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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(R) Donald Trump
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Adam Frisch
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(R) Ron Hanks
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans
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“”They’re honking to support me”. No, Mr. President. No, they’re not.
Paging Powerful Pear- in real life, you run a trucking and “logistics” business. What do you honestly think about the trucker’s grievances, or the President lying about them on national TV?
Trump's Mother's Day message: 'We've totally rebuilt our military'
It's never been better. Fighter jets, now we have the best in the world. The F-35 and the F-18.
And, no mention of the ‘super duper missle’?
What was he hiding on May 8th?
According to POGO (Project On Government Oversight), the F-35 is still full of problems. Hard to call the F-35 the "best in the world."
We have the greatest Covid in the world!!
Even with its problems, it still may be the best.
1. The Chengdu J-20 is not that stealthy and its engines have a short life.
2. The Sukhoi Su-57 is a fleet of one. And, the engine is crap.
3. "The European leaders lack true fifth-generation stealth aircraft to replace them—and no such plane is close to being developed"
I am pretty sure the Donald claiming we were out of military when he took office is pure bullshit. I realize problems with the F-35 exist, but I still will put my money on our military.
Actually, DoD's war gaming shows China beating us in an all out non-nuclear war.
How does an all out war stay non-nuclear? What does all out mean?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/think-we-have-military-primacy-over-china-think-again/2020/05/12/268e1bba-948b-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html
It may be "the best" in some fashion …. but even a conservative, military cheerleading media source like the Washington Times has some doubts.
Amash is out.
Did The Dumpster® strike him with a super-duper missile?
LOL
No mention of anything ballistic here.
Dump may have expended his weekly quota of superduper missiles when he fired the State Dept IG on friday nite. Let's hope so.
So, Libertarians plan now for an online meeting May 22 to select candidates for President and Vice President. As best I can tell, they will be selecting among candidates who haven't held a national or statewide office. According to their website, a month ago they were on ballots for 36 states and DC.
Greens are selecting in July, last I knew. Again, I don't think any of their potential candidates held national or statewide office. Jesse Ventura is out, but I have not heard anything of someone prominent still trying to be the Green Party's nominee.
Maybe they pick Biden and then sit this one out
Sad news – tonight is when they would have held the Eurovision final
Though I am not a fan of the genre…this one is for you David.
I know you must be disappointed. I haven’t played for an audience ( aside from my loved ones here) in just over two months now. I miss it.
Music matters.
Yeah – it sucks. For all of the others missing it – Waterloo
That was cool!
This from Salon:
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/08/top-colorado-republican-orders-official-to-report-false-election-results-in-leaked-audio/
He's bad…he's nationwide…!
Dumphuckistan should be so proud.
Is Donald Trump a tyrant? Yes and no — Aristotle and Euripides would disagree
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/17/is-donald-trump-a-tyrant-yes-and-no–aristotle-and-euripides-would-disagree/
an interesting read….
Republicans in Revolt.
WAPO: "Never Trumpers will host their own ‘Republican convention’ during the RNC"
May they be fruitful and multiply.
Kos made a 50 state voter guide- the comprehensive downloadable document details which states have no-excuse-needed mail in balloting, and which ones have hoops to jump through. I was discouraged to see that 30 states won’t mail anything to the voters- no ballot, no application for mail ballot, nada. unsurprisingly, these states are mostly red states, southern states, or both. Prime targets for voter suppression.
The guide is intended for use in the primary elections, but clearly will impact the general election.
Not wearing a mask is like drunk driving
Choosing to not wear a mask, congregate in groups, etc. is like choosing to drive drunk. It's stupid & dangerous and it risks the lives of others.
For a situation like this you need to weight the trade-offs. Having a gun at home or a swimming pool in your backyard also increases the odds that someone will die. There are tons of activities where we accept the increased risk for the benefit it brings.
And for many of these trade-offs, we decide what to do through our government. The government says if you have a pool, there must be a fence around it. The government in many countries says you cannot own guns designed primarily to kill lots of people.
The laws, rules, & regulations from the government are how we decide what we'll require of all of us so we can minimize the impact we have on each other while each living the life we want to live.
And if you disagree with some of these laws (we all can find some we disagree with), then you can lobby against them, you can write about why they are bad. You can even perform acts of civil disobedience.
(And by definition, civil disobedience means you will get arrested & fined. If that doesn't happen it's not civil disobedience, it's anarchy.)
Which brings us to the present requirement to wear masks and practice social distancing. This is not Fascism, Communism, imminent Dictatorship, or bureaucracy run amok. It's requiring a small effort that has a big impact that will help us get back to the new normal sooner with fewer deaths.
Trade-offs like this are something the majority in this country wants. Just as the people strongly support strong penalties for drunk driving and other actions that endanger others, they support reasonable actions that will reduce the number of people sickened and killed by the COVID-19.
And there will be some who scream that the government should not be doing this. A very loud minority. And through their loud angry actions, they hope to have an impact much larger than their numbers or support. It's incumbent upon the rest of us to keep in mind that the vast majority of people do not support the obnoxious jerks.
As to the concern that going forward this will mean the government is going to track us all a lot more closely. Yes that is going to happen. I wish it wasn't necessary as I strongly support the right of each person to their own private life. But we're never going back to the old normal and the only way to get to a reasonable new normal will require instantaneous contact tracing.
After all, this isn't the last pandemic we'll face. And some future ones will be a lot worse.
David, what would”instantaneous contact tracing” look like? What kind of testing and communications infrastructure would it require?
Good blog post.
Thank you.
I'm guessing they'll set it up that they track everyone's location second by second and if someone tests positive, they then alert everyone that was within range of them.
And range will depend on the location as 3' away for 5 seconds walking outside, no worry. But 10' away in a restaurant for 30 minutes – you're in trouble.
Because it can take 2 weeks to get the symptoms, the only way to handle all this is immense amounts of data with automatic decisions on who to notify and then notifying them.
And that means the government will know everywhere you go and who you're communicating with in person. Very scary when (and it's not if) misused. But also critical to having a life outside until (if?) we get a vaccine.
A little something to get your toes tapping. Rick Estrin and the Nightcats performing Dump That Trump.
Sorry, can’t embed the video from my iPad. Someone else may be able to.
Excellent…thanks.
The PPP program is working
FDR used to give programs where he didn't want any waste or fraud to Harold Ickes. And when he wanted them implemented quickly, he put Harry Hopkins in charge. The PPP was run as Hopkins would have done, and that's a good thing.
Will we find there was fraud and abuse in it? Yes. That's the price for pushing out the money so fast. But doing it slowly wouldn't have worked. Companies could not have retained employees or continued as before if the decision would take 6 months, or if it was done super carefully (as (itlduso would prefer), 6 years.
With the PPP plan a coffee shop my wife frequents has now hired back a couple of employees. They could get by without them, but with the PPP they hired them back. A local pizza place we love now sees a road to survival and has hired most of their people back.
And at my company I not only can keep everyone on, but we hired an additional support person, who had just been laid off elsewhere. (Why sales are not great, existing customer support queries have shot up – our customers are using us to further automate as they navigate the crisis).
So it's people keeping their jobs, and it's companies finding a way to continue going forward, as we all face reduced income & greater uncertainty.
I think when history writes about this particular program, it will be held up as the equal of the WPA in it's impact. So kudos to Senator Rubio & the others (who else???) that came up with this and got it included. It was different, it helped those without significant political clout, and it was brilliant.
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