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Rog I agree with you about the timing and the need to respect a significant american. I’ve been impressed with the news coverage on that front.
I don’t agree about the “hurting” and such. She was 87 and everybody knew she had gone to great lengths to conceal the realities of her infirmity. The Scalia death was much more shocking and saddening because it was sudden. Anybody who was caught off guard by this and is somehow shocked and saddened really is either just being dramatic or is painfully uninformed.
The sad part of all this is, like we are finding with many boomers in power (EDIT, she was not a boomer, but the comparison fits), she didn’t know when to call it quits. Or, if she did, her politics got in the way. That and the quote being attributed to her from her relative about a “new president” say a lot about what drove her to the end.
I honor her and at the same time don’t have a problem saying that in the end it was ideology that ruled her. And, that’s ok as long as she was comfortable that her legacy would possibly be scarred with a massive partisan fight because she couldn’t retire in her early 80s when Obama would have easily replaced her with another wise liberal.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It will do that. But am I the only one who sees a difference between a lame duck president making a nomination in the election year and a first term president doing so? The whole narrative supposed a “new president” which is a bit premature.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)All I can say is get your popcorn ready, this is going to bring out the long knives.
and, yes I agree with you about rbg’s actions, but this isn’t really the time for it. We all knew this was coming.
RIP.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)And, for some reason, he’s been skewered as authoritarian for this line of thinking.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[/quote] Positive for Covid or positive for antibodies?[/quote]
Actually COVID positive. As in, currently infected. Had no idea.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Holy smokes. Not only did you not post from Foxnews, but you posted from CSPAN. 🙂
I can’t believe she would discuss this with such a flippant “it’s a tactic” conclusion. It’s a disgusting tactic. You lie, get the press to run with the lie, then you point to the press as validating the lie. It’s the proverbial snake eating its tail.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=2574]How many deaths? How many still have it? The point is that for these guys and 99.999% of people under 40, this is no worse than a bad cold. Herd immunity and be done with it. In California less than 2% of all residents have had Covid and .0003535% of the population has died from the disease (14,606) yet the state is shut down to hurt Trump, everyone else be damned. Is this pragmatic or just punitive?[/quote]
Yes, exactly, but the blame will still come. It will be “because of Trump.” It’s just too easy.
Friend of a friend was planning a trip home to see older parents. Her parents are worried so asked her to get a COVID test before visiting. She, a twenty something with no symptoms, turned up positive. She otherwise would have never been tested. Methinks that a huge proportion of the younger population has already been through COVID, yet here we are…trying to scare the bejeesus out of them.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)More than 75 players on the Texas Tech football team have had COVID.
LSU coach Orgeron says that most of his players have had it.
Just wait until Trump gets blamed for Wisconsin’s football team getting COVID.
These things are fun to watch.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I give a chuckle at the stream of foxnews links that tend to flow here, but at the same time, it’s fostering at least some dialogue on topics that don’t get dialogued enough.
I put the links to mother jones and others at the right to ensure people might click on a site that doesn’t fit with their worldview every now and then, but have no illusions about them being used much.
TC, how would you think about the veracity of someone who chooses merely to drive by and sling poo every now and then? You want to mix it up? Throw something thoughtful out there from the daily kos or something. I’m sure it will get chewed on.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Have you seen the video of the Munoz killing? To protest such a thing is to make mockery of protests against police brutality. The guy literally charged the police officer with a knife. The police officer ran away and then turned and shot the guy who was clearly in hot pursuit.
Sure, go ahead, discuss the tragedy of such an incident, but don’t vilify the police officer for killing a literal psycho with a knife.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Well, I used to think that a President could unwind any prior President’s unilateral actions, but DACA changed all that. Turns out that an executive order that the courts agree with is pretty hard to rescind.
So, I think the only thing that stands in Biden’s way is whether or not any of this is in the President’s power (I suspect Bahrain recognizing Israel is fairly independent) and whether any of it is ratified by congress. Congressional ratification probably makes reneging harder.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Russians buying ads on facebook to influence the U.S. election is a tragedy of fantastic proportions.
A true blue billionaire New York yankee spending $100 million to influence a state election in a state where he does not reside is considered par for the course.
May we one day see both as an inappropriate manipulation of the electoral system.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)i had the same thought at seeing your post…
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Seems like a principled stand. Or, just a political one. It will be played both ways.
I mean, it’s not every day a prosecutor resigns in protest because an investigation is asked to wrap too fast to uncover all the massive malfeasance and ensure it gets to the crooks at the top. They probably only have the goods on low level people and are making their way to the top, but will run out of time. Her resignation proves that the conspiracy to obstruct Trump is so vast that the investigation won’t be deep enough if they wrap before the election.
It’s a tragedy and I can’t wait to read her book.
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