LaxPower Back-Up Stick

Heather Cox Richardson
October 13, 2020 (Tuesday)

While the media is focused on the predetermined hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat formerly held by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the big story of the day is the resurgence of coronavirus.
The nation is back up to more than 50,000 new cases a day, the highest rate since early August, and numbers are continuing to rise. The states currently suffering worst are those in the northern Midwest-- Wisconsin, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota—but more than 30 states are reporting rising numbers. Wisconsin is so overwhelmed with cases it’s opening a field hospital this week, and it seems that Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Oklahoma are right behind.
More children are being diagnosed with Covid-19, as well, making up more than 77,000 new infections.
The White House has abandoned the idea of controlling the virus and instead is openly embracing the idea of “herd immunity.” Officials are arguing that the nation should protect our most vulnerable neighbors—the elderly and the infirm—and the rest of us should go about our lives normally, without waiting for a vaccine.
While the White House has been saying this for months, it now has a group of scientists advancing the plan in a document called The Great Barrington Declaration. This idea is being pushed by the libertarian American Institute for Economic Research, and scientists whose work has been dismissed by most epidemiologists. It offers no data or scientific argument; it is a political opinion.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called the plan “unethical” because it “means allowing unnecessary infections, suffering and death.” He explains that the concept of herd immunity is one used for vaccines, achieved “by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it.” “Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic,” he said. “It is scientifically and ethically problematic.”
The idea of simply letting the infection spread is not popular among Americans, especially among the seniors Trump needs to win Florida. In 2016, seniors preferred Trump to Hillary Clinton by 49% to 44%. Now they are turning to Biden rather than Trump by 54% to 43%. Weirdly, Trump took to Twitter today to post a tweet apparently making fun of Biden by picturing him as a resident of a senior home—not calculated to win over more older Americans.
This approach reinforces the idea the president is trying to push after his own bout with coronavirus: that the illness is not a big deal and that those who say it is are simply trying to hurt his chances of reelection. At the Barrett hearings, Republican Mike Lee of Utah, recently diagnosed with coronavirus, refused to wear a mask. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows also refused to wear one when talking with reporters, apparently concerned about being filmed in a mask when the official White House position was to downplay the virus.
Meanwhile, another official who attended the celebration for Barrett at the Rose Garden on September 26 has tested positive for the virus.
America leads the world in infections and deaths. Globally, at least 38 million cases of Covid-19 have been recorded as of 6:30 this evening. More than a million people have died. America has had at least 7,850,000 cases and more than 215,000 deaths.
As horrific as those numbers are, an article published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association says they are far too low. Dr. Steven Woolf, the author of the study, says that “for every two Americans that we know of who are dying of Covid-19, another American is dying.” Woolf looked at what are called “excess deaths” from March through July, that is, the increase over the average number of deaths expected in those months. He found 225,530 excess deaths. Sixty-seven percent of those deaths are linked directly to Covid-19, but the remaining 33% are unexplained, suggesting this unusual spike is related to the pandemic.
Erika Edwards of NBC News highlighted this study today, along with another in the same issue of the JAMA that compares U.S. death rates to those of other wealthy countries. The U.S. ranked poorly. According to the article, our Covid-19 mortality rate is 60.3 per 100,000 people. Canada’s rate is 24.6 per 100,000, and Australia’s was 3.3 deaths per 100,000. If we had had the same rate as Canada, we would have lost 117,000 fewer people, and 188,000 Americans would have been saved if we had the same death rate as Australia.
The good news is that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said today that vaccine development is “on a really good track.” Two vaccines have been put on hold as a volunteer in each trial has gotten sick, but Fauci says this is not at all unusual. He says he hopes that by November or December we should know if we have a safe and effective vaccine. If so, it will be distributed first to those who need it most, but will gradually become available to the rest of us.
Once again, Dr. Fauci reminded us to wear masks, maintain physical distance from others, avoid crowds, stay outside when possible, and wash hands. “Those simple things, as simple as they sound, can certainly turn around the spikes that we see and can prevent new spikes from occurring,” Fauci told Shepard Smith on CNBC Monday night. “We know that because our experience has proven to us that that is the case. We just need to hunker down and do that.”

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:02 pm

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:51 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:38 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:25 am

a fan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:02 pm Keep playing with fire, Republicans. Make it so no one trusts our elections. Gee whiz golly, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with these games you're playing. Keep it up.




California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.


Gee, what do you think the obvious response from the Dems who run the State of California might be if they want to be corrupt POS too?

