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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    Tim Alberta has an extensive spotlight of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer as she deals with one of the biggest COVID outbreaks in the nation, and the raised profile of being a contender for national office.

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...iden-vp-177791
    I think she has done a fantastic job and would provide a good country to Pence (being from the same region, but a little more pragmatic than he is). But I can think of a number of reasons why not to pick her.

    As stated in this article, Obama’s advice to Biden was find the “yin” to his “yang”. That seems to be the guiding star. I think Biden did that for Obama, but I can’t really see how Whitmer does that for Biden.

    For Whitmer, she is a popular governor in one of the states Biden needs to take back to win this year. But the whole argument for Biden up to this point is that he will be stronger than Clinton was in 2016 in these states. Primaries aren’t necessarily predictive of strength in the general, but Biden vastly outperformed Clinton in Michigan—and took some of the wind out of Sanders’ sails by taking the majority of white working class folks there.

    Another thing is Whitmer, much like Biden, is also pragmatic and more centrist. While that may be good to get some swing voters comfortable, I don’t think independents or moderates are worried about a Biden ticket because he is too liberal. Indeed, it seems Biden recognizes the need to move to the left (with recent proposals to reduce the Medicare age and establish a meaningful precedent of lowering the age that has been constant since the program’s inception and to provide student loan forgiveness for middle class and lower class folks) to unite the party. He needs a candidate that is going to excite his base.

    Now, a lot has been said about Kamala Harris, but she seems to be polling well as a VP choice and, as a presidential candidate with as many years in the Senate as Obama had when he ran, can be seen as ready to take on the job on day one. She also represents a demographic in the party that largely came to Biden’s aide when he needed it and whose enthusiastic support he will need to get the Obama coalition back together. Kamala Harris has a rather unique fundraising deal with the DNC that certainly does raise a number of eyebrows.
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    One from the "Illinois..." corner that is worth pointing out -

    Norweigan American Hospital in Humboldt Park is a nonprofit "Safety Net" hospital that has been losing staff to better paying jobs at the new McCormick Place facility. While it could be temporary and it's a shot in the dark, anyone who might know medical professionals in the area could bring up that Norweigan American Hospital is in need of staff.

    https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-video...place/2254051/

    Chicago Hospital Struggles With Nurses Leaving For More Money at McCormick Place

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    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelMan View Post
    Wondering if Tulsi Gabbard regrets dropping out now.
    What, and waste more money to get another... 2, maybe 3 delegates?

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    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    Since some folks weren't on the board right after it was started from scratch, this is from the "Standards"/"Rules" thread...


    https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ARDS-amp-RULES
    It was a general announcement, not directed at one specific poster. Please do not encourage the mods to ban me. Discuss my arguments, not me personally.
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    ABC poll has the approval of Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis now at -11, down from -5 a week ago. He really has to consider if the daily briefings are helping or hurting him. People are seeing him.
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    Damn, 2020:

    Krakatoa volcano Anak Krakatau erupts in Indonesia

    Satellite imagery shows ash several kilometres into the air and a plume as high as 15km.

    The webcam on Anak Krakatau Island shows lava erupting from the volcano.


    "This seems to be the strongest eruptive phase since the violent phreatomagmatic activity following the partial collapse of the volcano on 22 Dec 2018, which had triggered a deadly tsunami that killed hundreds of people on Java's west coast," reported volcanodiscovery.com.

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    Anak Krakatau, which means Child of Kratakau, is the offspring of the infamous Krakatau volcano whose monumental eruption in 1883 triggered a period of global cooling.
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    This makes me a little more optimistic for November:

    In interviews with more than two dozen Sanders die-hards, many said they’d never back the former VP. But a lot backed off that threat.

    “I might have to vote for him,” he conceded, “because I have many friends who aren’t white and I’ve witnessed race relations get worse—so maybe things will feel a little better under Biden.”
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    On this date in 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled of Sue Lowden, a former candidate for U.S. Senate from Nevada who offered an alternate suggestion to healthcare reform to the Affordable Care Act… people should go back to the good old days when they bartered with their doctor in goods and services for medical care (really). She also had several ethical complaints registered against her for illegal campaign financing, and was even widely reported to have stiffed a large portion of her paid media consultants on fees owed after the election. Lowden had previously, in the 2008 election, angered Ron Paul for President supporters by shutting down their insurrection at the state’s primary convention and awarding its delegates to John McCain, and not Paul, so they hounded her wherever she went, throwing their support behind fellow CSGOPOTD Sharron Angle, instead. Lowden has faded from relevance in politics.

