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Trump hasn't "gone made with power"; he's always been there.

Maybe you should get your news from some place other than FAUX NEWS and various right wingnut websites: Bloomberg Slate Brookings

It's the old idea that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it might be a duck.

So, McEnany isn't a professional writer?

They don't have active investigations of their actions. Trump and the Baby Trumps do. NYS AG and the Manhattan DA both have active investigations going on about Covid Donnie's financial dealings in NY. Trump is still under court order to release several more years of tax returns to the DA. They are looking for proof of fraud and other misconduct. The IRS has been investigating Trump for several years. This investigation was halted when Trump became POTUS but it can always been restarted. Trump can pardon the Baby Trumps for federal crimes and he can even try to pardon himself, but that doesn't shield any of them from state charges, and Andrew Cuomo, like his father Mario, is a bad enemy to have.

Like Kayleigh McEnaney?

What the hell does this response have to do with anything I posted?

If you don't want to be considered a dumbass, then don't choose to blindly believe and repeat the baseless rantings of a demented sociopath who has repeatedly demonstrated he will say anything to incite his followers. That Union soldiers voted by mail during the Civil War and that mail-in voting has been a part of US elections ever since is not "a position". It's a fact that has been in history books for more than 150 years so find one about the Civil War from decades ago and check it out.

Americans have been voting by mail since soldiers in the Union Armies serving during the Civil War cast votes in the 1864 presidential election! That's 154 years ago, dumbass! Get your brain out of the sewer of Right wingnut websites and Donald Trump's alternative universe.

Why am I not surprised that there's joy in Western Europe at Biden's win? I bet there weren't a lot of celebrations in Russia, however.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. November 8, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 399,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by February 1, 2021. November 7, 2020 - US coronavirus recorded 126,742, the highest ever. Texas became the first US state to top 1,000,000 coronavirus cases. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. November 7, 2020 - 237,123 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1059. November 6, 2020 - 236,064 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1120. November 5, 2020 - 234,944 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1210. November 4, 2020 - 233,734 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1096. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 4-7, 2020: 1125 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 28-November 3, 2020: 852 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-27, 2020: 800 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 November 1, 2020 - 22,748 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of October, an average of 734 per day. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. November 1, 2020 - 231,003 Americans have died of coronavirus October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

Biden 290, Covid Donnie 214.

After four years of Covid Donnie , any semi-decent politician who doesn''t lie or spout vitriol and divisiveness in every other sentence could easily be mistaken for a saint.

They weren't flushed, though. They chose self-exile rather than tolerate posters with ideas different from their own. I think that the Trump Cultists' hysterical predictions about a Biden presidency is a reflection of the intolerance of dissenting opinions that's part and parcel of the GOP under Trump.

👍 That 145+ million Americans (43% of the total US population!) cast votes in an election in the middle of the worst pandemic to hit the world in more than a century demonstrates that.

So far, the worse complaint came from the PA GOP that poll watchers were kept too far away from the ballot counters. Not Republican poll watchers, but all poll watchers. It was quickly remedied. Somebody reported a vote count from somewhere in Wisconsin that had an extra zero in it (the extra zero wasn't in the actual count but in a report somebody released publicly and then corrected). Aside from the usual machine glitches, jammed scanners, human error, etc, the election has largely been free from any major problems. CNN has covered the counting of the mail-in ballots in PA, in AZ, and GA rather extensively. Some of the vote counting sites allowed reporters and photographers inside so that people could see how the process went. It was really an education on how Boards of Election count ballots ... all the precautions taken, the different types of ballots, how problem ballots are dealt with, preliminary counts vs official totals etc.

I'm thinking bitter is more accurate.

How f'n stupid!!!! Covid Donnie doesn't realize that he lost the popular vote by almost 5 million votes. Moronic Covid Donnie has also apparently forgotten that he only won the presidency in 2016 BECAUSE of the Electoral College since he lost the popular vote in that election by 3 million votes -- and he and his cult have the temerity to accuse Joe Biden of being senile.

