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With a little over a week to go until the election, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will make his return to Pittsburgh on Saturday as a surrogate for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
The visit will be announced by Mr. Biden’s campaign later this morning, and include events in the North Side and Rankin.
Last time Mr. Sanders came, it was for his own Democratic presidential bid in late 2019, when he spoke to a few hundred union members in a Downtown hotel and received the endorsement of the Pittsburgh-based United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
Now, Mr. Sanders will be here to help turn out union members to vote for Mr. Biden, and it will start with a rally with campaign volunteers and members of the Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ, on CCAC’s Allegheny campus on Saturday morning.
Appearing alongside Mr. Sanders at the rally will be Pennsylvania state Rep. Jake Wheatley, D-Hill District, who has campaigned for Mr. Biden since endorsing him in March.
In the afternoon, Mr. Sanders is scheduled to host a “drive-in car rally” at the Carrie Furnaces site alongside Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and state Reps. Summer Lee and Sara Innamorato — progressive Democrats who were backed by Mr. Sanders in their own political runs in recent years.
By the time I saw the Faux news poll it was 74% vs 24%, and:
Eric Trump shared screen captures of several other online polls that showed even bigger leads, including a Twitter poll from the conservative Hoover Institution finding that 87 percent believed Trump won compared to only 13 percent for Biden.
This thing ain’t in the bag for Joe yet, but I read that there are fewer 3rd party/undecideds this year vs. 2016, so less room for Trump to make up ground.
A few months ago, our reporting team spotlighted how Joe Biden’s campaign was suggesting that if Donald Trump is defeated, a new Democratic administration may not even try to fulfill its campaign promises because of deficit concerns. When our story went viral, Biden’s campaign frantically — and rightly — backtracked, which was a huge win for accountability journalism.
At the final 2020 presidential debate last night, that success culminated in one of the most important moments in the entire campaign.
During a discussion about the budget, Biden brushed off his old deficit hawk buddies, outright rejected GOP talking points, and instead made the point that the federal government must spend what it takes to rescue cities and states.
“Every single state out there finds themselves in trouble — they’re gonna start laying off, whether they are red or blue, cops, firefighters, first responders, teachers, because they have to balance their budget,” Biden said. “The founders were smart. They allowed the federal government to deficit spend to compensate for the United States of America.”
Overall, the debate was demoralizing and depressing, but this moment wasn’t. It was a moment that won’t get a ton of attention from a media obsessed with frivolity, but it wasn’t some small matter. It was everything. If a new administration accepts deficit concern trolling and the Beltway’s austerity frame, then it is doomed to fail. If a new administration rejects that frame, then the possibility of real change remains alive.
It is hard to overstate how big a shift this is for Biden. He was the guy who spent decades touting his work with Republicans trying to cut programs like Social Security in the name of budget austerity. Now he’s expounding on the need for countercyclical deficit spending. To use a Biden-ism, that’s a BFD.
Biden’s rhetorical change is not only good politics, it is sane policy. With the economy in crisis, and with states unable to deficit spend, the federal government must be the demand-side spender of last resort. And it’s not like there aren’t priorities that require big funding — investments in jobless benefits, infrastructure projects, and climate change mitigation will boost the economy and are desperately needed, for obvious reasons.
Biden’s declaration will be particularly important in the coming months, because we already know that if he wins, Republicans will suddenly start pretending to care about deficits, right after they themselves have been deficit spending at a record pace.
I missed that part, thank you jcitybone, that’s somewhat encouraging.
My main concern, of course, is whether the never-Trump Republicans helping Biden now (or grifting off of him, hard to tell) would twist Joe’s arm and hold sway re: deficit spending.
T and R, jcb!! 🐶😊☮️👍 Color me beyond skeptical. Byedone loves him some RW austerity. Big reason why I didn’t vote for him! PB(ad)O(dor) was the last straw for me. 🤮😡
1) Trump is too immersed in the Fox News Cinematic Universe to communicate clearly with people who live outside of it.
