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Coldjoint is like a man soaked in sewage yelling “PROVE I stink!!”

Pandering to the black folk? How Democratic of you.

Bobsal is a guy who starts rumors and post lies about other members of this forum. Everyone should be able to see that now.

Leader Of North Carolina Anti-Lockdown Protest Group Says He's 'Willing To Kill People' To Fight Res

So it would be free speech to threaten to kill the bumpkins here on a2k?

Not when it's used to incite violence. It then becomes a crime. And the dude was arrested because of it.

Democrats Are Using Coronavirus 'Body Bags' to Fundraise

The Make My Day PAC and Party Majority PAC came together to launch the "Florida Grim Reaper Tour." They are asking supporters to chip in $10 to cover the cost of a body bag that says "Property of City Morgue, Forensic Unit." The groups plan to hit Florida beaches and hand them out.

Wanting to make your position known is one thing. Wishing death upon others for disagreeing with your position is a whole other thing and disgusting.

Democrats should be ashamed of themselves.

12 thumbs down does not change the truth.

Right wing authoritarians are of a type. The word for that type is "sociopath".

The PM's decision to back his chief aide's lockdown trip to Durham has sparked fears that the government's coronavirus message will be undermined.

Some Tory backbenchers have called for Dominic Cummings to resign to ensure public confidence in future measures.

The row comes as the cabinet will meet later to discuss plans to further ease lockdown restrictions.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has said Mr Cummings "at no stage broke the law or broke the rules".

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Williamson said that everyone, "whether they are anywhere in the country or working in No 10", was expected to abide by the law.

"That's what the prime minister expects, that's the assurance that he asked for, that is the assurance that he got."

Criticism of Boris Johnson's decision to take no action over Mr Cummings' 260-mile trip to his parents' home has come from all quarters.

As well as Tory backbenchers, senior Church of England bishops and scientists advising ministers on the pandemic have strongly criticised the government's handling of the row.

Acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said it undermined the prime minister's authority on the coronavirus crisis and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the consequences of Boris Johnson's decision could be "serious".

Labour has called for an inquiry.

Mr Johnson has defended Mr Cummings, saying he believed his senior aide had "no alternative" but to make the journey from London at the end of March for childcare "when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by coronavirus".

Conservative backbencher David Warburton, MP for Somerton and Frome, said Mr Cummings was "damaging the government and the country that he's supposed to be serving".

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Warburton said: "We've not been offered the chance to interpret the rules, that's really not how it works otherwise there would be complete chaos."

The MP, who said his own father had died alone as a result of the coronavirus lockdown, said "people have made sacrifices" and "in those sacrifices there really hasn't been the choice to use instinct".

He added: "We've been tasked with following regulations laid down by the government."

Another Tory MP, Jason McCartney, said in a Facebook post that while it was important for people to show compassion during the crisis, Mr Cummings had to go because the "perceived hypocrisy of the rule makers potentially threatens the success of any future measures" under a second wave of coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the acting Lib Dem leader said on BBC Breakfast that the prime minister should sack Mr Cummings "so the government has more credibility in what it says about public health".

"The instruction the prime minister gave us all to stay at home has been breached by his top adviser and that's what you can't get away from in this story, its pretty simple," Sir Ed said.

And Ms Sturgeon told the programme that the prime minister was "putting his political interest ahead of the public interest".

"When trust in a public health message and public health advice is as important as it is right now the consequences could be very serious," Scotland's First Minister said.

Former chief constable of Durham Police, Mark Barton, said the prime minister's decision has "now made it exponentially tougher for all those on the frontline enforcing the lockdown".

"We're in the middle of a national emergency and the people who make the rules can't break the rules otherwise we're going to have chaos," he said.

Some of the scientists that advise ministers were concerned the prime minister's decision to back Mr Cummings would undermine the message on controlling the virus.

Stephen Reicher, a professor of social psychology who has advised the government on behavioural science during the pandemic, said the prime minister's backing of Mr Cummings made him feel "dismay".

He said trust was vital to maintaining public health measures. "You can't have trust if people have a sense of them and us, that there's one rule for them and another rule for us," he told the BBC.

And the Bishop of Leeds, the Right Reverend Nick Baines, said Mr Johnson was treating people "as mugs" and the Bishop of Bristol, the Right Reverend Vivienne Faull, accused the prime minister of having "no respect for people".

The prime minister said he held "extensive" discussions on Sunday with Mr Cummings, who he said "followed the instincts of every father and every parent - and I do not mark him down for that".

The Observer and Sunday Mirror reported two further allegations of lockdown breaches by his aide, although Mr Johnson called "some" of the claims "palpably false".

One report alleges that a witness saw Mr Cummings in Barnard Castle, more than 25 miles from Durham, where he had been self-isolating, on 12 April.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would have sacked Mr Cummings if he were prime minister, and he said Mr Johnson's failure to take action was "an insult to sacrifices made by the British people".

Ministers to publicly support Mr Cummings include the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove.

But Sir Roger Gale is also among the Conservative backbench MPs to have publicly questioned Mr Cummings' position, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: "It's up to the prime minister to exercise judgement about who he has around him. In this case, I do think that that judgement is flawed."

Another Tory, former minister Paul Maynard, said of Mr Cummings: "It is not as if he was unfamiliar with guidance he himself helped draw up. It seems to me to be utterly indefensible and his position wholly untenable."

Meanwhile, in a statement posted on Twitter, Amanda Hopgood, leader of the Liberal Democrats on Durham County Council, said "a number of local residents have reported seeing Dominic Cummings on several occasions in April and May".

She said that "given the clear public interest" she has referred the matter to Durham Police to see if there had been a breach of the coronavirus regulations.

Meanwhile, an investigation has been launched into a tweet posted on the official UK Civil Service Twitter account, which asked "Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?"

The since-deleted message appeared shortly after Mr Johnson's daily news briefing.

Here's a couple of examples of ladies in the DNC stable...

Why don't you give this a rest

Albright was never a member of the DNC, and Clinton, no longer a senator