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Insufficient? Seriously? Back in April and May Trump decided that the pandemic needed to end, so he declared "victory" and moved on despite the fact that the pandemic raged throughout the South and Southwest. He demanded that states reopened, despite many states that didn't meet CDC guidelines for doing so. He blamed high infection rates on "too much testing" when, in fact, the US wasn't doing enough testing. In August, Trump threatened states with loss of federal education funding if schools didn't reopen with in person classes. As the campaign heated up, Trump politicized effective public health recommendations, especially mask wearing and social distancing. He belittled, denigrated, and tried to marginalize leading public health experts within the administration like Fauci and Birx. In the final weeks of the campaign, as cases were surging throughout the US and after he recovered from Covid-19 himself, Trump made not wearing a mask at his rallies a show of support, he defied local and state ordinances designed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, railed against media coverage of the pandemic, and predicted that the day after the election, the pandemic would disappear from the news. Trump was estimated to have held about 50 mass rallies -- again with attendees mostly unmasked and crowded again -- in states with rapidly increasing infection rates like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in the closing days of the campaign. Trump's response was hardly "insufficient"; it was deliberately reckless. He demonstrated a callous disregard for anything or anyone except himself -- and his total unfitness to be POTUS.

It's not the GOP's money that they're spending on recounts or court suits to get 60 votes here or 27 votes there. It's actually money from all the dumbasses they've conned into contributing to their "legal fight", which is simply a ploy to get dumbasses to put more money into Covid Donnie's pockets.

The Basilisk is speaking now at his first "press conference" ....

Why is that unsurprising? Trump and Pence Superspreader Grand Tour wandered through some of the states that are currently being overwhelmed by the coronavirus: Wisconsin, Michigan, and PA.

They probably quit because they know that whatever money Trump cons out of his cult will go into his pockets, not to cover their billable hours.

I think the runoffs will come down to Republican turn-out. Ordinarily, Republicans tend to come out for special elections more than Democrats, but 2020 isn't an ordinary year. I think that Trump will be the deciding factor but I'm not sure if he'll be good or bad for the Republicans, especially when both Republican candidates are Trump loyalists (Perdue more so than Loeffler). What will Georgia Republicans who aren't Trump cultists think of Trump's baseless claims of election fraud? Of his refusal to cooperate with the transition to a Biden presidency? Of Trump's engaging in score settling in the Defense Department? Of Trump tweeting BS about his grievances against the world while ignoring the tsunami of Covid-19 engulfing the country? Congressional Republicans have pussyfooted around Trump for the past week while he's engaged in his post-election loss temper tantrum in hopes that he won't turn on them and deliberately sabotage their chances in the GA runoffs. What if that backfires and disgusts Georgia Republicans that their party puts loyalty to a defeated POTUS ahead of the good of the country? I don't know the answers to these questions, but I think the answers are going to determine whether the Senate goes Democratic or remains Republican.

You may call yourself whatever you wish, but your words on this MB say that your slightly left of Right Wingnut country. There were 150+ million votes cast in 2020. For all of Covid Donnie's allegations on Twitter and Crazy Rudy's claims at his landscaping center presser, I don't think that there's been even 1500 votes found to be fraudulent throughout the country.

This is like the GOPers from Nevada who found all these Nevada voters with out of state addresses and called "foul" because they were too stupid to realize that APO and AFB indicated that the addresses were US Army and US Air Force bases!

George Carlin Carlin's line is funny but the reality is so very sad.

"The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying the November 3rd, 2020, election was the most secure election in history. President Donald Trump continues to deny the results. " -- Erin Burnett Out Front (Election)

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. 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 12, 2020 - 242,679 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1171. November 11, 2020 - 241,508 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1813. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 11-12, 2020: 1492 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 4-10, 2020: 1008 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 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.

He's a proverbial Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

Dogs descend from wolves and are pack animals., so they are happiest within a pack. Dogs raised with people accept their people as their pack, and they aren't particularly bothered by being subordinate to human pack members because that's just how packs are organized. The relationship between dog and man is more symbiotic than captor/prisoner. Man gives dogs food, shelter, and care while dogs give man protection, assistance with various tasks, and unconditional love.