But in the 2020 general election, Trump needs to communicate with those who live outside the Fox News Cinematic Universe and are not acquainted with its deep mythology. And his self-assigned mission on Thursday night — to reengineer the 2016 campaign’s twist ending by introducing a hazily defined, email-centric corruption scandal into the mix — only pulled him further into the weeds of the far-right fever swamp. Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” has been a fixture of conservative media for weeks now. But unlike in 2016, the mainstream press has declined to take interest in the right’s ill-substantiated smear of this year’s Democratic nominee. This is in part because Hunter-gate is thin gruel, even for those used to consuming Rudy Giuliani’s cooking. Existing reports have made it clear that Hunter monetized his father’s name in shady ways. But, as the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night — in a jab at its own opinion page — there is as yet no evidence that Joe Biden himself committed any corrupt acts.
All this left Donald Trump — a man not known for the cogency of his extemporaneous remarks — with a task akin to describing the fourth season finale of a surreal, largely plotless television show to a crowd of people who’d never heard of the series.
2) Trump claimed ownership of some of the GOP’s least popular policies for no reason.
One of Trump’s few genuine strengths as a Republican politician has been his nose for the party’s most odious economic ideas. In 2016, he made a point of disavowing the GOP’s orthodoxy on health care, public investment in infrastructure, and — occasionally — taxes on the wealthy. But on Thursday night, the president went out of his way to signal his opposition to a $15 minimum wage (an idea that two-thirds of voters support), his desire to “terminate” Obamacare (a policy only 20 percent of voters support), and his burning hatred for wind power (a feeling 80 percent of Republicans cannot relate to).
3) The fact that Trump lacks anything resembling human empathy led him to defend his administration orphaning 545 immigrant children — by emphasizing how clean their facilities were on the day of a photo op.
This week, lawyers tasked with reuniting migrant families who were deliberately broken up by the Trump administration revealed that they cannot locate the parents of 545 immigrant children. Confronted with this fact in a public forum, a normal human being — or even, a sociopath with a rudimentary understanding of normal human thought patterns — would recognize that a demonstration of sadness (if not outright contrition) would be in order. But such recognition is beyond Trump. Instead of communicating his heartbreak at an unintended side effect of his efforts to enforce the border — and vowing to do everything in his power to ensure these families are brought back together — he said the following:
“I will say this, they went down, we brought reporters and everything: They are so well taken care of. They are in facilities that were so clean.”
I think that the PTB’s want Trumpcorp gone, as even they are sick of the Trumpcorp brand. To them Byedone is a risk/reward they can stomach. Those 100 + billionaires and R’s for Byedone will be reminding him why he’s President and demand payment for their support. Under normal circumstances either side couldn’t use the rape charges each candidate has so that canceled out. So I figure that the PTB want trumpcorp gone so bad that they are not using the Hunter Byedone story and you dont hear much about it on the waepons of mass deception either.
President Donald Trump’s has adopted a new line on the coronavirus: “We’re rounding the turn.” Trump has deployed this rosy the-finish-line-is-in-sight status report on the stump and in Thursday night’s presidential debate. “We’re rounding the turn,” Trump said during the debate. “We’re rounding the corner. It’s going away.” Very little Trump says about the pandemic is based in reality: He has repeatedly peddled unproven treatments as miracle cures, he’s downplayed the numbers, and there was the light and bleach fiasco that we won’t even go into again, and on and on. So characterizing the country as “rounding the corner” is, somehow, one of the less explicitly absurd things this president has said about a disease that has wrought havoc on American life. It’s obviously false, even dangerously so, but feels more normal somehow, like a politician fudging rather than a lunatic suggesting you drink motor oil to get rid of your cold.
But there is some poetic justice in the fact that as Trump made his final appeal to voters, trying to convince them that we’re almost out of the woods, on that very same day the U.S., by one count, recorded the highest number of new coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. More than 77,000 Americans contracted the coronavirus on Thursday, according to a NBC News tally, as the man in charge of the nation’s response declared on national television that “it’s going away.” The New York Times tally put the day’s total slightly lower—at just over 75,000 cases—which even still would amount to the second highest daily total since the pandemic began. The Wall Street Journal reports the number of new cases Thursday at more than 71,500, the most since the highs of mid-July. The numbers within those totals are similarly worrisome: eight states had record highs Thursday and 13 states—a full quarter of the country—recorded their highest rolling seven-day totals so far.
