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Sorry, but a person is known by the company he or she keeps. Supporting Trump is tacitly supporting white supremacists, misogynists, and other assorted fascists he embraces as "patriots". If you don't like being lumped in with such, then maybe you should take a critical look at the person you're supporting.

Actually, this is exactly the kind of "freedoms" that these Wacko Trumpists are whining about losing. Men can no longer beat or rape their wives or girlfriends. Parents no longer have the right to abuse their children in the name of "discipline". Whites no longer have the right to insult, intimidate, assault or lynch Blacks, Asians, Latinos or Native Americans. Straights can no longer bash gays, lesbians, transsexuals with impunity. The entire "loss of freedoms" meme among conservatives is really a whine that straight white males, especially those with limited education and skills, are rapidly losing their privileges and have to compete with the untermenschen.

Because Texas wants to perpetuate the myth of Texas being big enough to be its own country? I don't know but the areas of the Panhandle and East Texas may have power outages because the ice brought down power lines, not because they're suffering rolling blackouts because their utility companies can't meet the demand for electricity. The utilities in those two areas simply by extra powers from their grid partners. Solar energy isn't that complicated. Solar technology has advanced so much in the last decade that even in cloudy WNY, producing electricity from solar panels is feasible and dependable.

Maybe Texas should manage its power grid better. Most of Texas is under the ERCOT grid, which is the only "standalone" state power grid. All the other states and the Texas Panhandle belong to large multi-state power grids that share power so that when there's a big problem in one area, they can get power and other resources from unaffected areas ... which is why when there's a hurricane in Florida, power companies from New York or Kentucky send crews to help restore the grid in the affected areas. Who's to Blame for Texas Power Outages?

Are you interested in purchasing a recently rehabbed bridge over Chautauqua Lake? Anybody believing that Trump was ever motivated by anything except his own self interest would certainly jump at the chance to buy my bridge. Trump went to Washington to feed his ego, and promote his "brand". Trump has NEVER done anything for anybody unless it benefited himself. It wasn't Washington that "isn't built for getting things done", it was Trump who was too stupid and too lazy to deal with the real problems the country faced. Trump basked in the rabid support of his radical right zombies and bullied anyone who dared to stand up to him. Trump's central purpose became remaining in power at any cost. When he was voted out of office by the American people, the courts wouldn't overturn the election results for him, and he couldn't threaten state officials to change election results, he attempted to send his zombie army to stage a coup d'etat. He's a traitor.

I wrote "most" not "all". Nobody said Trump was responsible for the coronavirus. Trump never worked "behind the scenes to get infrastructure in place". He left state and local officials to deal with the crisis as best they could, from acquiring PPE to requiring mask wearing. Instead of using the "bully pulpit" that the POTUS has, Trump used it to lie about the danger that the pandemic presented even before there were confirmed cases in the US; he continuously downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic to public health such as comparing it to the seasonal flu and claiming it would just "disappear" to the very end of his administration; he politicized mitigation practices like mask wearing and social distancing; Trump promoted unproven and sometimes dangerous "cures" for the coronavirus like hydroxychloroquine or injecting bleach; he repeatedly held campaign rallies and other events without requiring masks or social distancing, some of which turned out to be super spreader events; and, finally, while Trump bragged about the rapid development of covid 19 vaccines, his administration failed to create serious plans for vaccine distribution. What is silly about your posts is the mental gymnastics you've engaged in to excuse Trump's mishandling of the American response to the coronavirus.

Why don't you tell us, Blitzy? Name them. Brian Sicknick died from injuries that he suffered in defending the US Capitol from the right wing domestic terrorists that Trump sicced on Congress in his failed coup attempt on January 6, 2020. Two other police officers committed suicide immediately after the Capitol invasion. More than 140 police officers were seriously injured during the coup attempt.

Right-o. We all know that Antifah dominates the Democratic Party the way that Wacko Trumpists espousing white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and fascism dominate the Republican Party.

Trump had a year to deal with Covid 19. He chose to lie about pandemic's seriousness and politicize practices that have been proven to mitigate the spread of the disease. 400,000 Americans died while Trump was POTUS, and since deaths from Covid lag behind infections and hospitalization, most of the deaths from Covid that occurred since January 20, 2021 resulted from infections that occurred weeks or months before. Covid Deaths on Trump's Watch

my mistake... April 17-20, 1961

If Kennedy was so prescient that he could see 60 years into the future, why wasn't he prescient enough to see that the Bay of Pigs invasion was doomed before it started? FYI ... the Bay of Pigs invasion began on April 17, 1963 and ended on April 20, 1961. Edit: should be 1961

I don't pretend to know. What I do know is that the only Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote in the last 28 years was George W Bush in 2004 who was the antithesis of Trump and Trumpism. Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes in 2016 and by more than 7 million votes in 2020 despite "energizing" his base. The problem is that Trump's base is the Wacko Trumpists who espouse an American version of fascism, which alienates not only Democrats and left leaning Independents but also Bush style Republicans. Excuse me, but the only individual who tried to change "the constructs" of the US Constitution was Donald J Trump who sicced his version of storm troopers on the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election which he lost by more than 7 million votes. It was Trump's mob who wanted to lynch Mike Pence for not doing Trump's bidding and assassinate Nancy Pelosi for being Trump's "enemy". Trump's treason failed because unlike Trump, the Capitol and Metro police, Secret Service, and other federal staffers took their oaths seriously, and the US Congress refused to be cowed by a bully. Your "expertise" in recognizing Nazis under every cabbage leaf seems to stem from your allegiance to a self-serving would-be fascist dictator.

When you sleep with flea-ridden dogs, you wake up with fleas yourself. I don't have much sympathy for the plight of Republicans because they've been letting flea-ridden dogs into their beds for about half a century, starting with welcoming die-hard southern segregationists opposed to the Civil Rights movement. Since then, Republicans have been steadily moving from tolerating to embracing more and more far right extremist elements with white supremacist, anti-government, and fascist ideologies. Too many "decent" Republicans were either silent about this drift to the extreme right or outright complicit in it for their own political gain. Trump and Trumpism is what a political party gets when it sells its soul to extremists led by an unscrupulous wannabe dictator for short-term gains.

She made a tasteless joke, and she apologized. Crime of the century it's not.

It's hard for an incumbent POTUS to NOT get re-elected. All Trump had to do was demonstrate some leadership and some compassion by doing the things that you listed. He didn't do those things because he's a stupid, spoiled f-up who has bullied and lied his way out of his failures all his life. Now, he's failed again, both as POTUS and as a wannabe dictator leading a coup d'etat.

What was so "horrible" about it? That she said that Trump couldn't do anything that he wanted to do or was it that she made a crappy joke about the POTUS' son's name? The quote in question: "Contrary to what President Trump has said, Article 2 [of the Constitution] does not give him the power to do anything he wants. The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he can't make him a baron."

What bull manure! All of the supposed "***** ups along the way to certifying a winner" were fully explained, but you simply refuse to accept them. FTR, there were more proven cases of voting fraud in Louisiana than there were in Pennsylvania. I believe it was 4 or 5 in LA to 3 in PA.

Maybe the reason that blue counties are successful in business activity is the same reason that they are "complaining all the time": the people who live in those counties aren't willing to accept a low bar status quo but are always looking for better, for themselves and others in their communities. I grew up in a small rural area and have now lived in a small city in a rural area of New York for 20+ years -- Trump country -- but in between that I lived and worked in large urban metros. Even in the late 1960s when I graduated from high school, economic opportunities in my town were so limited that ambitious young people left town to go to college or to find jobs in Buffalo or Erie, PA, or elsewhere. That has been the story of small town, rural America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries: the migration of ambitious and creative young people to larger areas in search of more opportunity, even when they come from families that have found economic success in their small towns. Most never return because there's little incentive to do so. I think that the young people who don't leave small towns/rural areas are probably not temperamentally inclined to be ambitious or adventurous and much more inclined to be accepting of the existing status quo however poor that status quo might be.

Plumbers and electricians aren't unskilled or semi-skilled workers. Most take coursework in high school or community college and then work under the supervision of experienced plumbers or electricians for several months or years. Unionized plumbers and electricians make really good money and have benefits, but those that work for small plumbing businesses don't make all that much. The high hourly rates are divided between the actual worker(s) and the business owner.

Remember when the US Capitol didn't resemble a military base? I do.

Another day, another Trumpist posting propaganda in the form of an "article" from far right conspiracy website, Summit News, which turns out to be simply a collection of tweets purporting to represent the thoughts of Black Lives Matter supporters. Dumbasses gonna be dumbasses.

As an ex-teacher, I will second this. Teaching is a mentally exhausting job ... as many parents have been finding out dealing with only 1 or 2 or 3 kids. Most teachers regularly deal with 20 or more most of the day. As a retiree who worked most of my career in IT, I will also second this. Days off are nice, but weeks off are better. The really sad thing is that so many American workers either have only limited vacation time (like 2 weeks max) or, worse, earn more time off that they can't use because of the demands of their jobs. When I retired, I got paid for 6 or 7 weeks of vacation time that I never got to use.

That's what all the teams that have been consistently successful during the salary cap era have done. Back in the early 2000s, it was assumed that the salary cap would end the rise of dynastic teams like the Cowboys, 49ers, Bills of the 1990s. Teams would use rookie contracts to build a team to make one or two runs at the playoffs and maybe the SB, and then sink like rocks under the weight of star contracts. Some fans still have that mindset but the reality is that there are probably just as many if not more consistently successful teams between 2000 and 2020 than there were between 1980 and 2000. Teams have adjusted to the salary cap, and some have done a better job than others. The key, IMO, is the quality of team management and ownership commitment to winning. The good teams negotiate and re-negotiate player contracts to move money around so that they don't have to gut their rosters, and they can do this because they also have excellent collegiate and professional talent evaluators, so they also have younger talent able to step in. They also have larger and better coaching and support staffs to bring young players up to speed faster, to figure out hide/make up for a lack of talent at one position, to keep players healthy, etc. I think the successful teams probably spend more time and money on the administration, coaching, and support than do unsuccessful teams -- or they get more value for their money -- because they have astute management. One of the reasons for the Bills long playoff drought was that their front office was stuck in the 1990s. They didn't adjust to the modern NFL, and it cost them on the field. It took new ownership and then a new management team to put them on the road to consistent success on the field. Just four years removed from a seventeen year long playoff drought, the Bills came up just one win short of going back to the Super Bowl. The big test for the Bills management going forward will now be to "manipulate the salary cap" just like New Orleans and other successful teams have done in order to put as good or even better team on the field every season.