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and you introduce yourself as running for US Senate.

He is showing signs of it but my diagnosis means nothing.

What's next, national borders don't really exist and everyone should be an American?

You on the other hand seem to have no care for being an American and what that actually means.

Look a cheap way of calling me a bigot.

Considering you support the party who spent the last 3 years linking everyone they don't like to Russia, Russia, Russia, you can't really speak on the subject or pass judgement.

...you have already shown yourself to not be a proud American.

You mean like the psychological investment people have made into thinking socialism...

You aren't actually doing anything but making a bunch of noise on the internet and trying to belittle people on a website.

If you actually cared, you wouldn't be a socialist, it's failed everywhere it's been tried but you keep on with that magical thinking.

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If you actually cared, you wouldn't be a socialist, it's failed everywhere it's been tried but you keep on with that magical thinking.

If you knew what "socialism" even meant you wouldn't say such stupid things. How and why do you think our federal highway system was built? Public schools? Medicare and unemployment compensation? Are the Scandinavian states "failures"? How about Canada and the UK? Socialism does not necessarily imply a socialist state run by a socialist party. That's more like Leninism. Socialism can simply be one component of a modern state; it's a tendency not a doctrine.

They'd only be "American" if they lived in the Western Hemisphere. What gives you the idea that someone who lives in Asia would be considered American?

Your concept of what it means to care about being American is very superficial.

Actually I've never considered you to be a bigot. I used that as an example of someone being un-American in his heart while sporting a symbol of the USA on his lapel.

Actually I can speak about it and your comment is pretty pointless as Russia isn't red. There's no hammer and sickle on that flag.

No, I've only suggested that cheap displays of patriotism aren't good ways of establishing how much a person cares about his country.

Oh, and what are you doing?

If you knew what "socialism" even meant you wouldn't say such stupid things.

Are the Scandinavian states "failures"? How about Canada and the UK? Socialism does not necessarily imply a socialist state run by a socialist party. That's more like Leninism. Socialism can simply be one component of a modern state; it's a tendency not a doctrine.

It seems you don't know what socialism really is if you think it applies to the police force and other such govt duties. People like you have been lying to the American public for decades about what socialism really is. It isn't the police and fire depts, it's the taking of someone's business and property and giving to others you think deserve it more. It isn't govt control of those systems, that's Communism, you want the "people" to control everything...

georgeob: left wing advocates of extended government management and control of individual affairs

Me: To what, exactly, do you refer? Which individual affairs does someone like me wish to control?

you can start with individual health care choices, parental choices for public education and charter schools, religious freedom, and gun ownership.

What gives you the idea that everyone in the Western Hemisphere is an American?

What's next, national borders don't really exist and everyone should be an American?

I have a very specific concept and it deals with the 50 states of the United States, not all the countries on the same continent.

You have to love everyone in order to be a true American?

Last time I checked, the party you support has a major issue with white people...

The GOP warned the DNC in 2012 that Russia was a problem...

You supported the least patriotic president for 8 years...

People like you have been lying to the American public for decades about what socialism really is.

None of those countries are socialist, they have freer markets then we have.

We just got a reminder of the stakes of the 2020 election in an area that almost no one has paid attention to in this campaign. It comes from the Supreme Court, which decided to hear a case that seeks to undo the entire Affordable Care Act in one fell swoop, a case whose consequences could be absolutely cataclysmic for the American health-care system.

But the issue goes way beyond health care — and convincing Americans not to pay too much attention to those stakes is essential to Republicans’ election plans.

Ask yourself: How much have you heard about the Supreme Court in particular and the courts in general over the course of the campaign? Only a couple of questions have been asked about the issue in the many debates. For a brief period about a year ago, candidates mulled over whether the size of the Supreme Court should be increased, but they haven’t talked about it much since.

Now think about this: If President Trump wins reelection, it is highly likely that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg (age 87 in a couple of weeks) and Stephen Breyer (age 81) will retire because of illness or age. At that point there would be a 7-2 conservative majority on the court.