Maybe, of all things, we’re finally “rounding the turn” on the Trump presidency.
single day high of covid cases and death reaches 1,200 for first time in months
Indiana, North Dakota, Illinois, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Ohio posted daily records on Thursday, according to a Reuters analysis, while Florida reported more than 5,500 new cases, its highest single-day increase since Aug. 15.
Twenty-eight states have reported their daily record high of COVID-19 cases in the month of October alone.
On Wednesday, the number of coronavirus deaths reported across the country reached its highest in two months. Increases in deaths tend to trail spikes new infections by several weeks.
now that the cases are spread around the country, shows that the entire country is at risk
and Trump and republicans celebrate “freedom” from masks and congratulate themselves in all they have done
I guess the R’s bottom line is “If they die-they die as long as profits are saved. Just supporting a mask mandate would’ve saved thousands. Since were into another wave a lot of people are staying home for the most part. A lot of bars in WI are simply closing for the winter and waiting for spring to see if things are better, unfortunately some are closing for good.
The brainchild of Dr Anthony Fauci and other top brass at the Department of Health and Human Services, the ambitious Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America has received for its debut year $267m in new federal spending, largely targeted at HIV transmission hotspots across the US.
The central aim of the Trump-backed plan is to improve access to antiretrovirals, given that successfully treating HIV with such medications eliminates transmission risk. For HIV-negative people, the plan promotes greater use of PrEP – a daily antiretroviral tablet that cuts the risk of HIV by more than 99% among gay and bisexual men, who are its predominant users and account for seven in 10 new infections.
Given antiretrovirals’ enormous cost, the ACA and its broadening of insurance access serves as backbone to the HIV plan, which seeks a 90% reduction by 2030 to the otherwise slowly declining or stagnant national HIV transmission rate of about 37,000 new cases annually.
“The plan is dead in the water if the ACA goes down,” said Amy Killelea, senior director of health systems and policy at Nastad, an HIV public policy non-profit.
Democrats have opened up a yawning gap in early voting over Republicans in six of the most crucial battleground states — but that only begins to tell the story of their advantage heading into Election Day.
In a more worrisome sign for Republicans, Democrats are also turning out more low-frequency and newly registered voters than the GOP, according to internal data shared with POLITICO by Hawkfish, a new Democratic research firm, which was reviewed by Republicans and independent experts.
The turnout data does not mean Donald Trump will lose to Joe Biden. Both sides are bracing for a close race and a giant wave of Republicans to vote in person on Nov. 3. Yet the turnout disparity with new and less-reliable voters has forced Republican political operatives to take notice. “It’s a warning flare,” said veteran Republican strategist Scott Reed.
“Some Republicans are stuck in a model that we always run up the score on Election Day to make up the difference,” Reed said. “I think running an election in a superpolarized electorate, you want to win early voting. Let’s go. Let’s stop talking and making excuses.”
The GOP caught an encouraging glimpse in Florida on Tuesday, when more Republicans began casting in-person, early ballots than Democrats in Trump’s must-win state. But Democrats have dominated voting by mail and on Thursday held a historic lead in total pre-Election Day ballots cast of 463,000, or 10 percentage points, according to the state’s Division of Elections. Gov. Ron DeSantis this week urged Republicans to vote early in person, a message Trump plans to echo on Saturday, when he’s expected to call on his base to get to the polls.
At a glance, the top-line Democratic margins also look huge in Arizona (16 percentage points), Michigan (24 points), North Carolina (14 points), Pennsylvania (46 points), and Wisconsin (22), according to the analysis from Hawkfish.
If the total turnout hits around 150M, that will be historic. The Senate will also change hands. One pet bitch: the deliberate grammatical misuse of ‘Democrat’ ( noun), and ‘Democratic’ (adjective). Karl Rove and his FRightwing bunch really got that misuse kicked into high gear during Cheney-Dumbya. It’s an insult, and I resent it even tho I’m a lefty Futurist.
my cynicism is to the point that its R and R lite and they only care every 4 years for our vote. I will continue to vote very carefully for progressive candidates and hope I get to vote for the next Bernie–male or female
dems didn’t play hard ball politics and Obama used executive orders
now rolled back
but, as I have said before, the outcome of the dem slaughter in 2010 were predicted in 2007 by the dean of US political philosophers Sheldon Wolin because he noted that even if dems won all three branches in 2008, their neo liberal econ policies, big business, military, would continue and then people would loose trust in the dems. So, even when we had all three branches, we screwed up.
