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Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. November 8, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 399,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by February 1, 2021. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. November 12, 2020 - 242,679 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1171. November 11, 2020 - 241,508 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1813. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 11-12, 2020: 1492 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 4-10, 2020: 1008 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 28-November 3, 2020: 852 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-27, 2020: 800 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 November 1, 2020 - 22,748 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of October, an average of 734 per day. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. November 1, 2020 - 231,003 Americans have died of coronavirus October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

He's a proverbial Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

Dogs descend from wolves and are pack animals., so they are happiest within a pack. Dogs raised with people accept their people as their pack, and they aren't particularly bothered by being subordinate to human pack members because that's just how packs are organized. The relationship between dog and man is more symbiotic than captor/prisoner. Man gives dogs food, shelter, and care while dogs give man protection, assistance with various tasks, and unconditional love.

Your comparison of Covid Donnie and Batista is priceless.

This is what I've been saying. On January 20, 2021, when Biden takes the oath of office as POTUS, he will become a private citizen without any power to command anybody, especially the US military. Who's going to man the barricades at the WH for Covid Donnie? The Baby Trumps? Crazy Rudy? Exactly this. Military people take that oath very seriously.

I'd be willing to trade Josh and even throw in a first for Mahomes. Nothing else is worth a franchise QB in hand.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. November 8, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 399,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by February 1, 2021. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. November 11, 2020 - 241,508 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1813. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 4-10, 2020: 1008 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 28-November 3, 2020: 852 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-27, 2020: 800 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 November 1, 2020 - 22,748 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of October, an average of 734 per day. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. November 1, 2020 - 231,003 Americans have died of coronavirus October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

Of course it did. More importantly, the "R" beside Trump's name had much more to do with that. It's a false narrative that there are 70+ million Trump cultists in the US.

Most of NYS doesn't' have bars open this late. I grew up in Gowanda, NY. On Saturday nights, if you were downtown a little after 2 am, you could watch the mass migration of bar patrons across the bridge from Catt County to Erie County ... unless you were old enough to be part of the exodus yourself.

I think that McDermott won the power struggle with Whaley which resulted in DW leaving after the 2017 draft, but I don't believe that the house cleaning of the scouting/player personnel staff took place until after Beane took over. I think Beane had that power, but I think that how much he could spend on assistant coaches, scouts, etc was still set higher up the corporate food chain, ie Brandon or his bean counters. Brandon was fired in May 2018 IIRC; the Bills (McDermott and Beane) remade (ie, improved) the entire offensive coaching staff except for Daboll (who was hired in 2018), including bringing in Dorsey to help Allen, and seriously upgraded the WR corps going into 2019. That all suggests to me that there was a major change between the spring of 2018 and the spring of 2019, and the major change in the Bills organization during that time was the firing of Brandon.

He may be thinking that he's prepping to do that but the US military is only bound to follow legal orders from the commander-in-chief. No US general is going to order the troops under his/her command to participate in a coup by the defeated 45th POTUS against the lawfully elected 46th POTUS because it would violate his/her own oath of allegiance to support and protect the US Constitution. Military folk tend to take that oath pretty seriously even if Trump doesn't.

If he were smart -- which Covid Donnie thinks he is but which isn't backed up by his track record -- he would resign so that Pence could pardon him for whatever federal crimes he's committed in the past, even as POTUS, just as Nixon did. Several news commentators have suggested that his "legal challenges" are a means to raise money to cover campaign debt. I don't think that filing for bankruptcy -- if a campaign organization can do that -- would be very smart. That would open the campaign's books to auditing by outside organizations, including the US government. One of the big questions towards the end of the campaign was why the Trump campaign had run so short of money that it couldn't afford to run TV ads in key battleground states while the Biden campaign was floating in cash, and could even make tries at states like Georgia and Texas. Even though Biden was raising more funds during the summer than Trump, he started out far behind Trump in the spring. Where did all that money go? Either it was stupidly squandered or it was siphoned off. Auditors would find that.

