The Political News of the Day

savage1 · Jul 6, 2020

rush__man said:
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Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls-please rise (no kneeling permitted) as EL MAESTRO has just returned,

Kindly remain standing until HE sits before returning to your seats!!:aktion033

rush__man · Jul 6, 2020

savage1 said:
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls-please rise (no kneeling permitted) as EL MAESTRO has just returned,

Kindly remain standing until HE sits before returning to your seats!!:aktion033

i await more political news of the day from the great one.

Dafinch · Jul 6, 2020

rush__man said:
i await more political news of the day from the great one.

No comment, despite the SEVERAL times I've posted this (ya see what I did there? You can thank me later)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/virus-won-151531002.html

(THIS article will cause Righties to stick their heads in the sand...or some other hole)

How the Virus Won

Derek Watkins, Josh Holder, James Glanz, Weiyi Cai, Benedict Carey and Jeremy White,The New York Times• July 5, 2020

It started small.
A man near Seattle had a persistent cough. A woman in Chicago had a fever and shortness of breath. By mid-February, there were only 15 known coronavirus cases in the United States, all with direct links to China.
“The 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero,” President Donald Trump said. The patients were isolated. Their contacts were monitored. Travel from China was restricted.
The China travel ban was a partial success: Only a handful of infected travelers from China are estimated to have made it into the country undetected before restrictions were imposed Feb. 2. But it wasn’t enough. Only a small part of the picture was visible.
A vast wave of infected travelers — roughly 1,000, one model suggests — came in February from other countries in Asia, Europe and the rest of the world, each a dangerous spark that could set off a wider outbreak.
Many of those infections died out. But by mid-February, a few caught fire and became outbreaks, spreading invisibly. Some 2,000 hidden infections were already spreading through major U.S. cities.
The country was unaware of its own epidemic. Many tests released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t work, leaving only enough to test people who had visited China or had contact with a handful of known cases. Over the next two weeks, the number of cases from the invisible outbreaks doubled, then doubled three more times.
The New York Times traced the hidden spread of the epidemic to explain how the United States failed to stop it. At every crucial moment, American officials were weeks or months behind the reality of the outbreak. Those delays most likely cost tens of thousands of lives.
Then it exploded, unseen.
Top federal health experts concluded by late February that the virus was likely to spread widely within the United States. Government officials knew that they would need to urge the public to embrace social distancing measures, like avoiding crowds and staying home.
But Trump wanted to avoid disrupting the economy. So some of his health advisers, at Trump’s urging, told Americans at the end of February to continue to travel domestically and go on with their normal lives.
And they did. Millions moved around the country, cellphone data shows. Some unknowingly carried the virus with them.
By the time Trump blocked travel from Europe on March 13, the restrictions were essentially pointless. The outbreak had already been spreading widely in most states for weeks.
The delays killed thousands.
Faced with an outbreak that had grown beyond their ability to test or trace, American officials had no option but to ask the public to stay home.
On March 16, weeks after health officials privately concluded that a more active response would be needed, Trump asked Americans to limit travel, avoid groups and stay home from work and school if they felt sick. One by one, states issued stay-at-home orders and closed businesses.
The outbreak slowed in places where the measures were undertaken relatively quickly. But in New York City, political leaders waited crucial days to close schools and impose a stay-at-home order as the virus spun out of control.
