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"The failed bet laid by President Donald Trump to ignore science and prioritize his political goals early in the pandemic, revealed Wednesday in fresh detail by new Jared Kushner tapes, is backfiring in devastating fashion at the critical moment of his reelection bid." Trump response to coronavirus

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 27, 2020 - the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy claims that ending the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the major accomplishments of the Trump administration. 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. October 28, 2020 - 227,701 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1028. 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 October 27, 2020 - 226,673 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. 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.

Covid Donnie is a sociopath unfit to be a dogcatcher's assistant much less POTUS. I think that constitutional amendments to remove a president that Congress deems unfit for office and to deal with a defeated POTUS who refuses to leave office are likely to be proposed in the US Congress.

Saban came back to the Bills to coach from 1972 through the first 5 games of 1976 and made a star of OJ Simpson (in 1973 Simpson ran for 2003 yards in a 14 game season). In 1974, he got the Bills into the playoffs for the first time since 1966.

It's fueled by the upsurge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations that have spooked investors. It's the third day of major decline, and wasn't unexpected. Undoubtedly, we'll soon hear Covid Donnie on his Pandemic Hotspot Tour bragging on how great the stock market is doing now that his administration has ended Covid pandemic, which was really all a hoax anyway.

This is absolute bull manure. Democratic socialism has never morphed into communism anywhere. In fact, numerous western European nations have swapped captialist and social democratic governments repeatedly in the 65 years since the end of WW II. Communism has always been imposed upon a society/country by a small oligarchy of ideologues, just like fascism, both of which are simply forms of dictatorship. Democratic socialism has proven completely compatible with political democracy. You obviously know nothing about European societies not European history. I suggest you do some reading on it before you start blathering about it. Moreover, don't give me this bull manure about the US having "an influx of people who want to change our society, not support it". Just say it. You don't like brown people from Latin America or black people from Africa or the Caribbean or more brown people from Asia immigrating to the US. The very same xenophobic nonsense you're spouting about today's immigrants is the same xenophobic nonsense that nativists in the late 19th and early 20th century spouted spouted about my Italian, Polish, and Jewish immigrant grandparents when they came to this country around the turn of the 20th century. They were full of crap then, and you are full of crap now. If the middle class is shrinking in this country, it's NOT because of social programs or immigrants but because of forty years of pro-wealth/pro-business government policies that have shifted the tax burden off the wealthy and onto the middle and working classes while depressing wages, gutting social supports for the poorest Americans, and limiting real access to opportunity by transferring the cost of public higher education from government (which is where it was for about a century before the 1980s) to individual students and their families.

Not to mention Chuck Knox.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 27, 2020 - the White House Office of Science and Technology claims that ending the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the major accomplishments of the Trump administration. October 23, 2020 - US recorded a record of 83+k new cases of the coronavirus. The number of hospitalizations is the highest since June. 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. October 27, 2020 - 226,673 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 938. October 26, 2020 - 225,735 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 496. October 25, 2020 - 225,239 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 344. October 24, 2020 - 224,899 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 905. October 23, 2020 - 223,995 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 944. October 22, 2020 - 223,051 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 830. October 21, 2020 - 222,221 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1141. 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 October 27, 2020 - 226,673 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. 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.

All excellent points. I'll add some thoughts of my own to your points. #1 Universal health care would result in Americans paying more in taxes but saving more in health care costs. It would also be a tremendous boost to entrepreneurship, small businesses, and people working in the so-called gig economy as well as in other industries that have traditionally not provided health insurance like agriculture or restaurant industry. #4 No cost at point of use trade school and public college. From the 1860s when the Morrill Act established land grant public colleges and universities until about the 1980s, public colleges were supported almost entirely by taxpayer revenues. When I attended Buffalo State in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my tuition was a token amount of $200 per semester, which went to the State Dormitory Authority to pay to build new dormitories. Tuition at the CUNY colleges in NYC was free to city residents. SUNY and CUNY weren't unique. Most states had similarly token tuition at public colleges. Many community colleges around the country didn't charge tuition, either. My graduate tuition at the U of Nebraska in the mid 1970s was about $300 a semester. Free or almost free tuition at public colleges is not some radical socialist idea but an American tradition. We need to resurrect it. One point I would add is that I would hope that a new administration and new Congress would address agricultural policy, which essentially dates back to the original New Deal and favors corporate farming over family farms. I think that in addition to supporting farmers producing staple ag products like corn, wheat, soybeans, and meat, there needs to be programs to encourage and support produce farming in diverse areas (including within urban areas), as well as programs to assist the transfer of farming enterprises from older farmers to younger ones.

