All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[kidfresh512]

Trump Demands Two Liberal Justices Recuse Themselves From His Cases

NEW DELHI — President Trump lashed out at two liberal Supreme Court justices on Tuesday, escalating his battle with the judicial system to new heights despite entreaties by his attorney general to refrain from Twitter blasts that complicate the administration’s legal fights.

Weighing in on a domestic matter before embarking on a day of ceremony and meetings in India, Mr. Trump seized on an opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and a years-old comment by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to demand that the two Democratic-appointed jurists recuse themselves from any cases involving him.

“‘Sotomayor accuses GOP appointed Justices of being biased in favor of Trump,’” he wrote on Twitter, citing Laura Ingraham of Fox News. “This is a terrible thing to say. Trying to ‘shame’ some into voting her way? She never criticized Justice Ginsberg when she called me a ‘faker’. Both should recuse themselves on all Trump, or Trump related, matters!”

“While ‘elections have consequences,’” he added, “I only ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court!”

Yes why don't all justice not appointed by trump recuse themselves lol. What an idiot. There is no way we should allow him to get another Justice slot.

[4saken1]

Fun fact: There is no proper separation of church and state in Canada. Ontario (one of the most liberal provinces, if not the most liberal) has public Catholic schools paid by tax dollars and Christianity runs deep there. Even the idea that millions of tax dollars shouldn't go directly into Catholic coffers is utterly foreign to the majority there.

Nowhere is perfect!

[Celgress]

Nowhere is perfect!

Granted, but many people believe Canada is perfect, as a dual citizen I feel an obligation to correct this misconception whenever and wherever possible.

[PaulBullion]

Biden 15 points ahead of Sanders in South Carolina:

Biden 36, Sanders 21, Steyer 7, Buttigieg 7, Warren 8, Klobuchar 3, Gabbard 6

And 3 points in North Carolina:

Sanders 20, Biden 23, Bloomberg 17, Warren 11, Buttigieg 9, Klobuchar 4, Steyer 3, Gabbard 1

Biden leads, Sanders in 3rd place in Oklahoma poll:

Bloomberg 20, Biden 21, Sanders 13, Buttigieg 10, Warren 9, Klobuchar 7

It's a tie in Texas:

Sanders 20, Biden 20, Warren 17, Bloomberg 12, Buttigieg 11, Klobuchar 7, Gabbard 3

[Celgress]

Biden 15 points ahead of Sanders in South Carolina:

Biden 36, Sanders 21, Steyer 7, Buttigieg 7, Warren 8, Klobuchar 3, Gabbard 6

And 3 points in North Carolina:

Sanders 20, Biden 23, Bloomberg 17, Warren 11, Buttigieg 9, Klobuchar 4, Steyer 3, Gabbard 1

Biden leads, Sanders in 3rd place in Oklahoma poll:

Bloomberg 20, Biden 21, Sanders 13, Buttigieg 10, Warren 9, Klobuchar 7

It's a tie in Texas:

Sanders 20, Biden 20, Warren 17, Bloomberg 12, Buttigieg 11, Klobuchar 7, Gabbard 3

If Biden is going to win any states it's now (soon) or never. He's firmly in do or die territory. I still think he'll collapse or at least have a weak showing come Super Tuesday, but we'll see.

[PaulBullion]

Versus personally stepping in to make sure that a known harasser keeps a job in the campaign?

A whataboutism! How quaint, we so rarely see those anymore.

And one about Hiwwawy Cwinton.

How adowable!

[PaulBullion]

The DJI has lost 1600 points over the last 3 business day, but Trump still says the stock market "looks good to him."

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Biden 15 points ahead of Sanders in South Carolina:

Biden 36, Sanders 21, Steyer 7, Buttigieg 7, Warren 8, Klobuchar 3, Gabbard 6

And 3 points in North Carolina:

Sanders 20, Biden 23, Bloomberg 17, Warren 11, Buttigieg 9, Klobuchar 4, Steyer 3, Gabbard 1

Biden leads, Sanders in 3rd place in Oklahoma poll:

Bloomberg 20, Biden 21, Sanders 13, Buttigieg 10, Warren 9, Klobuchar 7

It's a tie in Texas:

Sanders 20, Biden 20, Warren 17, Bloomberg 12, Buttigieg 11, Klobuchar 7, Gabbard 3

Notice his strength is in states he’ll never win in a general. Anyways everyone knew he was ahead in those. Except the person who thinks Warren is the frontrunner

[Malvolio]

World Should Prepare For Potential Coronavirus Pandemic: WHO

The World Health Organization’s director-general said the focus needs to be on containing COVID-19. Couldn't agree more. Meanwhile, there's THIS nonsense....