It took me all of two seconds to come up with the corrupt response....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/p ... A-k3hMso64

I think the cow is already out of the barn on trusting our elections a Fan. It seems to be more of a belief than ever that our election system is pretty hinky. I think we should allow early voting for POTUS 2024 on 1/22/20. Let's get them votes in good and early. You don't need a candidate, just vote strait party line.

What happens when you have ELECTION MONTH instead of election day. Ans switch to Mail In ballots with no experience

That is a very good reason why the election results this year could turn into a legal nightmare. I doubt the country will know who the next POTUS will be until all the legal challenges to be put forth are all sorted out. Even with early voting the window of opportunity does not have to be one month. I understand they are counting ballots in some early voting districts. I wonder how long until some of these results start leaking out to the press. What could possibly go wrong?

16 states can begin to count prior to Election Day. Only North Carolina and Ohio are likely to be close. Both GOP run.

https://thefulcrum.us/voting/when-are-a ... ts-counted

last election 1 million votes at this time in the election

This time around 10 million. You haven't a clue what's going to be close and what isn't.

a fan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:01 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:38 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:25 am

a fan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:02 pm Keep playing with fire, Republicans. Make it so no one trusts our elections. Gee whiz golly, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with these games you're playing. Keep it up.




California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.


Gee, what do you think the obvious response from the Dems who run the State of California might be if they want to be corrupt POS too?

It took me all of two seconds to come up with the corrupt response....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/p ... A-k3hMso64

I think the cow is already out of the barn on trusting our elections a Fan. It seems to be more of a belief than ever that our election system is pretty hinky. I think we should allow early voting for POTUS 2024 on 1/22/20. Let's get them votes in good and early. You don't need a candidate, just vote strait party line.

What happens when you have ELECTION MONTH instead of election day. Ans switch to Mail In ballots with no experience

More people vote. I thought that was the ENTIRE point to our way of life, 6foot?

In one state Democrats rented 100 vans to round up and take "voters" to the polls. Shake those bushes. Get every homeless crack head and meth freak to cast their ballot. If you can do it for a month that sure beats an election "DAY"

6ftstick wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:49 am

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:02 pm

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:51 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:38 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:25 am

a fan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:02 pm Keep playing with fire, Republicans. Make it so no one trusts our elections. Gee whiz golly, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with these games you're playing. Keep it up.




California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.


Gee, what do you think the obvious response from the Dems who run the State of California might be if they want to be corrupt POS too?

It took me all of two seconds to come up with the corrupt response....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/p ... A-k3hMso64

I think the cow is already out of the barn on trusting our elections a Fan. It seems to be more of a belief than ever that our election system is pretty hinky. I think we should allow early voting for POTUS 2024 on 1/22/20. Let's get them votes in good and early. You don't need a candidate, just vote strait party line.

What happens when you have ELECTION MONTH instead of election day. Ans switch to Mail In ballots with no experience

That is a very good reason why the election results this year could turn into a legal nightmare. I doubt the country will know who the next POTUS will be until all the legal challenges to be put forth are all sorted out. Even with early voting the window of opportunity does not have to be one month. I understand they are counting ballots in some early voting districts. I wonder how long until some of these results start leaking out to the press. What could possibly go wrong?

16 states can begin to count prior to Election Day. Only North Carolina and Ohio are likely to be close. Both GOP run.

https://thefulcrum.us/voting/when-are-a ... ts-counted

last election 1 million votes at this time in the election

This time around 10 million. You haven't a clue what's going to be close and what isn't.

well, we do actually have a "clue".

You can look at the polling in each state over time.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/po ... /national/

Of those 16, the two most likely to be close are North Carolina and Ohio.

But hey, you're right, given the turnout trending, Biden may win these going away and a couple of the presumed red states could get close instead.

But I don't think that's likely...given a clue.

6ftstick wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:55 am

a fan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:01 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:38 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:25 am

a fan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:02 pm Keep playing with fire, Republicans. Make it so no one trusts our elections. Gee whiz golly, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with these games you're playing. Keep it up.




California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.


Gee, what do you think the obvious response from the Dems who run the State of California might be if they want to be corrupt POS too?

It took me all of two seconds to come up with the corrupt response....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/p ... A-k3hMso64

I think the cow is already out of the barn on trusting our elections a Fan. It seems to be more of a belief than ever that our election system is pretty hinky. I think we should allow early voting for POTUS 2024 on 1/22/20. Let's get them votes in good and early. You don't need a candidate, just vote strait party line.

