How do they even think that this is acceptable and won't anger people. WTF
Videos of this event just now are spreading and going viral a year after this incident bringing light to it.
ok Mr. President, but how exactly? aren't we already seeing reports of positive Covid cases in schools in the South and Midwest?
I still think it's just important to find a way to vote. Whatever you're comfortable with, if Trump loses he's going to argue the validity of the results no matter what. I know some have taken the stance that voting in mass numbers and just blowing him out of the water is the best thing, yes, maybe it is, but you know that will just feed his "There is no way ALL those votes are legitimate" stance. This country is in such a sad situation, come this November, so as I said, the only thing you can really do is just find a way to cast your vote and see what happens.So, Massachusetts is allowing every registered voter to request mail in ballots / vote by mail for all elections through the remainder of 2020. We just got the form in the mail last week to fill out to request the mail in ballots.
My father sent me a warning today saying don't vote by mail. Those ballots are not legal under the constitution and will be invalidated by the courts. Vote only in person if you want your vote counted.
Pretty much everyone I know who is registered as a democrat has requested the mail in ballots. Everyone who I know who is a republican will not vote anyway but in person at the polls come November.
Not sure if has to do with conspiracies with some grand plan to invalidate all mail in ballots, patratism, refusal to believe the virus is worse than the flu / is a hoax.
But it does look like Republicans will be showing up in numbers to vote for Trump at polling locations in November.
The question has always been "If time travel were possible, time travelers would be showing up to alter the course of events, ergo it must not be possible."One thought that keeps popping into my head lately, basically any time I look at the news, is the depressing reality that, even in the most optimistic blue-wave scenarios, literally tens of millions of Americans are going to go out three months from now and vote for Trump to carry on as president. That realization was vexing enough four years ago, but this time it’s hitting me a lot harder.
Do not mistake this for some kind of confusion about why those people are going to do what they’re going to do, or why they did it last time. But the fig leaves are gone now, and the emperor has been waving his naked dick in everyone’s face for some time. The media types who cried “economic insecurity” and started going on hillbilly safaris after the last election were hilariously transparent in their unwillingness to confront the resentments that drove people to support Trump, but there was real explanatory power in the notion that “over the last 30 years life has steadily gotten worse for most people no matter which party has been in control of what, so a lot of folks are willing to try something, anything, other than the options offered by the party establishments, even if it seems completely fucking insane.” Now that notion - at least as it applies to Trump specifically - has been taken off the table in the most comprehensive and indisputable fashion imaginable.
Something I think about a lot is how, if you were able to zap yourself back in time to right after the last election and start describing to people the state of the world in 2020, almost nobody would believe you. The front page of the newspaper every single day looks like an Onion bit from 2016. Certainly, anyone who voted for Trump or was at least not hyperventilating at the thought of his presidency would have told you that you were being hysterical. But almost all of those same people who scoffed over their turkey at their stupid liberal nieces and nephews back then will, now that they’ve been indisputably confronted with this reality, and having been presented with an alternative that - whatever I might think of his merits - is just about the least threatening one possible, march right back into the booth to vote for (at least) four more years of this.
There’s something like 40 million of them out there. The thought is almost too much for me to bear.
Solid germ of an idea for a screenplay. A sort of reverse Idiocracy.The question has always been "If time travel were possible, time travelers would be showing up to alter the course of events, ergo it must not be possible."
Yours is the most elegant solution: "It's impossible to convince people that they're wrong, so time travel is pointless."
I appreciate this.
The United States' "bullying" of Chinese tech companies was a consequence of Washington's zero-sum vision of "American first" and left China no choice but "submission or mortal combat in the tech realm," the state-backed paper said in an editorial.
China had "plenty of ways to respond if the administration carries out its planned smash and grab," it added.
I mean....it *could*. Good thing that everyone who works at a dealership is a real stand-up citizen.Because of course giving the independent auto repair shop access to your car's computer is going to lead to sexual predators coming to your house.
This is long but very good:
The Unraveling of America
Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.www.rollingstone.com
If you read nothing of this article, I'll give you this........This is long but very good:
The Unraveling of America
Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.www.rollingstone.com
COVID-19 didn’t lay America low; it simply revealed what had long been forsaken. As the crisis unfolded, with another American dying every minute of every day, a country that once turned out fighter planes by the hour could not manage to produce the paper masks or cotton swabs essential for tracking the disease. The nation that defeated smallpox and polio, and led the world for generations in medical innovation and discovery, was reduced to a laughing stock as a buffoon of a president advocated the use of household disinfectants as a treatment for a disease that intellectually he could not begin to understand.
This is long but very good:
The Unraveling of America
Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.www.rollingstone.com