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Perhaps you should take it up with former Chief Supreme Court Justice of the United States, Oliver Wendall Holmes, to whom that exact quote is often attributed: “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." Its also been similarly stated by legal experts like John Stuart Mill, and even Abraham Lincoln. Maybe it’s you who’s the odd man out on this one? Freedom brings with it certain responsibilities, especially when others around us are equally free.

Perhaps, but it’s also a valid claim. These protests were organized by a tiny handful of special interest organizations. Sure, the people attending have valid concerns and real problems, and I’m sure they’d rather life get back to normal (like all of us). They are cognizant of government overreach and rightly wish to protect personal liberties. Acknowledging these things, however, should not prevent us from acknowledging in parallel that many/most of these fringe protests are being centrally coordinated and have purposes entirely unrelated to the stated protest goals. You’ll notice these Flu Klux Klan protests are all white and against democratic governors, rather similar to the Black Lives Matter protests which were later shown to be astroturfed and largely driven by Russian intelligence. Their message then was that All Lives Matter, but I guess that is only true until you’re trying to protect citizens from global pandemics. Then, lives magically become expendable and the message switches to “screw you grandma, I need Fuddruckers to re-open so I can get me a hamburger and then go bowling STAT!.”

Sounds about right

Fair enough

Many have, in fact. GOP strategists, senators, representatives, governors, and media outlets have been collectively telling Trump that his press briefings are doing more harm than good and you’ll notice they’ve gone from 2 hours per day down to 15-20 minutes, often with Trump just abruptly walking out of the briefing room.

“I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.” ― P. T. Barnum

Right. I’m not convinced stupidity is an adequate explanation for what we are experiencing. He’s a master at controlling media narratives. It’s too simplistic to assume this past four years has been nothing more than a string of mistakes from a village idiot. There’s a method to the madness...

Meanwhile, I continue wondering: What’s he trying to distract us from? What was he doing that required a comment so crazy to hide from view? We’ve spent 2 days talking about Lysol and a lot can happen behind the scenes during 2 days. I continue wondering what it was.

And now that their legal CYA statement is in place, Darwin will sort the rest out

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21231763/dr-rick-bright-fired-hhs-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-vaccine-trump

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-updates-us-death-toll-tops-40000-stay/story?id=70237290&cid=social_twitter_abcn And displacement of blame and scapegoating of the “other” shifts into a higher gear. Dear Mr President: The virus is already here and doesn’t care a whit about your xenophobia and nationalism.

Hygiene. Proximity. The animals aren’t stacked five high nor are they being ingested. There are other reasons, too.

If he gets any closer, he’ll need an NDA or at least to send me a hush money payment (or both!)

I've never heard of D Raoult. I have heard of D Trump... in fact, can't seem to get away from him...

I tend to agree with this, especially since he's blaming the WHO for all the exact same things people are blaming him for.

<rimshot> I'm in town all week, folks

My immediate reaction to this is that he must be trying to distract us all from something else, like the rollback of the Clean Air act or something similar (like removing oversight on how the $2T stimulus gets spent)

While there may be practical / social reasons not to do this, I don’t believe there are any technical or legal limitations to prevent it. It’d probably be a weak case, too. It’s hard prosecuting crimes against humanity, even against those who by the millions had their people sliced up with machetes, raped, and worse. Trump is a despicable shit stain of a human being and I’d sooner vote for a forced lifetime diet of gas station sushi than vote for him, but gross incompetence, grift, and corruption isn’t enough for him to be found guilty of such things on the world stage.

One did, but lost in the primary. Her name was Elizabeth Warren

That's sort of the point of his daily 90+ minute press briefings on the virus (aka: infomercials). Not necessarily about Obama, but it's a way for him to set the narrative he wants... to introduce storylines and topics into the ether. He spews enough nonsense... floods the zone with shit... and people can no longer remain tethered to the thread of fact and reality. Then, at election time, the people predisposed to supporting him can point to his comments... "best response ever"... "not possible to do better"... "governors getting everything they need." etc. He rightly understands that it's hard to track an individual raindrop during a tornado.

I’d say 52½ since Romney at least voted for 1 of the 2 articles of impeachment I appreciate you acknowledging we’re all sometimes faulty, even you. TBH, however, I’m not even remotely convinced that a few folks on “the left” going off the rails or saying less than perfect things about Trump on the internet or on news shows or pushing too hard for impeachment are ultimately going to matter very much in this election. Trump has a solid 40% electoral base. What people on “the left” do doesn’t really matter in the least. What will matter, you ask? Money. Massive. Pallets upon pallets on trucks and in bank accounts. Of money. That matters far more than a few disparaging comments in the Twittersphere. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/trump-fundraising-2020.html

It was the FireFauci hashtag included in the original tweet he shared that was problematic. The defense was IMO aimed at Fauci's comment that had we acted sooner we'd be better off... The FakeNews part is that Fauci is lying... that we acted as soon as physically possible (a claim Navarro from his team repeated last night on 60 Minutes)... which is nonsense https://www.cbsnews.com/news/personal-protective-equipment-ppe-doctors-nurses-short-supply-60-minutes-2020-04-12/

Meanwhile, Trump decided to retweets a call to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the only person that's actually helping and whom the public actually trusts https://www.axios.com/trump-fauci-retweet-conservative-backlash-coronavirus-071a7a88-e677-40db-90c4-493209a37e88.html So, now in addition to the additional security Fauci has needed to protect his life from these idiots due to being good at his job (for at least the last 2 weeks), the character assassination and painting him as public enemy number one is about to get much louder and more intense.

And yet the moment you cast out labels like “left” and “right” you immediately bifurcate the world into a forced and unrepresentative binary “either/or” state in your mind. There is no spectrum or color, just black and white; hit and cold; us and them. Instead of simply recognizing our shared uniqueness, our commonality from personal difference (everyone you ever meet will know things which you do not), you presume to know all you need to know about the individual human based on a one-dimensional label. You may as well be describing everyone based on the shape of their skull like the idiot phrenologists of old, and I know you well enough by now to acknowledge that’s not who you are at your core.