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A nickel says that they never change the funding to WHO. As Ukraine knows, he’s all about the announcement and disinterested in the follow through.

 

I didn't say Mitch and the boyz would do anything about it. And what's even more depressing is Trumpers will likely make up a bigger part of the Republicans in Congress since they are in safe seats. I do think the post-Trump "pivot" will be more decisive than the post-Bush into Tea Party thing. The nice thing will be that Trump has sucked a lot of the dumbest Tea people out of Congress and put them into his administration.

 

Right. He pretty much stopped following through on opening the country during his announcement yesterday, putting the weight on the governors. Basically, he said he's opening the country, but the governors have to do it. If they don't, he can blast them all summer long. If they do and it's bad, he can blame them. If they do and everything ends up OK, he'll take the credit. All for doing nothing. God, he's the fucking worst.

 

Politics doesn't work that way. If Presidents could blame others and get away with it, they'd always have an 80 percent approval rating. Trump's moron racist zombie army will fall for it, but nobody else. If I had to guess, I'd bet the country reopens as it closed, in a ragged, half-assed fashion involving much unnecessary death and suffering. This is unlikely to be to Trump's benefit.

 

How convenient

 

In defense of the judge, they are dealing with basically a three month backlog of both civil cases and criminal cases right now, so a delay was inevitable.

 

Just like in America!

 

Like when?

 

One of the photos reminded me of this:

 

I can't help about the shape I'm in
I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to

 

Biden suggests he would veto 'Medicare for All' over its price tag

I will grant you that in theory he is "for" "universal healthcare" but when it comes to specific ways of accomplishing that, he balks. Perhaps he will be pushed left on that to court Sanders fans, but I'm not optimistic given he's the guy who spent eight years as Obama's VP and still thinks Republicans will work with him once Trump is out of their systems.