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Rush Limbaugh Claims The ‘Common Cold’ Coronavirus Is An Effort To ‘Get Trump’

The conservative radio host declared communists and the media have “weaponized” the “common cold.” I can only hope that gasbag comes down with the virus and see how fast he changes his tune.

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Limbaugh already has lung cancer. Let's just hope that it robs him of his voice, without killing him, so that he has to watch mutely as Trump suffers defeat in November.

[Celgress]

The DJI has lost 1600 points over the last 3 business day, but Trump still says the stock market "looks good to him."

In all fairness, this is (mostly) due to Covid-19 or so every expert agrees.

[Celgress]

Notice his strength is in states he’ll never win in a general. Anyways everyone knew he was ahead in those. Except the person who thinks Warren is the frontrunner

Warren has about as much chance of winning the Democratic nomination now as do the ants who make up my ant farm.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Could the coronavirus cancel the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo? ‘This is the new war and you have to face it,’ says senior member of IOC

Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the IOC, estimates there's a three-month window to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, which are being threatened by the fast-spreading virus from China.

Pound, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, did not sound alarmist. But he did speak frankly about the risks facing the Olympics, which open July 24.

Pound has been an International Olympic Committee member since 1978, 13 years longer than current President Thomas Bach.

"You could certainly go to two months out if you had to," Pound said, which would mean putting off a decision until late May and hoping the virus is under control. "A lot of things have to start happening. You've got to start ramping up your security, your food, the Olympic Village, the hotels, The media folks will be in there building their studios."

And if it got to the point of not going ahead, Pound speculated "you're probably looking at a cancellation."

"This is the new war and you have to face it. In and around that time, I'd say folks are going to have to ask: 'Is this under sufficient control that we can be confident about going to Tokyo, or not?'"

China on Tuesday reported 508 new cases and another 71 deaths, 68 of them in the central city of Wuhan, where the epidemic was first detected in December. The updates bring mainland China's totals to 77,658 cases and 2,663 deaths. South Korea now has the second-most cases in the world with 977, including 10 deaths. Clusters of the illness are now appearing in the Middle East and Europe. This could signal a new stage in the spread of the virus with four deaths reported in Japan.

Pound encouraged athletes to keep training. About 11,000 are expected for the Olympics, and another 4,400 for the Paralympics, which open on Aug. 25.

"As far as we all know you're going to be in Tokyo," Pound said. "All indications are at this stage that it will be business as usual. So keep focused on your sport and be sure that the IOC is not going to send you into a pandemic situation."

[Theleviathan]

Kinda sorta like Trump promising his brain dead lemmings that Mexico would pay for the wall, and the rubes fell for his bullshit lock, stock and barrel. Hell, even after Mexico basically said "**** YOU!" and Trump pivoted to taking billions away from the military and, in turn, the taxpayers, the Trumpanzees continue slurping his Kool-Aid.

Yup. Obama ran on "hope and change". Voters are idiots, the more information you give them the more their brains hurt and they make stupid decisions. Bernie has no plan to pay for his ideas, but he should keep it that way if he's the nominee.

[PaulBullion]

The DJI has lost 1600 points over the last 3 business day, but Trump still says the stock market "looks good to him."

Down almost 2000 points since last Thursday.

Almost 4 months of gains evaporated.

[PaulBullion]

In all fairness, this is (mostly) due to Covid-19 or so every expert agrees.

Some analysts also point out that Trump's strategy of pretending everything is fine, and lying about a vaccine being just around the corner, and having fired the entire pandemic response team of his government months ago is adding fuel to the fire. There is a crisis, and nobody able to handle the crisis in sight in the most powerful country and the biggest economy on Earth.