Bozacke wrote: » Totally disgusting, during the Amy Coney Barrett hearing, Lyndsey Graham is bragging about all the time he spends on the golf course with Trump. Knowing Graham’s track record, as soon as Trump is out, he’ll be saying he hardly knew him.
banie01 wrote: » Don made bold claims regarding immunity last night. Took risks with the crowd and close contact. I hope no one there (Don included) finds themselves regretting that based on recent reporting via BBC from the Lancet. Its as if the Universe waits for Don to make a statement, then boom! You're WRONG!
Tell me how wrote: » Remember back when Trump was on about Blue states being the ones to poorly handle Covid?https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1315856349964759040?s=19
Foxtrol wrote: » I somewhat disagree with your position. The media have a job to do to call bullsh1t on what Trump is saying and doing. Trump is likely still getting the benefits of the steroids he was on and is still likely shedding the disease to those around him. To ignore it is potentially putting the lives of viewers in peril, for those that decide to follow Trumps lead and go out while sick to 'not let it dominate' them.
Foxtrol wrote: » It is working off the thinking that zero drop off boxes is the baseline, so reducing them to one per county is still more than the zero they originally had. Below is a good thread about all the problems there are with the judgementhttps://twitter.com/JoshuaADouglas/status/1315887566638415873?s=20
Water John wrote: » One county went from 12 down to 1. It's like having one drop box for an area the size of Munster.
Deleted User wrote: » But did some go from none to one?
aloyisious wrote: » This link might explain the Harris County, Texas, position on drop boxes. https://www.laprogressive.com/ballot-drop-boxes/
Deleted User wrote: » Appreciate the link, but it doesn't answer. These boxes are addition to voting stations also?
20Cent wrote: » "I feel so powerful, I'll walk into that audience. I'll walk in there, I'll kiss everyone in that audience," Trump said yesterday. "I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and the -- everybody. I'll just give everybody a big, fat kiss." Reminds me of my clubbing days. High as a kite.
Water John wrote: » They'll have to keep him on Dexamethasone until election day. That behaviour is unnatural.
aloyisious wrote: » Fox News reporting that the appeals court had put a hold on a federal court ruling that the GOP Governor's order restricting Texas state counties to only one [1] box per county was unlawful. Harris county with 2.5 million residents only one drop-in box for those who want to use it instead of queueing at a voting centre next month.
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » Don't forget the rural voters. Northern Ireland is 14,130 km² Brewster County is 16,040 km² and Alpine is a two hour drive from the bottom of the county. And a two hour drive back on top of any queueing.
Spanish Eyes wrote: » Wonder how Melania is doing? Bet she is enjoying quarantine from yer man anyway. Who could blame her. But she did marry him for his charm and good looks after all.
Professor Moriarty wrote: » She also had Covid-19.
Spanish Eyes wrote: » Yes I know, but apparently no one else knows or cares eitherway. It is all about Donald Duck. I doubt he had the virus myself. But who knows if it was a drama manufactured for the election. Sad that so many in the WH have it, he doesn't care anyway.
StringerBell wrote: » Re Melania, I'm reminded of that jacket she chose to wear during the whole kids in cages blowback. Sums up my own feelings really. For the rest of the WH staffers who are contracting it, for the most part I think it's a case of you reap what you sow. I'm sure there are some unfortunate cases there, collateral damage so to speak but the majority of them deserve no sympathy.
Deleted User wrote: » What kind of a f**ked up world are we living in when George W. Bush looks exceptionally humble, polite and dare i say it statesman-like compared to the current Commander in Chief?
Deleted User wrote: » That sounds mad. How many were there in each county before?
You want to know why we're in such a f**ked up world? It's because we've let political polarisation become the lens through which we view absolutely everything. Sometimes it's accurate (eg Trump not being very statesmanlike), but sometimes it's just prejudice.
Manic Moran wrote: » Normally, zero. Because of the COVID problem, the State (more specifically, the Governor, to the concern of one of the Fifth Circuit judges today) expanded voting options for this election, which also allowed for early drop offs, which are the subject of the current dispute. For this election, few of the 254 had more than one. I don't know if any had zero. I'm in Bexar county, pop about 2mn, we only had one planned. Tarrant county, 2.1mn had one. Dallas county, pop 2.4mn had one (After the governor's order to restrict, Dallas came out saying "Actually, we were planning on adding more" but there was no indication prior to that, and local news articles were saying there would be no effect.) Travis County, pop 1.3mn had two. Both were downtown a few blocks from each other. (Technically four, but three were all different entrances to the same parking structure). Fort Bend (800k) and Galveston (300k) also had more than one. Really, only Harris county was notably affected with its 12 drop-offs. Pop 4.1mn, in 4,600km2. Texas is not a vote-by-mail-friendly state. If you're eligible to vote by mail, it's because you are considered to have difficulty getting to a polling station (eg you're infirmed, elderly, out of state student, that sort of thing). So, for example, if you're in the Army and assigned to Ft Wainwright, Alaska, you can get your vote by mail ballot, but you won't be likely dropping it off at the drop box in your home county in Texas no matter how many boxes are around, or if you're in a nursing home, you won't be popping into your car to go drop it off either. So the numbers involved simply don't normally justify much effort in having many drop-boxes. Obviously Harris County disagrees (though with only 12 locations, folks will still need to travel). In any case, if you really do not trust the US postal service, and want to physically hand in your ballot, you can do so on election day at any of the polling sites in your county (In my county, that's 600 locations. I can also vote at any of the 600 locations I choose). We have over 1.1mn registered voters in Bexar county, so far we have a record number of mail-in ballots sent out, 97,000. So of those 97,000, how many are not going to just stick a stamp on their ballot and put it into the mailbox, and instead make the journey to a drop-box, and also be unable or unwilling to make that journey on election day, and all choose to make that trip around the same time on the same day? That's the level of effect we're talking about here. So in the big scheme of things, it really is of limited effect. That said, the argument about security doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense either from my limited understanding, so I'm really not sure why this is a major issue for either party. Full legal reasoning from the Fifth Circuit is here. http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-50867-CV0.pdf Perhaps a relevant quote: “As we have explained, the October 1 Proclamation was part of an expansion of absentee voting opportunities beyond what the Texas Election Code provided. The fact that this expansion is not as broad as Plaintiffs would wish does not mean that it has illegally limited their voting rights.“
Christy42 wrote: » an hour long queue should be of national interest. I can't think of another first world nation where that could happen.
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