monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

I am glad my dad has always been a loner golfer. Never hangs out with a crowd even in non-coronavirus times. Our church has less than twenty members, with one or two visitors every so often. So we met for just one hour and sat far apart from each other; no shaking hands. Almost all of them are old members. My church has been there for over a hundred years, (for a church up in the hills of KY, that ain't bad) the old generation are donating huge on Sundays to keep it going while they are all still alive. My mom is buried there. Not sure what we'll do if we have to abandon that church. It will feel weird.

(sorry, been by myself, getting too chatty.)

(going to avoid the progressive thread until certain undesirables (deplorable's) don't post so much. Which is why I haven't been around too much.

How high is he on the CBS food chain?

Since neither of you are progressive, why don’t you re-animate the moderates’ thread?

A new estimate from economists at the St. Louis Fed project total COVID-19 Crisis employment reductions at 47 million people. That would translate into a 32.1% unemployment rate. To give some perspective that is significantly higher than the peak unemployment during the Great Depression (24.9%) and wildly higher than anything seen during the Great Recession (10%).

Unbelievable that right-wing goons would try to try to make political hay with this.

Benghazi death toll - 4

They didn’t complain about the members on that thread.

Germany closes its borders due to coronavirus, except for migrants from Asia, Middle East and Africa

What could possibly go wrong? The migrants could also bring in the coronavirus? Inconceivable! Many of the migrants come from societies and cultures with values incompatible with Western values? Why, you racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”

Not as unbelievable as the Left wing assholes who delayed the stimulus bill.

What "delay" are you talking about?

Bipartisanship derailed

In fact a more bipartisan stimulus measure had been negotiated over several days in the Senate and was headed towards a key procedural vote when it was stopped dead Sunday at Pelosi’s urging and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s obeisance. President Trump criticized the New York Times for allegedly giving the Democrats cover on stopping progress by running three successive headlines about the impasse in the Senate — the first two correctly blaming Democrats and the third shifting blame to the more vague “partisan divide.” But there was no divide on this issue until Pelosi decided to create it.

Democrats seek to feed Republicans a crisis response bill packed with poison pills, placing them in a no-win situation. Either they go along with this nonsense, handing the bill to Trump to sign, or if Republicans push back it leads to another round of chest-beating and blame coming from Democrats and the media. And the markets continue to collapse.

But this attempt to either humiliate or hamstring the President is so bold, so obvious, so opportunistic and so reckless in this time of crisis, that it can hardly succeed. Americans want to see bipartisanship, they want strong leadership, and they want the cure to the crisis to not be worse than he disease. Playing political games as many people watch their jobs vanish, their businesses collapse and their life savings evaporate while they sit in quarantine, and as others sicken and die, is not just bad politics for Democrats, it is simply bad for everyone.

I ignore them with enthusiasm and alacrity. I find it peaceful to see a page of

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It's like walking through a graveyard on a sunny sunday.

Like Trump you are a sociopath.

wrong, as usual.

NY is not getting the federal help they need, in spite of trump's Pollyanna-ish rosy lies about it.

I was browsing my long list of favorites, came across this:

No Mercy even in a Pandemic: Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet

As destructive as Trump is, Israel beats him as the most inhumane nation in any "free society" nation. It is a mark of our indifference towards cruelty that Israel gets away with this crap without a criticism being leveled at them on most of MSN. I don't see Israel any different than N Korea and China.

you ignore the legitimate conviction of guilty people.

blahblah scooter libby blahblah.. he was a liar too. guilty. Conservatives seem to spend endless amounts of time trying to whitewash their guilty compatriots. doesn't wash.