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From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:

Rioters attacked businesses and homes, breaking windows and looting as they marched through Wauwatosa Wednesday night ostensibly to protest the shooting of Alvin Cole by Wauwatosa Police Officer Joseph Mensah. As others called for peace before the riot, the Assemblyman for the area was noticeably silent.

On Thursday, state Rep. Robyn Vining (D-Wauwatosa) broke her silence, but the statement was a vacuous gesture at best. Instead of condemning the rioters for the damage to homes and businesses, Vining issued a general rejection of “violence in all forms” and no statement of support for law enforcement.

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From driftglass:

If there is one strand of political DNA that binds virtually all Never Trumpers together, it is their reflexive Both Siderism. Their almost pathological refusal to acknowledge what their party has become right under their noses without automatically absolving themselves of any involvement in its devolution while simultaneously accusing Democrats of somehow being equally to blame.

Which is why, if you want to understand the mindset of behind Mitt Romney’s Poltroon Manifesto, put down your college Poli Sci textbook and fire up a couple of episodes of Hoarders.

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From Tommy Christopher:

Doc Rips White House Embrace of ‘Herd Immunity’ to CNN: ‘Another Word for Mass Murder’

On Wednesday morning’s edition of CNN’s New Day, anchor John Berman brought Dr. Haseltine in to discuss the prospect of a “winter surge” of the coronavirus as the weather gets colder.

“No states in decline, professor, 50,000 cases reported in the last 24 hours, hospitalizations at a level we have not seen since the end of August,” Berman said. “We’ve been worried about this possible winter surge. It’s not even a month into fall and we’re seeing this alarming increase. So what does that tell you?”

“It tells us that we don’t have this pandemic, this epidemic under control,” Haseltine said, then volunteered “And I’m extremely concerned that the president is being advised by people who speak of herd immunity.”

“Herd immunity is another word for mass murder,” he continued. “That is exactly what it is. If you allow this virus to surprise as they are advocating, we are looking at two to six million Americans dead. Not just this year, but every year. The reason for that is that there is no such thing as herd immunity.”

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I keep reading Fake News stories that my campaign is running low on money. Not true, & if it were so, I would put up money myself. The fact is that we have much more money than we had 4 years ago, where we spent much less money than Crooked Hillary, and still easily won, 306-223!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2020

Sarcasm more hopeful than confident:

Much depends on who are allowed to vote and who are denied or simply give up, whether their votes are counted or discounted, and whether their choice in this American election is allowed to stand or is overturned by gerrymandered legislatures and jerry-rigged courts.

 
Julian Sanchez is a libertarian, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He specializes in technology and privacy issues.

Across the political spectrum, those with disparate principles, those who profoundly disagree on nearly every issue, share one common view. That view is joined by a wide majority of ordinary citizens, Americans willing to overcome unreasonable obstacles to make that view known as they cast their ballots.

This president, his administration, and those in office who support him have turned away from the core ideals of our American experiment.

 
Noted conservative David Frum, Presidential speechwriter for George W. Bush, watches the extreme obstacles to voting engineered by Republicans. Voters in Georgia wait in absurdly long lines for an astonishing number of hours simply to exercise their basic rights.

This is not what we think of when we talk about American democracy.

 
Noteworthy: Gratitude to those who carried out each dangerous operation [at 39 seconds]

Trump’s al-Baghdadi Speech & Obama’s Bin Laden Speech contrasted by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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From The Journal of Improbable Research:

When it comes to biometric authorization systems, there are many to choose from – candidates include face recognition, fingerprint recognition, ear recognition, voice recognition, tongue recognition and body odour recognition etc etc. But none is 100% perfect, so there’s always a demand for improvement and innovation.

In 2016, a team from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, and the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia proposed (and tested) a new one…

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From JoAnn Williams:

I got hooked on watercolor painting a couple of years ago as a lark. Nothing brings me so much frustration, joy, and satisfaction. It is so addicting, I get cranky if I don’t get my painting fix a couple of times a week.

It brings relief from the daily onslaught as a result of the Trump regime, enabled by the Republican party. Still, indignation and outright rage hung out somewhere in my gray matter.

I started painting these strange women with no particular reason in mind.

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From Gregory B. Gonzalez in MadMikesAmerica:

Donald J. Trump’s evil has been laid bare before your very eyes, and it’s so blatant that he’s not bothering to hide it anymore. Just the fact that he’s allowed over 210,000 of our fellow citizens to die a horrible death alone without being able to see their families one last time pretty much tells you all you need to know about him.

He cares nothing for your lives, and you want to know why? Because there’s nothing in it for him. His enablers, butt-kissers, and supporters are there as long as they’re loyal and useful to him. Once they’ve outlived their shelf-life, they’re as disposable as soiled toilet paper. If that hasn’t sunk in by now, you’re either blind, stupid, or ignorant.

I ask you, is it really any surprise that the country is falling apart? 2020 is almost over, and despite the pandemic, I’ve seen some truly beautiful things, acts of kindness and heroism that I only wish I could have been a part of. On the other hand, there have also been so many acts of cruelty and selfishness that have made me question my already shaky faith in humanity. Every damned day, I wake up dreading what I’m going to see on the news and hoping that it’s not going to be as bad as I think it’s going to be.

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