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On July 22, after three nail-biting days of absentee ballot counting at Queens Borough Hall, Zohran Mamdani and his supporters breathed a collective sigh of relief. They were at the end of a months-long campaign for the Democratic nomination for New York’s Thirty-Sixth Assembly District. And the final count showed that Mamdani had beaten twelve-year incumbent Aravella Simotas by 424 votes.
“For the first time in a century, there’s going to be a Socialist caucus in Albany,” said Mamdani, a foreclosure prevention counselor, in an impromptu victory speech.
Mamdani’s win was the last of six victories for the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) in New York’s June primaries — victories which cemented NYC-DSA’s status as a major player in the New York political scene, alongside other progressive groups like the Working Families Party and New York Communities for Change.
As it gains power, DSA has weathered criticism from established liberal politicians. “I am deeply concerned about the future of Brooklyn and this new movement to utilize Black candidates as a trojan horse,” Laurie Cumbo, majority leader of the City Council, wrote in a Facebook post obliquely referring to DSA following the election results.
Howard Graubard, a longtime commentator on New York City politics, likewise questioned whether New York’s democratic socialists actually represent the working-class constituencies they claim to. “Simotas was probably more working class than Mamdani was,” Graubard said in an interview, noting that Mamdani is the son of an academic and a filmmaker.
Despite their qualms, both Graubard and Cumbo recognize NYC-DSA as a force whose power is likely to grow.
The power that it displayed this past summer was four years in the making. DSA membership nationwide has exploded since 2016, with the number of dues paying members growing from 8,000 then to approximately 70,000 today, around 7,000 of whom live in New York.
NYC-DSA first ventured into electoral politics in 2017, with fewer than 5,000 members citywide. It endorsed two candidates for City Council, both of whom were soundly defeated by candidates backed by local party machines. Since then, NYC-DSA, working alongside a coalition of left-leaning organizations such as the Working Families Party, has become capable of rivaling and even defeating those machines, providing a model for how organizations committed to internal democracy and membership engagement can organize effectively and win power.
Monday saw the beginning of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Staggeringly, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) actually appeared in person, a mere 10 days after testing positive for COVID-19. He apparently has not tested negative or even been examined by a physician to confirm he has no symptoms — and removed his mask before giving his opening remarks. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), meanwhile, who was exposed to Lee in an October 1 hearing and had one negative test, has since refused to take another one even as a precaution. In one particularly ghoulish moment, both Lee and Graham stood chatting over Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who is 87 years old (and has also refused to get tested).
The hearing was just one of several instances over the past couple weeks in which Republicans have worked assiduously to spread coronavirus across the land. The party has mutated from merely hampering efforts to control the pandemic to actively accelerating it, even among their own top leaders.
It all started, of course, with the super-spreader event at the White House celebrating Barrett’s nomination on September 26. President Trump and something like 30 other people were likely infected as a result — how many exactly we can’t say, because the White House has refused to allow contact tracing. Very possibly hundreds of infections will end up being caused by this failure to find and arrest the chain of transmission. While ill, Trump forced his Secret Service agents to drive him outside the hospital to wave at supporters before returning to the White House long before he was fully recovered, causing flailing panic among his staff. He has since held a brief outdoor event on Sunday, with many maskless attendees crammed together, and resumed regular campaign events with a big rally in Florida Monday night.
At the recent debates, Trump lied about having been tested beforehand, and Vice President Pence resisted basic protective measures. After coming down with the virus, Trump refused to participate in a remote second debate, insisting that he potentially expose Joe Biden and hundreds of staffers to infection or he would not debate.
The irresponsibility of all this is practically beyond description.
Certainly part of this is about cynicism and will to power — Graham et al don’t want to get tested because a it might interfere with their plot to stuff the Supreme Court full of staring reactionaries so they can ban abortion and environmental regulation through judicial rule-by-decree. But this kind of behavior goes well beyond cynicism. A cynic would not be casually chatting two feet from someone who very likely still has COVID, even with a mask (surgical masks, mind you, not even N95 masks).
At his first campaign rally since being diagnosed and hospitalized with Covid-19, President Donald Trump late Monday delivered a characteristically deranged and lie-filled speech to a closely packed and largely maskless crowd of supporters in Sanford, Florida, a state that reported more than 5,500 new coronavirus cases just 24 hours earlier.