    In 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented its original profile of the U.S. House Representative from Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District, Steve Russell, as pictured, former frequent guest on Fox News. And it’s easy to understand why the propaganda wing of the Republican Party being run by Roger Ailes would find this guy to be a media darling… he was a part of the military team that helped yank Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein out of his spider-hole back in 2003, and he detailed that story in his memoir, the aptly named “We Got Him!” Russell has quickly parlayed that into a career in Oklahoma politics, serving in the state legislature from 2008-2012, before seizing the opportunity that presented itself to leap to higher office when fellow CSGOPOTD almuni, Congressman James Lankford decided to take a shot at elevating himself to the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Sen. Tom Coburn. Now, this blog will always be perfectly clear about something… we respect our nation’s military, the honorable service they provide to keep our country safe, and represent its values in uniform. That will never, ever change. And the same respect is extended to a veteran like Rep. Russell. We would like to extend our thanks to him for his service. That being said, we find some of his statements in the realm of “military expertise” since he left the service to be highly suspect, and enough to have been the red flags that have so quickly earned him one of our profiles. You see, Steve Russell is one of those conservatives living on an alternate earth where ideology matters more than facts. As such, his version of the history of the Iraq War is one where the United States Armed Forces actually found not just Saddam Hussein, as his unit did… but he claims we also found the active program of Saddam Hussein’s regime that was attempting to build Weapons of Mass Destruction. Russell, on multiple occasions, spoken publicly that he has been told by others in the military who found the WMDs, but “the story was completely buried by the press”. Of course, maybe Russell just says things like this because he’s being completely partisan, but we’d have no reason to suspect that… except for when after President Obama recorded a Back-To-School message for public school students in 2009, much the way previous presidents had going back to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, that Russell decided to make the classy decision to compare Obama to some of the world’s worst dictators, including Kim Jong Il and the man he helped catch in Iraq, Saddam Hussein.

    Splendid. Now, getting back to Russell’s opinions on the military… there was an inspiring news story that came out in August of 2015, where Captain Kristen Griest and Lieutenant Shayne Haver became the first two women to successfully graduate from Army Ranger training school. Now, while most people would hear that news and salute those two service members for their achievement, as well as acknowledge a great moment in women’s history… Steve Russell called for an investigation because obviously they only completed their training because they must have received some sort of preferential treatment. Keep in mind, Steve Russell’s “sources” also tell him that a guy heard from another guy we found Saddam’s WMDs, so yeah, it’s just another wad of bulls***. And it’s spectacular that he would question a fellow service member’s commitment, ability, or integrity, isn’t it?

    Prior to getting to Congress, while he was still serving in the Oklahoma state legislature, he drafted legislation to try to get Oklahoma to opt out of the Matthew Shepherd and James Byrd Hate Crimes Act, because it’s worth nullifying federal law to let people kill other people for being gay, apparently. His justification? It would violate the potential homophobic murderer’s “freedom of speech”. Of course, that was hardly his only extreme piece of legislation, considering he also co-sponsored legislation to try to define life at conception, supported Birther legislation regarding the birth certificates of presidential candidates, voted for stricter Voter ID laws to combat the statistically non-existent problem of “in-person voter fraud” at the cost of disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters, tried to nullify the Affordable Care Act, and voted for Oklahoma Republicans’ paranoid, Islamophobic idea to place a ban on Sharia Law in the state. Since hitting Washington, D.C., on July 30th, 2015, during a Congressional hearing, Steve Russell accused Matt Duss of the Foundation for Middle East peace of having “Anti-Semantic ties” because his father and brother were previously known to be critical of Israeli policies. Of course, what Russell meant to say was “Anti-Semitic”, and even that was a reach. He is, top to bottom, a kook.

    Now, in 2016, Steve Russell coasted to re-election in 2016 by over 20 points, what with his district having a +12 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index. In the 2018 Blue Wave election, and after a contentious town hall where Russell refused to say whether or not the media was “the enemy” like Donald Trump had, Steve Russell was defeated by 3,000 votes by Kendra Horn, and bounced out of office in one of the bigger upsets of the 2018 elections. as such, we’ll profile another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 850-45, since this was established in July 2014.)



    Lynn Hutchings

    Welcome to what is the 850th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Wyoming State Senator Lynn Hutchings, who was elected to that body for the first time in 2018 to represent District 5 after an unsuccessful 2014 run for that seat. Almost immediately upon making it to the upper chamber, Hutchings got a lot of people’s attention for all the wrong reasons.

    It all started about a month after she took office when she accepted a visit from a group of teenagers from her district who were lobbying her to vote for LGBTQ employment protections, and she took the opportunity to ask the kids if she should then also be supporting beastiality and pedophilia:

    Only days later, an attempt to repeal the death penalty in Wyoming, Hutchings stunned those present in the State Senate chamber when she gave a bizarre reason for opposing the repeal… JESUS.

    For those who aren’t following how dumb this statement is… HBO’s John Oliver summarized it nicely by asking, “Your argument for the death penalty is that they got us a Jesus once, and maybe one day, if we kill enough people, we’ll get another one?”

    After these two brain dead moments by Valentine’s Day of 2019, Democrats within the chamber were calling on Lynn Hutchings to resign. Her husband released a statement saying that she was not resigning, and she seems intent on remaining in office until at least the 2022 elections. If she insists on putting her foot in her mouth so much, she had better hope nobody’s around to hear, going forward.

