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It's probably that and the fact being President insulates him from his pending legal problems.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump played golf while America died of coronavirus. That's going to be his legacy.

I think they're 0 for 29 or 0 for 30 at this point. These cases are completely baseless, especially considering in most cases they want to throw out only votes in primarily Democratic counties. If you're going to have new criteria for signature matching or other stuff, it has to be applied...

What's going on is a federal government which is completely AWOL on the pandemic, combined with many state and local governments which are practically the same, or just refuse to enact measures to mitigate things because of some misguided notions about freedom and choice. Yes, it's a shit show...

SNL would be hard pressed to do better than this: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/giuliani-trump-legal-team-press-briefing-fact-check/index.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-coronavirus-response-international-human-rights-law-us-cases-a9459731.html https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02277-6

I honestly think once all his legal and financial problems find him he might leave the country. He even said he might leave the US if he lost the election. My guess looking at the list in the article is Canada and Scotland wouldn't want him. China probably wouldn't, either. So it would be either...

I'm not religious but these pieces make a good case for Trump being the devil: https://psmag.com/news/one-quarter-of-americans-believe-donald-trump-is-running-with-the-devil...

What about Trump's travel ban from Muslim countries, even though it's only the Muslim extremists who cause problems, while at the same time he appointed a Christian religious extremist to the Supreme Court! I guess religious extremists are OK if they happen to be from a religion you like. Trump...

Fine, let Trump wait until all the court cases are decided or thrown out before conceding, even though none of them have the potential to flip even one state, let alone the election. Even if he refuses to concede, which is merely a formality, he should at least be aiding the transition for the...

No, I'm not saying that at all. We're basically a centrist nation, and most people are fine with views that are somewhat left or right of center. Prior to the Trump era, I would never even think of boycotting a business for their political leanings, even if I didn't agree with them, because in...

Except that's not even remotely true. The far left of the Democratic party gets a lot of press coverage but most of their ideas will never make through even a Congress controlled by their party. There was a time in the 1960s and 1970s when the Democrats were giving working people heavy tax...

If there's any fraud here, I would say it's on the part of GOP voters. I'm totally shocked Trump got as many votes as he did, and also that the GOP gained seats in the House. Maybe you had a lot of dead GOP voters voting. Or perhaps some people from the Sturgis motorcycle rally voted, shaved off...

So far no major violence, just a few isolated incidents. All we saw yesterday was hordes of people taking to the streets in major US cities peacefully celebrating Biden's victory. Still a bad idea given that they weren't social distancing, even if most wore masks. The entire scene reminded me of...

The American people threw his favorite two words right back at him:

This is the same kind of nonsense I've heard when they interview people at Trump rallies. They're in an alternate reality with climate change, with the virus, etc. The demographics are changing in the US to the point the Republicans think they may not ever win any national elections again, even...

Yeah, he wants to continue counting in states where he might catch up and flip them and stop counting in states where Biden is catching up. In his mind, mail-in ballots are all fraudulent. This is the kind of crap you normally see in banana republics, not the US.

Actually, CNN didn't call Arizona yet, and I agree with their reasons. As the votes come in, Biden's lead has slowly dwindled. Until it's mathematically impossible for Trump to catch up, they won't call the state. That said, PA looks good for Biden at the moment. At one point Trump was ahead by...

I'm actually amazed we haven't moved yet to 100% online voting, with mail-in ballots for those who don't have an Internet connection. Besides getting nearly instantaneous results on election day, it would end current attempts at voter suppression.

Well, this is what happens when you have a sitting President who tells white supremacists to "stand back and stand by". It's clear to me at this point that Trump presents a clear and present danger to the United States. He should be removed from office on the basis of mental incompetence...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/06/trump-ends-coronavirus-relief-talks-amid-stalemate-with-pelosi-426819 If this doesn't show what a heartless, unempathetic bastard Trump is, I don't know what does. I love the hubris also: "I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until...

Not to mention the millions like myself who are still running their residences like a germ warfare lab. This isn't going to be truly over until we have mass vaccinations and no new covid cases for at least a month. Optimistically, that isn't happening until mid 2021.

Of course this is ending up being the Trump show, as usual: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-releases-video-saying-hes-starting-to-feel-good-2020-10 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-alternate-reality/index.html

Maybe but if anyone who got it dies it's going to be pretty hard to paper over that.

By the way, given that the President has to stay in isolation at least 2 weeks, and his condition may well get much worse, I think it's safe to say the other two debates aren't happening. Neither is any campaigning.

I'm surprised he didn't get it earlier. Maybe this might wake him up to how serious this disease is, especially if he ends up hospitalized.

