think the FBI "ignored" anything.
They just didn't let it get in the way of the narrative they wanted to create
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Back on the thread........
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2 week government shutdown: a humanitarian crisis on par with the Ethopian famine
2 month everything-but-government shutdown: what are you wussies bitching about
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1 minute ago, whatdrought said:
And I believe that all tyrants lives should be reasonably restricted to combat the abuse of constitutional rights.Apparently, he gets to decide what rights are important and which are trivial.
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1 minute ago, shoshin said:
"Jacobson instructs that all constitutional rights may be reasonably restricted to combat a public health emergency," wrote Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan for the majority.
There you go.
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19 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
Forgetting the fact that National Socialism is a completely different and opposed thing from Socialism. That is false
By refusing to give states the aid they requested, That is false
Over the last few days and weeks we’ve seen plenty of facepalm-worthy examples of new rules and regulations from government officials in certain states, and this one in Ohio has gotten some attention:
The "stay at home" order was meant to enforce social distancing, not make it de facto house arrest. This is horrible. Just horrible.
Why just crush the virus, when you can crush people’s spirits, too, amirite?
You know what that is BB ??
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1 hour ago, Deranged Rhino said:
Was there as much controversy over Obama’s “cousin Pookie”?
Those were the days:
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A Team Exploited the Coronavirus Pandemic to Set a 26-Hour 38-Minute Cross-Country Record.
“It did not escape many long-time Cannonballers that an immobilized workforce and hard times might create ideal road conditions for fast driving thanks to much lower traffic volumes. Musing in online chat groups ensued. But most decided that it was better to cast their lot with the rest of humanity and stay home. Most, but not all.”
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1 minute ago, BullBuchanan said:
The rightists values are pulled straight from Germany circa 1940.
......Bully Boy exposes himself.
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1 minute ago, BullBuchanan said:
Doctors and nurses and essential workers aren't getting sick and dying because of a lack of PPE? Might want to inform them of that.
PPE is not 100% effective................Someone should inform you of that.
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ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD THEM IT WAS EASIER TO BUY A GUN THAN TO BUY A BOOK:
Virus-Panicked Liberal Gun Buyers Are Getting Angry When They Discover Their Own Gun Control Laws.
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I think that most people in the country realize that Washington DC is the problem.
Mostly the reason that Trump was elected.
How can they claim to fix the problem with two long standing insiders........Joe Biden and Andrew Cuomo ?
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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