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This has happened a lot with Democrats in the past year. Initially, they’re foisted up on the pedestal, then they get examined and ultimately rejected.

Swalwell’s user photo is of him kissing a baby (actually it looks more like he’s sucking the kid’s eyeball out). I’m going take this person seriously? Edit, yes, I do realize what my avatar is... I retract.

She misspelled vomit.

I call him unfrozen caveman Governor.

Yes. ^^^^^^^^^.

Well whaddya know.

Here’s the virtual marathon winner:

I swear, there's going to be trouble if I ever hear Hotel ***** California and I'm holding a machete. Don't be near me. Please for the love of God I wish they would retire that song... I think the problem is that it gets played on lite FM and Adult Rock, and Contemporary, and Classic Rock stations, in elevators, in the grocery store. The song just isn't good enough to be played so much for the past 45 years.

You, sir, are a cheap date!

She walks like Bo Diddly and she don’t need no crutch. Bob Dylan — From a Buick 6

Hallelujah! Long Island finally at Phase 1 today.

When he acts like a duck-tator then I will pipe up. Until then, all I do is watch.

We will disagree about politicians wanting to control their "message", etc. I think it is widely held that Trump uses Twitter as a platform to get around a media that he considers hostile to his "message", etc. He's failed at changing the media's handling of him. In fact, I tend to question who's the cart and who's the horse (does the media guide the message, or do they get fed by politicians). In any event, it is just another example of how he's the worst wanna-be dictator, ever. People (in a general sense) like to complain about Trump's dictator tendencies in one breath, and then mock his failures in another. Please don't say that it is the #resist that stops Trump -- because if he were a true dictator, then he'd have crushed that # long ago.

People are going to see this as pure partisanship on Twitter's behalf if they don't add a fact check link to every "newsworthy exception" user. What about retweets? Twitter is going to run around and fact check everyone? All of this seems to go against what Twitter was all about. Like I said, Twitter should go all in with the editing -- and probably kill their business -- or stay out altogether and stop appearing to choose sides. You say that this President wants to control news / social media -- but isn't that what Twitter is doing? Can you find me a politician who that doesn't apply to? If that's the definition of a would-be dictator, then we've got thousands of them running around (in office and out).

Maybe, but at this point trying to figure out the motivations why Twitter does any of this is way too murky for me to want to participate.

Twitter should go all in on content editing, or get all the way out. Fact checking can be really nuanced and I think it is mis-used a lot. I agree with you that the issue isn’t about stifling speech by fact checking. I have a twitter account but I don’t use it because I feel that they do manipulate content in an inconsistent way. That’s their choice, and mine. That being said, do you know if Twitter fact checks any other user — especially politicians? If they want to fact check all these bozos then that’s fine. Sigling out one particular guy is extremely lame.

I always end up answering "what's the matter"? I figure texts are benign, but phone calls take effort. My oldest one can't figure it out why I answer that way. I tell her that she's looking into her future, she just doesn't know it yet.

...until any one of your teenagers/twentysomethings call you on your cell phone... It is like a jump-scare every time one of their names pops up on my screen. I've thought that about the Asian countries' infection and mortality rates. This is a SARS-type virus and they were much more heavily exposed the first time around with SARS. I'm likely to be wrong about that, but it sounds good to me.

"Have" three live strains. "May have had" four?

He’s got to save face — and get the court of appeals to shut the door for him. Thats the only reason I see for him to persist.

You think? Dosen’t every judge use clerks to write for them? Isn’t this pretty much the same thing?

He didn’t make that happen. Somebody else made that happen.

Great song. Gets stuck in my head often. Needs a Snickers bar.

So many questions that I don’t want answers to.