Bison06

Don't take it personally, the Dems would do the same if they had the opportunity. Elections have consequences as they say, power is going to be wielded.

And according to the Dems from 2016 you CAN do a confirmation in an election year. So who's the bigger hypocrite in 2020? They all suck.

The senate can vote however it likes on any given issue. There are repercussions for being unreasonable, but yeah, refusing to confirm a justice because he/she was nominated by a president from the opposing party is technically within their right any time during a presidency. I would hope it doesn't come to that, but politics is a dirty game and these a holes will use any leverage they have to their advantage on both sides of the aisle. Which I hate, btw.

Look into the history, what is happening now is exactly what the precedent has always been. If you have the presidency and control of the senate and election year nomination and confirmation hasn't been an issue historically.

This isn't a smart precedent to set. Every time the same party has the presidency and the senate they'll just up in again.

So what would happen to Twitter and Facebook following this if it were up to you?

Given your history on this forum, forgive me if I don’t believe that you’d have this level of indifference if it were a left leaning oxe being gored.

Hospitals are near there capacities more due to the pent up demand for elective surgeries than Covid. What percent of the states beds are filled with Covid patients?

Don’t kid yourself, they’ve been doing this for years. I forget the number, but a large percentage of people get their news from Twitter. Twitter built their platform to allow people to believe that it is just free flowing information for and from its users. If you’re going to to censor and choose which stories get preferential treatment then you need to be completely transparent about that to the public.

This is a red herring, we’ve never had capitalism without some restrictions in any industry.

I’d be interested to hear from any of our left leaning friends on here and their thoughts on this Twitter and Facebook scandal. Even if you say the story is unconfirmed, how can a story written by a journalist at the country’s fourth largest newspaper be censored? This is outrageous regardless of how you feel about the story. These people need to be in front of congress Monday morning getting their butts handed to them.

Excellent post and your point is well made. In a single minded approach, false positives don’t matter because it still allows a person to defend quarantining a person “out of an abundance of caution” and “better safe than sorry”. Never mind that this person quarantining could mean time away from a job that they need to pay bills(legally they can’t fire you, but they don’t have to pay you). Its time for people to see the whole picture instead of dogmatically adhering to our current approach that is decimating people’s lives financially.

I would agree with that. However, the media has shown us nothing that would lead me to believe any information given will be reported without negative spin. So after four years I’d tell them to kick rocks too.

Or the Trump administration no longer sees any upside to being transparent with anything related to the Presidents health as it will be politicized negatively.

False equivalency. Not knowing when your last negative test was is like asking someone what they had for breakfast two days ago. Small detail in the life of a man with as many plates to juggle as Trump. If he was unsafe to be around people, his doctors would tell him. Outside of that, he doesn’t need to know and I doubt he marks each test on the calendar. You want to know when his last negative test was, ask his doctor.

But he's a democrat so he gets a pass.

Should be a landslide for Biden in 2.5 weeks then.

Fake gossip or not, which is highly debatable. He should have been asked about it. Trump gets pushed to denounce white supremacy for the millionth time and about QAnon, but Biden doesn't get asked about an actual news story about his family? What a joke.

Can you acknowledge the double standard that took place last night? Trump being forced to debate Guthrie while Biden wasn't even asked about some very serious allegations leveled against him and his son.

Exactly, so wearing a mask wouldn't have protected him. Got it. It all makes sense if you don't think about it at all.

Everyone should vote for the candidate they want to, regardless of the justification for that vote IMO. That said, I will never understand choosing personality over policy. A good smile and a smooth disposition are a dime a dozen among people who will promise the world and then bend you over when it suits them.

Weak insult. I love to talk politics. You aren't talking politics, you are posting articles.

Why don't you just post us a link to the washington post main page? It would save you a lot of time.

You may consider actually listening to Trump instead of what other people say about Trump. His answer to QAnon was perfectly appropriate.

Chris Christie saying something doesn’t make it true. Look at the stats of case numbers relative to when masking mandates began in certain areas and decide for yourself if masks have an impact on spread.