I believe that more than one of Meadows' staffers have also tested positive. Meadows was meeting and greeting and circulating at the Election Night party at the White House, so it's likely going to be another superspreader event,.

Stop guaranteeing student loans to students at for-profit colleges and trade schools that are scams. These schools need to go through a periodic accreditation process by an outside organization just like non-profit colleges and universities go through. Allowing borrowers who've been paying their loans back for several years to be able to discharge them through bankruptcy if they suffer economic hardship for other causes like lost jobs or business failures, medical problems, etc. There's a program I believe that allows forgiveness of student loans based on public service. Right now, it's kind of hard to become eligible for that program. Expand it and make more job types/professions eligible. For example, I think that medical professionals from nurses to doctors working in public health ought to be eligible for 50-70% of their loans forgiven based on how many years they work in the field of public health.

I generally agree with your take here but I cannot agree with the statement I bolded. A "central news" authority of some kind that would regulate news, talk shows, social media, etc is a bigger danger to American democracy than having a demented bully as POTUS because the news would then be filtered through whatever lens the federal "authority" would approve. We wouldn't know that the POTUS was a demented bully because some unseen hand would clean up his words before anybody saw them or heard them and reject his most outrageous lies -- or there would be no way that we would be able to find out if what the POTUS said was a lie. We would never hear the other side. The US, in fact, had a couple of tries at something like this in the 1950s and 1960s. The first was a national censorship group that regulated "decency" on TV and in the media. The second one was more pernicious: a "gentlemen's agreement" among reporters and print a.nd broadcast editors/publishers to suppress any news stories that reflected poorly on the POTUS. This agreement to never publish stories may have predated the Cold War, but it peaked during the Cold War. Certainly the most egregious -- and dangerous -- example this agreement was the fact that JFK was having prostitutes brought into the WH at a time when the Soviet Union was well known for using female spies posing as prostritues and "party girls" (a British PM and his government were forced to resign amid allegations of trysts with such spies). All the reporters covering the WH knew what JFK was doing but kept it from the public. This didn't come out until decades after Kennedy's death although there had been rumors about it. No thank you to censorship, whether it's imposed from the top or self imposed. I think the best way to counter the negative effects of the democratization of the presidential candidate selection is to do away with the Electoral College. Most Americans are centrists, but the party bases are further to the left or right of the political spectrum. Electoral college gamesmanship allows parties to win elections with candidates who don't appeal to most American voters. Going with just the popular vote --- direct election of the POTUS -- would force party bases to move toward the center to appeal to most Americans. Nobody likes to lose. "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln I think that this election proves this in spades.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. November 6, 2020 - US coronavirus cases topped 125,000. November 6, 2020 - White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for the coronavirus. November 3, 2020 - Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, reportedly urged “much more aggressive action” against the coronavirus in an internal memo to Trump administration officials offering a bleak assessment of the pandemic still raging across the country—as the president continues to insist the U.S. has COVID-19 under control. (Dr Birx ) October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. November 6, 2020 - 236,064 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1210. November 5, 2020 - 234,944 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1210. November 4, 2020 - 233,734 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1096. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 4-6 2020: 1142 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 28-November 3, 2020: 852 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-27, 2020: 800 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 November 1, 2020 - 22,748 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of October, an average of 734 per day. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. November 1, 2020 - 231,003 Americans have died of coronavirus October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

The problem is that it's not "the parties" that decide who runs for POTUS. Back in the 1960s, the state party insiders pretty much decided on which candidates that the states would support at the national conventions, but in the 1970s that changed due to the upheavals caused by the Vietnam War, the student protests, and civil rights movement. State primary elections selected national convention delegates pledged to specific presidential candidates while "special delegates" picked by party leaders shrank in number and influence or disappeared altogether. Today, in most states, it's rank-and-file members of the state political parties who decide which candidates get state delegates. That's more democratic, but it also makes it "base" voters -- rank and file party members who come out to vote in primaries -- very powerful, and many of those party members tend to be closer to the ideological wings of the parties than to the center.

Maybe the Trumplets and the Baby Trumps should be considering where Covid Donnie can hide out so that he isn't extradicted back to the US.