Apparently eager to project an appearance of good health with less than a month to go before the November election, Trump—his voice sometimes sounding hoarse—said he feels “so powerful” and, voicing no concern for the well-being of others, boasted that he could walk into the crowd and “kiss everyone” without any health consequences.
“One thing with me, the nice part: I went through it, now they say I’m immune,” Trump baselessly claimed on the same day scientists confirmed the first case of coronavirus reinfection in the United States.
“I’ll walk into that audience. I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women… I’ll just give ya a big fat kiss,” said Trump, who continues to flout basic public health guidelines and downplay the virus that has killed more than 214,000 people in the U.S.
Ahead of Trump’s Florida campaign event, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said early Monday evening that the president has tested negative for Covid-19 on consecutive days, citing the results of a rapid test that public health experts warned is not sufficiently reliable. The president’s medical team and White House officials have repeatedly refused to say when Trump’s last negative test was before he tested positive earlier this month.
“It doesn’t make much sense in my mind that they should be using the BinaxNOW test for this,” Dr. Michael Mina, an infectious disease expert at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told the New York Times.
Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the Federation of American scientists, pointed to Food and Drug Administration guidance stating that negative results from the BinaxNOW test “do not rule out” coronavirus infection and “should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or patient management decisions, including infection control decisions.”
Just as predicted, the US is now grappling with a new Covid-19 surge — one that could overwhelm hospitals, kill thousands of Americans a day by January and leave even young survivors with long-term complications.
“We went down to the lowest point lately in early September, around 30,000-35,000 new cases a day. Now we’re back up to (about) 50,000 new cases a day. And it’s going to continue to rise,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
“This is the fall/winter surge that everyone was worried about. And now it’s happening. And it’s happening especially in the northern Midwest, and the Northern states are getting hit very hard — Wisconsin, Montana, the Dakotas. But it’s going to be nationally soon enough.”
Across the country, 33 states have reported more Covid-19 cases this past week compared to the previous week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
In Denver, Mayor Michael Hancock said recent case counts are as “high right now as they were at the height of the pandemic back in May.”
He said hospitalizations have also soared, and residents could face tighter Covid-19 restrictions if the numbers keep going up.
In Wisconsin, a field hospital is opening this week to handle a rapid rise in coronavirus patients. The state recently reported record-high numbers of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and daily deaths.
If Americans don’t turn the tide around, the US could be in for a devastating winter. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation projects more than 135,000 people in the US could die within the next three months.
“This winter — this November, December, January, February — could be the worst time in our epidemic,” Hotez said. “Get ready to hunker down.”
President Trump on Tuesday mocked the top U.S. infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci, suggesting his “prognostications” about the coronavirus have been inaccurate amid a standoff between the doctor and the president’s reelection campaign.
“Actually, Tony’s pitching arm is far more accurate than his prognostications,” Trump tweeted, referencing Fauci’s wild first pitch at the Washington Nationals season opener in July.
The president also appeared to attribute a quote to Fauci that he never said publicly, describing how he and other health officials changed their position on mask usage early in the pandemic.
“ ‘No problem, no masks,’ ” Trump tweeted.
“WHO no longer likes Lockdowns — just came out against. Trump was right. We saved 2,000,000 USA lives!!!” Trump continued.
A person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage — but who can’t find one — is unemployed. If you accept that definition, the true unemployment rate in the U.S. is a stunning 26.1%, according to an important new dataset shared exclusively with “Axios on HBO.”
Why it matters: The official unemployment rate is artificially depressed by excluding people who might be earning only a few dollars a week. It also excludes anybody who has stopped looking for work or is discouraged by a lack of jobs or by the demands of child care during the coronavirus crisis.
If you measure the unemployed as anybody over 16 years old who isn’t earning a living wage, the rate rises even further, to 54.6%. For Black Americans, it’s 59.2%.
The recession made everything worse. Only 46.1% of white Americans over the age of 16 — and a mere 40.8% of Black Americans — now have a full-time job paying more than $20,000 per year.
In a televised debate with his Democratic opponent Amy McGrath late Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell laughed when confronted over his persistent refusal to pass additional coronavirus relief as pandemic-induced mass layoffs continue, hunger grows, and millions face the possibility of imminent eviction.
“The House passed a bill in May,” said McGrath, referring to the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act that the Kentucky Republican has dismissed and blocked from receiving a vote in the Senate. “The Senate went on vacation.”
“You just don’t do that,” McGrath continued as McConnell laughed. “You negotiate. Senator, it is a national crisis. You knew that the coronavirus wasn’t going to end at the end of July. We knew this.”