** what the hell did I just do? I said “we”
the connection to the dem party is so deep, that I can’t help myself when I write these stream of consciousness notes.
“we” never held all three branches — not since The New Deal and part of LBJ’s time as president when so many laws were passed. Remember Medicare? Well, it might be on the chopping block, not to say Medicaid and other programs if Trump wins again.
If 150M Americans turn out to vote, I guarantee the orange maggot will lose the election. I don’t care if SCOTUS is all Pence clones. The FRighties and GOPukes dread a very heavy turnout. The Bush criminals pulled off 2000 cos of the lousy turnout.
Obama had control–House + 59-60 in Senate for a number of months out of his first two years. I’m counting 59 because the VP votes, but i may be wrong, it may be 60 + VP, and that would give him 60 for at least 4 months.
Admittedly, not a huge hold, but he also started tacking way right before he was even sworn in and let his organizing go, so he didn’t have the yuge leverage he had with all the people power going in. i know, i was a street pounder.
Obama had a window to push M4A type HC thru, but chickened out, he or his kids were threatened as he didnt use the political capital(2 yrs) he had after the election very well at all.
imho, he was that long before. speech at the Federalist Society, etc. He started picking anti-m4A, anti-environment, etc. people early and had Margaret Flowers, an MD, forcibly ejected form a health committee meeting at the very beginning.
He loves Rahm, who famously said something like “Frack progressives” very soon into his admin. and he continues to frack with anything remotely helpful.
i could be wrong, of course, but i’m not convinced that he needed threats.
LOL. I love her but that photo of 82 year old Jane is quite remarkable. I need to get what she’s taking! 😉
🔥FRIDAY🔥 @JaneFonda, @GreenpeaceUSA, and @FireDrillFriday are thrilled to be joined by Rep. @AOC for a critical conversation about early voting, the Green New Deal, and real climate leadership!
I’m sorry to say, per some recent pics I saw, Jane may have gone a little too..Brazil (the movie), maybe the swelling will reduce with time and she’ll look more like herself. I’m still a fan though!
I am blessed with healthy teeth, (thanks Mom) my dad, well lets say he had dentures before 50, the dentist office loved him $$$. He was lucky though his teamster HC was very good at the time
I read that even your grandmother may have been a factor!
When your mother came to be, she came with her lifetime’s worth of eggs at the same time. That means that the genetics of your mother’s mother, combined with your grandmother’s diet, etc, while pregnant with your mother, affected the egg that became you.
Pregnant women have long been told their diet and exercise habits impact the health of their unborn child, but new research reveals they could also be affecting their future grandchildren.
In what is being dubbed ‘the three generational footprint’, Australian researchers are proving the link between a grandmother and her grandchildren is much stronger than has been assumed.
University of NSW head of Pharmacology Margaret Morris said every baby girl is born with up to two million eggs in her ovaries, so a pregnant woman is not only carrying her baby — but if that baby is a girl, the beginnings of her grandchild.
“In many respects, you are what your grandmother ate,” Professor Morris said.
“The mother’s diet and lifestyle not only impacts the health profile of her unborn child, but if that child is a girl, it can also impact the make-up of the eggs developing in the child’s reproductive system,” she said.
Jane Fonda has always walked her talk. She wants to botox, go for it. She has been a lifelong supporter of fitness and diet. She is also an American who loves her country and is trying to stop it from totally collapsing.
The Scent of Desire fascinates readers with how and why the sense of smell is so powerful and how it is even being harnessed by business and in new innovative technologies. This book compels the reader to never again take their sense of smell for granted, because once these pages have been turned one will never forget how vital the sense of smell is to the most important aspects of our life.
My sense of smell during the years I worked at a lab literally helped me avoid inhaling dangerous fumes that could have done serious damage to my body.
I agree that our sense of smell is taken “for granted”.
I had to go to the dentist today, and that’s one of the questions the front desk asks in their questionnaire before you’re allowed to proceed any further, ‘have you experienced a loss of smell?’ (or something like that 😉 )
The week started with a self-imposed deadline, and it appears it will end without a stimulus deal.
