Local officials estimate 1000 people turned up for Million MAGA March, White House claims 1 million people.
2020 US Election (Part 3)
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innonimatu
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Does not look good, but I'm certainly not surprised. Wondered whether to comment on the corporate oligarchs.
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It would be nice if there was a concise guide as to what the transition teams are set out to do and how they are expected to, if at all, affect policy decisions taken by the administration.
How much of their work actually changes things in the federal government upon Biden’s inauguration? We’ve long-lived with now the concept of executive overreach, so that lies in the back of my mind.
Ideally, I guess having more legislative oversight over things sounds better on the surface to me but I don’t know what that would end up entailing—the federal bureaucracy takes a lot of its orders from the administration, so how laws are enforced and the scope of the President’s powers is to me something that is so opaque that it’s hard to know what the President has the authority to do.
Just my two cents. Or “non-cents.”
How much of their work actually changes things in the federal government upon Biden’s inauguration? We’ve long-lived with now the concept of executive overreach, so that lies in the back of my mind.
Ideally, I guess having more legislative oversight over things sounds better on the surface to me but I don’t know what that would end up entailing—the federal bureaucracy takes a lot of its orders from the administration, so how laws are enforced and the scope of the President’s powers is to me something that is so opaque that it’s hard to know what the President has the authority to do.
Just my two cents. Or “non-cents.”
The vaccine probably wont be ready for mass distribution before Trump leaves office, so its just hot air as usual.
From the birds eye shots its definitely more than 1 thousand. I dont know if it was 10k but certainly more than 1k. A million is just obvious shameless lying as usual.
I block embedded youtubes on cfc and can't say I feel like I miss anything of value.
The other United States in North America has had a president with a moustache in the 21st century.
Do you have the slightest clue what hypotheticals and stipulations are?
omg why are you still blathering about this
Expert best guess on mass distribution in NA is like next fall, so it definitely won't be ready in two months.
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What would be the possibility of say, a public buyout of an effective vaccine and mass manufacturing conducted by a number of drug companies? The one-time cost of say, $100 billion, could be a more effective strategy than another year of stimulus packages and attempting to mitigate the worst effects of the pandemic.
I’m just going on the seat of my pants here.
I’m just going on the seat of my pants here.
I do not see the need for a public buyout. There is an exception in international property law that patent regulation on medicines can be bypassed in an emergency. If this is not one, then I do not know what is.
This is what really gets me about headlines such as this (Microsoft says state-backed Russian and North Korean hackers have in recent months tried to steal valuable data from leading pharmaceutical companies and COVID-19 vaccine researchers). Why is critical information about dealing with the corona virus being kept secret? What is the downside of releasing this data to the world? The upside is obvious, speeding up the delivery of the vaccine to everyone. The main downside I can see is that the norks can outcompete pfizer in producing the vaccine, and that seem both very unlikely and actually positive if that means we get the vaccine quicker.
If we were talking about true moral responsibility then I may agree with you. However in a democracy, where a single individual is elected to dictate policy and appoint some of the top people of the country, when those appointees turn out to not be what we as voters want then surely there is an electoral responsibility of the person who made the appointments. That is to say, if you do not like the appointments then vote against the person that made them. Otherwise, how does democracy work to determine who gets those roles?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/news...es-to-give-up-power/ar-BB1b1811?ocid=msedgdhp
Reporters present are estimating it as a few thousand.
Still to not even be in the tens of thousands is a pretty small turnout.
Fortunately there wasn't much violence and both sides were responsible for some of it.
Probably won't stop the alt-right running stories about Antifa suppressing their right to peacefully protest.
EnglishEdward
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I am describing an elected executive, otherwise known as a presidential democracy as opposed to a parliamentary one. That is not what most people mean by a dictatorship.
I'm glad that it went over pretty much without any violence or anything noteworthy happening, including the level of attendance. Its almost like the residents of D.C. mostly decided to just ignore it. Hopefully the media will stop talking about it after this weekend.
Ziggy Stardust
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President only thinks about elections and golfing.
Meanwhile,
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/15/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-coronavirus-transition/index.html
But Trump doesn't care. He will gleefully let the situation worsen and doesn't care about people dying, just to spite Biden.
Meanwhile,
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/15/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-coronavirus-transition/index.html
But Trump doesn't care. He will gleefully let the situation worsen and doesn't care about people dying, just to spite Biden.
innonimatu
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But he did. Didn't he choose as VP someone whose brother is the chief lawyer and lobbying organized at Uber?
It was aid that Trump could murder someone in fifth avenue and till his supporters would vote for him.
Biden could promise to sell everyone's sons as slaves and still his supporters would vote for him because "he's not Trump".
The US is screwed.
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You have that second part backwards. More like Biden could float the idea of possibly appointing a moderate Republican to a cabinet post & half his coalition will threaten to vote 3rd party.
innonimatu
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He doesn't need moderate republicans to set up a revolving door for corporate interests. R or D is just a matter of which corporate interests invested the most on each.
Please learn to get your facts straight before you post crap.
Trump actually said on Jan 23, 2016:
No one said that about him; he said it himself. Your "It was said..." is, not surprisingly, wrong. Then you just make up something similar about Biden supporters to pretend that you are profound.
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