I’m not one of the “BUT MEH FREEDOMS!” types, but I find the masks pretty uncomfortable. I absolutely wear them everywhere I’m supposed to (basically anywhere not in my car or house), but as soon as I’m a place I don’t have to I rip it off.

So, it sounds like the same failure mode as the Takata airbags.

Following that line of reasoning, wouldn’t ANY older airbag be susceptible to this sort of failure?

Agreed. I have moderate asthma, and I don’t need to take it off. I emphasize “need” because I certainly have a psychological connection between “slightly impeded breathing” and “OMG start sucking on the inhaler”. But, just for the heck of it, I wore a mask for a couple of hours, even at home, before my last dr’s…

One thing to keep in mind amongst all of this bluster: As it currently stands, nothing that Trump is doing in court has any chance of reversing the election. What I mean by this is that, if you look at the specific relief they are asking for in their complaints, and you give all of it to them, Trump still loses.

Considering it was built by slaves, maybe we just come to terms with that and start over. Thanks for the picture though- I didn’t know that had happened! 

Think how hard contact tracing is going to be.

Giuliani says the guy is a Philadelphia resident, but he keeps running for office in Jersey. Since he was convicted of the offenses involving children I assume he’s on the registry, so it would be a spectacular self own if claiming he lives in Philadelphia gets him sent back to prison for failing to register as a sex…

Fuck Chuck Todd.

Those mailers would’ve gone out no matter what the candidates stood for. Hell, look at what Collins and Loeffler threw at each other in Georgia, and they’re both Republicans!

This the kind of person that Chuck Todd calls the “moderate, reasonable republicans”.

And Rudy's chief "witness" for PA voter fraud is a convict who exposed himself to a 7 and 11 year old.

While it’s true the Rs made that part of their campaign (they tried in Arizona, that’s for sure).. doesn’t that speak to a more complete and utter failure of these “centrists” to actually differentiate themselves among their own constituents?

It seems to me that AOC is perfectly right when she thinks the Dems in general…

I read what you wrote, it doesn’t make any sense.  “Americans are economically liberal so pretend your ideas are economically conservative” is dumb.

So the progressive leader should not be allowed to publicly hold progressive opinions?  Seems to me that if bad faith attacks had that much of an effect, the Democrats who it worked against ran poor campaigns.

Wait, hold on, allow me to personally extend my general fuck you to members of this party that are demanding everybody else speak in code to you specifically.

I feel for your friends. Really, I do. As a white woman that grew up in the 80s, I am constantly bewildered by how far we have regressed culturally.

However!

Bla…

Progressives didn’t really run on defunding the police either.  That wasn’t a centerpiece of their campaign.  Anyway, maybe centrists shouldn’t “spend untold amounts of time and resources trying to defend against” bad faith GOP attacks!  That’s a waste of resources that just makes the race about what the GOP wants it…

No one is telling any member they have to run on defunding the police anywhere.  That is just not an argument anyone is making.  It is centrist Democrats trying to tell progressive Democrats what positions they can have, not the other way around.

This doesn’t make the point you think you’re making, because it suggests that “free healthcare and free college” would actually be more popular and are things more Democrats should run on.

There is not any reason that any Democrat has to let any Republican define what any particular campaign was about. If a candidate got defined by a freshman representative from outside of their district, if they got defined by positions that they don’t hold (indeed, that almost no Democrats actually hold, and that no…

The most disheartening thing for me in this particular spat (and so soon after an election victory) is the thought of the young people that were called to action by Bernie, the Squad, Warren, etc and now the party is collectively clutching its pearls.

They can call themselves a centrist, moderate, peacemaker,…