Casino mogul and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson has died at age 87

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Tuesday January 12, 2021 · 5:47 AM PST

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Sheldon Adelson, the multibillionaire casino mogul and Republican Party megadonor, died Monday at age 87.

Adelson died from complications related to treatment he was receiving for non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, according to a press release Tuesday morning from Las Vegas Sands, the casino and resort company Adelson owned.

Adelson, whose net worth was estimated by Forbes to be around $33 billion, had been among the most-watched donors supporting President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection effort.

Sheldon Adelson bankrolled Newt Gingrich’s failed presidential bid in 2012.

List of Positive (and Negative) Studies of Chloroquine and COVID-19

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Tuesday July 28, 2020 · 11:23 AM PDT

2020/07/28 · 11:23

List of Chloroquine studies

There are now dozens of studies of Chloroquine as a prophylactic or cure for COVID-19. For some reason, some studies show a benefit, others do not.

Due to the critical nature of the pandemic, any straw is worth grasping, even if it isn’t politically correct.

COVID-19: Ammon Bundy Destroys Idaho

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Thursday July 09, 2020 · 4:29 PM PDT

2020/07/09 · 16:29

I’m sure you remember this story from last April:

In Idaho, Far-Right Republicans Defy Coronavirus Health Restrictions

The Bundy Gang was protesting regulations requiring face masks, stay at home orders, and closing of churches.

So now, Idahoans are living in Ammon Bundy Hell. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that ignoring basic healthy safety practices would result in the epidemic sweeping through Idaho.

Tulsa, Oklahoma: More Wreckage in the Wake of the Trump Campaign

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Wednesday July 08, 2020 · 7:35 AM PDT

2020/07/08 · 07:35

Who Could Have Imagined This Would Have Happened?

COVID-19: New records reached for daily case increases in Oklahoma, Tulsa County

With 858 new COVID-19 cases reported in Oklahoma on Tuesday, the state has set a new record for the number of new cases reported in a single day and has landed on New York’s travel advisory list.

When the Trump campaign announced plans for an indoor rally in Tulsa, the experts said this was a really bad idea. I guess the experts were right.

Florida Voter Registration Update

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Sunday December 01, 2019 · 3:56 AM PST

2019/12/01 · 03:56

Gillum lays claim to 100K new Florida voters, but numbers don't add up

The former Tallahassee mayor’s Forward Florida Action, a voter registration group founded after the Democrat’s failed 2018 bid for Florida governor, said earlier this month that more than 100,000 new people were added to state voter rolls between April and the end of October because of its efforts.

but …..

But the Florida Division of Elections tells a different story.

Outside groups like Gillum’s added fewer than 27,000 voters to the rolls between January and the end of September, according to state data. And the overwhelming majority of the roughly half-million voters who have registered in the state this year did so at their local motor vehicle office.

My own examination of Florida voter registration numbers shows new registrations for the Dems are lagging in 2019:

Florida Secretary of State site

one scary data point from the news article is the implication that Dems spent $1,000,000 to register 10,000 new voters. That’s something like $100 for a new voter.

The bottom line is that it’s a lot easier to read about impeachment and the various internet jokes about Trump, as opposed to getting out in the Real World and registering voters. But, registering new Dems is the way to beat Trump.

Stories You Can Ignore

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Wednesday July 17, 2019 · 5:35 PM PDT

2019/07/17 · 17:35

There is a flood of “news articles” about Trump and the Republicans out there on the Web, far too many to read on a daily basis. My criteria for reading such stuff is whether or not it will have any significance in the future. Otherwise, it’s just click bait Intended for you to read and feel better for a few seconds — junk food for the Dems. Such stories make you feel good for a moment, but have no long term value. Using that filter — will this story mean anything down the road? — here are the types of stories you can safely ignore:

Any story about Trump with the word “could” in the headline. Stuff that “could” happen rarely does, and if it does, you can read about it then.

Any story about Trump with the term “ex-Prosecutor says” in the headline. They are always wrong.

Any story about an election less than 60 days out with the word “investigation “ in the headline. If your side needs an investigation of the opponent to win, you are losing. Move on to something else.

Any story about a Republican official you never heard of and sex. Since you don’t see similar stories about Dems doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Members of both parties are humans, which means they both commit such crimes.

Any story about White House staffers being alarmed, concerned, frustrated, angry, whatever. They don’t mean anything.

Any story about Contempt of Congress. Like Barr is going to prosecute anyone. Waste of electrons. If you disagree, look up “Eric Holder” and “contempt of Congress” on the Google.

Stories about pronouncements from “presidential historians”.

Comments from ex-GOP officials criticizing Trump. The Deplorables don’t care about what they have to say. The percent of actual Republican voters who would pull the lever for a Dem presidential candidate is less than 10 percent.

Any stories about national polls and Trump’s numbers. There are literally millions of Dems in New York and California who hate Trump, and who respond to polls. Those “excess” millions in New York and California heavily impact national polls.

”MSNBC Commentator Trashes Trump” = “Water is Wet”.

