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Dr. Anthony Fauci believes the “lack of candor” and “lack of science” in the Trump administration’s Covid-19 response was “not helpful” and likely resulted in more deaths, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert told CNN Friday, as the Biden administration tries to mount an aggressive response to Covid-19 and move on from the “divisiveness” of the Trump White House’s approach.

Please help me understand how trump WON in a landslide yet according to this CNN article DJT never polled over 50% (CNN)Donald Trump has always been fixated on writing his name into the history books, to ensure his four years as president aren't forgotten. Well, he's done it! Trump ends his term with the lowest average job approval rating -- 41% -- of any president in the last seven-plus decades, according to Gallup. That's four points worse than the next, uh, worst -- Harry Truman, who averaged a 45% job approval score throughout his time in office. Barack Obama averaged...

Yahoo reports that the Joint Chiefs are in panic mode, warning our armed forces that it is illegal to stop the Biden transition. I agree: it is illegal to uphold the Constitution. Their sworn and sacred oath is illegal. Save the steal! (Link coming in replies)

Four times I deployed into combat zones over my Army career. Twice more as a retired civilian have I ventured to Iraq and Afghanistan in an attempt to deepen my understanding of the sources of violence that undergirded those wars. Never in my wildest imagination did I believe I would live to see the day when the United States Capitol would be stormed by a wild mob, overpowering the police, disrupting both the House and Senate from performing a critical Constitutional duty. This assault lays bare that it is time for some hard-core soul searching for both our political leaders...

Stephane Girard said his outbuilding was hit with buckshot, a second near-miss at his homeStephane Girard remembers the day his wife heard gun shots close to their Elgin home. She asked if he had fired a gun: he hadn't. The avid hunter didn't think much of it until he went to paint his well house two days later and saw five buckshot holes in the siding. Girard said this isn't his first close call. "There was a near miss two years ago," he said. After hearing a gun fire, shots landed within about 40 metres of where he was working....

As early as August, the DOJ had been investigating the White House in an alleged bribery for pardon scheme.

...fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.

President Trump has approved President-elect Joe Biden to receive classified presidential daily briefings, or PDBs, a White House official tells The Post. Trump approved the sharing of intelligence with Biden after authorizing the General Services Administration on Monday to ascertain that Biden is president-elect, beginning a formal transition.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court made Joe Biden’s win in the state official on Tuesday, approving the state's final canvass of the Nov. 3 election. The unanimous action by the seven nonpartisan justices sends to Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak results that will deliver six electoral votes from the western U.S. battleground state to Biden. The court action drew extra scrutiny amid legal efforts by the state GOP and Trump campaign to prevent sending vote-by-mail ballots to all 1.82 million active registered voters and then to stop the counting of the 1.4 million votes that were cast.

President Donald Trump is sweating over his campaign lawyers’ dismal and often outlandish efforts to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected electoral victory. Trump is worried that his campaign’s legal team, which is being led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, is comprised of “fools that are making him look bad,” NBC News reported Monday. That crew, which has unironically called itself an “elite strike force team,” to date has failed to win any legal victories that would invalidate votes for Biden, the former Democratic vice president, even as the legal eagles tout wildly broad claims of fraud for which they...

I now believe that Trump is carefully allowing enough time to allow the media and local officials to fully develop an alibi for voters. when crimes are investigated it is usually the lower level participants who get snared, mid-level actors cutting plea deals and higher level actors getting slaps on the wrist if anything at all. Many of the poll workers are definitely passionate supporters. But to believe that enough of them were there with the intent to commit fraud requires us to assume they were able to plan and coordinate enough to pull it off. I can not force...

Karl Rove, the architect of former President George W. Bush's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, acknowledged Wednesday that the 2020 presidential election will not be overturned regardless of the flurry of lawsuits from President Donald Trump challenging the results.

NewsMax just reported a huge vote dump for Biden from DeKalb County. They've moved Georgia to likely Biden. They say the President now must win PA, MI, WS. Stacy Abrams said I'll deliver Georgia. Looks like she did.

With regard to COVID, we are awash in unreliable or even intentionally misleading empirical claims. A neurosurgeon from D.C. who understands statistics analyzes a popular claim that is being made on behalf of mask mandates. I encountered a Washington Post figure making its way through social media, suggesting that not wearing masks is conclusively the reason for COVID spread:

I have been looking for alternative sources to find a good video feed since I do not get much useful from youtube/google anymore. This one seems good. Here is a great skynews report/interview with the NY Post reporter. https://www.bitchute.com/video/cyWMT6h6GdzP/

I keep seeing how the polls are incredibly biased. I have no reason to question that statement but, in the words of the great President Reagan, we should always trust but verify. Does anyone have statistical analyses that support the existence of bis and just how far warped the polling currently is? Would love to see some so I can try to undistort the current polls

Those who are interested, let's talk about the games. We'll see if those who dislike/despise the NFL feel a childish compulsion to pester us - or not.

"Tyranny is that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. One look at the aforementioned contradictions is all that it takes to know that those Democrat politicians have tyrannical tendencies. If they didn’t, then they wouldn’t act in that manner. Instead, they would live lives that show why they believe the right things. They would avoid non-eco-friendly means of transportation. Or avoid guns entirely. Or give away their entire income to the government. But they don’t do that, of course. Living what they preach would mean making lifestyle sacrifices and admitting that they are wrong. They...

He just doesn't have the 'IT' factor-a term reserved for NFL QB's. History suggests he could rest on Trumps laurels and win a 4 year term like Bush 41'. Unfortunately the pendulum swings both ways and if they come up with another smooth talker like B.J./Obama we're in trouble-it's boredom that sets in. Any likeness to 41' and we all pay the price. It's up to us to get it right.

On the second night of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump resorted once again to the favorite trick in his bag: a televised surprise. An impromptu naturalization ceremony put on as part of the Tuesday night festivities was, as a political matter, an attempt to show a softer side of a president with one of the most anti-immigration records in recent memory. Senior Trump administration officials widely view the law as a joke, and have often traded quips over how consequence-free their infractions have been and how much Democrats harp on the violations, two ex-officials said. Some Trump lieutenants have...