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    Tara Reade has now filed a criminal complaint with the DC police.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/form...mplaint-2020-4

    A woman who accused Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her when she worked for him in 1993 has filed a formal criminal complaint with the Washington, DC, police about the alleged incident, Business Insider has learned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    How many more disasters will April bring us? How about this one; Chernobyl is on fire!
    ...There's nothing really special about that, just that a burning radioactive pit is a pretty good depiction of the world right now.

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    So remember that creepy Eugenicist dude we had as a Government Advisor here in the UK ? The one who rightfully got sacked for being a sack of **** ?

    Yeah he's not the only Eugenicist still running around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Tara Reade has now filed a criminal complaint with the DC police.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/form...mplaint-2020-4
    Cool. Watch it either turn into absolutely nothing (as it is) or be a slander match. They'll try and make it the Democrats version of Kavanaugh.....except Bidens not as sketchy as Kavanaugh nor will he start rambling about conspiracy theories and make himself look unfit for his job.

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    What it's like inside a Hong Kong coronavirus quarantine camp

    (CNN)If you'd asked me a month ago what I thought I'd be up to on my 30th birthday, being confined to a government quarantine center in Hong Kong wasn't near the top of the list.

    But the coronavirus pandemic has derailed a lot of plans -- and even in a city that's grown used to upheaval, the recent sudden shift in response to a surge in Covid-19 cases has been startling.

    For me, it's meant going from planning holidays and parties, to being escorted from my apartment by hazmat-suited health care workers and driven to a quarantine facility for two weeks of isolation. For everyone else, it's meant a speedy reassessment of how to respond to a global crisis, on both a personal and societal level -- and a new understanding of just how strict the measures to fight coronavirus might have to be.
    We in the U.S. might need to do this as well, or something similar.
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    Why Trump will win…again;
    1. Personal and corporate tax cuts – resulting in more money in people’s pockets rather than government coffers. Many Businesses then provided bonuses to workers, expanded and hired more people or otherwise re-invested in their businesses.
    2. De-regulation – like the low gas prices? Thank Trump. Because of this the U.S. is energy independent and a net exporter of natural gas. That’s why gas doesn’t spike every time a bomb goes off in the Middle East.
    3. Trade deals – admittedly still early to see the real effect, but anything will be better than NAFTA and just the fact that we have a President who finally, FINALLY wants to level the playing field is huge.
    4. Jobs, jobs, jobs – the best social program in the world is a good paying job and under Trump there is record low unemployment across the board for everyone including every minority class. And yes, these jobs will come back after the Coronavirus pandemic. The economy is sound.
    5. Poverty rate – lowest ever recorded. See what jobs and tax cuts do?
    6. Veteran’s Care – the Mission act allows vets to seek private health options instead of having to deal with that wonderful government run healthcare system in the VA…you know the one where vets died waiting for care?
    7. ISIS decimated – Trump allowed the military to actually fight them as they wanted. Result – all of the land captured by them during the Obama years has been retaken.
    8. Suleimani and al-Bagdadi dead. Top two terrorists in the world, responsible for hundreds, if no thousands of deaths are now dead themselves, along with scores of their deputies.
    9. Criminal Justice Reform – incarceration is now ended or reduced for thousands previously sentenced to long term incarceration.
    10. Fully funding of historically minority colleges.
    11. Syria response – military actions against them after they used chemical weapons against civilians to include children. Trump didn’t back down like Obama/Biden. Funny how they had chemical weapons after John Kerry turned over the destruction of them to Russia ins’t it? Oh, yeah, the strike killed a bunch of Russian advisors too.
    12. Ukraine aid – Obama/Biden, in response to their requests for aid sent them blankets to help them fight Russia. Trump sent them missiles. I bet Russia liked Obama/Biden a little more.
    13. Out of Paris climate deal – ever read it? It required the US to pay billions to other countries so they could reduce their emissions AND required the US to greatly reduce our as well. China, the biggest polluter in the WORLD was not required to do anything for years to come.
    14. Iran Nuclear deal withdrawal – no real verification, allowed them to continue to develop ballistic missiles without punishment (you know those things that they put nuclear warheads on?) No worries though, Obama/Biden gave them BILLIONS in cash in order to get them to sign it. I’m sure they bought food for their people with it.
    15. Funding of the military – Pay raise and money to buy bullets..what a concept.
    16. Ending endless wars – withdrawal of Troops from Syria, negotiating a peace deal in Afghanistan.
    17. Moving our Embassy to Jerusalem – promised by many before, delivered by Trump.
    18. Border security – Building the wall. Funny how borders suddenly became important during the pandemic…and the ability to close them along with it.
    19. Judicial appointees – nominating Judges including two Supreme Court Justices that follow the laws, rather than making them up based on their own ideologies.
    There’s more but I’m tired of typing….

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    Quote Originally Posted by jetengine View Post
    Cool. Watch it either turn into absolutely nothing (as it is) or be a slander match. They'll try and make it the Democrats version of Kavanaugh.....except Bidens not as sketchy as Kavanaugh nor will he start rambling about conspiracy theories and make himself look unfit for his job.
    Yeah, someone in the media would actually have to ask Biden about it first. Seeing how Biden does off a teleprompter his response to actual questioning would priceless...

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