He's so proud of how little he's done to help the American people. That laugh should give you nightmares. https://t.co/zG4P5on4LC
The recession made everything worse. Only 46.1% of white Americans over the age of 16 — and a mere 40.8% of Black Americans — now have a full-time job paying more than $20,000 per year.
The coronavirus pandemic may have caused tens of thousands of more deaths in the spring and summer than previously thought, a new study says.
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond found nearly 75,000 more people may have died from the pandemic than what was recorded in March to July, according to the report published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA.
By examining death certificates, the study found more than 150,000 deaths were officially attributed to COVID-19 during that period. But researchers determined that nearly 75,000 additional deaths were indirectly caused by the pandemic, bringing the total number of deaths for those four months to more than 225,000.
Johns Hopkins University data puts the total COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. at just below 215,000.
“There have been some conspiracy theories that the number of deaths from COVID-19 have been exaggerated,” said Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. “The opposite is the case. We’re actually experiencing more death than we thought we were.”
While the Democrats have largely been passive, the Trump campaign has aggressively cultivated Latino swing voters. Given the president’s fulsome history of race baiting, it borders on the bizarre that the Trump administration has launched a sustained and effective outreach to Latinos. But Garza of the Libre Initiative told me how Trump has “opened up the White House to Latino evangelicals, pastors, women, youth business owners across the board.… They’ve gone out of their way to accommodate for Latino voices.” This extends beyond the confines of the White House; Vice President Mike Pence and senior officials have conducted listening tours with Latino voters beginning in the early days of the administration. The seriousness of the administration’s efforts was signaled at the Republican National Convention, both by what happened (a handful of Latino speakers) and what didn’t (the familiar chants of “build the wall” were conspicuously absent). As Democrats were going dark on Latino outreach, the Trump campaign was ratcheting up its own messaging—an effort that hit home because Biden “was well-known but not sharply defined with Latino voters. And Trump has spent much of the last six months defining him for us,” according to Valencia.
All this has proven to be an effective strategy. Polls of Latino voters are now consistently more favorable for the president than one might expect. In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, 34% of Latino voters favor Trump, with roughly 9% still undecided. At this point, Trump is running well ahead of his own vote share in 2016 (28%), as well as that of Mitt Romney in 2012 (27%) and John McCain in 2008 (31%). It’s still a heavily Democratic vote, but the movement of somewhere between 6% and 15% of Latino voters is potentially significant enough to impact the outcome in states like Florida and North Carolina. The polling has shaken Democrats, who have rapidly expanded their efforts to engage with Latinos over the last month. Rocha told me that Democrats are now outspending Republicans in Latino media three to one, and a Democratic PAC led by Rocha recently launched a new, aggressive Spanish-language media effort. But at this late date, even a vigorous effort to court Latino voters may be too late to move more than a relatively small group of undecided voters.
That may not matter in 2020, even in key states, given the inroads Biden has made with suburban women in general, white women without college degrees, and older voters. But it may matter enormously in future election cycles. The Latino vote will only increase in importance as the Latino population grows (Latinos are projected to make up 29% of the U.S. population by 2050) and as their voting participation ticks up over time. Many assume that this is unequivocal good news for the Democrats. But that may not be the case—at least not entirely. Even Valencia, the progressive pollster, sees opportunity for conservatives, noting that messages of economic opportunity and personal freedoms would play even better for Republicans if they didn’t “have an idiot as the head of the party…[and] if Democrats don’t wake up.” Republicans have generally taken between 30% and 40% of the Latino vote since the 1970s, reaching a high of 44% for George W. Bush in 2004. If they continue to listen and engage Latinos while Democrats take a back seat, that ceiling could be broken.
Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett used the widely-denounced term “sexual preference” to refer to LGBTQ Americans’ sexual orientation during her Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, sparking widespread criticism from LGBTQ rights advocates and others.
Barrett refused to say whether she agreed with the landmark 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that same-sex marriage is a constitutionally protected right. Barrett said recently that she holds the same judicial philosophy as former conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she clerked in the late 1990s.
Scalia dissented in the Obergefell case and argued that same-sex marriage is not a legal right.
“I have no agenda and I do want to be clear that I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not ever discriminate on the basis of sexual preference,” Barrett said in response to questioning about Obergefell on Tuesday. “Like racism, I think discrimination is abhorrent.”