What happens when you have ELECTION MONTH instead of election day. Ans switch to Mail In ballots with no experience

More people vote. I thought that was the ENTIRE point to our way of life, 6foot?

Democrats rented 100 vans to round up and take "voters" to the polls. Shake those bushes. Get every homeless crack head and meth freak to cast their ballot. If you can do it for a month that sure beats an election "DAY"

man, that's a lot of homeless crack heads and meth freaks.
10 million so far, apparently.

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:00 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:55 am

a fan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:01 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:38 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:25 am

a fan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:02 pm Keep playing with fire, Republicans. Make it so no one trusts our elections. Gee whiz golly, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with these games you're playing. Keep it up.




California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.


Gee, what do you think the obvious response from the Dems who run the State of California might be if they want to be corrupt POS too?

It took me all of two seconds to come up with the corrupt response....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/p ... A-k3hMso64

I think the cow is already out of the barn on trusting our elections a Fan. It seems to be more of a belief than ever that our election system is pretty hinky. I think we should allow early voting for POTUS 2024 on 1/22/20. Let's get them votes in good and early. You don't need a candidate, just vote strait party line.

What happens when you have ELECTION MONTH instead of election day. Ans switch to Mail In ballots with no experience

More people vote. I thought that was the ENTIRE point to our way of life, 6foot?

Democrats rented 100 vans to round up and take "voters" to the polls. Shake those bushes. Get every homeless crack head and meth freak to cast their ballot. If you can do it for a month that sure beats an election "DAY"

man, that's a lot of homeless crack heads and meth freaks.
10 million so far, apparently.

And that is just the ones living under the Golden Gate Bridge. FYI... I am being facetious for some of you folks out there wound up too tight.

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:05 am

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:00 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:55 am

a fan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:01 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:38 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:25 am

a fan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:02 pm Keep playing with fire, Republicans. Make it so no one trusts our elections. Gee whiz golly, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with these games you're playing. Keep it up.




California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.


Gee, what do you think the obvious response from the Dems who run the State of California might be if they want to be corrupt POS too?

It took me all of two seconds to come up with the corrupt response....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/p ... A-k3hMso64

I think the cow is already out of the barn on trusting our elections a Fan. It seems to be more of a belief than ever that our election system is pretty hinky. I think we should allow early voting for POTUS 2024 on 1/22/20. Let's get them votes in good and early. You don't need a candidate, just vote strait party line.

What happens when you have ELECTION MONTH instead of election day. Ans switch to Mail In ballots with no experience

More people vote. I thought that was the ENTIRE point to our way of life, 6foot?

Democrats rented 100 vans to round up and take "voters" to the polls. Shake those bushes. Get every homeless crack head and meth freak to cast their ballot. If you can do it for a month that sure beats an election "DAY"

man, that's a lot of homeless crack heads and meth freaks.
10 million so far, apparently.

And that is just the ones living under the Golden Gate Bridge. FYI... I am being facetious for some of you folks out there wound up too tight.

Is 6ft also you?

If Biden wins over just one percent of White swing voters more than HRC, he would flip four states, PA/MI/WI/FL, and capture 307 electoral votes, far more than the 270 needed to win the presidency.

I love the 'confidence' of the Dems here...it's too good to be true. Honestly, the morning of 11-4 will be amazing, everyone needs to tune in to MSNBC or CNN that day. Or open up this website. I am predicting that there will be some serious angst going on.

IN other news, I see that some of Hunter Biden's emails leaked out. I am not sure these amount to a hill of beans, tbh. Yes they show that Hunter used is his fathers role as VP to score some income, but I just don't know where that implicates Joe. Is Hunter possibly this generation's Roger Clinton/Neil Bush/Billy Carter? Probably.

Outside of perhaps an uncomfortable question Thursday night for Joe, I don't see the issue here. Maybe someone else can opine why it is more serious than I am thinking...

Why Trump is having trouble with surburban women:

‘Hilariously Embarrassing’: Women Mock Trump’s Desperate Plea For Them To ‘Like’ Him

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hila ... o-like-him

President Donald Trump, trailing in the polls and whose support among women continues to erode, once again tried to invoke a glaringly racist appeal to “suburban” women during a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Tuesday night.

“I ask you to do me a favor. Suburban women: will you please like me? Please,” he begged. “Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?”


It’s not the first time he’s attempted to fearmonger suburban women into voting for him, nor is it the first time he’s openly expressed bafflement over the fact that the strategy isn’t working.

What follows is a hilarious set of Twitter responses. Trump is turning into an object of derision for a wider and wider set of voters...

