Here's my closing argument for people who aren't sure if they should vote against Trump tomorrow: If you won't do it for yourself, please do it for someone else.
Maybe you don't think Covid is a threat, but other people will die, needlessly, unless we are led by the science...
Maybe you think your are getting a tax break, or some other bribe if Trump wins, but other people need stimulus and relief from this economic downturn.
Maybe your children will not be kidnapped and caged, but other people's children will be...
Maybe you don't agree with all of Biden's plans. Lord knows I don't. But Democrats have a theory of government that helps even the people who DON'T agree with them. Republicans have a theory that entire states should be left to burn if they don't vote Republican.
Republicans win when people are selfish. When people myopically care about only their own particular circumstances. Democrats win when people care about their community. When they care for others...
Do not mirror the behavior of the narcissist in the White House. If you can't figure out how this election will help you, go vote to help somebody else.
All we got is us. If we vote that way, we will prevail.
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So... De Blasio's answer is basically that they're doing routine due diligence and vetting to make sure Steve Cohen is "allowed" to do business with the city of New York.
He won't say what, at all, they're specifically questioning Cohen about.
Now...
Cohen has a... past. I mean, he's billionaire hedge fund manager. There's a history there.
But, I think the problem is that if Cohen was going to do some kind of gentrification deal with the City, they'd absolutely let him. So I don't know why he can't buy the Mets.
I love Liz Warren, but we need things HAPPEN in the Senate in the first 100 days. And we already have a lot Democrats with problems screwing their courage to the sticking place
Having her replaced by a Republican governor, even temporarily, before those things happen, feels bad.
I think she'd be great at Treasury, but as I keep saying, FACTUALLY, despite the fact that few people seem to believe me, WE HAVE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT. And I don't even know that the Executive Branch is the most *important* in a world where Biden wins.
Sorry, I'm one of those people who believes that the biggest reason we don't have a public option already is that Ted Kennedy died in 2009.
I'm also one of those people who believes the Senate is, like, IMPORTANT AND STUFF.
(In NY, candidates can run on MULTIPLE party lines... which EVERY STATE SHOULD DO, so I could have voted those 3 as *dems* OR working families, as long as I didn't double)
I asked my wife is that was the worst "date night" ever. She started listing Mel Gibson movies I've dragged her to.
One of the key takeaways I'm left with from this debate is that we fully can't even talk to each other anymore. That was the president of the united states, 11 days out from a general election, speaking in a way that reasonably informed people outside his niche COULDN'T FOLLOW.
It's really, it's gotta be like walking into a mass, knowing nothing about Catholicism, and sitting there and hearing "this is flesh now and you MUST EAT IT TO BE SAVED."
Like, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
I know there've been ENDLESS articles about how Fox creates its own self-fulfilling cultural ecosystem. I've WRITTEN some of those articles. I get the *general problem* here.
But, just, DAMN. When I was 10 I had a better grasp on what Bush/Dukakis were REFERENCING than Trump.
I finally got around to reading the Rod Dreher dreck and, wow. Wow. What passes for intellectualism among Republicans these days is just, wow.
Consider, at one point the author quotes favorably the hysterical warnings of societal collapse's from a 1947 author worried about family "moral decay."
Then our guy says: "He wrote this in 1947. Zimmerman missed the Baby Boom coming, but otherwise, he was right on target."
WUT?
How you gonna quote a guy warning about declining birth rates, and then just wave away "HE MISSED THE BABY BOOM." Talk about: Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln.