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Merc, Great to see you around! It's been a long time!

Trump is hiding in the basement, gorging on fast food, and raging that the election was stolen from him. At this point he's incapable of doing anything here, or offering any words worth listening to. The hallmarks of his administration have been inaction (except for things he considered...

Nice portraits! Here's one of Mitch McConnell I found:

The Supreme Court rejected the Texas suit as well: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11/945617913/supreme-court-shuts-door-on-trump-election-prospects Now is this nonsense finally, really, over? I don't care if Trump concedes or not. He lost the election. Period. Time to get on with life.

Hopefully this fiasco really is over now: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/supreme-court-republican-challenge-pennsylvania-vote.html

I actually stayed up until Trump was declared the winner. On the one hand, I was worried but hoped Trump might grow into the role (obviously he didn't). On the other, I was no fan of Hillary Clinton, so it wasn't like I was so sad that she lost. I was actually singing "Ding Dong The Witch Is...

When even Fox News won't support Trump you know how far off base these allegations are.

At this point if they're going to vote for candidates like Trump it's better if they don't bother voting at all. It doesn't say much for the people who voted for him that think he's a good representative of our country. I've heard that a stable democracy depends upon an educated voting base...

Last time for me was 42½ years ago. I don't plan to move again.

My point is that it's really a stretch to make a case to prove there was enough fraud even in one state where Biden won by a relatively slim margin to flip the results, never mind to do so in enough states to change the election results. And it works both ways. If you're going to start claiming...

Let me play Devil's Advocate for a moment. Let's ignore everything time wrote, let's assume those were all "fake" ballots filled out for Biden, and let's assume there were enough of them to flip the state of Georgia. So what? Biden still wins the election, except he wins 290-248 instead of...

Given how little we knew about the virus then going for herd immunity made no sense at all. For starters, we still don't know how long a person is immune to it once they get it. If it's only a matter of months, herd immunity can never work unless everyone in the country got it within a few...

I was thinking the same. As far as I know nobody on the Supreme Court has the qualifications to evaluate covid-related restrictions with regard to their efficacy. It's just the "new" Supreme court flexing their muscles. I'm really disappointed that the GOP rushed the appointment of a religious...

Not being able to enforce them is as good as them not even existing. Also, leadership starts at the top. If the governor of a state doesn't offer good guidance, a lot of people won't comply with voluntary guidelines.

By the way it's stuff like this that I'm mostly referring to when I talk about "misguided notions of freedom and choice": https://news.yahoo.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-accused-180518736.html The Florida governor not only won't enact a statewide mask mandate, but won't even let...

Just staying home with my mother as usual, no visitors. Same for Christmas. If we're lucky Easter might be somewhat normal. Let's just hope they get the vaccine to enough people by then.

The government has a very far reaching set of powers to deal with emergencies like this: https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/commentary/constitutional-guide-emergency-powers It sounds like the Supreme Court ruled against treating religious gatherings differently than so-called essential...

Unfortunately, since we have none of those things the only option is to shut down-again-to slow the spread of the virus. Trump and his followers have the ideology that government is bad, or at best useless. By putting incompetents into positions of power, that has become a self-fulfilling...

This is probably as close to a concession as we'll ever get from Trump: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/527278-trump-tells-gsa-to-allow-biden-transition-to-begin

People traveling for the holidays are another big problem. If we had a sane government response we would have shut down the airlines a week ago until early next year, and restricted travel on Interstate highways to only essential workers. The government may not have to explicitly ban gatherings...

Actually my cat is claiming Trump lost the election because the Democats had fake ballots with Biden's name trucked in. The Republicats supposedly turned out in record numbers. That might be most of Trump's votes. Easy for him to please cats. Just promise them a warm bed, a place to poop, and a...

Sometimes you never know about the people (or animals) you're sharing a roof with. Turns out my cat Jeannie is an avid Trump supporter: She even snuck out to go to Trump rallies. Her last covid-19 test was positive, which she undoubtedly caught at a rally, so I tried to make her wear a mask...

It's probably that and the fact being President insulates him from his pending legal problems.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump played golf while America died of coronavirus. That's going to be his legacy.

I think they're 0 for 29 or 0 for 30 at this point. These cases are completely baseless, especially considering in most cases they want to throw out only votes in primarily Democratic counties. If you're going to have new criteria for signature matching or other stuff, it has to be applied...

