Prickly City by Scott Stantis for October 20, 2020

True. Now tell us something new.

Not to worry. Not even 225,000 covid deaths.

Yet.

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And because he is not a Disciple, Trump hates Fauci — but is afraid to fire him.

Trump will have to be content with insulting and sabotaging Fauci for the time being.

The Dæmon Pac Man is back.

171.666 days since the Georgian egonomic recovery. Everything is peachy.

They should have tried harder to suppress his vote.

Well, we know who he voted for…

Should we just get over ourselves?… The Real Divide in America Is Between Political Junkies and Everyone Else — Most Americans view politics as two camps bickering endlessly and fruitlessly over unimportant issues. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/opinion/polarization-politics-americans.html

Alongside growing controversy over judicial nominations, court reform and Covid-19 policies, American law is in the midst of a little-noticed paradigm shift in courts’ treatment of public health measures.

The Republican Party’s campaign to take over the federal and state courts is quietly upending a long and deeply embedded tradition of upholding vital public health regulations.

The result has been a radically novel and potentially catastrophic sequence of decisions blocking state responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

For centuries, American constitutional law granted state governments broad public health powers.

“Salus populi suprema lex,” the old saying went: The health of the people is the supreme law.

Such authority went back to the beginning of the Republic. In the famous 1824 case of Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice John Marshall defended the “acknowledged power of a State to provide for the health of its citizens.” States, he explained, were empowered to enact “inspection laws, quarantine laws” and “health laws of every description.”

Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts, who was arguably the most respected state judge of the 19th century, supported vast public health powers and described states’ authority to control epidemics as central to the sovereign power of government.

The Alabama Supreme Court agreed, citing the old dictum of salus populi, and courts in states like Georgia and Louisiana followed. In New York, the state’s highest court upheld disruptive health regulations like a ban on burials in urban church cemeteries.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opinion/coronavirus-health-courts.html

VOTE

4 studies confirm: conservatives in the US are more likely than liberals to endorse conspiracy theories and espouse conspiratorial worldviews, plus extreme conservatives were significantly more likely to engage in conspiratorial thinking than extreme liberals

At it’s core, conservatives (at least in the US) are often fueled by anger and fear that they consume through their media.

These are easy emotions to manipulate.

Fox, talk radio, facebook, ad nauseam are prime examples…hit the emotions and all reason and rational thought flies out the window. They are manipulating the gullible intellectually, emotionally, morally and ethically challenged amongst us. These people are not only uninformed, they are deliberately misinformed.

When the adults and decent human beings get back in charge we need to revisit a new fairness doctrine that encompasses all media.

Voted in person yesterday; no way I’m going to let a mail-in ballot get disqualified because I failed to cross a T.

No points for guessing who HE voted for.

If some people with no sense end up in medically induced comas on 11/3 & haven’t voted absentee; Is it voter suppression or poetic justice? It’s always all about turnout. Stay healthy. Show up. Post office or polling place.