He's a sociopath. He cares for nobody or nothing except what he wants. There have been a couple of news reports claiming that anonymous sources within the WH have said that the reason that Senate Republicans have not acknowledged Biden as the President-elect is that Trump has threatened to withhold his support in the January 5 Georgia Senate race if they don't close ranks with him. That this scenario is even plausible speaks volumes about the soon-to-be ex-POTUS.

When you trot out to the barn, plunk a shovelful of horse poop into a box, and then use pretty wrapping paper to cover the box, all you have is a pretty box that still stinks like horse poop. Your posts are much like that. You pretend to be a fair-minded, rational conservative but you're as delusional, irrational a Trump cultist as any of the attendees of Covid Donnie's various Grand Superspreader Tour events.

The Johnson Bros have owned the Jets for 20 years, and they've only been marginally successful. They had some extraordinary luck in 2009 to get to the AFCCG but like the Bills and Dolphins, the Jets have been a mediocre team at best for most of the 21st century. I can't see the Johnson brothers somehow changing their stripes and starting to make significantly better personnel decisions. The Rooneys they're not.

Absolutely not. Russ Brandon took over running the team in 2006 after the firing of Tom Donahoe, and he would still be running the team today if Pegula hadn't purchased the team. After Pegula's first foray into running the team with the Rex Ryan hiring, he put Brandon back in charge but also gave him control of the Sabres. The hiring of McDermott and Beane were very similar to many previous Bills hirings: unproven coaches/GMs hoping to prove themselves. With his added responsibilities to the Sabres, though, Brandon probably gave Beane more responsibility (but not full GM responsibility) than Buddy Nix or Doug Whaley ever had. Wilson ignored Brandon's sexual harassment of female employees at OBD, but the Pegulas did not. When he lied to them about harassing a Sabres employee, they fired his arse in the spring of 2018 and didn't hire a replacement to oversee both teams. That's when Beane gained real GM powers, including the power to set budgets for the coaching staff. It's no accident that after the 2018 season the Bills fired almost all of the offensive assistants (I think that Daboll might have been the only survivor) and hired much better ones, including an experienced QB coach, Ken Dorsey, to mentor Josh Allen. Beane also went out and got support for Allen in free agency by signing FAs like John Brown and Cole Beasley. Since then, Beane signaled that the Bills weren't the doing the same BS they had done under Brandon by re-signing their premier DB Tre White rather than letting him walk away in FA as they had done with Stephon Gilmore in 2017. He also went out and traded for premier WR Stefon Diggs. Under Russ Brandon's control, the Bills sacrificed success on the field in order to squeeze out as much profit as possible. Under Brandon Beane's control, the Bills have prioritized winning football games over profits, and it shows.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. November 8, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 399,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by February 1, 2021. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. November 10, 2020 - 239,695 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1460. November 9, 2020 - 238,235 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 651. November 8, 2020 - 237,584 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 461. November 7, 2020 - 237,123 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1059. November 6, 2020 - 236,064 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1120. November 5, 2020 - 234,944 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1210. November 4, 2020 - 233,734 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1096. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 4-10, 2020: 1008 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 28-November 3, 2020: 852 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-27, 2020: 800 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 November 1, 2020 - 22,748 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of October, an average of 734 per day. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. November 1, 2020 - 231,003 Americans have died of coronavirus October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

I don't believe that any recounts in the undecided states have begun yet. They are still counting votes because of the large number of provisional ballots nation-wide (which tend to follow the voting trends of the county/district where they were cast). That's why Biden's vote total topped 75 million and Trump's 71 million by this morning. That's also why dumbass Trumplets in Georgia want the state AG there (a Republican btw) to resign; Biden's margin has been increasing as more votes trickle in, and he's counting them. Biden's got a 12,000+ vote lead now, which makes the likelihood that a recount would change anything less and less likely since recounts change tens or hundreds of votes out millions cast.

I agree, too. If the legislature wanted late arriving votes to count, they would have made that part of the law. I don't know if they have special circumstances for overseas ballots which are often primarily from military personnel. Many states do allow some time for those ballots to arrive after election day, including North Carolina. I think a lot of the people who are buying into this idea of widespread election fraud (aside from Trump, Crazy Rudy, and their sycophants) are people who get their news from social media instead of from mainstream news outlets. They don't understand how the process works, so they believe anything. All the tv stations covered this, but I followed the post-election ballot counting on CNN which had extensive coverage. I got a real education on how ballot security and counting works as well as how the different procedures for handling in-person and mail-in ballots that states had skewed the reporting of election results early on, and why it took so much longer for one state to report results than another state.