CU88 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:37 am If Biden wins over just one percent of White swing voters more than HRC, he would flip four states, PA/MI/WI/FL, and capture 307 electoral votes, far more than the 270 needed to win the presidency.

No toss ups has the score 358 - 180...Dems take the Senate 51/49.

RedFromMI wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:26 am Why Trump is having trouble with surburban women:

‘Hilariously Embarrassing’: Women Mock Trump’s Desperate Plea For Them To ‘Like’ Him

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hila ... o-like-him

President Donald Trump, trailing in the polls and whose support among women continues to erode, once again tried to invoke a glaringly racist appeal to “suburban” women during a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Tuesday night.

“I ask you to do me a favor. Suburban women: will you please like me? Please,” he begged. “Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?”


It’s not the first time he’s attempted to fearmonger suburban women into voting for him, nor is it the first time he’s openly expressed bafflement over the fact that the strategy isn’t working.

What follows is a hilarious set of Twitter responses. Trump is turning into an object of derision for a wider and wider set of voters...

My friend from Bala Cynwyd despises him like you would not believe.

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:23 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:05 am

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:00 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:55 am

a fan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:01 am

6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:38 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:25 am

a fan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:02 pm Keep playing with fire, Republicans. Make it so no one trusts our elections. Gee whiz golly, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with these games you're playing. Keep it up.




California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.


Gee, what do you think the obvious response from the Dems who run the State of California might be if they want to be corrupt POS too?

It took me all of two seconds to come up with the corrupt response....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/p ... A-k3hMso64

I think the cow is already out of the barn on trusting our elections a Fan. It seems to be more of a belief than ever that our election system is pretty hinky. I think we should allow early voting for POTUS 2024 on 1/22/20. Let's get them votes in good and early. You don't need a candidate, just vote strait party line.

What happens when you have ELECTION MONTH instead of election day. Ans switch to Mail In ballots with no experience

More people vote. I thought that was the ENTIRE point to our way of life, 6foot?

Democrats rented 100 vans to round up and take "voters" to the polls. Shake those bushes. Get every homeless crack head and meth freak to cast their ballot. If you can do it for a month that sure beats an election "DAY"

man, that's a lot of homeless crack heads and meth freaks.
10 million so far, apparently.

And that is just the ones living under the Golden Gate Bridge. FYI... I am being facetious for some of you folks out there wound up too tight.

Is 6ft also you?

No, it is common knowledge you can only fit 5 million homeless crack heads under the GGB.

Speaking of crackheads, When do we get to see the video from the Delaware laptop of Hunter Biden smoking crack?

kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:48 am Speaking of crackheads, When do we get to see the video from the Delaware laptop of Hunter Biden smoking crack?

Speaking of gullible, here's this:

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/13 ... 9843103744

seacoaster wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:00 am

kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:48 am Speaking of crackheads, When do we get to see the video from the Delaware laptop of Hunter Biden smoking crack?

Speaking of gullible, here's this:

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/13 ... 9843103744

There is that. That's where I saw it from.

It doesn't say anything about the crack or sex video being fake, necessarily, just that it was allegedly included on that suspicious laptop.

I mean, it’s not like it’s out of the question:

https://pagesix.com/2017/03/02/ex-claim ... ers-drugs/

https://pagesix.com/2017/03/01/widow-of ... 1478991831

kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:22 am I mean, it’s not like it’s out of the question:

https://pagesix.com/2017/03/02/ex-claim ... ers-drugs/

https://pagesix.com/2017/03/01/widow-of ... 1478991831

Which office is Hunter running for or is he up for senate confirmation?

kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:22 am I mean, it’s not like it’s out of the question:

https://pagesix.com/2017/03/02/ex-claim ... ers-drugs/

https://pagesix.com/2017/03/01/widow-of ... 1478991831

Sure. Let's assume it's all perfectly real and only withdraw that belief only upon some kind of absolutely certain proof that it isn't. I heard Hunter made an attempt on TLD's life when they were both looking for vintage Burisma decals in Prague in 2017. Pass it on.

kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:05 am

seacoaster wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:00 am

kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:48 am Speaking of crackheads, When do we get to see the video from the Delaware laptop of Hunter Biden smoking crack?

Speaking of gullible, here's this:

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/13 ... 9843103744

There is that. That's where I saw it from.

It doesn't say anything about the crack or sex video being fake, necessarily, just that it was allegedly included on that suspicious laptop.

Judd's takedown of the story is pretty complete. This is essentially what truly fake news is - try and get some gullible people to buy in to what is obviously a planted story.