Most of the EU countries as well as Canada practice what American conservatives call "socialism", primarily universal health care and social programs to support low income citizens and retirees. Norway -- and maybe Sweden -- have much more expansive social programs. Yeah, people pay higher taxes in those countries but their standards of living and their political freedoms and processes aren't impinged upon because these countries are "socialist". Why isn't there a mass exodus from the EU countries today when they're largely "socialist" as opposed to when millions left those same countries in the late 19th century and early 20th century when capitalism was the economic system there?

I agree totally. I believe that Melania not only renegotiated her pre-nup, I think she also negotiated to get Barron more money (in his trust fund I would assume).

I can't possibly imagine how such an insightful poster such as you could possibly get banned from a site run by DR. I don't agree with many of your points but at least you've given some points to discuss. We need to get back to discussing issues with civility and listening to each other rather than just throwing bombs across the morass. Basically this is it. Nothing gets done unless/until the coronavirus is dealt with. If a stimulus program isn't passed in the lame-duck session of Congress between the election and the swearing in of the new Congress on January 3, it will be quickly passed in the new Congress. It should have been passed months ago, and has magnified the economic misery of the pandemic.

Tre isn't being sued. It's the real estate reps for the seller and the seller. If this hadn't involved a Bills player, it wouldn't have even been in the news even in Buffalo Business First. My guess is that Tre is purchasing this house with/for family, so ilikely by the time they decided to make an offer on the house, it was already under contract, but instead of being honest about it, the seller's agent tried to con the buyers into upping their offer. When they didn't, the agent and seller tried to sell the house to Tre.

I think NE would have been done WITH Brady given everything else that's happened since last season. Just maybe not so obviously.

Why is this even news? I mean, even in Buffalo Business First, why is this even news? This is simply a shady real estate deal on the part of the real estate broker/firm/sellers.

Now, I don't give a pile of dog poop if you want to call me names, impugn my motives, reply with memes or youtube videos or whatever, but I draw the line at smearing me by quoting me and then changing that post to fit whatever agenda you have. Not being a snowflake, I can take care of myself in ideological tussles, but I will not have my words altered so that somebody seeing that altered post in the future might think that I actually said something I didn't. I've had two posters do that to my quotes in the last week, both excusing themselves with "FIFY". Well, dudes and dudettes, you best not try to "fix it" for me. My words be mine, and don't mess with them. I don't care if you're supporting me or dissing me. Changing quoted statements is against the TOS and I will PM you a warning about it once when I see that you've done that, friend or foe. Do it again, and I will report you for it. If other posters want to accept others changing their quotes, that's their choice. I'm not policing PPP, just my own posts. I don't care if you rip what I have to say to shreds, but don't quote me and then change the wording of those quotes to pretend I said something I didn't.

Ummm ... how can a prediction be a "hoax"? What do you think will happen when Covid Donnie loses and refuses to accept it?

I expect it's many more than 10 Republican Senators who feel that way. It's probably only 10 who've actually voiced those fears and discussed it with their colleagues. I don't think that the election will be all that close, either in popular vote or in electoral votes that there will be much chance of Trump having a viable course of legal action. Even Republican pollsters are saying that Trump's got very little chance of winning. That doesn't mean that Trump wouldn't try the courts or that he wouldn't try to rally his Trumplets via social media to protest in the streets etc. Supporting Trump in refusing to leave office after losing the election would be the kiss of death to any politician. It would forever tarnish "Republican" with the "traitor" label, and doom the GOP's electoral prospects for the foreseeable future, maybe forever (ie, it would be replaced with another conservative party). If Covid Donnie is defeated and refuses to leave, I think both Congress and the Supreme Court will turn on him. The SCOTUS will throw out his legal appeals because they believe in the rule of law, and the House will impeach him and the US Senate will vote him out of office unless somebody can persuade him to resign. Pence will be POTUS until January 20, 2021. The GOP will then try to figure out how to rebuild from the political disaster that was Donald J Trump while the country as a whole will struggle to recover from the social and economic disaster that Covid Donnie visited upon this country. The new Congress sworn in on January 3, 2021 will pass a constitutional amendment providing for the removal of a POTUS if Congress determines that he's unfit for office and send it out to the states for ratification. It will be ratified, possibly in record time. The 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 25th amendments were all proposed and ratified in response to economic or political issues that arose shortly before their proposals. My guess is that it will be decades at least before the American electorate takes another flyer on a some wannabe President without some political experience.