More than 22,000 deaths in the New York City area could have been avoided if the country had started social distancing just one week earlier, Columbia University researchers estimate.
About 36,000 deaths nationwide could have been avoided by early May had social distancing begun earlier, the estimates say.
Even now, America remains in the dark. Most infected people are never tested. There is little capacity to trace and isolate the contacts of those who do test positive. After the lockdowns expired, new cases spiked once again.
In recent weeks, new outbreaks have flared across the South and the West. These are only the cases we know about. No one can see where the virus will go next.
Notes
The Times’ understanding of the early outbreak in the United States draws on case reports, travel patterns, genetic sequencing and disease modeling that simulates the course of the outbreak based on how it spread and what is known about the virus. All models are estimates, and it is impossible to know for certain the origin of each infection or the number of infections that were not confirmed by testing.
There are no comprehensive, official counts of cases, deaths or tests throughout the United States. Known cases are from a Times database based on information from federal, state and local officials. Cases are shown by core-based statistical areas or by county for cases outside of those areas. The first 15 cases are labeled by statistical area. Those labels may not match the names of the exact cities in which cases were seen.
The travel patterns the Times shows represent movement between core-based statistical areas, based on aggregated, anonymous cellphone location data collected by Cuebiq, a data intelligence firm that tracks the locations of more than 15 million cellphones in the United States. The data captures trips, not unique travelers, and it includes commutes between statistical areas as well as longer-distance travel. Some minor and short routes are not shown. Reductions in movement because of social distancing are based on measurements by Cuebiq of the median range that people in each area travel each day. The effects of social distancing are from “Social Distancing Is Effective at Mitigating COVID-19 Transmission in the United States” by Lauren Gardner et al.
Estimates of the number of undetected infections in 11 U.S. cities are from modeling by Northeastern University, courtesy of Alessandro Vespignani, as are the estimates of the number of undetected infected travelers who came into the United States from other countries. See “The Effect of Travel Restrictions on the Spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak” by Matteo Chinazzi and Jessica T. Davis et al. in Science.
Estimates of the number of contagious people who left New York and Seattle are from modeling by Sen Pei and Jeffrey Shaman at Columbia University. Estimates of the number of deaths that could have been avoided with earlier social distancing are from “Differential Effects of Intervention Timing on COVID-19 Spread in the United States,” by Pei et al. in medRxiv.org.
Genetic samples of the virus are from Nextstrain. The Times shows the samples grouped by names that were assigned before May 1, 2020. The connection of U.S. outbreaks to travel from New York City is based on a Times analysis of travel patterns and analysis of genetic mutations by Trevor Bedford, associate professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington. The Times’ understanding of the genetic connection between New York and New Orleans comes from Karthik Gangavarapu, a computational scientist at Scripps Research, and Bedford.
Conclusions from federal health officials in February about the likely spread of the virus are from Times reporting. Trump said that cases would be close to zero within days at a Feb. 26 news conference. Health advisers urged Americans to go on with their normal lives in a Feb. 29 news conference. Mayor Bill de Blasio encouraged New Yorkers to do the same in a tweet March 2. Trump recommended that Americans avoid travel at a news conference March 16.

