“The reality that so many people have health care attached to their jobs and how vulnerable that makes them is showing its face right now,” said Ana Maria Archila, the co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, a coalition of progressive groups that endorsed Sanders. “I think many of his ideas, which were deemed radical just a few months ago, are now being promoted.”
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It feels a lot like 2004 already
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Biden can go to hell. I’ll vote for him if he’s the candidate, but he better damned well have a running mate who can take his place.
And a gay man who is rabidly Democrat AND anti-Bernie in nearly the same measure, who lives in NYC, blocked me for posting the link above as a comment on an anti-Bernie/Pro-Biden post (the comment above mine read in part, “People love Biden”. I miss Elizabeth Warren so much. Oh, yeah, and this guy was for BLOOMBERG (!) before he went Biden. It surprised me because I honestly believed he was more open-minded than he obviously isn’t. And it kills me that people, liberal and conservative, won’t back down on their respective positions, even when shown politely that their arguments are flawed.
I’m sick of old white men running things. They rarely leave it nice for the rest of us any more, it seems.
PS: I described the man as being gay because he is; I figured incorrectly that he would be more sympathetic to Ms. Reade than to “Uncle” Joe. And there’s been other “Uncle” Joes - like Stalin.
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They never did.
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I think Truman and Marshall and Acheson actually attempted to.
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@Nightflyer - she just made our state blue again! Cripes!
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/490570-biden-confirms-hes-considering-whitmer-for-vp
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I’m still cringing at the thought of Biden as the nominee… but Whitmer’s not a horrible choice.
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We NEED her in Michigan, though.
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True. In our case the lieutenant governor would take over, and to be honest I don’t know much about them. It’s nice to see Whitmer get the recognition though (even if I voted El-sayed in the primary.)
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This should be the way the US chooses a POTUS:
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I know I don’t live there anymore, so I don’t really know what he was like before, but this guy looks like a leader. Probably too late for this time unless something happens, but next time?
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sighs deeply :’ (
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Maybe he’ll pick a good VP, and have the decency to die before the election.
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We won’t have any official results until Monday, April 13. That’s because in striking down federal district court judge William Conley’s order allowing absentee ballots postmarked after April 7 but received by April 13 to be counted, SCOTUS left in place his subsequent ban on county reports of results until that latter date.
What’s COVID-19’s incubation time?
There were 181 confirmed cases with identifiable exposure and symptom onset windows to estimate the incubation period of COVID-19. The median incubation period was estimated to be 5.1 days (95% CI, 4.5 to 5.8 days), and 97.5% of those who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days (CI, 8.2 to 15.6 days) of infection. These estimates imply that, under conservative assumptions, 101 out of every 10 000 cases (99th percentile, 482) will develop symptoms after 14 days of active monitoring or quarantine.
so, we’ll get two sets of stats. And two pieces of horrible news.
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There was a side-by-side of the current POTUS and the ex-VPOTUS on “The Daily Social Distancing Show”, and all I could think was, “These are our choices AGAIN? Two old white men? Can we please have some change again?”
We’re living in a Kilgore Trout novel, aren’t we?
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I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about Stacey Abrams being the VP. I like her a lot. But … I also feel it would be a big mistake. The DNC made this election a millennial-free zone. It’s about wooing white voters, and making them comfortable. And growing up in the suburbs of a lean-blue white state (MN), I don’t think the suburbs will go for her. At all.
I don’t really care at this point - I don’t think Biden beats Trump. This is all intellectual. But who should be the veep?
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