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  1. He 99.9 percent has it. 

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    The White House did not say how long Mr. Trump would have to remain isolated, but it canceled his plans to fly to Florida for a campaign rally on Friday, stripping his public schedule for the day of everything except a midday telephone call “on Covid-19 support to vulnerable seniors.” Appearances at rallies in Wisconsin on Saturday and in Arizona on Monday also appear sure to be scrapped, and the next debate, scheduled for Oct. 15 in Miami, was left up in the air.

    During late-night conversations, aides to Mr. Trump were discussing whether he should give an address to the nation on Friday from the White House or find some other way for him to reassure the public. But the aides were still in a state of shock as they absorbed the news, and there was no immediate word on how far the infection may have spread among senior White House officials, who generally do not wear masks in deference to the president’s disdain for them.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-covid.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

    Apparently Hicks was in the room with Trump and a few others during all the debate prep, according to a quote I just heard from Christie. Hicks became contagious on Wednesday, she was most symptomatic on Monday and Tuesday during all the preparations in a small room with a few other high ranking officials, including McEnany who knew Hicks was exhibiting symptoms during the press conference yesterday. 

    Just think, in the last few days, Trump has had close meetings with ACB and Mnuchin, who has also met with Pelosi. Good lord, and his family who were in the audience during the debate sharing air with whoever else was in the audience, much less Biden.

    I think this is the real deal and is a real crisis with potentially wide-reaching effects.

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  2. This may sound superficial, but I cannot get over how poorly she speaks English after having lived in the US for 25 years. And, I want to be clear, this is NOT a criticism over her accent. Having learned a foreign language and living in another country, I'll admit those are hard. But, in a single solitary year, I spoke that language better than she is capable of in a period that's 25x than I had.

    The atrocious thing is the fact that she hasn't bothered to learn the grammar or even how to conjugate our irregular verbs. In that recording, she said "teached" at least twice. That's not some obscure word you only come across every now or so where that kind of mistake is forgivable.

    This is a woman who has lived in the US for a quarter century with every advantage you can think of for hiring private tutors and certainly all the time in the world to practice the language. She just doesn't give a shit, which tells me everything I need to know about her character.

    This is not a matter of "speak English!" you're in America kind of thing related to folks who have limited resources at their disposal or live their lives predominantly in an immigrant community. This is about not giving a fuck. "I really don't care. Do u?" It's a matter of effort and care, but she apparently believes she's above it all.

    And again, yes, this is a tangential rant to her cruel comments, but I feel entirely justified in this criticism based on my own experience of putting forward a good faith effort while living in another country where I wasn't even seeking citizenship.

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  3. 52 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Okay, my quite angry mother just shot off an angry missive to Abbott that included this language:

    So, if the GOP wants to alienate old people, they're going about it very, very effectively.

    I see where you got the gift for the use of such florid language with vivid images.

  4. 3 hours ago, nineliveslost said:

    Nope, I had to google what they were though

    I actually like the flavored BC powder or Goodys. Great for hangovers and the typical head/body aches

    Just didnt get the hate. 

    That's funny because I'm just the opposite. While I knew what Werther's are, I'd never heard of BC Powder. Don't know what that says/means though.

  5. About that bullshit story regarding a hidden earpiece: It's not the first time it's cropped up, and fuck anyone, in particular @ousuxndallas, who's spreading this bullshit.

    The Long History of ‘Hidden Earpiece’ Conspiracy Theories

    Ahead of Tuesday’s presidential debate, rumors began spreading among right-wing influencers and Trump campaign surrogates that Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee, was being outfitted with a hidden earpiece in order to receive surreptitious help during the debate, and that Mr. Biden’s campaign had refused a request from the Trump campaign to allow a third party to inspect both candidates’ ears for hidden earpiece receivers before the debate.

    “If Joe Biden isn’t hiding anything,” wrote the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Twitter, “why won’t he consent to a third party checking for an earpiece before tonight’s debate?”