Your comparison of Covid Donnie and Batista is priceless.

This is what I've been saying. On January 20, 2021, when Biden takes the oath of office as POTUS, he will become a private citizen without any power to command anybody, especially the US military. Who's going to man the barricades at the WH for Covid Donnie? The Baby Trumps? Crazy Rudy? Exactly this. Military people take that oath very seriously.

I'd be willing to trade Josh and even throw in a first for Mahomes. Nothing else is worth a franchise QB in hand.

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. 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 11, 2020 - 241,508 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1813. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 4-10, 2020: 1008 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.

Of course it did. More importantly, the "R" beside Trump's name had much more to do with that. It's a false narrative that there are 70+ million Trump cultists in the US.

Most of NYS doesn't' have bars open this late. I grew up in Gowanda, NY. On Saturday nights, if you were downtown a little after 2 am, you could watch the mass migration of bar patrons across the bridge from Catt County to Erie County ... unless you were old enough to be part of the exodus yourself.

I think that McDermott won the power struggle with Whaley which resulted in DW leaving after the 2017 draft, but I don't believe that the house cleaning of the scouting/player personnel staff took place until after Beane took over. I think Beane had that power, but I think that how much he could spend on assistant coaches, scouts, etc was still set higher up the corporate food chain, ie Brandon or his bean counters. Brandon was fired in May 2018 IIRC; the Bills (McDermott and Beane) remade (ie, improved) the entire offensive coaching staff except for Daboll (who was hired in 2018), including bringing in Dorsey to help Allen, and seriously upgraded the WR corps going into 2019. That all suggests to me that there was a major change between the spring of 2018 and the spring of 2019, and the major change in the Bills organization during that time was the firing of Brandon.

He may be thinking that he's prepping to do that but the US military is only bound to follow legal orders from the commander-in-chief. No US general is going to order the troops under his/her command to participate in a coup by the defeated 45th POTUS against the lawfully elected 46th POTUS because it would violate his/her own oath of allegiance to support and protect the US Constitution. Military folk tend to take that oath pretty seriously even if Trump doesn't.

If he were smart -- which Covid Donnie thinks he is but which isn't backed up by his track record -- he would resign so that Pence could pardon him for whatever federal crimes he's committed in the past, even as POTUS, just as Nixon did. Several news commentators have suggested that his "legal challenges" are a means to raise money to cover campaign debt. I don't think that filing for bankruptcy -- if a campaign organization can do that -- would be very smart. That would open the campaign's books to auditing by outside organizations, including the US government. One of the big questions towards the end of the campaign was why the Trump campaign had run so short of money that it couldn't afford to run TV ads in key battleground states while the Biden campaign was floating in cash, and could even make tries at states like Georgia and Texas. Even though Biden was raising more funds during the summer than Trump, he started out far behind Trump in the spring. Where did all that money go? Either it was stupidly squandered or it was siphoned off. Auditors would find that.

He's a sociopath. He cares for nobody or nothing except what he wants. There have been a couple of news reports claiming that anonymous sources within the WH have said that the reason that Senate Republicans have not acknowledged Biden as the President-elect is that Trump has threatened to withhold his support in the January 5 Georgia Senate race if they don't close ranks with him. That this scenario is even plausible speaks volumes about the soon-to-be ex-POTUS.

When you trot out to the barn, plunk a shovelful of horse poop into a box, and then use pretty wrapping paper to cover the box, all you have is a pretty box that still stinks like horse poop. Your posts are much like that. You pretend to be a fair-minded, rational conservative but you're as delusional, irrational a Trump cultist as any of the attendees of Covid Donnie's various Grand Superspreader Tour events.

The Johnson Bros have owned the Jets for 20 years, and they've only been marginally successful. They had some extraordinary luck in 2009 to get to the AFCCG but like the Bills and Dolphins, the Jets have been a mediocre team at best for most of the 21st century. I can't see the Johnson brothers somehow changing their stripes and starting to make significantly better personnel decisions. The Rooneys they're not.