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Despite the Trump election challenges, despite the Georgia Senate runoff that has turned Loeffler, Warnock, Perdue and Ossoff into unlikely household names, the most intriguing consequence of the 2020 election is Nancy Pelosi’s slim Democratic majority in the House. How did that happen?

The unexpected result suggests that, like much else in 2020, something is causing beliefs and allegiances to shift in the U.S. One of those forces is Covid-19.

Joe Biden made a core voting issue out of President Trump’s leadership and statements during the early months of the pandemic. Some 10 endless months later, with a resurgence of infections and hospitalizations, we have entered a new phase of the country’s experience with Covid. The terms of the relationship between political leadership and public assent to that leadership are being reset.

Memories of Mr. Trump’s role are fading, and Mr. Biden’s daily oversight is six weeks away. That means some of the most visible dissenters from the Trump coronavirus policy are themselves in charge of managing the pressures of the current surge, to wit: Govs. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Gavin Newsom of California and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.

How’s it going?

Same article w/o paywall: https://archive.vn/GCnL6

FuckCCP89 says

Same article w/o paywall: https://archive.vn/GCnL6

Good lord, how do you even have the patience to read a blowhard's opinion piece? I attempted it, but it's just opinion. Journalists rarely cite facts and they never cite sources. I can be a blowhard myself, but this is the blowhard's blowhard's blowhard. There is no information in the article it's purely bullshit. I cannot understand why people can't recognize that "news" is just bullshit. I don't understand at all why people trust a professional journalist at this point. Their job is to take an idea, a single idea, and stretch it out into a dozen paragraphs of nonsense.

They turn a sentence into 20 paragraphs. It's like reading a high school student's book report when they've not read the goddamn book but read the back cover. Why are these people considered credible at all? It's a total mystery to me.

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
WSJ edit:
“Even Democrats understand when they are being fucked over by politicians over a flu virus.”

Patrick says

Quote of the part that doesn't require subscription:

I was able to read the whole thing, no paywall. If you can't learn to sift through/past the partisan BS, you may as well give up most news.

richwicks says

Good lord, how do you even have the patience to read a blowhard's opinion piece?

Sounds like you didn't. Too bad, you missed out on some encouraging insights, but I guess you were too busy saying how terrible everything is.

NuttBoxer says

Sounds like you didn't. Too bad, you missed out on some encouraging insights, but I guess you were too busy saying how terrible everything is.

I may have, but but I don't have time for articles that are so padded.

Most things labelled as news are just designed to waste your time, or entirely misinform you. For example, ANYTHING with regard to the Mueller report over the last 3 years was just a complete waste of time.

richwicks says

For example, ANYTHING with regard to the Mueller report over the last 3 years was just a complete waste of time.

Good thing I know about the false Left/Right paradigm, so I never read word one.

We definitely need to choose how to make the best use of our time. I think encouraging articles showing the shift away from pandemic madness, and towards more grounded, middle-of-the-road outlooks are a good use.

https://gbdeclaration.org/
This is what the realty is. Rest is all smoke screen.

election2020 says

https://gbdeclaration.org/
This is what the realty is. Rest is all smoke screen.

I agree, but I think a lot of the point of the lockdown is in fact to destroy small businesses so that big businesses can profit more.

Certainly the epidemic has benefitted Amazon greatly.

Patrick says

election2020 says

https://gbdeclaration.org/
This is what the realty is. Rest is all smoke screen.

I agree, but I think a lot of the point of the lockdown is in fact to destroy small businesses so that big businesses can profit more.

Certainly the epidemic has benefitted Amazon greatly.

I think lowly of our politicians, But may be they are as "evil" as you think.
@patrick , I suggest you put this declaration as a sticky somewhere so that your viewers can sign.
"common sense and critical thinking" is even more important than guns to keep our republic alive.

Good idea @election2020

Now it is at the top of every page in the header.

election2020 says

"common sense and critical thinking" is even more important than guns to keep our republic alive.

Just remember, corrupt governments never surrender power voluntarily, and freedom has always come at the cost of blood. At some point you'll have to put down the pen and pick up the sword...