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Have heard / read this a lot from anti-Trumpers. What has he actually DONE that indicates he wants to be a dictator. What executive orders (other than a couple dealing with defense appropriation act for this current crisis) has he signed expanding executive powers? Where are the executive orders limiting states rights? Aren't most of the criticisms of his handling the current crisis complaining that he hasn't usurped state authority & only issued guidelines to states rather than directed the individual governor's actions? Where are all the additional wars that dictators tend to get their subjects into happening? Where are the escalations of Iraq & Afghanistan (& Lybia & Syria & Qatar for that matter too)? Where was the firing of Mueller? Where is the jailing of dissidents? Don't dictators usually do these things? Why hasn't this one?

Know a couple of octogenarian retired nurses that have maintained their nursing licenses that have had the state reach out to them to come back to work. What could possibly go wrong in that scenario. (Realize they're likely reaching out to all nurses that currently aren't practicing, so this isn't actually an intentionally direct inducement to off additional 80+ yo citizens; but it is a very bad look & the beaurocrats need to start thinking before doing.)

Them, Georgians, Coloradians (?), Floridians should all be dropping like flies by now. Pretty sure Sweden & Denmark should be decimated as well. Maybe there's things we still don't know.

They should have no problem learning how to code, right?

No, the point was that based on what they apparently found on him - enough to keep an investigation going for a full year, they should've had enough to have his butt in jail a couple of years ago. It is supposed to require a high threshold of evidence of an imminent national security / terrorist threat to get a warrant on an American citizen via the FISA process. Surely, if they had enough proof of Page being an imminent threat to keep the warrant open for a full year, something would've come of it by now, right? Or is our FBI soooo incompetent as to require over 9 months of investigation getting to listen in on his calls and snoop into his e-mails to figure out that "huh, huh, guess he's workin' fer us, huh, huh.". And it wasn't the field office in Bumblebutt, AK that was running the operation; it was the top dogs at headquarters; so it probably wasn't incompetence that caused them to spy on OUR asset (aka spy). If neither of those are why he was investigated, it only leaves one reason for it. A covert operation against American citizens based upon false pretenses. And if that's what it was, heads should roll (figuratively) & people need to end up in jail.

Yes, but that conveniently allowed those American citizens within "2 hops" of him to also be spied upon. Again, if he was a big enough imminent threat to our country to be spied on for a full year with the FISA warrant being renewed 3 separate times, shouldn't he have been indicted by now? Surely, there was some evidence produced in those 3 renewal applications that contained something a bit more substantial than "he has a bit of a crush on Elizabeth Jennings." Right?

Well, remember, back when 45 1st tweeted that the previous administration had spied on him in Trump Tower, the response was "he's nuts, we'd never do that." It's now become "oh yeah, we routinely unmask Americans via the FISA process." Slightly unrelated, but still want to know, if Carter Page was such a threat to national security that he needed to be spied upon via FISA for a full year, then why is he still a free man nearly 3 years later?

The issue with going after former presidents is if they expect to be harrassed/ jailed for doing their jobs we will never see a peaceful transition of power again. It's amazing that we've done it flawlessly 43 times. Going after former presidents will guarantee we don't make it to 50.

Saddened by your loss and frustrated that you aren't allowed to mourn her death in the way we've grown accustomed. May she rest in peace. And may your family find solace that she is reunited with your grandfather.

Very saddened for your loss. Will say a prayer for her.

But think of the children('s blue haired grandmas & grandpas)!

Only Finger Lakes/ Ra-cha-cha, North Country, Southern Tier, & Mohawk Valley have loosened restrictions as of tomorrow. Buffalo not opening back up yet.

Rand Paul?

Wouldn't it be something, assuming things go bad for her which could be an extremely poor assumption at this point, that the thing that brought her down wasn't allowing at minimum the appearance of allowing (wittingly or unwittingly) a Chinese spy to have access to the conversations of some of the most powerful people in our government but rather her own greed.

True.

If only somebody had been smart enough to put up a sign stating "this is an election fraud free state" then ALL the people looking to game the system would finally be thwarted. It worked with guns. Right?

Skimming over pages 81-83, nearly skipped this entire section of this thread picking back up on the current page. Glad that didn't happen. This discussion is GOLD, Jerry; it's GOLD.

Refused to watch that show. Though Joanie eventually grew into a nice set of tatas, they weren't that nice.

Looks like 3 NYS regions will start reopening Friday. Rochester First Article Even though retail is reopening in Ra-cha-cha/ Finger Lakes & 2 other regions, the retail reopenings are only for curbside pickup / delivery. But that's better than nothing. Guess it's good to have Bob Duffy on the reopening commission.

Hopefully tomorrow's results are just as good relatively. If the Tuesday & Wednesday #'s are down, we're moving in the right direction.

Dude, they'll just like borrow electricity from like one of the other states and it'll all work out. Science.

Did not know that. Cool.

But there are still people saying that GA's spiking. When they are shown the numbers from the GDPH, literally, they shrug. Apparently, following data is very passe. But, if NPR has a story, well ...

It's not exactly the same, but 41 went into Somalia after the '92 election. So, he saddled 42 with a war that hadn't been going prior to the election.

Mr. Brennan, no offense, but if you aren't under oath when you are speaking your words don't mean a d*man thing. And even if you are under oath, they aren't worth much.