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— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 12, 2020
.@ChuckGrassley warns against applying a religious test for the the Supreme Court.
"Some of my colleagues may once again try to misrepresent and outright disparage Judge Barrett's religious beliefs and affiliations." pic.twitter.com/XLjyTooo6w
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 12, 2020
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This is an amazing chart. Gallup. pic.twitter.com/GI8DpHOKgU
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I have to work this morning, but I have watched a few minutes of the confirmation hearing. Amy Barrett sits with a black mask covering her face. Her hands are not visible below a desk. It is almost as if she is handcuffed or otherwise restrained. She is still, no movement. Her bright maroon dress serves as an orange jump suit.
Senators berate her about the latest Democrat talking points. Each Democrat senator becomes more and more strident, emotional and unreal. The discussion is about Trump and what a monster he is. Covid! What a monster of a disease it is. Trump policies will kill people. Senators give examples of individuals who will be killed by Republican policies. Americans are portrayed as victims of unfair and abusive health care designed to either kill them, force them into bankruptcy, or deny them of their rights.
Barrett sits in silence. Her face unseen because of the mask. She blinks occasionally. She is alone. No person sits within 10 feet of her, yet she is still masked.
Is this a confirmation hearing or some insane third world kangaroo court? It is a weird media driven horror movie with psychological instead of physical torture. Intermittent Republican political statements serve to enhance the torture aspect of it. What has happened to us?
The government has become a disgrace.
Democrats are so confident Biden will win they are looking to import foreign help to cheat at the polls and in the counting. If left to their own devices, Democrats will count and count and count the votes until they get the result they want.
Don’t trust them.
Vote at the polling booth.
They were supported by house and senate Democrats and the liberal media. There is a Democrat cabal in bureaucratic Washington that also helped. It is the biggest political scandal in American history.
I reject totally the cockamamie nonsense the woke left has invented about Columbus.
This is an interesting interview with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a senior member of the Saudi government. Prince Bandar explains the Saudi response to recent historical events relating to Israel and the Palestinians, and tells young Saudis that they should be proud of their government and their country. At the same time he clearly distances the Saudis from the Palestinians and blames the Palestinians for botching multiple opportunities for peace in the region and with Israel. In light of recent events, this could be viewed as an early indicator of Saudi acceptance of the Abraham Accords, and a testing of waters with the Saudi people.
The link above is to a BBC article. American news and media will not seriously report on the Trump Administration success in the region for what I consider obvious reasons of political bias and an upcoming election. Peace could break out across the globe and American media would blame Trump for unfairly disadvantaging war.
Michael Barone:
“…The COVID-19 death rate per million is about one-fifth that of the 1957-58 Asian flu and one-third of the 1968-70 Hong Kong flu. Yet these earlier pandemics had only βevanescent economic consequencesβ and did not βleave any deep traumatic traces in memoriesβ of the 350 million people who, like Smil (and me), were 10 or older during both. βCountries did not resort to any mass-scale economic lockdowns, enforce any long-lasting school closures, ban sports events or cut flight schedules deeply.β
Why not? βWas it because we had no fear-reinforcing 24/7 cable news, no Twitter and no incessant and instant case-and-death tickers on all our electronic screens?β asks the non-cellphone-owner Smil. βOr is it we ourselves who have changed, by valuing recurrent but infrequent risks differently?β
Some of both is my tentative answer. AsΒ Iβve written about previously, Americansβ child-rearing practices are increasingly risk-averse. But this is not entirely consistent. Kids are kept in car seats till age 9, then encouraged to ride bicycles in heavy traffic a few years later. And some Americans are more risk-averse than others. Polls show that political liberals are more likely than political conservatives to wear masks and support extended lockdowns (except for βmostly peacefulβ demonstrations against police).
Partisan politics and personal distaste for Donald Trump plays a role. As ProPublicaβsΒ Alec MacGillis documentedΒ in a searingΒ New YorkerΒ article, teacher union members didnβt adamantly oppose reopening schools until Donald Trump called for it. A Trump tweet that the sun rises in the east would, it seems, move many Americans to head out to the Pacific coast and wait for it to rise there.
But one-dimensional risk-aversion has produced extended lockdowns with significant public health costs: reduced cancer and cardiac screening, fewer childhood vaccinations, undue skepticism toward any COVID vaccine. And itβs plainly damaging liberalsβ own causes.
Thus Democrats, unlike Republicans,Β have been refraining from door-to-door campaigningΒ β until Oct. 1, when Democrats decided they needed the personal touch. Similarly, Democratic pols encouraged their votersβ aversion to voting in person, until they realized that there would be many spoiled or undelivered ballots in states with voters and officials unfamiliar with postal voting.
Lockdowns, more stringent in Democratic than Republican states,Β have produced higher unemployment and greater drops in state revenues. Keeping unionized public schools closed is driving parents to private schools, homeschooling, and improvised pods.
AsΒ New York TimesΒ columnistΒ Ross Douthat notes, public schools are now open for half of white pupils but only one-quarter of blacks and Hispanics. For many minority children, he writes, βa key legacy of 2020 may be a well-intentioned liberal betrayal of their interests, a hollowing-out of the institutions that protect and serve them, and the deepening of Americaβs racial inequalities.β But extreme risk aversion imposes few costs for affluent liberals who can work comfortably and at full pay on home computers…”
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Update:
A local radio station reports that:
“…The Democratic running mates arenβt holding a public campaign event in Arizona but will meet with tribal leaders and go on a bus tour to the East Valley.
Their plans include a 2 p.m. meeting with Native American leaders in Phoenix.
Biden and Harris will then speak at a location that hasnβt been disclosed before taking a bus tour to visit with business leaders and voters in Phoenix and Tempe.
No other details about the Democratsβ visit were made available…”
Biden/Harris in Phoenix, Tempe
There appears to be contradictory reporting on whether the event was meant for the public or not. It is possible the local reporter in the video above was incorrect.
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 11, 2020
Hat tip to Kane
— π¬π§ Jolene Bunting π¬π§ (@jolenebuntinguk) October 9, 2020
tristan is a hero pic.twitter.com/3EyvbxdAQs
— cold π₯ (@coldhealing) October 10, 2020
Hat tip to Kane
I wonder what this kook would say if Tristan registers as a Republican!