LGBTQ rights organizations and others quickly pointed out that the correct term is “sexual orientation” and that anti-LGBTQ activists often use the term “preference” to falsely claim that gender identity and sexual orientation are a choice.
“This is a dogwhistle,” Lambda Legal, a top LGBTQ rights legal advocacy organization, tweeted in response to Barrett’s answer. “The term ‘sexual preference’ is used by opponents of equality to suggest that being #LGBTQ is a choice.”
Critics also pointed out that Barrett has, in fact, discriminated against LGBTQ people. Between 2015 and 2017, Barrett served on the board of trustees of Trinity Schools Incorporated, a group of Indiana private schools that adopted a policy in 2014 to bar children with unmarried parents from attending the school, The New York Times reported. Because same-sex marriage was then banned in Indiana, this was clearly designed to ban the children of same-sex couples, former Trinity school staffers told The Times.
The usual shit show, read the script provided by the federalist society, dont go off script on responses, and the Rs will lob in the softball questions to give the impression that you’re just below sainthood.
and the Dems are not disrupting the hearings and Joe doesn’t like packing the Court. Many Dems are fine with Barrett. Never thought I’d say that, but the scales keep falling.
Disruptions or not, Barrett is going to be confirmed. As far as expanding the Court, we would first have to clear the hurdle of getting rid of the filibuster, which is no sure thing given the positions of at least a few of the Dems.
Barrett wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel in 2019 that upheld the dismissal of a workplace discrimination lawsuit by Terry Smith, a Black Illinois transportation employee who sued after he was fired. Smith’s claims included that he was called a racial slur by supervisor Lloyd Colbert.
“The n-word is an egregious racial epithet,” Barrett wrote in Smith v. Illinois Department of Transportation. “That said, Smith can’t win simply by proving that the word was uttered. He must also demonstrate that Colbert’s use of this word altered the conditions of his employment and created a hostile or abusive working environment.”
Barrett went on to say that Smith “introduced no evidence that Colbert’s use of the n-word changed his subjective experience of the workplace. To be sure, Smith testified that his time at the Department caused him psychological distress. But that was for reasons that predated his run-in with Colbert and had nothing to do with his race. His tenure at the Department was rocky from the outset because of his poor track record.”
A possible colleague of Barrett’s took a different view on racial slurs in 2013. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, then serving as a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C, said one utterance was enough. “But, in my view, being called the n-word by a supervisor … suffices by itself to establish a racially hostile work environment. That epithet has been labeled, variously, a term that ‘sums up . . . all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America,’ ‘pure anathema to African-Americans,’ and ’probably the most offensive word in English,” Kavanaugh wrote. “No other word in the English language so powerfully or instantly calls to mind our country’s long and brutal struggle to overcome racism and discrimination against African-Americans. In short, the case law demonstrates that a single, sufficiently severe incident may create a hostile work environment actionable” under federal anti-discrimination laws.
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I weep for the 2 African American children that have been adopted into her family. What a fate.
yes, Obama. i think it’s really funny. he’s not asking us to hang odumdum. he’s calling out arquette’s hypocrisy. how the libs are all fawning over Chomsky but hate everything he really stans for.
I had to laugh when I discovered why Chomsky was trending on twitter. Knew that a bunch of people who probably don’t know almost anything about Chomsky were suddenly his biggest fans. All because he argued with Briahna.
There are very few people in U.S. politics who use their platform to challenge the corporate duopoly. My friend @briebriejoy is one of them & I applaud her for asking Noam Chomsky tough questions about how blind obedience to the Democrat party has resulted in its rightward shift.
in which we asked Chomsky, repeatedly, to assume everyone on the call was voting for Biden so as to advance the conversation.
Also, imagine the ego required to launch this attack without listening to the episode in which we asked Chomsky, repeatedly, to assume everyone on the call was voting for Biden so as to advance the conversation.
We debate Noam Chomsky about the limits of "vote blue no matter who," whether he'd vote for Bloomberg, Biden's attacks on the left, & how Black ppl & other historically marginalized groups are hurt by lesser of two evilism. https://t.co/R6AhyCbZyqpic.twitter.com/gcrIYZIciB
Why does vote for Bye-done and hope for the best take precedence over demanding that Bye-Done negotiate for our votes? He promises the right wingers and corporatists everything for their $. He promises the left nothing for our votes. If he loses, it’s on him cause I don’t plan to vote for him even though he’s now competitive in GA. As an African American woman, I totally relate to Briahna’s point.