Nobody is saying there are not any instances of vote fraud. What people are saying is that there's absolutely no evidence of widespread voter fraud as is being alleged by Trump, Guiliani, and Trump true believers. See below. Another complaint in PA is that the GOP doesn't want ballots that were postmarked on/before Election Day but arrived after the polls closed counted. They might have a case here, but those ballots were segregated and have not been counted pending the court decision. These ballots number fewer than 9,000 while Biden's lead in PA is north of 40k the last time I looked. One of the reasons that votes continue to dribble in from all over the country is the large number of provisional ballots, which is a result of the large turn out. Provisional ballots are ballots cast by individuals with issues --- in-person voters who have moved and went to the wrong polling place; in-person voters who lacked sufficient ID; in-person voters who requested mail-in ballots, mail-in votes that might be from questionable voters, etc. This was a study of numerous elections over several years. It found a very tiny number of instances of outright fraud amid mostly inadvertent mistakes.

Anybody can make any allegation about anyone or anything, especially on social media. Without real evidence -- names, places, times, etc -- that will stand up to scrutiny in court, it's all sound and fury without meaning. So far, the GOP hasn't provided any kind of proof that there was any significant fraud anywhere much less any kind of organized fraud in multiple states, which would be necessary to "steal" a national election.

I will add three additional points to your excellent post: Because of the pandemic, millions of voters voted by mail. Most states besides the three that voted primarily by mail prior to 2020 changed their mail-in voting rules to allow all registered voters who wished to vote by mail to do so. Some states didn't have much experience in counting high volumes of mail-in ballots and had rules for that delayed the count. PA voting districts, for example, couldn't even open mail-in ballots until after the polls closed. The turnout for this election was the highest ever, almost 150 million votes cast, or about 43% of the total US population (not registered voters, not adults, not citizens -- the entire US population of about 331 million). When everything's totaled up the turnout is expected to rival the massive turnout in the 1960 election between Kennedy and Nixon. That millions of these votes were cast by mail slowed down the counting. Trump did his best to discourage people from voting by mail for six months. His followers listened to him. Those opposed to him did just the opposite, and that skewed mail-in voting patterns. All the data from the states that track the party affiliation of voters who used mail-in ballots has shown that Democrats used mail in voting far more than Republicans. In some urban areas, Biden was getting 80+ percent of the mail in vote. The different state rules for when to count mail-in ballots then skewed the reporting of election votes depending upon when states counted the mail in ballots (before/during/after in person voting on election day).

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. November 9, 2020 - Pfizer has reported that its coronavirus vaccine candidate appears to be 90% effective in 2nd and 3rd stage trials. November 8, 2020 - Joe Biden established his coronavirus advisory committee filled with respected epidemiologists and public health experts. He also released an outline of his plan to get control of the coronavirus pandemic ASAP. November 8, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 399,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by February 1, 2021. November 7, 2020 - US coronavirus recorded 126,742, the highest ever. Texas became the first US state to top 1,000,000 coronavirus cases. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. November 9, 2020 - 238,235 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 651. November 8, 2020 - 237,584 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 461. November 7, 2020 - 237,123 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1059. November 6, 2020 - 236,064 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1120. November 5, 2020 - 234,944 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1210. November 4, 2020 - 233,734 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1096. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, November 4-2-8, 2020: 933 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 28-November 3, 2020: 852 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-27, 2020: 800 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 November 1, 2020 - 22,748 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of October, an average of 734 per day. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. November 1, 2020 - 231,003 Americans have died of coronavirus October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

Well said. 👍

My guess is that Biden lasts longer than Covid Donnie. He's 3 years older than Trump but in better physical and mental health. I would not be surprised if Covid Donnie has a serious, possibly fatal, health crisis like a heart attack or stroke within 2 years.