After fits and starts, the negotiations between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the White House’s chief negotiator, have hit another roadblock with aides behind the scenes telling CNN that while the prospects for a deal Monday were always slim, they are growing harder to imagine now.
Bottom Line: The chances of passing a stimulus bill out of the House before the November 3 Election Day drop to virtually zero if a real, substantive deal doesn’t come together by Friday night and isn’t in writing by the weekend. And there are absolutely no indications that the legislative work that needs to happen to make this real is happening.
As Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Dick Shelby, an Alabama Republican, put it to reporters Thursday, “It could always be a miracle, but not very many around here.”
As multiple GOP aides told CNN on Thursday, House committees might be reaching to lay out their priorities, but no one is actually sitting in a room or getting on the phone and hashing out the finer points of this bill right now. In other words, bipartisan, bicameral conversations aren’t driving anything right now.
The tea leaves: After several days in a row of talks between Pelosi and Mnuchin, Pelosi’s spokesman gave no readout of any conversations for Thursday. Pelosi said they were trading paper back and forth, but with massive sticking points still outstanding, the principles don’t appear to have had their regular afternoon phone call.
I see many detailed and informative posts on the daily numbers have been posted but until Election Day, at least, I’m going to offer some numbers in a consistent patterned way making comparison easy for anybody inclined to do so.
Early Voting; Drudge has 49 million. sure to be over 50 million by tonight.
New Covid cases 75,064. Deaths yesterday differ a bit. Drudge has 1038 and the NY Times had 800+.
Bernie in Pittsburgh will be reassuring to some progressives, I guess.
In about 1958 a friend of the family who was more financially well off than we were (father a HS teacher, mom didn’t work) took me to the new Disney Land in Anaheim CA. The first one. There was tomorrow land. The FUTURE!!
There was a metal structure shaped like a rocket and circular seating inside. We sat inside and heard sounds, maybe have been some video, and we were able to simulate travel in a rocket. Disney franchise has been about the glorious future.
the article is not about the rocket but something else
the strongest memories I have are long, long lines and later toward the end of HS, playing games there and facing being kicked out of Disneyland.
** another thoughts
Disneyland is in Orange County. A friend was around when they bulldozed orange trees (Orange County) and he picked up oranges as many as he could get in his car. Finest oranges in the world some said.
there are videos showing the destruction of the land in order to build Disneyland.
well, did you note what I said
I should have said preparing for the wonderful theme park (and the destruction of the landscape was a small price to pay for progress. Our country has lived the theme of destruction of the past to make way for a glorious future. No need to worry about Native Americans when there is money to be made!)
wpDiscuz
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2020/10/23/Bernie-Sanders-Pittsburgh-biden-campaign-visit-saturday-ccac-rankin-north-side/stories/202010230131
wonderful!
is the msm reporting on all the rallies Bernie is doing?
Oh Hell No!!!!!
Yay!
They forgot to add Faux news poll results
Trumpcorp 99.5%
Byedone .5%
Faux news had their results just after the 1 hour mark of the debate 🙂
By the time I saw the Faux news poll it was 74% vs 24%, and:
This thing ain’t in the bag for Joe yet, but I read that there are fewer 3rd party/undecideds this year vs. 2016, so less room for Trump to make up ground.
Hell I was being sarcastic but you found one at 87% WOW
hahaha, thanks for the laugh 😀
David Sirota
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/biden-presidential-debate-austerity-deficit-spending
I missed that part, thank you jcitybone, that’s somewhat encouraging.
My main concern, of course, is whether the never-Trump Republicans helping Biden now (or grifting off of him, hard to tell) would twist Joe’s arm and hold sway re: deficit spending.
T and R, jcb!! 🐶😊☮️👍 Color me beyond skeptical. Byedone loves him some RW austerity. Big reason why I didn’t vote for him! PB(ad)O(dor) was the last straw for me. 🤮😡
Not if thiers a great deal of pork for craprate america
Eric Levitz gives Three reasons why Trump lost
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/who-won-final-presidential-debate-2020.html
As I said on the earlier thread, Hunter is a ceiling fan company to many Americans.
who defines “corrupt acts” here? not caught breaking any laws?