Remember when the mostly conservative Anthony Kennedy was the median justice, with an equal number of votes to his right and left? Now Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., a highly conservative justice who occasionally votes with the court’s liberals not because he’s some kind of moderate but because he’s politically savvy (more on that in a moment), is the median justice.

Imagine if the ideologically median justice was Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Roe v. Wade being overturned would be just the beginning. Workers rights would be eviscerated (a project the court is already making progress on). Environmental laws would be struck down left and right. You could say goodbye to just about any regulation that impinges on the ability of businesses to do whatever they want. And if you think Republican voter suppression efforts are aggressive now, just you wait until they have a Supreme Court that will rubber-stamp their electoral rigging schemes.

You could have a Democratic president and Congress that passed a raft of progressive legislation, only to see the Supreme Court strike every bit of it down. It would be the culmination of decades of right-wing dreams and plans, a nuclear bomb dropped on the ability of government to protect fundamental rights or serve the interests of ordinary people...

It's why I'll (even) vote for Mike if he's the nominee.

Actually, I wonder if he'll consider leaving the race if Biden begins to do well.

Wisconsin Appeals Court Reverses Judge’s Order For Speedy Purge: A state appeals court dealt a setback to the conservative group that was seeking a purge of some 209,000 Wisconsin voters before the next election. The group had claimed that the Wisconsin Elections Commission had been slow to remove from the rolls voters who had potentially left the state. The group had secured both a lower court ruling ordering the purge and a finding of contempt against the commission for not following that order right away. Both the order and the contempt finding were reversed by the appeals court on Friday, which put the purge on hold while it considered the case, and the appeals court sent the case back to the judge for its dismissal.

I can't. And my father, who was a specialist in geriatric medicine, died 24 years ago. So I'm relaying on your expertise.

If President Trump and his propagandists get their way, no one will ever raise a peep of criticism over his handling of coronavirus — thus placing our government’s response to a looming public health emergency beyond scrutiny entirely. Protecting Trump, apparently, is a higher priority than protecting the country.

Fortunately, Democrats aren’t standing down. Over the weekend, the presidential candidates rolled out expansive new criticisms of Trump’s handling of the outbreak, each tailored to their own story. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg released a three-minute ad criticizing it.

But there’s still more that Democrats could be saying. That’s because Trump has exposed a major leadership weakness, one that goes well beyond just the coronavirus response.

The weakness in question: Trump’s chronic inability to admit that anything on his watch is less than stupendously wonderful. This pathology is deeply ingrained in this presidency. It infects everything from his depictions of the economy to his insane demands of border officials, in addition to (as we’re now seeing) the government’s handling of a public health crisis.

Highlighting this provides a way to integrate criticism of Trump’s management failures with an indictment of his hideous character flaws —his towering dishonesty and megalomania. In this telling, those failings are not just the latest ugly installment of the Daily Trump Show. They’re also shortcomings that threaten major real-world consequences.

A debate over Trump’s handling of the epidemic is one that his propagandists badly want to avoid — so they’re casting all criticism of it as only reflecting a desire to harm Trump himself. Numerous Republicans and right-wing media figures have made variations of this claim.

Perhaps worst of all, Donald Trump Jr. is claiming that Democrats want “millions” to die of coronavirus to end Trump’s “streak of winning.” In so doing, Trump the Younger usefully unmasked his reprehensible instinct to see the prospect of mass U.S. deaths mainly through the prism of how this would impact the president politically.

And yet, on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Vice President Pence actually defended this sentiment as “understandable.” Why? Because it was a response to … criticism of Trump, which is apparently so intolerable that it justifies even this.

This cultish prioritization of protecting Trump above all else, of course, flows from the tone that Trump himself has set. But the case that Democrats can now make is that this very megalomania is itself corroding the government’s ability to handle this crisis...

Yike. Deaths in Washington State now up to 6.

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