So Trumps new campaign manager. Bill Stepien has tested positive for covid. It just keeps going and going.
So Trumps new campaign manager. Bill Stepien has tested positive for covid. It just keeps going and going.
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I love how last night Fox news said there will be thousands of people outside Walter Reed supporting Trump and praying for him. This morning there was a huge crowd. All of six people.
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While he's not on the Senate Judiciary Committee... he will be required for the GOP to get 50 votes for a confirmation. With Collins and Murkowski already "no", they could only lose one more vote and still get across the finish line. No Johnson, Lee, or Tillis would leave the GOP only at 48. Even if Collins bailed in the final vote right now, they're still short one.
And as far as someone saying, "Well they show up sick, then."
The Congressional Sgt. at Arms is tasked with keeping all members of Congress safe. If someone tries to enter the chamber for a vote while sick, would it be wrong of Sen. Chuck Schumer to point out they were jeopardizing the health of the other 90+ members who aren't sick, and ask the Sgt. at Arms to remove them like a common MAGA twit from a Costco?
Because right now, we're talking legitimately about the line of succession being jeopardized by handling this irresponsibly. And while the GOP wants to run roughshod over all reason, rules, and Democratic norms, they're literally going to kill themselves and others in an attempt to steal a Supreme Court seat. It's beyond ghoulish, it's insane.
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On that note - Friendly reminder to everyone here: If you have a friend, associate, or loved one whom you know has more-or-less regularly been going to social hotspots (I don't care if it's just a hip restaurant) , stay the fuck away from that person for the time being. Cause if the goddamned WHITE HOUSE with all its fancy safety measures couldn't detect who was compromised by the beer virus until it was too late, then I'm not banking on myself having a better "radar" in my laundry closet somewhere, let alone any of you fellas'.
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My sister in law threw a party for my niece's bday. I didn't go. Several People got infected, including my sister in law's mother and her brother in law who later died of COVID complications. Worse still, she went out of state to attend a baseball tournament that my niece's were in (this was when she felt ill but before she received her COVID infection.
I could be wrong, but I thought Moscow Mitch nixed voting remotely. But, if things get desperate and he finds himself coming up short on votes, he’ll do an immediate 180 and allow it. As for Republicans showing up sick, yeah, they will, I have no doubt they’ll put their health and the health of everyone else at risk to vote in person.
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Senate Democrats can say that they will agree to a two week delay, with the understanding that at least 51 Republicans were going to vote for ACB barring some kind of major scandal, and that they won't criticize any post-election vote, as it is important not to use people's health as a political cudgel.
Otherwise, the typical Republican Senator will conclude that a small risk to their health is worth the addition of an originalist/ textualist judge to the Supreme Court, rather than a Biden nominee who believes in different neutral principles.
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This would also be an argument that Democrats are taking more precautions against getting sick, or spreading the illness.
Conservatives here?
That's not every liberal, and certainly not every liberal poster in this board.
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