Your not alone on Byedone!!! The noelibs have made it very clear they want nothing to do with Progressives. They would be happier if we formed our own party
phatkhat
Which is what we need to do. Meanwhile, it looks like I’m voting Green, since all the polls have Trump crushing it here, and from all the swag, I’m sure they are correct.
A centrist front group affiliated with the Blue Dog bloc of conservative House Democrats is running ads on Facebook for Big Pharma. https://t.co/Ox3Z0OQUYH
A nonprofit affiliated with the conservative Blue Dog Coalition of House Democrats is working to boost the reputation of Big Pharma through a series of paid ads it’s running on Facebook.
The group, Center Forward, is currently sponsoring seven news articles and op-eds that give positive coverage to the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to create COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, according to Facebook Ad Archive. While the articles Center Forward is promoting do not necessarily contain false information, they are in line with messages from the Trump administration and many in the business community who are eager to fully reopen the economy more rapidly than is advised by most epidemiologists. “Trust the seeds of hope our scientists have planted working around the clock to develop COVID-19 treatments and vaccines,” one ad reads.
Center Forward, which was known as the Blue Dog Research Forum until 2012, has received major funding from drug industry lobbying group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA). From 2016-18, Center Forward got more than $2.9 million from PhRMA, according to tax documents. In 2018, PhRMA provided nearly a quarter of the organization’s overall budget. While the group says its mission is “to give centrist allies the information they need to craft common sense solutions,” its Facebook ad activity looks a lot more like reputation laundering for a big donor.
Brace yourself while I paint a picture of a nightmarish future. It’s one in which every American gets to vote without impediment or inconvenience. Where the presidential candidate who gets the most votes actually moves into the Oval Office. Where bills in Congress are debated and then voted on, the side with more votes prevails, then those laws take effect and the public can judge the results.
This is the terrifying political hellscape the Republican Party is determined to prevent. For a party with a dwindling base and a broadly unpopular agenda, there is no more profound threat than democracy.
In the first day of questioning in Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, she gave no indication that she will be anything but an enthusiastic participant in their effort to hold it back.
But there’s something more important going on than mere hypocrisy. Right now the bulwarks of Republican minority rule are under profound threat. This election they could lose both the presidency they won despite losing the popular vote, and the Senate which they control despite the fact that millions more Americans voted to be represented there by Democrats. Should that happen, the Supreme Court will be all they have left at the federal level.
Their minority rule has never been in more peril than it is right now. And they’re counting on that Supreme Court to issue rulings that make it possible for them to retake power despite their minority status, by solidifying partisan gerrymandering, validating voter suppression and inhibiting the government’s ability to protect voting rights — and strike down laws passed by Democrats.
Dem states have far fewer impediments to voting than Republican states. Dem judges are not trying to undermine the Voting Act. Dem politicians would be happy to scrap the electoral college.
What examples are there of Dems trying to limit voting? NY might have been one but with the voting reforms here that is getting better quickly.
Looong lines in precincts where Bernie was most popular. Closed polling stations in same. In Dem states, too, not just GOP. Cuomo’s dumping of 80,000+ absentee ballots, etc. etc.
Voting machines! Bezopo loves machines and i don’t remember them being upset during the primary.
With its socially liberal coalition of mostly white Irish Catholic/Portuguese Catholic/Italian Catholic voters, Rhode Island was seen as Bernie Sanders’s best chance at victory in the so-called “Acela Primaries” on April 26. He pulled out a commanding, 11-point win in the Ocean State on election day. He carried all municipalities but four, winning in the major cities of Providence and Warwick.
And turnout was broadly depressed nationwide in the general election due to having two of the most unpopular candidates in recent history as heads of the respective parties. One of which was selected by the Democratic Party.
The DNC and state democratic state chairs ( many who are cosy with the clintons and the democratic establishment) put their thumbs on the scale during primaries. Not so much during general elections due to the fact that they have their preferred candidate in place.
OzoneTom
And who can forget Clinton being declared the presumptive winner of the democratic nomination by multiple news outlets on June 6 — the night before the California primary.
jcb, how about the primary voter suppression in KY when McGrath beat Booker? All the reports of precincts not opening? Don’t kid yourself. The DNC/GOPuke Lite play that game.
phatkhat
The Dems don’t try to suppress the GE vote – they suppress the primary vote. They do all in their power to make sure the corporocrats stay in power and progressives are crushed. Bernie? Booker? Ring any bells? How about the effort to keep Eliot? The smear campaign against the guy in Mass? Trying to take down AOC and Rashida and Ilhan?