Stories about Trump and campaign finance violations. Do you really care if Trump’s campaign pays a fine?

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Buzzfeed’s Jason Leopold’s prior “Shenanigans”

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Sunday January 20, 2019 · 8:20 AM PST

2019/01/20 · 08:20

One of the two authors of the Buzzfeed article claiming that T***p ordered Michael Cohen to commit perjury to Congress is Jason Leopold, a former writer for Truthout.org. In 2006, Leopold wrote a bombshell article claiming that Karl Rove had been indicted by a Special Prosecutor. The reaction to that article here was furious, especially as time passed and Karl Rove was not perp walked for his mug shot. Many people here were not around at the time of the Truthout.org fiasco, so I am posting some history as background for the Buzzfeed fiasco.

A great summary of the Truthout.org events was posted here:

www.dailykos.com/…

Spoiler: Karl Rove was never indicted.

What is striking is that Truthout.org, which published the Karl Rove story, issued statements backing Leopold eerily similar to those of Buzzfeed:

For the past few days, we have endured non-stop attacks on our credibility, and we have fought hard to defend our reputation. In addition, we have worked around the clock to provide additional information to our readership. People want to know more about this, and our job is to keep them informed. We take that responsibility seriously.

Ash now writes that he and investigative reporter Jason Leopold have three independent sources confirming that Rove’s attorneys “were handed an indictment either late in the night of May 12 or early in the morning of May 13.” The sources are knowledgeable, says Ash.

Truthout.org tripled down on the bogus Rove story before admitting it was false.

Keep this in mind as the current Buzzfeed story is defended by its editor.

Dow Jones is Below 23,000

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Thursday December 20, 2018 · 9:13 AM PST

2018/12/20 · 09:13

The Dow may pop up again, but we are now definitely in correction territory, and headed the wrong way. Forgetting the long term trend down, what is probably pushing the market down is Trump's threat of a shut down, just in time for Christmas.

It's the economy, stupid.

LA County District Attorney Declines to Press Charges Against Avenatti

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Wednesday November 21, 2018 · 3:56 PM PST

2018/11/21 · 15:56

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The Los Angeles district attorney declined to prosecute attorney Michael Avenatti on felony domestic abuse charges on Wednesday and referred allegations that he roughed up his girlfriend to the city attorney for a possible misdemeanor case.

Obviously, the video did vindicate Avenatti. It’s unclear whether he was setup, or the girlfriend improvised her story.

Conventional Wisdom Destroyed by the 2018 Midterms

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Wednesday November 07, 2018 · 8:36 PM PST

2018/11/07 · 20:36

Every election, we get diaries and comments that reflect long held memes about elections that have finally been disproven by the results of this last election. Let’s hope that nobody mindlessly repeats them in future elections. Some of the favorite canards:

High turnout helps Dems. Nope, we found that high turnout in Red states helps the GOP. If you have any doubts, see Florida 2016 and Florida 2018.

Late deciders break against the incumbent. There was no clear pattern of this in the 2018 — the polls taken a week before the election generally held up on Election Day.

Early voting! Despite all the hype, early voting is not predictive of the results.

Investigation! This is an old canard, news of some investigation of a GOP candidate just before the election, which will cause them to lose. Geez, one GOP candidate won after they had died, so what sort of investigation is going to give GOP voters pause?

Gender Gap. Although it is true that there is a gender gap in voting patterns, the big numbers of pro-Dem women voters are in Blue states, particularly New York and California. In places where it could matter like a Florida, Texas or Ohio, there isn’t much of a gender gap.

Diaries I Can Do Without Until After the Election

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Tuesday October 30, 2018 · 11:05 PM PDT

2018/10/30 · 23:05

People love to play the Greatest Hits, election after election. For me, these get old, but for newbies, they must be exciting. Let me recite some of the titles:

”You Guys Get Out There and Work Harder”

”My Candidate is only 5 points Behind”.

”The Only Poll That Matters in on Election Day”

”The Polls are Wrong”, with the ever popular flip side “The Election Was Rigged”.

variants of “The Polls are Wrong” are:

”They Don’t Poll People with Cell Phones”

”The Polling Models over represent Republicans “

and some other Golden Oldies:

”This Year, Young People are Going to Vote for Sure”

“My Mother Voted Democratic, so victory is in the Bag”.

”We Got This”.

if the effort that went into these repetitive diaries instead was used to go out into the Real World and generate some votes, we might win a few more elections.

Antifa Protestor in Portland is Latest RightWing Meme

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Saturday October 20, 2018 · 4:28 PM PDT

2018/10/20 · 16:28

YouTube Video

This idiot is all over the right wing media universe today (Per Google, I couldn’t bother to read the stories on the Daily Caller and other scurrilous sites). The GOP is desperately trying to rile up their base, and this is how they do it.

Apparently, the Antifa guy was insulting this woman’s late husband, who died in 9/11.

of course, any debunking of the video would be useful — was it staged? How did it happen that someone was filming at the moment the exchange started?

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