Recent developments regarding the 2020 election
I really don't want to obsess over the 2020 election, but it was such an outlier. In the 2020 election 158 million people voted. Four years later only 155 million people voted, yet the country had grown by almost 11 million people. That has only happened a few times in American history, where voting has actually gone down that way. The other thing that will immortalize that election was that before then only about 40 million people voted early. Of course, Marc Elias got election rules changed to benefit democrats, and we suddenly had about 70% of the electorate had already voting by election day. Most were democrats.
This week came another revelation. A former Pfizer executive, who now works for British Phamaceutical company, GSK, was accused by former employees that had worked for him when he was in charge of the vaccine program at Pfizer had told them for months that efficacy & safety of the Pfizer spike protein anti-covid vaccine was known, and Pfizer would announce it sometime in October. Then something happened. There were people on the Pfizer board who brought pressure to delay the announcement. And they did delay it.....until after the election, when Donald Trump was denied the Presidency.
Feds probe tip about timing of Pfizer's COVID vaccine: report
The DOJ is now investigating.
In other news:
President Trump is set to reveal the details of his global tariff plan tomorrow, a date he has called “Liberation Day.”
The Trump administration said it was reviewing roughly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts with Harvard, claiming that the school had fostered antisemitism.
The Pentagon eliminated lower fitness standards for women, meaning we are likely to see less of them in combat & harm's way.
The Trump administration deported 17 more migrants, whom it described as gang members, to a prison in El Salvador.
The U.S. has set up a prison for about 400 migrants at Guantánamo Bay.
An election in Wisconsin today will decide whether conservatives or liberals control the state Supreme Court.
The U.S. imposed sanctions on six senior Chinese & Hong Kong officials over the targeting of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and on U.S. soil.
The Socialist regime in France has turned to lawfare to cancel the opposition.
The Israeli military attacked the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, killing three people. It was Israel’s second strike there in less than a week.
A recovery operation found the bodies of three US soldiers days after their vehicle sank into a bog in Lithuania. A fourth is still missing.
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Can the Army make food that is both healthy and tasty?
At Fort Jackson in South Carolina. Sean Rayford for The New York Times
Each generations field rations get better. I never had K’s but have had C rations and MRE’s. MRE’s were much improved over C’s. Interestingly field rations vary greatly from country to country. I heard French field rations actually had wine in them but I never saw that. Although they did have interesting main units like Rabbit, Lamb and Salmon.
I guess they came a long way from Hardtack.
They improvised when they combined PB & J.
Minute of History: the PB&J and US military | Article | The United States Army
I heard that in WWI French troops were given Cognac before going over the top.
Same here C rations early on then MRE's (we call them IMP's) from the early 90's on and they were a great improvement over C rats. My fave was sweet and sour pork which came out during my last Afghanistan tour
Siegel, who was held captive by Hamas for months, spoke about the physical and emotional abuse he endured. “They were beating me and starving me,” he told Stahl. Her follow-up question to his statement left viewers stunned. Stahl asked, “Do you think they starved you, or they just didn’t have food?”
Lesley Stahl’s Viral Clip From '60 Minutes' Interview Sparks Outrage | What She Said
What an insane clip
She is a disgrace to journalism.
Goes to show Biden could have stopped the invasion at any time,
And it didn't take an act of congress as the left claimed.
Jon Stewart mocks Trump’s claim there are ‘methods’ to serve a third term.
Here is the question of the day:
Which is sillier, claiming that you want a third term that you can't have or turning red in the face and jumping up & down screeching "he can't, he can't?"
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The fact that you don’t find a president of the United States talking about a third term to be silly - at minimum - is disturbing, both for you and the rest of the country that supports this megalomaniac. It’s likewise disturbing that you would mock anyone who dares to point out that such a thing is supposed to violate the Constitution.
It was an obvious question: If it is impossible to do, why would it trigger people into raving?
Because it's not "impossible", it is merely improbable.
If any conservative here is willing to be honest, please describe exactly how you would have reacted if this was Obama talking about a potential third term back in 2013. Even though the same chances of any President figuring out a way into a 3rd term were the same at that time, conservatives and Fox News would be losing their fucking minds if Obama has talked about looking into potential "methods" to do that.
Who said it was impossible? I certainly didn't.
It's illegal. It's unconstitutional. But that doesn't make it impossible. Many things are illegal, and yet they happen anyway.
Throughout my career the physical standards for women have been lower than those for men. Yet both were expected to do the same job in the same environments. "Leveling the playing field" will definitely cause some people to cry foul. Welcome to equality.