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October 11, 2020 - The U of Washington's IMHE 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. Don't be a dumbass like Covid Donnie. Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 10, 2020 - 214,337 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 489. October 9, 2020 - Public health officials, including Dr Deborah Birx, warns of a troubling increase in coronavirus cases in the Northeast. (Dr Birx warns of new Covid-19 threat) October 9, 2020 - 213,787 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1003. October 8, 2020 - 212,784 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1875. October 7, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 935. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-10, 2020: 1068 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 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.

He claimed that the MSM didn't report on the trouble in Wisconsin, which was untrue since I saw it on CBS or CNN yesterday and on either Spectrum or CNN earlier today.

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Actually I saw a report about the protests in Wisconsin last night and another one on another station this morning. Maybe you need to get better news sources.

Suck it up, buttercup.

I have never wished Trump dead; he deserves to live with the consequences of his stupidity, reckless, and selfishness. A RW poster claimed that I would vote for Covid Donnie if he was a Democrat, which is absolutely untrue. He's a dictator wannabe who admires Vladimir Putin excessively and has made it very clear that he will sacrifice anyone and anything to get what he wants, which in 2020 is his re-election. I have never pretended to have anything but hatred and disdain for Donald Trump. Apparently in your view, the deaths of old people and people with chronic health problems from Covid-19 don't matter. Well, then, what the 60k younger healthy people who have died from Covid-19? Are they just, to quote Covid Donnie, "losers". What "MINIMAL self-help health recommendations" did any of the people who died from Covid-19 fail to "practice" other than wearing masks and social distancing? You don't know that any or all of the coronavirus victims failed to practice those except for Covid Donnie himself who chose to politicize mask wearing. If any of this makes me a "hypocrite", then you don't even know what the word means.

That's true but in any state or community, large or small, a ten fold increase in coronavirus cases resulting in hospitalizations could easily overwhelm the health care system(s) there. The good news is that the health care community is more prepared for a second wave and has better procedures to deal with it. The bad news is that some politicians continue to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic. It's much worse than the flu, and we don't know if the many deleterious effects that have been reported in recovered Covid 19 victims last only a month or two or are permanent.

Well said.

21,311 Americans died in September. Do you really think that most Americans, regardless of political affiliation, would be okay with more than 200,000 deaths a month??? That would be as many deaths from Covid-19 in one month as between January through September.

October 10, 2020 - The U of Washington's IMHE 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. Don't be a dumbass like Covid Donnie. Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 9, 2020 - Public health officials, including Dr Deborah Birx, warns of a troubling increase in coronavirus cases in the Northeast. (Dr Birx warns of new Covid-19 threat) October 9, 2020 - 213,787 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1003. October 8, 2020 - 212,784 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1875. October 7, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 935. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-9, 2020: 1271 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 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.

Just because you'll hold your nose and vote for Trump even if he's behaving like your batshit crazy uncle, don't project your views on others.

October 9, 2020 - Public health officials, including Dr Deborah Birx, warns of a troubling increase in coronavirus cases in the Northeast. (Dr Birx warns of new Covid-19 threat)

Well, don't let facts get in the way of your partisan story line. The Electoral College has resulted in 5 elections where the winner of the popular vote wasn't elected: 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016. The 1824 and 1876 were decided by deals made in Congress and the 2000 election was decided by the US Supreme Court. So much for the having "worked as intended until 2016 when the Dems cried foul".

The direct election of the POTUS is about 1 man (or woman), 1 vote. If you live in New York or California and vote for Trump, your vote doesn't really count because the Trump voters are so out numbered by Biden voters. If you live in Mississippi or Wyoming and vote for Biden, your vote doesn't really count either because Biden voters are so outnumbered by Trump voters. If you live in Florida or Pennsylvania, who you vote for may very well determine the election so your vote counts more than the votes of some other American voters; in 2000, GWB won Florida by 537 votes and won the EC by 5 votes although he lost the popular vote by about half a million. Without the Electoral College, all votes would count equally regardless of the voters' states of residence. As for the small population vs large population argument, that ship sailed long ago. This is not 1789 when states were isolated and there were significant differences among them. This is not 1920 when half the US population lived in urban areas and half in rural areas. This is 2020 when 80% of Americans live in urban metros. We are one nation with a predominant national culture. We should elect our national leader on that basis rather than pretending to be just a collection of disparate states. That issue was settled back in the 1860s, and how we elect our president should reflect the reality of modern America, not an outmoded eighteenth century fear of direct democracy.