I have said this so many times, it sounds like a headache. A massive voter turnout will defeat the FRight fossils. The signs are pointing in that direction nationwide. 🙂
Stein voters in 2016 overwhelmingly support Biden in 2020 in six Midwest battleground states. (Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin)
Biden 59 Trump 9 Hawkins, Not voting, or undecided 32
Overall the states have gone from Trump +3 to Trump -6
Mr. Biden also holds a significant lead among respondents who say they backed a minor-party candidate, like Gary Johnson or Jill Stein.
Those who say they voted for minor-party candidates in 2016 have broken by 34 points to Mr. Biden.
Mr. Biden’s lead is largest among the former supporters of Ms. Stein, who say they back him, 59-9.
Mr. Biden’s lead among the former supporters of Mr. Johnson is smaller, 38 percent to 14 percent, with this year’s Libertarian nominee, Jo Jorgensen, winning 29 percent of their support.
Polling costs money and those who pay for it want the desired results. Pollsters can tweak the questions and or the participants to get them.
eg landline or cell phone, registered or likely voters,age samples and so on.
During the primary there was a poll that was favorable to Bernie ( I think it a monmouth poll but I could be wrong) and it was quickly cast as an outlier as it differed from the ongoing agenda.
During the Iowa primary the des moines register poll (the gold standard in polling} was held back due to mayo pete.
Then there is this.
After every poll has shown Biden ahead in NV, Adelson’s paper does a poll that shows their guy and Biden “virtually tied.”
Ya gotta love it.
I’ll look deeper later.
Can’t get the link to work because Adelson trademarked the poll’s name. I kid you not. It’s in the headline.
As I have said, sure, Trump could win here. But he is clearly behind right now in every poll but one and that one was done for a billionaire donor to Trump whose paper just endorsed POTUS.
In October of 2016, then United States president Barack Obama told Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine that the Hillary Clinton campaign had to “keep a fascist out of the White House.” The 44th President of the United States had an accurate understanding of Trump – a president in the making Obama had done much to create (please see the third chapter of my new book Hollow Resistance: Trump, Obama and the Politics of Appeasement) – as a malignant, arch-authoritarian, and far-right menace to the republic and the world.
“America[ns] First”
Less than a month later, Obama said this to the American people after Trump defeated Mrs. Clinton:
“Now, everybody is sad when their side loses an election. But the day after, we have to remember that we’re actually all on one team. This is an intramural scrimmage. We’re not Democrats first. We’re not Republicans first. We are Americans first. We’re patriots first. We all want what’s best for this country… we all go forward, with a presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens [that it] is essential to a vibrant and functioning democracy…ultimately we’re all on the same team” (emphasis added).
The patient had positive tests in April and June, separated by two negative tests in May.
The University of Nevada authors presented several possible explanations for the severity of the reinfection. The patient might have encountered a very high dose of the virus on the second occasion, which caused a more acute reaction. Or he might have come in to contact with a more virulent viral strain, though scientists have not yet noted mutations in Sars-Cov-2 associated with more serious disease. … “So far, we’ve only seen a handful of reinfection cases, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more, especially as many cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic. Right now, we can only speculate about the cause of reinfection.”
There have been well reported cases of re-infection in many countries. The US press hasn’t yet decided that the American people need this frightening info.
Meanwhile President Super Spreader is holding large crowded rallies every day.
These are looking like Jim Jones rallies, only with delayed effects. Herman Cain Memorial events?
it wouldn’t be so bad if they would just stay in their little groups, but these are the types that go all over the place, so service workers of all kinds are at risk, too.
The best explanation that I can come up with is that Trump decided in late January/early February that his path to re-election was with his credible racist base. He will confirm for them how special and deserving they are and that this Virus will pass them by, hurting only Other People.
If it takes 1/2 million dead, or more than that, who knows because we don’t know if when or how this Virus will leave the US, Trump is only too happy to offer up our entire population just as long as he remains in the WH.
Can he be stopped? IDK.
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Agreed. In my opinion tRump doesn’t give a shit about his racist supporters. And his supporters don’t give a shit about him. They see each other as a means to accomplish their individual goals and will use each other to advance.
wpDiscuz
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/new-york-city-democratic-socialists-of-america-elections
Albany could certainly use a Socialist caucus. May it thrive and grow.
