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Lisa Bender and the City Council will be stopped by business and surprisingly, the churches. No insurance company that cares about money is going to insure a square foot of real estate in a city without law enforcement. No business is going to open itself to untold liability by operating in a city without law enforcement. You hope cooler, practical heads prevail there.

Community policing or COPS was all the rage in LA post 1992. It's not that it hasn't been tried across the US and it's had success in places. It's just an awful lot of political will, work and money, and it takes years. If the people driving it leave, or are replaced by more Parker/Gates theorists, it can disappear as quickly as it arrives. Do the police need reform? Yes, nationwide. For at least 50 years now. Would I disbanded local law enforcement in a pandemic/civil unrest/election year? No. I'm not that rash. You're putting all your residents in a lot of unnecessary danger, and I wouldn't want to give these governors or this President an excuse to send in the troops.

Those with cooler heads will use them. Neither Mattis nor Trump are the type. I don't disagree with Mattis but whenever these retired generals who were let go by Presidents speak out, you can't help but hear the ax grinding in the background.

He's losing the 2020 election to a possibly senile (generously...."very forgetful") Joe Biden, who isn't even campaigning. It's not because Biden is any good. He's not. Biden will likely pick a terrible VP that'll pander to the crisis of the moment and pitch a mediocre Obama years vision as an alternative. It's just that the voting public, weary of crisis after crisis this year, will want a break from the Trump spectacle that's increasingly showing its neither smart nor shrewd in *the* moment when it counts, and its just part of the political and leadership rot. And the Obama haze might sound good to some.

He just wants them on record asking for it because unfortunately that's who he is. The LA riots only stopped when Bush federalized the guard. That was just one city, with the nation's second largest police department (at the time), replete with SWAT, air units, etc. Many of these cities do not have the capacity or capabilities of the LAPD or NYPD to control looting in multiple wack a mole flare ups across a city. For mayors of these cities, how many nights of looting is enough before the gloves come off?

Right....as they didn't in Baltimore two years ago either...

It's sad how nothing has changed since 1992, which at the time, felt like a moment when things might change. Cops in the US still don't know how to police, and remain either poorly trained, poorly led, or lack the skill to properly police. The black community still can't organize and protest without destructively burning their own neighborhood and economy down.

The flip side is January 28, 1986. NASA was under extreme pressure to launch Challenger that morning because kids would be in school to see the launch. It was on all the major news networks all morning. If NASA would have waited even an additional hour for the ground temps to warm a little, the shuttle would have launched without issue.

I don't understand why these cities let the looters flex for a few nights burning their own neighborhoods down. Baltimore did that a few years ago. The Minneapolis mayor looks like yet another elected official in over his head. This pandemic has revealed many an elected phony, and it looks like he's another one.

Once the weather gets warm... Unfortunately the situation in Minneapolis will be used as justification for looting in other big cities. It's coming. Most of these cities have closed all the pools, parks, summer programs and are filled with unemployed young people who've been under lockdown.

I agree. If so, he should direct the CDC and NIH to issue guidance that masks are unnecessary. Either way.

He (Trump) needs to quit it with the Scarborough stuff. Even for him, it's a terrible look. Trump fatigue will hand a possibly senile Joe Biden, of all people, a Presidency. I bet that keeps HRC up every single night.

Yes. He's the President. Lead by example. You wear a suit and tie every day because that's what Presidents wear. From a purely political strategy viewpoint, his base is statistically....the elderly. Even if he personally thinks wearing a mask is the dumbest thing ever, its an election year and you want to show them that you are caring about not only them, but their children and their grandchildren. And...never give the opposition easy layups. He hasn't figured out yet that when he does something presidential and not Trumpish, the media doesn't care.

EA is a fat and lazy software company, living off their 1990s genius, but a modern, motivated, marketing company. They will continue selling you the same game for $60 each year because there are enough people buying it. The NFL is dumb hitching their wagon for another five years, because there are so many gaming avenues you could explore with that license that a lazy EA just doesn't want to.

Spoiler alert: Making 300+lb linemen wear masks while they play football will kill more NFL players than any virus from all the cardiovascular stress that mask is going to bring.

The league did well in some of the cities, not so well in some of the others. If they relaunch, hope they take that opportunity to re-calibrate. Whether the NFL likes it or not, a professional alternative league would do the NFL some good in developing players and coaching personnel. I think that's where the sustainability of the XFL lies - as a true football development league. It can't complete star for star with the NFL.

Biden is a fool if he selects her as his VP. She's demonstrated she's out of her league as a governor, as she's made a complete mess of things in that state and has unnecessarily ratcheted up the civil restlessness. He certainly doesn't need the additional baggage she'd bring to the ticket.

Very compelling read and it should be breaking, big news because the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations have kept this information from the public.

Good luck with those riots, California. That state is walking straight into the abyss of civil unrest in every socio-economic corner.

Yet people will blindly trust Bill Gates, probably because he always wears sweaters.

Contract tracing is doomed to fail in America, even if they incentive the program. Upper and middle class America are terrible at disappearing but poor America are experts at doing so.

I don't know how they are doing medically, but I can tell you from experience, they and the Mennonites *hate* wearing the masks, washing hands and being told only one of them is permitted in a store. They are slowly getting with the program. Slowly.

In Pennsylvania, the governor is threatening to pull liquor licenses and funding for the counties planning to defy the state reopening "sequence." I reside in a county that is preparing a plan to slowly winch up the middle finger to said sequence. https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/wolf-threatens-funding-license-cuts-if-counties-move-to-reopen-in-pa-without-his-approval.html https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/2020/05/11/gov-wolf-punches-back-consequences-going-yellow-too-soon/3110487001/

Major: The Bills do what they are capable of doing: winning the division and at least one playoff game. Minor: The NFL, after seeing the success of the draft, embraces "less is more" in it's programming.

I think in PA, push is coming to shove soon, and several counties, currently in the red zone, have informed the governor that they will not direct their sheriffs department to cite non-essential businesses that open. Other counties have written letters to the governor, pleading that the methodology being used to open the state is quite flawed (it is), which of course, has been ignored. It would be interesting to see if the governor would dedicate state police resources to citations if many counties in this state started making these declarations and businesses opened up.