rush__man · Jul 6, 2020

Dafinch said:
No comment, despite the SEVERAL times I've posted this (ya see what I did there? You can thank me later)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/virus-won-151531002.html

(THIS article will cause Righties to stick their heads in the sand...or some other hole)

How the Virus Won

Derek Watkins, Josh Holder, James Glanz, Weiyi Cai, Benedict Carey and Jeremy White,The New York Times• July 5, 2020

It started small.
A man near Seattle had a persistent cough. A woman in Chicago had a fever and shortness of breath. By mid-February, there were only 15 known coronavirus cases in the United States, all with direct links to China.
“The 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero,” President Donald Trump said. The patients were isolated. Their contacts were monitored. Travel from China was restricted.
The China travel ban was a partial success: Only a handful of infected travelers from China are estimated to have made it into the country undetected before restrictions were imposed Feb. 2. But it wasn’t enough. Only a small part of the picture was visible.
A vast wave of infected travelers — roughly 1,000, one model suggests — came in February from other countries in Asia, Europe and the rest of the world, each a dangerous spark that could set off a wider outbreak.
Many of those infections died out. But by mid-February, a few caught fire and became outbreaks, spreading invisibly. Some 2,000 hidden infections were already spreading through major U.S. cities.
The country was unaware of its own epidemic. Many tests released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t work, leaving only enough to test people who had visited China or had contact with a handful of known cases. Over the next two weeks, the number of cases from the invisible outbreaks doubled, then doubled three more times.
The New York Times traced the hidden spread of the epidemic to explain how the United States failed to stop it. At every crucial moment, American officials were weeks or months behind the reality of the outbreak. Those delays most likely cost tens of thousands of lives.
Then it exploded, unseen.
Top federal health experts concluded by late February that the virus was likely to spread widely within the United States. Government officials knew that they would need to urge the public to embrace social distancing measures, like avoiding crowds and staying home.
But Trump wanted to avoid disrupting the economy. So some of his health advisers, at Trump’s urging, told Americans at the end of February to continue to travel domestically and go on with their normal lives.
And they did. Millions moved around the country, cellphone data shows. Some unknowingly carried the virus with them.
By the time Trump blocked travel from Europe on March 13, the restrictions were essentially pointless. The outbreak had already been spreading widely in most states for weeks.
The delays killed thousands.
Faced with an outbreak that had grown beyond their ability to test or trace, American officials had no option but to ask the public to stay home.
On March 16, weeks after health officials privately concluded that a more active response would be needed, Trump asked Americans to limit travel, avoid groups and stay home from work and school if they felt sick. One by one, states issued stay-at-home orders and closed businesses.
The outbreak slowed in places where the measures were undertaken relatively quickly. But in New York City, political leaders waited crucial days to close schools and impose a stay-at-home order as the virus spun out of control.
More than 22,000 deaths in the New York City area could have been avoided if the country had started social distancing just one week earlier, Columbia University researchers estimate.
About 36,000 deaths nationwide could have been avoided by early May had social distancing begun earlier, the estimates say.
Even now, America remains in the dark. Most infected people are never tested. There is little capacity to trace and isolate the contacts of those who do test positive. After the lockdowns expired, new cases spiked once again.
In recent weeks, new outbreaks have flared across the South and the West. These are only the cases we know about. No one can see where the virus will go next.
Notes
The Times’ understanding of the early outbreak in the United States draws on case reports, travel patterns, genetic sequencing and disease modeling that simulates the course of the outbreak based on how it spread and what is known about the virus. All models are estimates, and it is impossible to know for certain the origin of each infection or the number of infections that were not confirmed by testing.
There are no comprehensive, official counts of cases, deaths or tests throughout the United States. Known cases are from a Times database based on information from federal, state and local officials. Cases are shown by core-based statistical areas or by county for cases outside of those areas. The first 15 cases are labeled by statistical area. Those labels may not match the names of the exact cities in which cases were seen.
The travel patterns the Times shows represent movement between core-based statistical areas, based on aggregated, anonymous cellphone location data collected by Cuebiq, a data intelligence firm that tracks the locations of more than 15 million cellphones in the United States. The data captures trips, not unique travelers, and it includes commutes between statistical areas as well as longer-distance travel. Some minor and short routes are not shown. Reductions in movement because of social distancing are based on measurements by Cuebiq of the median range that people in each area travel each day. The effects of social distancing are from “Social Distancing Is Effective at Mitigating COVID-19 Transmission in the United States” by Lauren Gardner et al.
Estimates of the number of undetected infections in 11 U.S. cities are from modeling by Northeastern University, courtesy of Alessandro Vespignani, as are the estimates of the number of undetected infected travelers who came into the United States from other countries. See “The Effect of Travel Restrictions on the Spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak” by Matteo Chinazzi and Jessica T. Davis et al. in Science.
Estimates of the number of contagious people who left New York and Seattle are from modeling by Sen Pei and Jeffrey Shaman at Columbia University. Estimates of the number of deaths that could have been avoided with earlier social distancing are from “Differential Effects of Intervention Timing on COVID-19 Spread in the United States,” by Pei et al. in medRxiv.org.
Genetic samples of the virus are from Nextstrain. The Times shows the samples grouped by names that were assigned before May 1, 2020. The connection of U.S. outbreaks to travel from New York City is based on a Times analysis of travel patterns and analysis of genetic mutations by Trevor Bedford, associate professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington. The Times’ understanding of the genetic connection between New York and New Orleans comes from Karthik Gangavarapu, a computational scientist at Scripps Research, and Bedford.
Conclusions from federal health officials in February about the likely spread of the virus are from Times reporting. Trump said that cases would be close to zero within days at a Feb. 26 news conference. Health advisers urged Americans to go on with their normal lives in a Feb. 29 news conference. Mayor Bill de Blasio encouraged New Yorkers to do the same in a tweet March 2. Trump recommended that Americans avoid travel at a news conference March 16.