Why is it "bullschiff"? Covid Donnie has gone off the deep end. Whatever limited amount of self-control and sense he had in the past has vanished since he tested positive for the coronavirus. First he leaves the hospital to go joy riding around Bethesda, Maryland so a few hundred of his supporters can stoke his ego with their signs and flags. Then comes out and belliicosely declares there will be no coronavirus relief package until after he's re-elected followed by his back-tracking the very next day. Now he spent hours ranting about a non-existent coup and demanding arrests of his political opponents on Twitter. Those are the actions of a sane leader, a man with the authority to trigger a nuclear holocaust?

Time to read up on American history. The Compromise of 1850 was hammered out to keep the number of slave states and free states equal as territories in the Lousiana Purchase, the Mexican Cession, and Texas Annexation became states. It maintained the balance of power in the US Senate but it also enabled the South to force the two political parties of the time, the Democrats and Whigs, to nominate presidential candidates who were acceptable to the South as candidates needed southern electoral votes to win the presidency. It averted a civil war in 1850 but set the stage for the Civil War in 1861 because during the late 1840s and through the 1850s, the population in the North and West (we would call that the Midwest today) exploded, especially with an influx of immigrants from Ireland and Germany who didn't want to compete with Black slaves or were philosophically opposed to slavery. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won a majority of EC votes (180) although he won less than forty percent of the popular vote against 3 opponents, which caused the southern states to secede.

You're good with the POTUS ordering his political foes, including his current opponent in the presidential election, to be arrested three weeks from that presidential election because he claims they orchestrated a "coup" against him???? Seriously??? And he rants on this for hours on Twitter??? The coronavirus -- or those experimental drugs they shot him full of -- appears to have fried most of the limited number of working brain cells Covid Donnie has.

The rioting and looting happened back in May and June. The suffering from Trump's politicization of the coronavirus response reminds voters every single day of his compete and total incompetence to deal with a crisis.

Kamala Harris isn't the factor that Right Wingers think she is. The 900 pound gorilla in the room is Covid-19 and Trump's failure to deal with it effectively. The tens of millions of American voters who've been adversely affected by the continuing spread of the coronavirus aren't voting for the cretin who's maintained it's no worse than the seasonal flu and that they should just suck it up.

Methinks Covid Donnie has "recovered" from the coronavirus as mad as any poor 19th century hatter ... Trump demands his political foes be arrested

Since I've never expressed any of those sentiments, you're shooting blanks, but carry on if it gives you some jolliles.

What the hell do you think the Compromise of 1850 and Bleeding Kansas were all about? The price of beef in St Louis?

Generally it would, but the Electoral College too often distorts majority rule. This isn't anything new since it mucked up the election of 1800, contributed to the sectional troubles over slavery in the 1850s that resulted in disunion and civil war, and has given two presidential elections to candidates who did not win the popular vote since 2000.

You sleep with flea-ridden dogs, you end up with fleas. Too many conservatives have given tacit approval -- and some have even given very vocal support -- to the extremist ideas of the Far Right in order to increase their power so they have nobody to blame but themselves for getting lumped in with the Right Wing Nuts. Somebody's stuck in the Fifties. Covid Donnie's bestie is Vladimir Putin. He wants to be the American Vlad. I'm sure that Covid Donnie's sycophant Barr came up with that justification. Covid Donnie has read about as much of the US Constitution as he has the Holy Bible ... zilch.

Very simply, the US Constitution was written 231 years ago, and the US and the entire world has undergone profound changes during that time. What was acceptable in 1789 is no longer accepted -- chattel slavery, imprisonment for debt, married women without legal rights, property qualifications for voting, forced apprenticeship of orphans for example. Moreover, the framers of the Constitution did not think their plan for governance was perfect and sacrosanct. They anticipated that the Constitution would need changing from the get-go by including the amendment process, which happened almost immediately as Washington submitted 12 amendments in October, 1789, 10 of which were ratified by 1791 and became the Bill of Rights.