Ryan Cooper
https://theweek.com/articles/943192/republican-party-objectively-procoronavirus
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/13/after-negative-result-unreliable-covid-test-trump-falsely-tells-florida-crowd-hes
Kharma could strike again and Trumpcorp get it again 🙂
He may not even be over it the first time. Or, he could become one of the Long-Haulers. And, believe me, it’s pretty awful.
Europe also
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/520732-trump-criticizes-fauci-amid-disagreement-over-campaign-ad
Mike Lee– in person, positive, unmasked, and raving.
https://www.axios.com/americas-true-unemployment-rate-6e34decb-c274-4feb-a4af-ffac8cf5840d.html
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/13/hes-so-proud-how-little-hes-done-watch-mcconnell-laugh-when-confronted-covid
That’s insane.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/10/12/us-covid-deaths-75-k-more-americans-died-than-previously-recorded-excess-deaths/5935813002/
Could Latino Votes Tip the Election for Trump?
But they loved Tio Bernie.
This Barrett woman is a nightmare.
And the attached screenshot…for some reason it didn’t make me feel better one bit. In fact, I’m pretty sure a chill went down my spine.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amy-coney-barrett-says-being-lgbtq-is-a-sexual-preference-2020-10?utm_source=reddit.com
The usual shit show, read the script provided by the federalist society, dont go off script on responses, and the Rs will lob in the softball questions to give the impression that you’re just below sainthood.
and the Dems are not disrupting the hearings and Joe doesn’t like packing the Court. Many Dems are fine with Barrett. Never thought I’d say that, but the scales keep falling.
Disruptions or not, Barrett is going to be confirmed. As far as expanding the Court, we would first have to clear the hurdle of getting rid of the filibuster, which is no sure thing given the positions of at least a few of the Dems.
Discouraging.
Jcb: the FRight have succeeded in wrecking and turning the country over to the fossilized corporate mindset. Solutions?
Why would the R lite party disrupt they sercretly approve
When even Kavanaugh is a step up
https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-donald-trump-confirmation-hearings-discrimination-amy-coney-barrett-4380ef16b3da79836151bcaaa7eda224
I weep for the 2 African American children that have been adopted into her family. What a fate.
She’s no more nightmare than Thomas (her black male twin), Scalia, Alito, Kavenaugh (a real stupe), Kennedy, Roberts, etc.
T and R, jcb!! 🙂
https://twitter.com/HufManHufAmazin/status/1316025744254885893?s=20
What does Avi’s tweet even mean? That Noam should be hanged? Who is Odumdum? Obama?
yes, Obama. i think it’s really funny. he’s not asking us to hang odumdum. he’s calling out arquette’s hypocrisy. how the libs are all fawning over Chomsky but hate everything he really stans for.
I had to laugh when I discovered why Chomsky was trending on twitter. Knew that a bunch of people who probably don’t know almost anything about Chomsky were suddenly his biggest fans. All because he argued with Briahna.
And this part was completely ignored.
I need to track down that interview – can’t imagine a valid answer to Brie’s question.
Here you go.
Thanks, I was already hunting the twitter thread lol.
Wow. Chomsky got destroyed, and seems unhinged, drowning in his own privilege. Grateful to have seen it.
His age has caught up to him.
Why does vote for Bye-done and hope for the best take precedence over demanding that Bye-Done negotiate for our votes? He promises the right wingers and corporatists everything for their $. He promises the left nothing for our votes. If he loses, it’s on him cause I don’t plan to vote for him even though he’s now competitive in GA. As an African American woman, I totally relate to Briahna’s point.
Your not alone on Byedone!!! The noelibs have made it very clear they want nothing to do with Progressives. They would be happier if we formed our own party
Which is what we need to do. Meanwhile, it looks like I’m voting Green, since all the polls have Trump crushing it here, and from all the swag, I’m sure they are correct.
Never once have I noticed Pelosi raise even a pinky finger to control or replace the blue dogs as they enable her centrist agenda.
she helps them when she can get away with it.
An excerpt from the article.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/13/republicans-have-seen-enemy-democracy/?utm_source=reddit.com
Gosh, if only the Dems were also for a future where “every American gets to vote without impediment or inconvenience.”
Right, such a future would represent just as much a “terrifying political hellscape” for the Democratic Party.
The WP just doing it’s part to keep Americans divided.
Dem states have far fewer impediments to voting than Republican states. Dem judges are not trying to undermine the Voting Act. Dem politicians would be happy to scrap the electoral college.
