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inquimouse 7 points ago +7 / -0

Lawsuits are the only thing that these people understand, along with opportunities for power grabs and chaos. They sure don't understand how disease spreads.

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inquimouse 2 points ago +4 / -2

Of course they are, which is why there needs to be more evidence of conniving than "they were at the same party" to classify grade of swampiness.

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inquimouse 2 points ago +2 / -0

The full story on Atkinson isn't going to hurt Trump. But getting it out will not help the innuendo mill.

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inquimouse 19 points ago +19 / -0

Just thinking that this morning. I was going to make a suggestion on whitehouse.gov about followups, after the panic is over, to get sensible guidelines, but I realized that it would be better if the states were sued by injured individuals. What a sorry situation, that litigation is necessary all the time.

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inquimouse 3 points ago +3 / -0

"Follow the money" is usually a good start.

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inquimouse 5 points ago +5 / -0

I still suspect that at least a part of that is the common use of ACE blockers, which produce bradykinin, which leads to an excess of histamine and the common dry cough. Last thing someone needs with another lung problem. But, this should be easy to check.

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inquimouse 1 point ago +1 / -0

You are talking about themes and subtext, I am talking about style which is more superficial and recognizable, things like sentence structure and adjectives, the rhythm of the words, the emotional triggers. Dreams is very well written that way. People see the style patterns immediately, good writing even with hateful content keeps the reader going, the themes are deployed thus and accepted a little better. Both style and themes have been extensively studied for Dreams, e.g. https://www.bing.com/search?q=style+of+dreams+from+my+fathers&PC=SMSM&FORM=MBDPSB. Audacity of Hope was a relative flop except to expose the massive style difference. I agree Dreams is very laden with anti-white themes. And that would still totally fly with some people, those themes are being recast daily by the Dems for everything in the news. And I maintain that it would be quite possible to categorize his themes too, e.g. how he admired the way Africans were standing up against oppression by taking white farms, how our debt to the Iranians required pallets of cash for honor, and put it all in Ayers style. Still anti-white, anti-west. But in general, a President's memoirs ought to be about his tenure. Besides finding race all over the world, what is he going to say about economic policies--associates--allies--foreign policy that isn't fraught with danger? The world he made is not only unraveling, it is turning up corruption that is going to touch him. What content on 2015-2016 is going to explain the DoJ corruption? What contrast of the financial resets of 2009 is going to look good against Trumpeconomics? How about his work on green energy that made his cronies rich? Where is the poetic face he can put on eight years of bombing people for no gain? What about Michelle's bloated staff and thinly disguised excursions at great expense, where are the offsetting accomplishments? It isn't the hateful mindset that's the problem in documenting his terms because there is apparently still an admiring audience for that. It's the truthiness of what he says.

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inquimouse 5 points ago +5 / -0

Ventilators are (probably too) expensive, perfect thing for the Dems to use as a reason for some extra money. Even at $10,000, a super bargain, that's a ton of money. Then they can be sold later (DiBlasio).

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inquimouse 1 point ago +1 / -0

My theory (having done a little ghostwriting myself): A good writer could take the various analyses done of the previous books and not only mimic the style of either, but make a "bridge" style that would further obscure previous contradictions. More important might be the content. I suspect Zero of being involved in so much shady activity, having so many crooked connections, that a biographer couldn't document more than the White House menu for two days without getting into some area of vulnerability.

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inquimouse 2 points ago +2 / -0

The book no-show is telling, even if it was just a deal for money laundering, his ghost writers could have made an effort. Heck, Amazon is already full of books about corona virus, pandemics, even as sci fi novels. Takes no time at all to crank out.

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inquimouse 2 points ago +2 / -0

Honorarium nomination.

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inquimouse 2 points ago +2 / -0

I can't fathom this hate, so widespread and intransigent. It's like they are bewitched.

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inquimouse 4 points ago +4 / -0

My tablet auto rotates and rescales the screen if I turn i,t so the page is always rightside up. When in landscape mode, the hot-new-rising-top tabs are there and if I turn to portrait they disappear. I only noticed that today.

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inquimouse 2 points ago +2 / -0

That was the tainted part.

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inquimouse 2 points ago +2 / -0

Grassley is usually the good guy. This question might lead to Atkinson's still-secret testimony which Schiff has refused to release and which Nunes says would clear Trump completely of the Ukraine charges. Atkinson also knows all about the whistleblower and Vindeman. Anything that exposes Atkinson is going to be bad for him.

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inquimouse 6 points ago +6 / -0

She's not unschooling right. Mom should have turned it into a lesson on what glitter is, how made, what a mess to the environment, how morally indefensible it is to glitterbomb people, etc. In other words you have to know much more than a lesson package to do this and be ready to pivot on a dime to make anything into a substantive lesson.

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inquimouse 5 points ago +6 / -1

Last thing I read recently is only 37% vaccinated. While that might be enough to provide some herd immunity, it would only happen if two other things are happening: the vaccine is made for the right strains, and it actually works. There are always many strains of virus floating around, they can't all be protected against, so over a year out the CDC picks "the most likely" to cause widespread flu. So you can see, guessing wrong results in an unhelpful vaccine. If it is unhelpful and someone catches the flu anyway, it erodes confidence, reduces vaccination levels in the future, and reduces herd immunity for correct guesses. But how do we know if it did work? We didn't get the flu--but that proves nothing, it could have been totally ineffective for an unknown number of people who still didn't get the flu because for any reason they weren't exposed or were already immune.

PS I don't usually get a shot, this year I did, in October, and I was sick for over two weeks in December. Awaiting this upcoming test for immunity with interest.

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inquimouse 3 points ago +3 / -0

Great article which shows failings at every level: the usual complacency, profit over preparedness, and over regulation. A factor not otherwise mentioned much is the shelf life of supplies and equipment. Anything with rubber in it, like mask loops or equipment gaskets, might become useless in storage, for instance.

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inquimouse 14 points ago +14 / -0

Right again. As I've said a couple of times, why is it acceptable, every year, that there are 50,000 or more flu deaths in the winter? Even though they are, like the COVID deaths, somewhat inflated by over ascribing during flu season. Flu vaccine has limited success because the CDC sometimes guesses wrong, which leads to people catching a flu, then not taking a shot in the future, and things like masks or just staying home are hardly used. This whole approach needs reexamining.

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inquimouse 2 points ago +3 / -1

He's old and fully vested. He can retire now after this final crowning achievement. Or he could be stupid and keep pushing his own vision.

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