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Disgraced National Security Adviser Michael Flynn declares that Trump won the popular vote and the Electoral College vote and calls for military overthrow of the government.
Attorney Sidney Powell says we just need to schedule a new inauguration date and put Trump back in office. Simple.
This is beyond funny until you remember that these two seditious lunatics are senior advisors to the former President.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-welcomes-the-mccloskeys-sick-sad-american-dream
Senate hopeful who has never held public office really and truly understands what the modern Republican Party is all about. Personally, I sincerely hope he becomes the GOP nominee for this Missouri Senate seat.
One of our resident Green is an Impossible Dream fossil fuel apologists around here assured us all that there could not be an affordable electric truck – only fancy electric cars for fancy city people.
Boston did not have enough money to provide preschool for all students so it chose who would get it into preschool with a random lottery. The authors have studied the long term outcomes for those who attended versus those who did not. They found little difference in academic achievement as measured by standardized tests but very substantial differences in overall success.
I have long felt that the honesty, competence, integrity and sheer decency that President Jimmy Carter brought to the White House have been grossly under-valued. Like most Democratic Presidents he inherited nearly insolvable problems from his GOP predecessors. The economy, for example, was still in the aftermath of Nixon’s attempt to control inflation by Presidential edict.
As time goes on I think it likely that history will appreciate President Carter even more while his amiable corporate spokesperson successor will be more clearly seen for the disaster that he was.
This is how a party looks as it finally dies.
As an actual bona fide conservative Christian, Michael Gerson, put it the other day . . .
“To be a loyal Republican, one must be either a sucker or a liar. And because this defining falsehood (about the election) is so obviously and laughably false, we can safely assume that most Republican leaders who embrace it fall into the second category. Knowingly repeating a lie — an act of immorality — is now the evidence of Republican fidelity.”
This top down analysis of actual versus expected mortality shows – among other things – that the USA death toll is fast approaching 1 million. And ours is one of the more accurate compilers of death statistics.
This short piece is in response to Tucker Carlson (“Tuckums”) suggesting that Child Protective Services be called when children are seen wearing masks and other such bunk.
if you are hesitating to get a Covid-19 vaccination.
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