Why is Kamala "annoying"? Because, like your hero Covid Donnie, you dislike successful, accomplished women who aren't subservient to bullies? Or because she wouldn't give a Internet tough guy wannabe like yourself a second look -- even in your wildest fantasies?

👍 👍 👍 Go, DeAndre!!!! The indignation of the Trumplets in that piece was hilarious, especially the one from the guy whining to the Cardinals on social media that he had his eight-year-old son with him. Trumplet Daddy is taking his kid to what is essentially a hate rally complaining that the kid was exposed to an obscene gesture ... priceless! That ranks up there with the Baby Trumps Ivanka and Jared threatening to sue the Lincoln Project because of their billboards in Times Square. Like most RW snowflakes these Trumplets can dish it but can't take it.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 23, 2020 - US recorded a record of 83+k new cases of the coronavirus. The number of hospitalizations is the highest since June. 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. October 26, 2020 - 225,735 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 496. October 25, 2020 - 225,239 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 344. October 24, 2020 - 224,899 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 905. October 23, 2020 - 223,995 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 944. October 22, 2020 - 223,051 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 830. October 21, 2020 - 222,221 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1141. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-23, 2020: 777 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 October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. 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.

Sad but true.

I started this thread to remind people of the cost in human terms of Donald J Trump's politicization of the pandemic because dumbass Covid Donnie stupidly thought it would only hit blue states and big cities because it hit New York and Washington State first, and then moved on to the rest of the Northeast. The 225+k deaths are only the tip of the iceberg on human costs, however. Tens of thousands of Americans have suffered long term physical and neurological effects from Covid-19. We still don't know how many will be permanently disabled by it and how many may recover eventually. Tens of thousands American families have been hit with huge medical bills for family members who had severe cases of Covid-19 and landed in the hospital for weeks or months. The average Covid-19 hospitalization with complications costs about $20k more than health insurance generally covers. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs or their businesses, all of the state governments are facing huge deficits because of the costs of dealing with the pandemic amid cratering tax revenues, and entire industries like live entertainment and travel and tourism have been devastated. Meanwhile, Covid Donnie continues to claim Covid-19 is no big deal and that "we're turning the corner" while more Americans suffer. If you don't wish to be reminded of the cost of Covid Donnie's actions, don't read this thread. Demented and evil. Any ignorant ****head can get elected POTUS because if you put enough lipstick on a pig, enough fools will mistake it for a pretty girl to want to dance with it. Serious crises separates the pigs from the pretty girls. A sane individual sitting in the Oval Office amid a pandemic, even if he were a pig with lots of make-up, would have sense enough to defer to and follow the lead of the public health experts. He would care about the American people and the American nation enough to "do the right thing". Many of us have seen in our own lifetimes that even reprehensible politicians like Richard Nixon can suck it up and "do the right thing". All of us have seen a POTUS respond to crises the way we expect our presidents to respond: George W Bush rallied the country after the 9/11 attacks and then in 2008, he acted swiftly and brought Dems and Republicans together to prevent economic collapse. I've said this before and I'll repeat it. He's a sociopath at best. Nobody and nothing matters to Trump except his personal gratification. He could be much worse. His embrace of Qanon and other conspiracy theories might be either a result or a cause of what appears to be paranoia. He seems to be out of touch with reality. He cannot seem to separate fact from fiction. He seems to inhabit an alternative universe. He's Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Trump also seems to suffer from delusions that he's this all powerful, all knowing being who can do no wrong. He thinks that everybody loves him and agrees with him. He wants to be Vladimir Putin but he's more like Idi Amin or Pol Pot, willing to sacrifice millions for his self gratification. I think all Bills fans can relate to this. We've spent so many years waiting for the Bills to really "turn it around" and when they finally look to have done, we can't really be a part of it as fans. Football translates great to TV, but it's a poor substitute for the comaraderie of tailgaiting before the game and actually being there and cheering the Bills on to wins, especially after not have much to really cheer about for so long.

Exactly right. 👍

If you're a Trumplet or alt Rightist or some other assorted Rightie who gets his/her "news" from Right Wing twitter feeds, then you do probably "really believe Covid will go away as a story the day after the election" because you really believe that the mainstream media is using the coronavirus pandemic news to help Joe Biden. It doesn't matter to you that more than 225,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 because they were old or overweight or smokers or asthmatic or cancer patients/survivors or diabetics ...