Dafinch · Jul 6, 2020

rush__man said:

You post that like it's some kind of bone crushing refutation, or, even, that it's obvious what it means. What it means to ME, is that, I got NUTHIN', so, I'll just post a dumb picture with no relevance, but, you are free to "enlighten" me about its actual meaning, Dipshit.

savage1 · Jul 7, 2020

https://electoral-vote.com/

rush__man · Jul 7, 2020

Dafinch said:
You post that like it's some kind of bone crushing refutation, or, even, that it's obvious what it means. What it means to ME, is that, I got NUTHIN', so, I'll just post a dumb picture with no relevance, but, you are free to "enlighten" me about its actual meaning, Dipshit.

its you. dagrinch. have a nice day cheersgif

savage1 · Jul 8, 2020

https://electoral-vote.com/

savage1 · Jul 8, 2020

More political polling which raises a "few doubts" as to whether Trump is going to win the Election "in the biggest landslide in history" as our

QAnon agent says:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

Dafinch · Jul 8, 2020

rush__man said:
its you. dagrinch. have a nice day cheersgif

Ahhhh, rather than actually respond and refute ANY of what I said, you post some stupid ass picture in a desperate attempt to deflect that you got bitch slapped. Thanks for clearing that up. Meanwhile, go fuck yourself SEVERAL times, and be careful not to catch the Trump virus, uh, I mean, "serious flu," Jagoff. You never answered why SEVERAL GOP governeors have "caved in" bitch, what's up, virus got yer crotch?

Dafinch · Jul 8, 2020

savage1 said:
More political polling which raises a "few doubts" as to whether Trump is going to win the Election "in the biggest landslide in history" as our

QAnon agent says:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

That slightly off prediction reminds of the old book, "A Sense of Where You Are," about Bill Bradley's All American career at Princeton (prior to being a Rhodes Scholar and then going on to a Hall of Fame career in the NBA). He led Princeton to, if memory serves, the semi-finals of the NCAA championship, in the quarters, they played Providence, and Princeton was a heavy underdog. Somebody on the other team, also an All American, said before the game that Princeton was going to get blown out, adding, in order for them to win, they'd need, and I quote, "FIVE Bill Bradleys, and a good night." The author wrote something to the effect of, "So and so's prediction was correct about the one sided nature of the game, but wrong about the team." Final score: 109-69, and Bradley's team had the 109, lol.

savage1 · Jul 8, 2020

Dafinch said:
That slightly off prediction reminds of the old book, "A Sense of Where You Are," about Bill Bradley's All American career at Princeton (prior to being a Rhodes Scholar and then going on to a Hall of Fame career in the NBA). He led Princeton to, if memory serves, the semi-finals of the NCAA championship, in the quarters, they played Providence, and Princeton was a heavy underdog. Somebody on the other team, also an All American, said before the game that Princeton was going to get blown out, adding, in order for them to win, they'd need, and I quote, "FIVE Bill Bradleys, and a good night." The author wrote something to the effect of, "So and so's prediction was correct about the one sided nature of the game, but wrong about the team." Final score: 109-69, and Bradley's team had the 109, lol.

Great story.

I must have forgotten about that game.

Re: the present prediction about Trump's "greatest Election landslide in history" prediction, imo a fair betting line would be

No(it wont be) -20,000(maybe even higher)

Yes(it will be)+17,000

Dafinch · Jul 8, 2020

savage1 said:
Great story.

I must have forgotten about that game.

Re: the present prediction about Trump's "greatest Election landslide in history" prediction, imo a fair betting line would be

No(it wont be) -20,000(maybe even higher)

Yes(it will be)+17,000

Hmmm, I suspect NFL Kneels will take the dog, but, when "Judgment Day" rolls around, he'll disappear like a fart in the wind.