I think that the PTB’s want Trumpcorp gone, as even they are sick of the Trumpcorp brand. To them Byedone is a risk/reward they can stomach. Those 100 + billionaires and R’s for Byedone will be reminding him why he’s President and demand payment for their support. Under normal circumstances either side couldn’t use the rape charges each candidate has so that canceled out. So I figure that the PTB want trumpcorp gone so bad that they are not using the Hunter Byedone story and you dont hear much about it on the waepons of mass deception either.
Agree. Trump is too much of a liability.
It will soon break records in all counts—possibly today
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/u-s-record-coronavirus-single-day-cases-trump-debate-declares-country-rounding-the-turn.html
like this?
share d on fb
He’s such a prick.
single day high of covid cases and death reaches 1,200 for first time in months
now that the cases are spread around the country, shows that the entire country is at risk
and Trump and republicans celebrate “freedom” from masks and congratulate themselves in all they have done
just one article which is source of quote above
COVID-19 surges across U.S. as some hospitals stretched
12 days to election
supreme court set to declare Trump president with new member who only follows the law
hence, one of the supposed pillars of democracy, the Rule of Law, falls to politics
***
funny how I started with pandemic and ended with politics. Well, actually tragic
I guess the R’s bottom line is “If they die-they die as long as profits are saved. Just supporting a mask mandate would’ve saved thousands. Since were into another wave a lot of people are staying home for the most part. A lot of bars in WI are simply closing for the winter and waiting for spring to see if things are better, unfortunately some are closing for good.
we have a popular, dive student bar here that is advertising. smh
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/23/trump-obamacare-aca-fauci-plan-hiv-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/23/early-voting-numbers-swing-states-431363
If the total turnout hits around 150M, that will be historic. The Senate will also change hands. One pet bitch: the deliberate grammatical misuse of ‘Democrat’ ( noun), and ‘Democratic’ (adjective). Karl Rove and his FRightwing bunch really got that misuse kicked into high gear during Cheney-Dumbya. It’s an insult, and I resent it even tho I’m a lefty Futurist.
my cynicism is to the point that its R and R lite and they only care every 4 years for our vote. I will continue to vote very carefully for progressive candidates and hope I get to vote for the next Bernie–male or female
How much of Barack Obama’s legacy has Donald Trump rolled back?
dems didn’t play hard ball politics and Obama used executive orders
now rolled back
but, as I have said before, the outcome of the dem slaughter in 2010 were predicted in 2007 by the dean of US political philosophers Sheldon Wolin because he noted that even if dems won all three branches in 2008, their neo liberal econ policies, big business, military, would continue and then people would loose trust in the dems. So, even when we had all three branches, we screwed up.
**
what the hell did I just do? I said “we”
the connection to the dem party is so deep, that I can’t help myself when I write these stream of consciousness notes.
“we” never held all three branches — not since The New Deal and part of LBJ’s time as president when so many laws were passed. Remember Medicare? Well, it might be on the chopping block, not to say Medicaid and other programs if Trump wins again.
If 150M Americans turn out to vote, I guarantee the orange maggot will lose the election. I don’t care if SCOTUS is all Pence clones. The FRighties and GOPukes dread a very heavy turnout. The Bush criminals pulled off 2000 cos of the lousy turnout.
Obama had control–House + 59-60 in Senate for a number of months out of his first two years. I’m counting 59 because the VP votes, but i may be wrong, it may be 60 + VP, and that would give him 60 for at least 4 months.
Admittedly, not a huge hold, but he also started tacking way right before he was even sworn in and let his organizing go, so he didn’t have the yuge leverage he had with all the people power going in. i know, i was a street pounder.
Obama had a window to push M4A type HC thru, but chickened out, he or his kids were threatened as he didnt use the political capital(2 yrs) he had after the election very well at all.
imho, he was that long before. speech at the Federalist Society, etc. He started picking anti-m4A, anti-environment, etc. people early and had Margaret Flowers, an MD, forcibly ejected form a health committee meeting at the very beginning.
He loves Rahm, who famously said something like “Frack progressives” very soon into his admin. and he continues to frack with anything remotely helpful.
i could be wrong, of course, but i’m not convinced that he needed threats.
Obama is a fan of Ronald Raygun, and that was a fact when he ran in 2008. I voted for him cos of history and he was AA.