    The debate, of course, has not yet begun, and there is no evidence that Mr. Biden will be assisted by an earpiece once it does. (A member of Mr. Biden’s campaign staff called the rumor “completely absurd” during a call with reporters on Tuesday.) But the theory is being speculated about in right-wing media, including on Fox News, and it has been shared thousands of times on Facebook. It was also advanced by “Q,” the pseudonymous poster behind the QAnon conspiracy theory.

    “Secret earpiece” rumors are nothing new. In fact, they’ve become something of a fixture during presidential debate cycles, and part of a baseless conspiracy theory that tends to rear its head every four years.

    The first real earpiece conspiracy theory dates to 2000, when Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing radio host, accused then-candidate Al Gore of getting answers fed to him through an earpiece during a “Meet the Press” appearance. (A representative from the show confirmed to Slate that all guests wear earpieces in order to hear the audio tracks of news clips played during the show, but there is no evidence Mr. Gore was fed any answers.)

    Four years later, during the 2004 presidential debates, rumors circulated among left-wing bloggers that George W. Bush was getting help from a surreptitiously placed earpiece.

    “This theory goes a long ways toward explaining the president’s consistently odd speech patterns,” wrote the liberal blogger Joseph Cannon.

    Commentators on the left speculated about a “bulge” in Mr. Bush's jacket (above), which they imagined concealed a hidden receiver into which Karl Rove, the former president’s political adviser, was speaking. The Bush campaign tried to bat down the rumors, but they persisted, even though no solid evidence ever surfaced. A NASA scientist even got involved in analyzing images of Mr. Bush’s jacket during the debate, looking for clues about the mysterious bulge.

    In 2008, rumors again circulated online that a candidate was being fed answers during a debate. Ann Althouse, a law professor and conservative blogger, wrote that close-up TV stills showed that Barack Obama “was wearing an earpiece” during a debate with John McCain. (Ms. Althouse later recanted her theory, saying it was probably just light reflecting off Mr. Obama’s ear.)

    In 2016, the rumor appeared again, this time attached to Hillary Clinton, who was accused by right-wing websites of wearing a secret earpiece. (One such story, which appeared on the conspiracy theory website Infowars, was shared by Donald Trump Jr. and other pro-Trump influencers.)

    The secret earpiece rumor is not exclusively an American phenomenon. Foreign politicians, including Emmanuel Macron of France, have also been baselessly accused of wearing earpieces during debates.

    Accusing the opposing party’s candidate of wearing a secret earpiece is not a particularly sophisticated disinformation tactic, nor would it probably provide much help to a candidate even if it were true. (In fact, as anyone who has ever watched a live TV anchor fumble with a producer’s instructions could tell you, listening to directions in an earpiece while staying attentive to a moderator’s onstage questions requires a fairly impressive act of multitasking.)

    But the idea of a hidden helper giving one side an unfair debate advantage has proved seductive to campaign operatives trying to explain away a lopsided debate, or sow doubts about cheating on the other side. As a 2016 Salon piece about the earpiece conspiracy theory said, these rumors mainly seem to appeal to hyperpartisans whose views on the candidates are already made up.

    “When someone presents you with grainy screen captures of George W. Bush or Hillary Clinton and claims that they show telecommunications equipment hidden on their bodies,” the piece said, “your partisanship enables you to bridge the sizable gap between the poor evidence and the firm conclusion that someone offstage was whispering into the candidate’s ear.”

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Bojack said:

    Something that's not talked about often enough is that the hassle of changing address and re-registering disproportionately affects younger voters.  From '92 when I moved out of my parents' house to 2007 when I became a homeowner, I changed address 12 times.  I haven't had to do it since.  I'm sure that's not unusual.  

    Which, I'm sure, would offer ample reason for them to make it more difficult. Renters/frequent movers tend to be poor and/or young, and both groups tend to be less white.

  7. 43 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    Who's arguing he's a great businessman?

    Oh, I dunno. Every other mouthbreathing yokel in the trailer park who get confused by a bloviating blowhard brand influencer on teevee with an actual real estate mogul.

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     Who wants to trade their tax liabilities for his losses?

    Interesting question. Seeing that my federal income tax liabilities increased once his administration's tax scam was passed a couple of years ago, I might say it's worth it to see his losses drive him and his entire family into the ditch along with the rest of the GOP.

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