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9 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
As for the US... #CoronaVirusUpdates

Wisconsin has been the epicenter for a while. The Governor there has done a horrid job overall, and it shows. They've lost all control.
North Dakota and South Dakota are not doing well at all either. But they are so sparse, that it isn't burning through either state either.
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut...are seeing the very, very early stages of a wave. Hospitalizations are up, deaths are not. But I fear this is the tip of the iceberg.
You can see Wisconsin is getting crushed, per capita. New York is getting worse, Arizona is improving. Just as a snapshot.

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11 Oct
What this weekend has proven to me is...many, many liberals don't have a clue what court packing is...they just use it as a catch all for "Anything we don't like regarding judges".
I have a lot of problems with the judiciary:
1. They overstep their bounds.
2. Lifetime appts are just...bad.
3. National orders from local federal judges.
4. Not giving judges a full vote on the senate floor (true for Garland, true for Obama judges...and true for Bush judges).
But none of these things...none of them...are 'court packing'.

NONE OF THEM.

Court packing is something that autocratic demagogues do. It is something that happens in banana republics, and third world failed states.
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11 Oct
I think we are really seeing different waves. The first wave was NY/NJ. The second was this summer with AZ/CA/TX/FL getting hit. Right now the epicenter is the northern central region, with WI, IL, OH. TX, CA, FL have lot of cases through out.
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11 Oct
Facts are not Bouie's strong suit...he picks a narrative, and then uses his extensive talents to lie about it.
Bouie acts as if installing left wing judges hasn't been critical to the liberal agenda since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first election...

...in 1932.

We are talking almost NINE DECADES.
He also brings up the gambit about the DC circuit court, which never, ever had any chance of happening.

Instead, Dems are bringing up court packing and the filibuster...which both could EASILY happen. Who is the bigger threat then?
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10 Oct
Which is what I was saying...since February.
"On March 4, California officially recorded its first day with 10 new Covid-19 infections. By Jan. 24, there was a greater than 50% chance 10 new people were being infected EVERY DAY. In fact, researchers now estimate California reached that mark more than one month earlier."
Just a few metrics...first day officially states had 10 cases...and ACTUAL date they probably did:

CA 3/1, 1/24
NY 3/2, 1/28
NJ 3/8, 2/3
FL 3/14, 2/10
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10 Oct
This may be the best thing I've ever read from Stephens.

"If there’s one word admirers and critics alike can agree on when it comes to NYT award-winning 1619 Project, it’s ambition. Ambition to reframe America’s conversation about race."

nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opi…
"In some ways, this ambition succeeded. The 1619 Project introduced a date, previously obscure to most Americans...offered fresh reminders of the extent to which Black freedom was a victory gained by courageous Black Americans, and not just a gift obtained from benevolent whites"
"Those concerns came to light when a longstanding critic, Phillip W. Magness, noted in the online magazine Quillette that references to 1619 as the country’s “true founding” or “moment [America] began” had disappeared from the digital display copy without explanation."
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10 Oct
So, kind of a sad story.

Some you may remember the story I told earlier this year about my friend the restaurant owner.

Well...the restaurant is dead as of next week.

Many have forgotten, but in the end of March, it was Pelosi who was stalling and obstructing the CARES act, etc. They delayed for several weeks, which led to this discussion and the Twitter thread linked above. You can read it through.
Well, after CARES/PPP was passed, he did get a loan, but it took quite some time. In fact, a couple of us had to connect him to bankers that could help him out, because he couldn't find one himself.

But he did get the loan.
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