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Where did I wish anything upon anybody? I'm not the one denying reality by doing just the opposite of what even his own health officials are recommending just to stoke my ego. It's the Liar in Chief who's wishing death and illness on anybody, in this case, his own supporters ....and he's covering his own arse by requiring all those 20k maskless Trumplets in attendance at the BOK on Saturday to sign a waiver.

I think Trump, his sycophants, and his true believers, maskless, all gathered in an enclosed space for 3-6 hours in the middle of a pandemic can only be a good thing for the country. It will undoubtedly raise the IQ of the Republican Party by weeding out a whole lot of morons.

The SCOTUS is NOT an arm of the Trump re-election campaign, sweetie.

De-nial ain't just a river in Egypt ... it floods out from the Liar in Chief and his worshippers whenever they open their mouths ... or type on their keyboards.

I understand the distinction but I think that Roberts would rule the same way no matter who the POTUS was if he or she acted the same way.

Let me get this straight ... removing statutes of white supremacist "heroes" who fought against the US more than 150 years is "erasing history" but dismissing whites massacring hundreds of blacks a century ago as "irrelevant to today" is NOT "erasing history". Viva the hypocrisy of the Right!

The US has had a form of universal health care for more than 50 years in the form of Medicare for seniors. All seniors who qualify for Social Security also qualify for Medicare. It's not free but premiums are very low compared to private insurance and it covers 80% of medical costs for most seniors, and 100% of med costs for very poor recipients as well as those who are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. I would support a Medicare-like system expanded to the entire US population. People would pay somewhat more in taxes but much less in health insurance premiums. As for open borders, I'm not naive enough to believe that that's a viable policy. However, I think that the US should streamline the immigration process to make it easier for people who wish to come to this country permanently to do so. The reason that there's so many "illegal" immigrants is because it takes years for ordinary people without political or familial connections to get permission to enter the country permanently. The POTUS is not just "anyone involved in a case". He is the head of state, and not a private citizen. The POTUS' official actions are always reviewable by the SCOTUS. Like the whites who murdered hundreds of blacks in Tulsa in the worst race massacre in 1921 right?

Sayonara! Ciao! Au revoir! Adios! Hit the road, Jax, and don't you come back no more! Don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out. I hear Paraguay welcomes your kind.

I suppose equating an outdated brand logo with art is simply a reflection of the cartoonist and his supporters' fundamental ignorance.

A caricature of Aunt Jemima is labeled "art" isn't it?

Aunt Jemima is art???? Seriously???

Except that none of the recent killings of black men and women were involved in any violent crimes, and in none of the cases were the cops involved were victims of violent crime or were their lives in danger. Maurice Gordon was killed during a traffic stop. George Floyd was apprehended for supposedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill. In the case of Rayshard Brooks, he struggled with the police, took the tazer, and shot it at the officers, but he was running away from the police not toward them. A tazer is not a deadly weapon. The protests aren't about the police shooting blacks involved in violent crimes. They are about police killing blacks who were guilty at most of petty crimes or traffic violations. They are about lesser incidents as well as in this one that just happened: Teens arrested for jaywalking

Brooks was shot in the back twice while he was running away. There is no way that there's an excuse for that. The officer could have just let him run away and collected him later as they had his personal information and his car. It's attitudes like yours which continually excuse the use of excessive -- including deadly -- force by police officers against citizens in general but black citizens in particular that perpetuates unnecessary police violence.

Cops are not pawns when they use what is clearly unjustified deadly force. All police departments have guidelines whether they are followed or not. Nobody ordered Chauvin to kneel on anybody's neck for almost 9 minutes. That doesn't exempt the Minneapolis PD from culpability. Chauvin had 18 significant complaints of using excessive force in his 19 years on the force. Brooks was shot in the back twice as he was running away. He didn't have a lethal weapon only a tazer he took from one of the cops. They had his info and his car so they could have picked him up any time. They didn't have to shoot him. What exactly do you mean "not be canceled"? Another poster upthread mentioned a "cancel culture". Is this another special code word from some pundit? Donald J. Trump and his top economic advisor Larry Kudlow have both disputed it publicly which, of course, gives legitimacy to those who wish to argue that calls for racial justice are unjustified.

Why do you think this? Because they're white? Because they've changed their minds about the topic? It seems to me that there's been a sudden sea change in how people look at the issues of systemic racism and excessive use of force by law enforcement because of the George Floyd murder. Many white people who never really thought about racism or police brutality have jolted to awareness -- and many to action -- by watching that video.

So, what? Nobody is demanding that you protest at work. Who are these people who are losing their livelihoods because they refuse to kneel? Colin Kaepernick is the only person who lost his job "over this" and it was because he started "this", ie, the kneeling during the national anthem. That this is 2020 not 2016, and 3 black men have been killed by police in May and June: Maurice Gordon on May 23 in a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis, and Rayshard Brooks on June 13 in Atlanta, all three incidents captured on body cam/cell phone video.

I'm saying that the FBI might better use its resources concentrating on hunting terrorists who have actually been active in this century -- I'm sure there are considerably more than just 9 -- rather than pretending that an old woman whose terrorist activity ended 47 years ago, presents the same threat that younger active terrorists whose whereabouts are unknown.

The FBI doesn't have enough active terrorists for their list that they have to list one who was last active almost fifty years ago? Assata Shakur is a 73-year-old former BLA member who was convicted as an accomplice in the killing of a NJ state trooper in a shoot out in 1973. She escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba in 1984, where she has been ever since.

Maybe that's true, but It undoubtedly takes one to support one.

Oh, you mean, like the mainstream media pointing out Trump's lies?

The point is that Republicans have been losing ground among voters in Orange County over several years and election cycles because of changes in the population, so there's nothing "surprising" about the Congressional election results. Historically, mid-term elections frequently result in Congressional losses for the party of the sitting president.

How exactly can Orange County be both "Orange County" and "the county & surrounding areas" at the same time??? More to the point than your geographically-impaired thinking, there's nothing "miraculous" about Orange County's voting Democratic in 2018. It's called changing demographics. The Republicans went from having a 10% advantage over Democrats among registered voters in 2013 to only a 1% advantage among registered voters in 2019. At the same time, the number of non-aligned voters increased to more than 27% of registered voters. That makes the electorate in the county much less predictable. In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first Democrat presidential candidate since 1936 to win the county, so there's nothing surprising about the Democrats taking the three Congressional seats in 2018.

Trump doesn't need the media to show him in a bad light. He does that all by himself every time he tweets.

The military and the country it protects are not synonymous. The national anthem, like the flag, is simply a symbol of the country while the military is an institution subservient to the country. The military does not make policy, although its members are too frequently expected to sacrifice for those policies it has no voice in making. What is disrespectful of the military is presidents sending American soldiers/sailors/flyers into harm's way in pursuit of questionable objectives stemming from short-sighted or foolish policies, not individuals expressing their dissatisfaction with their country during the playing of the national anthem. More importantly, "freedom" rings very hollow if people aren't free to express their dissatisfaction with the conditions in the country or the current government's actions. The anthem has NEVER been apolitical as it represents the country which is a political entity.

If you want to have a sanitized NFL playing in a vacuum where "the outside world" doesn't intrude, I suggest Madden. The NFL is made up of people, and people can't divorce themselves from their experiences or from what happens in the world. Deal with it. This applies as much today as it did 394 years ago ... "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any many of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne, 1624