Dafinch · Jul 8, 2020

Lol, even Faux News sometimes has its limits...
[h=1]Even ‘Fox & Friends’ Isn’t Buying Trump Campaign’s Claim That America Is ‘Better Off’ Now[/h]

Justin Baragona, The Daily Beast•July 8, 2020

Trump campaign national spokesperson Hogan Gidley found some unexpected pushback Wednesday morning while in the friendly confines of Fox & Friends after he tried to claim that life is “undoubtedly” better for Americans right now.
Gidley, a former White House spokesperson who recently moved to President Donald Trump’s campaign, immediately began his interview on the president’s favorite morning show by lavishing over-the-top praise on the boss.
“Trump is so unique, he’s so powerful and so strong and he’s been so well-accomplished throughout his life, that he’s been so successful,” he cheerfully exclaimed. “His first run for politics he won the presidency of the United States!”

After weighing in on Trump’s decision to withdraw America from the World Health Organization and one-time MAGA fan Kanye West’s supposed presidential run, Gidley turned his attention to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, claiming he “wants to defund the police.”

“We just want to say that Vice President Biden never said he would defund the police,” co-host Brian Kilmeade interjected, correcting the Trump flack.

Kilmeade would go on to ask Gidley about Trump’s upcoming New Hampshire rally, wondering aloud what kind of precautions the campaign was taking to help minimize the spread of coronavirus as cases spike across the nation. Gidley, meanwhile, was focused more on the message Trump wants to deliver to his supporters.

“The president wants to go in there and talk about all the accomplishments he’s done in his first term and how he has made people’s lives better,” Gidley declared. “It answers the age-old question: are you better off now than you were before? The answer undoubtedly is yes.”

Kilmeade, however, wasn’t buying what the Trump spokesperson was selling.
“Wait! With the pandemic, you know the growth is not there,” the pro-Trump host shot back. “You know that unemployment is still 11 percent. So you can’t really say you are better off than you were three years ago. Because, at the very least, the pandemic. So you can’t really say that, right?”

Plowing right through, an undeterred Gidley held tight to his talking points.

“No, absolutely, of course you can say that,” he confidently proclaimed. “Because, listen, this global pandemic hit all of us. Not just here in this country, but all across the world.”

Amid a devastating pandemic that has killed more than 130,000 Americans and caused tens of millions to lose their jobs, the American public would appear to disagree with Gidley. A recent Morning Consult poll found that 75 percent of Americans feel that the country is currently on the wrong track.

savage1 · Jul 8, 2020

Dafinch said:
Hmmm, I suspect NFL Kneels will take the dog, but, when "Judgment Day" rolls around, he'll disappear like a fart in the wind.

The only way that Trump could win in the "greatest landslide in history" using the EC Votes as the standard would be for all of the people

in the country to die in a nuclear war or by some catastrophe like the Coronavirus..

Somehow Trump survives, declares Washingon DC. to be the new nation with DC being the only state.

He then holds an "Election" to determine who will be he POTUS, and he wins one vote to none*( as no one else is alive to oppose him)

and thus wins all of the new country's 538 EC Votes and awards them to himself.

There you go, folks-he wins 538-0 and thus wins by "the biggest landslide in history." lol

Dafinch · Jul 8, 2020

And, another "county" is heard from:

A cucumber, a pickle, and a penis were sitting around talking about how much they hate their lives....ooops, wrong story, lol

As COVID cases top 3 million, it's past time to end the catastrophic Trump presidency

