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Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Brian Kemp, Doug Ducey, the FBI, the CIA, numerous federal and state Republican and Republican-appointed judges, and the entire state Republican Parties of Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are part of a deep state conspiracy vs. Trump lost. Your choice?

Moving this out of the Covid thread over here where it's slightly more relevant. - Use of national security instead of subpoena to surveil Americans - reliance on questionable to outright terrible sources to surveil Page - relationship between Clinton campaign ad Crossfire Hurricane That said, the Trump campaign ended up a long way from clean in the Russia investigation. Still, fruit of the poison tree and all that, the investigation into Trump directly (not Russia's intervention specifically) should have been dropped early, especially as all that rotten fruit was seeking to delegitimize a sitting president with almost no direct tie to him. The investigation into Trump detracted from the bigger issue that both sides agreed on: Russia is a problem. Your question dodges the issue on the table though: How can you defend Trump's attempt to undermine democracy as "his right," now to find out that his "right" is proving to be completely baseless? Once you realize that the president has sought to undermine the democratic process based on nothing more than Twitter-evidence, shouldn't you condemn in the most outraged way, what he's doing? Do you now believe, seeing that he was horribly wrong, that our sitting president almost successfully committed a near-treasonous act in trying to end run American voters? He's done this end run both through the courts, which are holding firm, and via direct calls to legislators. It stuns me that people who claim to care about democracy don't condemn this. I understand that for the politicians, they are following their master, and for many others, they have anger for Russiagate, but there's also an element of blind loyalty to Trump, and I suspect, an unwillingness to admit that support for Trump may have been misplaced. There's this thing floating around on the Internet where no one will admit their mistake. Here's a chance: What Trump is doing right now is deeply wrong and troubling. You can support him on other topics but this one seems convincingly awful.

And multiple cases getting bombed out of court with a circus show of baseless press conferences attacking democratic foundations by a sitting president is not malicious? Sure I’m happy the courts have held firm and upheld democracy. But let’s not applaud the dictator tactics that put the democracy to the test. That’s ridiculous. The inquiry on the Ukraine call? Valid. What he did was disturbing. Impeachment? Terrible. Many aspects of Russia investigation? Abhorrent.

Now we are getting somewhere. Surprised you supported the Russia investigations. It’s their right to drag out months of claims after all.

I take it you were a fan of the Russia inquiry and impeachment proceedings then. Just checks and balances at work right? Challenging the system with baseless allegations not rooted in evidence by a sitting president should not be something anyone advocates for. Especially when the accusations he makes publicly make it nowhere near the courts. That’s what puppet dictators do. Challenging the system by surveillance presidential candidates, same. The Ukraine inquiry had legs IMO but the impeachment was a sham.

I admire you sticking to your "guns." They are now 1-49 and getting laughed out of just about every case. But they do give an entertaining press conference.* *Locations of said press conferences and diseases contracted do not count towards entertainment score.

After a win, this looks like good coaching. Credit to McD for this. Culturally, they are not a team that gives up on a guy long term unless they just decide a guy is a cancer--I'm sure he's getting support this week and I bet he plays with fire vs Steelers. Moss has been valuable.

Daboll called a great game but on that play, the only guys in the route were Smith and Winters. And later in the game, in a similar set, he had Beaseley releasing from the backfield. Didn't care for either call.

Still think that Powell, Wood, Ellis, and Giuliani are "vaunted" legal minds too?

China is a problem. We've just witnessed a month of a president trying to subvert the democratic process based on evidence being laughed out of courts, which thankfully stood firm. I'd say that was a bigger threat to the world than china, which is totally dependent on us and the biggest threat to which is the voice of its own people. If that's true, then listening to citizens and recognizing their democratic voice is the biggest threat to China.

Daboll is motivated and deserves his shot. I doubt he's back next year.

Wentz is due a lot of dough from the Eagles. They might not give up on him yet unless Hurts looks amazing, which from watching him, I don't expect. Wentz + Head Coach Daboll could revive something.

Neither one is elite and Bills need them both. Singletary seems to have better hands and is slippery in space but he's slow as *****. Moss has nice burst and is physical but he's not elusive and doesn't have great hands. No complaints about either one--they are what they are--but Bills need them both.

If this doesn't make you feel good, nothing will!

Are those spines I see?

Everyone focusing on masks (both sides) is missing this point: Masks are just one thing.

But he had one earlier that was overturned. They may have sat him down for a second fumble. They brought him back in the 4th on a 3rd and 1 that he didn't get. Neither RB has been too impressive but I like Moss's physicality and burst. I wouldn't want them to give up on him this year. Next year RB is something Beane can address.

This is a brutal story. To think that America didn’t buy all available vaccines it could from an American company is a tough pill to swallow and some really bad leadership, again, in the pandemic.

You control you.

Are you back to name calling and stereotypes? If you can't be civil here, why not just stay at the other place?

Based on that, now I believe that the election was rigged.

How will they ever carry on with Rudy out with the Covid? It couldn't get any worse I guess.

California has several of the biggest cities in the country and is 41st in cases per million. If you use CA as a case study, it's doing well. Here are the worst states in cases/million. All this is correlative. Masks likely help and can't hurt. Not sure why this is debatable.

He is so embarrassing at the moment that a lot of his own party is just ignoring him like he’s a tantruming child and not the potus. It’s a brutal moment for America. We are well beyond “he has the right to challenge the election.”