What's going on is a federal government which is completely AWOL on the pandemic, combined with many state and local governments which are practically the same, or just refuse to enact measures to mitigate things because of some misguided notions about freedom and choice. Yes, it's a shit show...

SNL would be hard pressed to do better than this: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/giuliani-trump-legal-team-press-briefing-fact-check/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-coronavirus-response-international-human-rights-law-us-cases-a9459731.html https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02277-6

I honestly think once all his legal and financial problems find him he might leave the country. He even said he might leave the US if he lost the election. My guess looking at the list in the article is Canada and Scotland wouldn't want him. China probably wouldn't, either. So it would be either...

I'm not religious but these pieces make a good case for Trump being the devil: https://psmag.com/news/one-quarter-of-americans-believe-donald-trump-is-running-with-the-devil...

What about Trump's travel ban from Muslim countries, even though it's only the Muslim extremists who cause problems, while at the same time he appointed a Christian religious extremist to the Supreme Court! I guess religious extremists are OK if they happen to be from a religion you like. Trump...

Fine, let Trump wait until all the court cases are decided or thrown out before conceding, even though none of them have the potential to flip even one state, let alone the election. Even if he refuses to concede, which is merely a formality, he should at least be aiding the transition for the...

No, I'm not saying that at all. We're basically a centrist nation, and most people are fine with views that are somewhat left or right of center. Prior to the Trump era, I would never even think of boycotting a business for their political leanings, even if I didn't agree with them, because in...

Except that's not even remotely true. The far left of the Democratic party gets a lot of press coverage but most of their ideas will never make through even a Congress controlled by their party. There was a time in the 1960s and 1970s when the Democrats were giving working people heavy tax...

If there's any fraud here, I would say it's on the part of GOP voters. I'm totally shocked Trump got as many votes as he did, and also that the GOP gained seats in the House. Maybe you had a lot of dead GOP voters voting. Or perhaps some people from the Sturgis motorcycle rally voted, shaved off...

So far no major violence, just a few isolated incidents. All we saw yesterday was hordes of people taking to the streets in major US cities peacefully celebrating Biden's victory. Still a bad idea given that they weren't social distancing, even if most wore masks. The entire scene reminded me of...

The American people threw his favorite two words right back at him:

This is the same kind of nonsense I've heard when they interview people at Trump rallies. They're in an alternate reality with climate change, with the virus, etc. The demographics are changing in the US to the point the Republicans think they may not ever win any national elections again, even...

Yeah, he wants to continue counting in states where he might catch up and flip them and stop counting in states where Biden is catching up. In his mind, mail-in ballots are all fraudulent. This is the kind of crap you normally see in banana republics, not the US.

Actually, CNN didn't call Arizona yet, and I agree with their reasons. As the votes come in, Biden's lead has slowly dwindled. Until it's mathematically impossible for Trump to catch up, they won't call the state. That said, PA looks good for Biden at the moment. At one point Trump was ahead by...

I'm actually amazed we haven't moved yet to 100% online voting, with mail-in ballots for those who don't have an Internet connection. Besides getting nearly instantaneous results on election day, it would end current attempts at voter suppression.

Well, this is what happens when you have a sitting President who tells white supremacists to "stand back and stand by". It's clear to me at this point that Trump presents a clear and present danger to the United States. He should be removed from office on the basis of mental incompetence...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/06/trump-ends-coronavirus-relief-talks-amid-stalemate-with-pelosi-426819 If this doesn't show what a heartless, unempathetic bastard Trump is, I don't know what does. I love the hubris also: "I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until...

Not to mention the millions like myself who are still running their residences like a germ warfare lab. This isn't going to be truly over until we have mass vaccinations and no new covid cases for at least a month. Optimistically, that isn't happening until mid 2021.

Of course this is ending up being the Trump show, as usual: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-releases-video-saying-hes-starting-to-feel-good-2020-10 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-alternate-reality/index.html

Maybe but if anyone who got it dies it's going to be pretty hard to paper over that.

By the way, given that the President has to stay in isolation at least 2 weeks, and his condition may well get much worse, I think it's safe to say the other two debates aren't happening. Neither is any campaigning.

I'm surprised he didn't get it earlier. Maybe this might wake him up to how serious this disease is, especially if he ends up hospitalized.

Actually from my perspective the problem is the older generations NOT going away. Think about it. Both candidates for President are from the Baby Boom generation, a generation which has stubbornly clinged to power long past their time. In fact, the same was true in 2016 with both Trump and...