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I think Marceline is right. There is so much political grifting on twitter including the press and media who will do anything to push the extreme narratives. I think that Martin tweet is an example of how tone deaf some of them are. Biden also talked about real legislative policies - 4 to be accurate - that should be passed now including legislation against choke holds and other extreme measures by police and the elimination of weapons of war in the hands of police departments. I am not sure how those points don't resonate. Is it enough no nor did he indicate it was - but it was something congress could do now. He also addressed how necessary the involvement of the younger generation is to the future and rebuilding efforts. I don't expect him to talk like Killer Mike or even President Obama. He'd sound phony and ridiculous. His addressing loss is not generational and is something that resonates with everyone.

That twitching and jerking is a symptom of a form of dementia which no matter what anyone else says, I believe he is suffering. It explains those fake grainy pictures of a "much slimmer: Trump on the golf course. It wasn't him. The press ignoring his deterioration is one of the most disgraceful acts and that is saying a lot considering how much of failure they have been the past so many years.

I don't know which is more shameless - I vote for Peter Daou, but this is hit number 2 for Grim. He also was the one who exposed Blasey-Ford when she had no interest in her letter to the committee becoming public. I won't blame Grim for the leak - he was likely used - but he had ZERO obligation to release the name. This again was sloppy unverified journalism practiced at the so called "independent award winning" intercept.

This is the same discussion just had above. Follow that discussion. CNN used a national poll and pulled data out of that to determine battleground numbers, That is not how polling works. This is CNN trying to gin polling to show Trump competitive. Just a few days ago there was a poll OF WISCONSIN (Not a national poll where they pulled 30 respondents from Wisconsin out of) showing Wisconsin with Biden having a 2 point lead. Within the margin of error. A 2 point poll with Biden leading is bad enough without CNN trying to use a national poll for battleground states only. That is NOT how polling works but it keeps the media driven horserace narrative going.

Seems Bloomberg is debating how to distribute the finances versus if . https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/15/mike-bloomberg-plots-spending-blitz-to-back-joe-biden-campaign.html

its not that the poll is wrong its that the interpretation of using a national poll to show battleground numbers is wrong. Would you base a poll by calling 30 people in a state which is in effect what they did. If you want to assess battleground states you do a battleground state poll not extrapolate information you want from a national poll. That's not how statistics works. That's twisting science to get the answer you want. You do a state poll calling the same number of people in that state with the audience being polled representing a cross section of the state population not a subset of a national poll.

Thank you. This is not a battleground state poll it's a national poll that gee CNN decided to use as a battleground state poll. it's almost like CNN wants this to be a horserace and is trying to sway the numbers to appease Trump. Wouldn't be the first time. Listen I am skeptical of polls but CNN has just released a number for battleground states with a margin of error of 20% versus 2-3 percent.

Is she self isolating? My thoughts to you and your mom.

Its going to be all over the White House.

I think it's deliberate. They are playing both sides so they can be viable no matter which way the wind turns.

I was just going to post this. One piece of good news in changes in the media amongst all the bad news. I hope a long list of people at NBC and MSNBC follow. He should have been fired after Matt Lauer.

That mess in Chicago was caused by people driving too fast not necessarily from the weather. People getting cocky.

My niece who works in NYC for the Dept of Public Health told me one of her colleagues just passed away from Coronavirus. She was older and had a number of underlying health conditions including diabetes. She lived with her fiancé and both allegedly had the virus. I say that because she was discouraged from getting tested - told to stay home because if she didn't have it she would likely contract it at a hospital. She had a fever the past 10 days and the final 2 days took a turn. She was finally told to goto the hospital. They called 911 and by the time they got to their place, she had stopped breathing. The worked on her for 30 minutes. They are not allowed to transport patients suffering from cardiac arrest to hospitals because they will turn them away. Also noteworthy, NYC hospitalizations are down but the number of people who are dying from home every day has gone from 35-50 on average daily to 250-300 daily. NYC is including the difference in the Coronavirus death numbers even though most of them have not been tested.

Oh no. Hoping he gets through this. Make sure he knows to keep moving as much as he can.

You just keep making assumptions don't you. Who said the dead are not claimed? They are burying the dead right now because morticians are overwhelmed and they are running out of space in the refrigerator trucks.

Well when people start dying in rural America which is under resourced don't admit you were wrong of course. You think because there are just a few cases now in a community that 100% believes this is likely no worse than the common cold due to propaganda are going to take actions to stay safe. And I know the assumption - urban to some of you = PoC. And you blame it on population density not the fact that a lot of the essential workers - people in grocery stores, fast food restaurants - can't work from home - and a good portion of them are PoC - unprotected, underpaid, and under serviced. And what are the testing rates in Missouri? You also failed to mention that almost 100% of the deaths in St. Louis are PoC. I am sure it's population density and has zero to do with who is out there working unprotected but is considered essential. And a public event by the way is one of where one of the major outbreaks in Chicago started. A church service. Have they cancelled church services or are they like in Kansas allowing people to pack into churches on Easter. And one last thing. The Virus just doesn't pop up in a nursing home. Most of these people are not mobile. They get them there is because someone from the GENERAL PUBLIC brings it in. My mom and brother are on lockdown in their retirement community and they have told all of us, no one has gotten sick and if someone does it will be because someone from the outside brought it in.

Population density certainly is a factor . But this virus is now moving to parts of rural America. You can't blame that on population density. There has been mass closure of rural hospitals over the past 15 to 20 years and they have also been heavily under resourced - people and supplies.

You're the one sitting here defending factory farming - no one else. As factory farming lobbyists are pushing congress to criminalize protestors. And as Coronavirus is running rampant in their facilities as we speak.

I don't think I denied that did I.

Any farm that is sublet by the mega corps does it. McDonalds has their own blend of what their cows are fed. Purdue owns farms all over this country as does Monsanto. If you think those animals on all those farms are not pumped up with antibiotics you're fooling yourself. When was the last time you saw a chicken breast in the store that wasn't twice as big as it should be had that chicken been raised safely and humanly. There might be more farms out there right now that aren't like that but the food supply I see in the grocery store - mega sized chicken breasts as an example - don't reflect that those farms are a huge part of our daily food supply. But aren't you blaming all of China for something that might be an outlier as you claim those factory farms are outliers here. Perhaps neither one of those things are true.

This is horrible but the US basically does the same thing. Visit a factory farm sometime and see how the animals are mistreated and the drugs they are pumped with to treat disease.

Despite the flaws in his 2016, Sanders did have some competent people working for him. Symone Sanders for one. It was a telling sign from the onset that she went with Biden versus Bernie again.

This is good news amidst everything else. I hope New York doing this is a sign of others to jump on. Despite of his own issues he's been sort of the pseudo leader(even though IMO people like Newsome and Inslee have done a better job), he's getting all the attention because NY is the epicenter. And my niece who is a New Yorker(she works for the Dept of Public Health in NYC). She has many issues with Cuomo and even more with DeBlasio but what she says about Cuomo is that he is a doer and can get things done.

Sweden no doubt is healthier than the rest of the world. Mentally and physically.

Something uplifting Andrew Lloyd Weber is making available some of his most famous musicals to view online at no charge. First up, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat this weekend on YouTube with Donny Osmond. https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/andrew-lloyd-webber-to-stream-free-broadway-hits/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0W41VIoJeZkAJH0SgLQgtxZ3y-GUkd88iu8J-SA2kgSuCGsmWHczrR19M Coming next weekend Jesus Christ Superstar Here is Joseph