LOL. I love her but that photo of 82 year old Jane is quite remarkable. I need to get what she’s taking! 😉
Face lifts, Botox, but at least she says she is almost done with plastic surgery.
I’m sorry to say, per some recent pics I saw, Jane may have gone a little too..Brazil (the movie), maybe the swelling will reduce with time and she’ll look more like herself. I’m still a fan though!
I’d get a face lift light if i could. lol but first i’d get more teeth. :O)
I hear ya!
I am blessed with healthy teeth, (thanks Mom) my dad, well lets say he had dentures before 50, the dentist office loved him $$$. He was lucky though his teamster HC was very good at the time
I read that even your grandmother may have been a factor!
When your mother came to be, she came with her lifetime’s worth of eggs at the same time. That means that the genetics of your mother’s mother, combined with your grandmother’s diet, etc, while pregnant with your mother, affected the egg that became you.
Jane Fonda has always walked her talk. She wants to botox, go for it. She has been a lifelong supporter of fitness and diet. She is also an American who loves her country and is trying to stop it from totally collapsing.
I think she’s brave and overall awesome!
Long term effects of Covid can be in the sense of smell
The Scent of Desire:
Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell
COVID Has Caused Millions to Lose their Sense of Smell—One Writer’s Journey to a Scentless Life and Back
My sense of smell during the years I worked at a lab literally helped me avoid inhaling dangerous fumes that could have done serious damage to my body.
I agree that our sense of smell is taken “for granted”.
I had to go to the dentist today, and that’s one of the questions the front desk asks in their questionnaire before you’re allowed to proceed any further, ‘have you experienced a loss of smell?’ (or something like that 😉 )
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/politics/stimulus-negotiations-latest-pelosi-mnuchin/index.html
they’d better not keep that as their starting point in January, or else I’ll… oh darn
Good morning, TPW
I see many detailed and informative posts on the daily numbers have been posted but until Election Day, at least, I’m going to offer some numbers in a consistent patterned way making comparison easy for anybody inclined to do so.
Early Voting; Drudge has 49 million. sure to be over 50 million by tonight.
New Covid cases 75,064. Deaths yesterday differ a bit. Drudge has 1038 and the NY Times had 800+.
Bernie in Pittsburgh will be reassuring to some progressives, I guess.
This is interesting https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/10/15/detroit-free-press-endorsements-election-2020/5915128002/ All most all of the endorsements are for Dems but the https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/09/29/michigan-election-2020-endorsements/3534897001/ is behind a pay wall.
Science Fiction – a link came up and there are others. A diversion from the horror going on right now
Star Trek will never be perfect — and that’s the mission
The franchise is a half-century long map of attempts to chart a hopeful future
here is some recent work which I have not noticed before. An artist so some images in the article. Dystopian
A sneak peek at Tales from the Loop author Simon Stålenhag’s next two art books
Two projects are on the horizon: The Labyrinth and Europa Mekano
In about 1958 a friend of the family who was more financially well off than we were (father a HS teacher, mom didn’t work) took me to the new Disney Land in Anaheim CA. The first one. There was tomorrow land. The FUTURE!!
There was a metal structure shaped like a rocket and circular seating inside. We sat inside and heard sounds, maybe have been some video, and we were able to simulate travel in a rocket. Disney franchise has been about the glorious future.
The retrofuturistic Carousel of Progress plays an ironic role at Disney World
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Walt Disney built the ride for the future, but now it’s a relic of the past
the article is not about the rocket but something else
the strongest memories I have are long, long lines and later toward the end of HS, playing games there and facing being kicked out of Disneyland.
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another thoughts
Disneyland is in Orange County. A friend was around when they bulldozed orange trees (Orange County) and he picked up oranges as many as he could get in his car. Finest oranges in the world some said.
there are videos showing the destruction of the land in order to build Disneyland.
well, did you note what I said
I should have said preparing for the wonderful theme park (and the destruction of the landscape was a small price to pay for progress. Our country has lived the theme of destruction of the past to make way for a glorious future. No need to worry about Native Americans when there is money to be made!)
Science Fiction
NOPE
Science Reality
Technical Reality
Economic Reality
thus Science Fiction fits our needs
Sci fi is going downhill now that neolibs got their grimy hands in it.
Agreed story telling has gone down hill, way to many war based stories