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Ranxerox

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  1. Well, I was hoping for Tammy Duckworth, and my wife wanted Valdez Demings. Susan Rice and Karen Bass would also have been fine choices. The Republicans have attacks lined up against Rice and Bass, but I don't think that you should let your opponents choose who can and cannot be your VP pick.
  2. Not sure what you are talking about. Trump threatened to pull federal aid in fighting wild fires back in November, but like so many things with Trump nothing came of it. Has he done something more recently?
  3. Yesterday, I discovered the Republican Voters Against Trump channel on Youtube. I binged watched it and found it a balm for my soul. Prior to Trump, I believed that, while Democrats and Republicans argued about many things, they actually agreed on far more than they disagreed. That while there might be Republican values and Democratic values, there were American values which were greater than both. Then came Trump. Trump has no American values or values at all that aren't self serving. Even after Trump's election, I held out hope for common shared American values. Maybe they had been just voting against Hillary, who had after all been demonized by right leaning media for decades, or maybe they had simply fallen for Trump's con. In time they would see through it and turn on him. Then about two years into Trump's presidency, I learned that Trump enjoyed a same party approval rating of over 80%. More of his own party approved of his performance than any president in the history of polling at that point in their first term. This was quietly devastating for me. By this point Trump had shown his true colors so many times, that it seemed inconceivable that by the majority of Republicans would not have seen who he really was. Yet they loved him. Damn, the man was out screwing porn stars when his youngest son was 4 months old. That didn't matter. Or it did matter in a positive direction. The average Republican male must be wishing that he had super model wife and was able to screw porn stars on the side as well. And what was the average Republican woman thinking? That if they had a billionaire husband who kept them in a gold plated penthouse, he could screw as many other women as he wanted? I don't know. Still, they clearly loved Trump. Perhaps they had been waiting their entire lives for a president that would show them by example that they could be selfish ***holes and that was all right. I still haven't come to terms with the Trump presidency and the Cult of Trump. Back to Republican Voters Against Trump. I don't think that I would agree many of their specific political views, but I recognize in them what I used to consider common American values. In them I see fellow American citizens and worthy political opposition. After the removal of Trump and his congressional enabler (something they wish is for as badly as I do) it is voters like these that could potentially restore the Republican party to something worth having around. It is good to know that they are out there.
  4. I hope not. Thirty-nine days is plenty of time for them to change their minds . Fingers crossed.
  5. Very glad to hear that. However, if you reopen your schools, you will turn back the other way.
  6. The list is a bit different if you look at total cases per capita, which is a more useful number in determining your own risk as resident of the state. In deaths per capita, the top ten states are Louisiana, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and the District of Colombia. Of those ten only New Jersey, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia are blue. As pointed out Florida is a swing state. The other six states generally vote Republican.
  7. The people didn't break into their property. They broke into the property of the gated community in which they lived, but not into their personal property.
  8. To avoid talk of the GOP convention that might be overly political for this thread, jump to 1:13 video to get into the school reopening part.
  9. So, I just put in for a week of time off right after the election. You know, just in case, our democracy depends on 2 to 4 million people showing up in Washington DC and demanding that the vote be honestly reported and it's result honored. I'm a middle age, middle class, white guy and my student activist 30+ years behind me. It is bizarre that I would even have to consider the need for such a thing, much less that I have requested time off over 3 months in advance to cover the thing. So hopefully in November, my wife and I will take a short fall vacation and laugh about the silly reason for the time off request. Otherwise, if anybody want to carpool to DC, I have an entire country to cross, I can probably arrange my route to pick you up.
  10. Different they. E[stein's (alleged) killing would have been to stop him from giving names. The case the judge has been assigned is about money. Different parties, different goals, different methods.
  11. True, but I would still rather not make it official.
  12. Are you sure? Russia and China seems to be the obvious takers on this offer.
  13. Actually, it would have been about 70 AD. That was when the Second Temple fell which was one of the big end of day prophesies (Matthew 24:2), and was still early enough that some of the people people Jesus spoke to after his resurrection would have been alive to see his return as promised (Matthew 16:28).
  14. I'm pretty sure csyphrett was referring to Andres Guardado. Here is the Wikipedia article on the killing. It is seems to be fairly up to date. Link
  15. Well, no. Only Native Americans living on Native land get the tax break, and as of last count only about 9% of Oklahoma residents are Native American. Some of that 9% doubtlessly live in the western part of the state and thus would go on paying Oklahoma state income tax. Also, Native Americans as a group are economically disadvantaged and thus don't have all that much income to tax. So, I would be very surprised if Oklahoma lost even 5% of it's tax base.
  16. Apropos of nothing, King Cyrus is not mentioned a single time in the New Testament.
  17. This is so not true. We play it, and our women's team is the world's best. We just don't watch it.
  18. I'm not finding collaboration that he did not flee the scene or that protesters attacked his car. Everything that I have read has state troopers claiming to have pulled him over and describing him as “reserved and sullen”. Maybe the video from the Ian Miles Cheong tweet substantiates the claim, but you posted a screen shot instead of a link. I don't have a Twitter account, and I am not going to get one just so I can go far enough back in Cheong's Twitter feed to see the 24 second video.
  19. Scottish Fox is right about the guy needing psychiatric care, though. It just needed to start a lot earlier.
  20. The Clinton states numbers were being pulled up hard by New York. Indeed, during that early period, the national numbers were largely made up of New York cases.
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