Actually from my perspective the problem is the older generations NOT going away. Think about it. Both candidates for President are from the Baby Boom generation, a generation which has stubbornly clinged to power long past their time. In fact, the same was true in 2016 with both Trump and...

Yeah, it's just disgusting how he refuses to denounce white supremacists, whom incidentally I suspect are behind a lot of the riots and looting. His campaign slogan might as well be "Make America White Again". He's not even trying to hide his racism. Trump actually lost a court case for refusing...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/30/presidential-debate-national-shame-423521 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-calls-trump-debate-performance-national-embarrassment-kicks-off-train-tour/story?id=73340823

This part definitely makes sense: "It is now not impossible to imagine the United States descending into another Civil War in the wake of this poll, as its heavily armed militias hit the streets in support of a man with the instincts of a demagogue." I've already mentioned the possibility of...

Actually, I think we're all better off not getting too emotionally involved here with the election. In the final analysis none of us can do anything major to influence the results, so no point worrying much about it. If there is some major crisis following the election, with either Biden or...

That's not true at all. Mayor deBlasio caught a lot of flak for his handling of the pandemic. He's also widely hated here for other things, like catering to motorists at the expense of pedestrians or cyclists, even though the latter two groups combined are the majority by far in NYC. There's...

More than slightly worrying. It's pretty sad when the US is in the company of countries like Brazil in their response to a major pandemic.

Don't laugh but that's not far from an actual preventative measure: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12444 "The author suggests that it may be possible to use alcoholic beverages of 16~20 v/v% concentration for this disinfection process, such as Whisky (1:1 hot water dilution) or Japanese Sake...

The hoarding was a directly product of people's stupidity and the failure of government to impose a strict lock down. Here's what I would have done once epidemiologists told me the virus had already begun community spread. I would have announced a lock down starting at midnight on the 11 PM...

Despite claiming to be for "law and order" Trump and his followers thrive on chaos. I'm sure that was part of the reason to ignore covid. He was probably also advised it will hit blue states the hardest. Why do anything to help people who aren't going to vote for you?

That's apocalyptic! I half expect to see giant spaceships in the background to round out the whole effect. Not surprised about Trump, either. He's running NY into the ground as well withholding help for mass transit and other things.

But a number of countries with populations in the tens of millions managed to have only a few hundred deaths. So it was possible if things were handled correctly. The left-wing media especially should keep covid front and center. It's actually the one issue more people are concerned with now...

So you got 11040 kW-hrs out of a 10.36 kW system over a year? Sounds about right. Most of the estimates give about 1000 kW-hr per installed kW in the northeast. At my current electrical usage I would need a 6 kW system to cover it, although I might prefer something like 8 kW just in case I need...

Yeah, you can judge a person by the company they keep. That list says it all.

17 years old, untrained, he really had no business being there. He should have been at home watching Netflix instead of acting like he's Bruce Willis. Unless those were his personal businesses, what's his stake here? I can see putting your life on the line to protect others, but no way would I...

This is really the biggest reason that Trump has to go. He loves to talk about safety and law and order but part of the duty of government is also to protect people from dangerous, contagious diseases like this one. In that regard, he has failed utterly. I'm even willing to give him a free pass...

https://www.salon.com/2020/07/30/would-be-dictator-donald-trump-would-be-unstoppable-in-a-second-term-that-must-not-happen/

He's probably serious about it but when people start dying in large numbers they'll take their own measures to slow the spread. You can't force people to go out and about as usual when bodies are stacked ten deep. Trump doesn't care about people dying unless it's at the hands of rioters. The...

Here's what I don't understand. On day one of the national emergency the Post Office should have stopped delivering junk mail. Besides the obvious reduction in mail volume, paper is a vector for covid-19. This policy should remain in effect at least until the emergency is over but I would prefer...

Well, in all fairness she also condemned the riots and looting: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-harris/kamala-harris-condemns-looting-violence-in-wake-of-police-shooting-idUSKBN25N344 I'm not thrilled with either Harris or Biden but it's clear at this point Trump has to go...

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On June 25 MS released a Microsoft Edge update for Windows 7. So far I haven't installed it just in case there are any potential issues. Is it safe to install, or have any problems cropped up since the release?

Trying to get to herd immunity really isn't possible. For starters, the best estimates would be 10 to 20 million deaths in the US over a relatively short time frame. That many deaths, plus several times that number too sick to work, will basically collapse society. Our supply lines will come to...

By the standards in the US, Australia barely has the virus, and yet they'll go back to drastic measures at the slightest sign of an increase. We have more people dying in 6 hours than you've had since it started. Meanwhile here in the states they were opening bars, tattoo parlors, places of...