Ira Shapiro, Opinion contributor, USA TODAY Opinion•
July 8, 2020Our country is living through a tragedy of unthinkable magnitude.
COVID-19 has hammered the world, but America — with 4.25% of the world’s population — has suffered a quarter of its cases and fatalities.
Other developed nations, such as Italy, Spain, France and the United Kingdom, have suffered greatly but have now managed to control the spread of the virus. Here, though we have the world’s most advanced economy and medical and scientific capabilities, COVID continues to run rampant. On Wednesday, led by surges in Texas, Florida, Arizona and California, America officially passed 3 million cases.
It is no secret why. America’s tragedy results from the largest failure of presidential leadership in our history. Donald Trump threw out the pandemic response playbooks left by his predecessors; weakened the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; refused to acknowledge the seriousness of the virus; promised its early disappearance; fantasized about miracle cures; and then, after a series of uninformed television briefings, chose to declare victory and pronounce the problem over.
He defied the warnings of public health experts and showed contempt for social distancing and wearing masks. He has created misunderstandings and sowed division by encouraging Americans to rebel against the reasonable public health measures put in place by their governors and mayors. He's trying to end insurance coverage for millions, and on Tuesday, as America set a record for new daily cases, he began to officially withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.
[h=2]An unhinged leader at a time of crisis[/h]If that record of misjudgment, negligence, incompetence and lying was not enough, in his recent rallies in Tulsa and Phoenix, Trump knowingly exposed thousands of Americans to disease and death so that he could receive their applause. He acts more like the leader of an apocalyptic cult than a president.
America faces the gravest possible challenge, with an increasingly unhinged leader. Along with most other Americans, I have tried to comfort myself knowing that the election is coming and that Trump is virtually certain to be defeated. But it will be more than six months until former Vice President Joe Biden is sworn in as president. Having seen the past six months, it is frightening to contemplate how much more damage Trump would do in his final six.

President Donald Trump on Feb. 6, 2020. We are not bound to stand by while thousands of Americans get sick and die, and our country goes down the drain. To paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the Constitution is not a "suicide pact."
Spiking across America: Trump's 'mission accomplished' moment is premature and deadly. We have not defeated COVID.
A bipartisan stand by Congress could put pressure on Trump to leave office, but there is no reason to believe that Senate Republicans, even after disgracing themselves in the impeachment trial, will break with Trump in an election year. The 25th Amendment specifies how the Cabinet can remove a president whose disability makes him incapable of doing his job, but a Cabinet led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr will not put “country first” any time soon.
[h=2]Governors could end Trump tragedy[/h]One group of Americans has the experience, credibility and stature to end this catastrophic presidency literally killing America. The nation’s governors, 26 Republicans and 24 Democrats, have been on the front lines leading the fight against the virus. Struggling to build hospital capacity, find personal protective equipment and make agonizing decisions about closing and reopening in the absence of clear federal guidance, the governors know better than anyone how completely Trump has failed the country and undermined their efforts to contain the virus.
Many governors have distinguished themselves; some who have followed the president and downplayed the virus have learned a bitter lesson. Their astronomical approval ratings show that they have earned the admiration and respect of their people for their unstinting efforts to deal with this unprecedented crisis. The National Governors Association, led by Republican Chairman Larry Hogan of Maryland and Democratic Vice Chairman Andrew Cuomo of New York, should call for Trump to resign.
I recognize that such an action seems unlikely. The Republicans are constrained by party loyalties, and Republicans and Democrats alike will worry about federal aid and retaliation from a vindictive president. But the governors are both patriots and practical people, and they understand the stakes. If Hogan and Cuomo were to get the ball rolling, others would have the courage to follow their lead, and pressure could quickly build that would rid us of the dangerous narcissist sitting in the White House.
How to contain the coronavirus: We can't wait for a COVID-19 vaccine. Test everyone now to help end the pandemic.
To be sure, the damage Trump could do in the next few months extends well beyond the pandemic. He will continue assaulting the rule of law, eviscerating our alliances, spewing racist hatred, driving capable people out of government, and working to suppress the votes of those who oppose him. But all those issues are properly the subject of the election. Dealing with the virus is a national emergency that justifies — indeed, requires — extraordinary immediate action.
I take no pleasure in the thought of Mike Pence as president. He has worked in lockstep with Trump. Consequently, he bears no resemblance to Gerald Ford, who had nothing to do with Watergate and commanded universal affection and respect when he succeeded Richard Nixon. But it is Donald Trump who poses the clear and present danger to the country.