What examples are there of Dems trying to limit voting? NY might have been one but with the voting reforms here that is getting better quickly.
Looong lines in precincts where Bernie was most popular. Closed polling stations in same. In Dem states, too, not just GOP. Cuomo’s dumping of 80,000+ absentee ballots, etc. etc.
Voting machines! Bezopo loves machines and i don’t remember them being upset during the primary.
I’ll never forget RI in 2016, a state Bernie was expected to do well in-so what does Dem party do? Close two-thirds of the polling stations!
But yet, Bernie ended up with less delegates than Hillary, we know how that went, in this case 8 of the 9 superdelegate votes went to Hillary (with one abstention) which means that were yet again told to screw off, we don’t care who you prefer! You’re just a lowly voter.
And turnout was broadly depressed nationwide in the general election due to having two of the most unpopular candidates in recent history as heads of the respective parties. One of which was selected by the Democratic Party.
The DNC and state democratic state chairs ( many who are cosy with the clintons and the democratic establishment) put their thumbs on the scale during primaries. Not so much during general elections due to the fact that they have their preferred candidate in place.
And who can forget Clinton being declared the presumptive winner of the democratic nomination by multiple news outlets on June 6 — the night before the California primary.
That night they confirmed the the DNC picks the candidate not the voter and for those who were not convinced they chose Byedone in 2020.
jcb, how about the primary voter suppression in KY when McGrath beat Booker? All the reports of precincts not opening? Don’t kid yourself. The DNC/GOPuke Lite play that game.
The Dems don’t try to suppress the GE vote – they suppress the primary vote. They do all in their power to make sure the corporocrats stay in power and progressives are crushed. Bernie? Booker? Ring any bells? How about the effort to keep Eliot? The smear campaign against the guy in Mass? Trying to take down AOC and Rashida and Ilhan?
I have said this so many times, it sounds like a headache. A massive voter turnout will defeat the FRight fossils. The signs are pointing in that direction nationwide. 🙂
Stein voters in 2016 overwhelmingly support Biden in 2020 in six Midwest battleground states. (Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin)
Biden 59
Trump 9
Hawkins, Not voting, or undecided 32
Overall the states have gone from Trump +3 to Trump -6
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/upshot/polls-wisconsin-michigan-election.html
Polling is just an opaque form of propaganda.
Polling costs money and those who pay for it want the desired results. Pollsters can tweak the questions and or the participants to get them.
eg landline or cell phone, registered or likely voters,age samples and so on.
During the primary there was a poll that was favorable to Bernie ( I think it a monmouth poll but I could be wrong) and it was quickly cast as an outlier as it differed from the ongoing agenda.
During the Iowa primary the des moines register poll (the gold standard in polling} was held back due to mayo pete.
Then there is this.
How is IL a battleground state?
It’s not my mistake. I meant PA
Boy, Howdy! Is this ever a good read!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/13/hey-obama-is-it-the-apocalypse-yet/
It certainly is!👏👌
Just a smidgen from the article.
and i’m pretty sure he knew about the pied piper strategy.
I’ll say!!!!!
Sounds like there’ve been some technical difficulties related to /registers/voting:
The effect is the same so don’t hold your breath waiting for those in power to fix it.
First confirmed US coronavirus reinfection worries health experts
Blow to ‘herd immunity’ theory compounded by Nevada man having a more serious illness after second infection
The patient had positive tests in April and June, separated by two negative tests in May.
There have been well reported cases of re-infection in many countries. The US press hasn’t yet decided that the American people need this frightening info.
Meanwhile President Super Spreader is holding large crowded rallies every day.
These are looking like Jim Jones rallies, only with delayed effects. Herman Cain Memorial events?
it wouldn’t be so bad if they would just stay in their little groups, but these are the types that go all over the place, so service workers of all kinds are at risk, too.
As are we all. i don’t understand, honestly.
The best explanation that I can come up with is that Trump decided in late January/early February that his path to re-election was with his credible racist base. He will confirm for them how special and deserving they are and that this Virus will pass them by, hurting only Other People.
If it takes 1/2 million dead, or more than that, who knows because we don’t know if when or how this Virus will leave the US, Trump is only too happy to offer up our entire population just as long as he remains in the WH.
Can he be stopped? IDK.
Agreed. In my opinion tRump doesn’t give a shit about his racist supporters. And his supporters don’t give a shit about him. They see each other as a means to accomplish their individual goals and will use each other to advance.
It is not quite new but I just came across this.🤔