NSR: Give me your rested, your rich, privileged White Colombians yearning to post in soccer forums...

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— Paul Leigh-Some Rascal on the Internet 🟧🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Pleightx) August 5, 2020

 

(Washington Post) -- Republican National Convention planners are considering the White House South Lawn as the site of President Trump's nationally televised nomination acceptance speech later this month, according to a Republican familiar with the discussions.

— Laura Litvan (@LauraLitvan) August 5, 2020

 

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...g-republican-minority-rule-column/5471129002/


The reason we’re drowning in multiple messes is embarrassingly simple: Minority rule.

Republicans have hacked our democracy beyond accountability. And now that they’re one cancerous liver away from getting everything they want, they have a leader who refuses to be checked and a party that refuses to check him.

Think about the extent of our government's disconnection from America.

Minority rule is warping politics
The “president” lost the popular vote by the biggest percentage in 140 years. We have a Supreme Court “majority” of five justices appointed by Republican presidents elected from 1988 to 2016, though Republicans have only won the presidential popular vote twice over that period as Democrats won it six times. And the Senate Republican “majority” represents 15 million fewer Americans than our "minority" Democrats.


A withering minority propped up by polluters, profiteers, and theocrats can maintain power despite repellent policies and a record of undeniable failures that swells daily, like new cases of COVID-19. This minority has figured out that as long as they hold the presidency, the Senate and Supreme Court, they can create a septic system of corruption that allows them to minimize the power of voters, especially the voters they don’t want to even try to win over.

Minority rule has become such a given that we rarely even talk about how it warps our politics.

Almost no one doubts that Joe Biden will win the popular vote this November, possibly by millions of votes, yet everyone knows there is an undeniable possibility that Donald Trump could slip through the Electoral College to another term. And if he does, it could easily be due to restrictions on voting passed by legislative “majorities” in states like Wisconsin and North Carolina — where Republicans hold more seats despite winning fewer votes.

 

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— #WeNeedHer (@kjoerwin) August 5, 2020

 

More than 100 students quarantined after several people test positive in Mississippi school district

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) August 5, 2020

 

But Burisma...

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Trump can jog at the ens of a ramp:

There's been a lot of talk about my vetting process lately. Here’s an inside look: pic.twitter.com/tFRKJOE3hi

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 5, 2020

 

Smart and pious:

Do you want to see what ignorance, evil and stupidity looks like? Here is a picture of Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos a few days ago in a 4th grade classroom in North Carolina. Nobody is wearing masks. Apparently one of the kids got Covid and now this school is halted for a 2 weeks. pic.twitter.com/1Q4zBOuqi1

— Jesse D Lifson (@DoYouEvenLif) August 5, 2020

 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/colu...0200805-24ybrhq6abei3dge4eienpfcoa-story.html


President Trump framed this coronavirus reality smartly in an interview this week with Axios. He was asked about the fact that a thousand Americans a day are dying of COVID-19, and he said: “It is what it is.”

Precisely. It is what it is, and it wouldn’t be what it is if those thousand or so Americans a day would stop dying of COVID-19. How can you blame the president of the United States for people’s unwillingness to not die? If anything, it’s a bit selfish of the more than 150,000 people who refused to stay alive, because frankly, it’s making President Trump look terrible.

And that’s why the president is pushing so hard for schools to reopen. He cares deeply about ignoring the virus and expects all Americans, young and old, to come together, ignore science and other radical left-wing concepts like “common sense” and pretend life is back to normal. Should you get sick or die, that’s on you, and it is what it is.

To prepare your (expendable) children for in-person classes, you have to be sure they understand how patriotism can protect them from the coronavirus.


One Sean Hannity-approved way for kids to fight off the coronavirus is to focus on the respiratory droplets that will undoubtedly fill the crowded hallways of every open school. Imagine that each potentially coronavirus-infected droplet is a radical leftist protester hellbent on destroying America with health care and racial equality.

Your job is to avoid those dangerous protesters, and to only exhale. Pretend you’re an unmarked federal agent and you’re exhaling billowing clouds of beautiful tear gas at all those ornery anarchists. It’s fun, and you only have to resist inhaling until the bus drops you home in the afternoon! (If you lack the lung capacity to hold your breath for eight hours, then you don’t love America and it is what it is.)