Anyway since the last debate Biden doesn’t seem like the same person to me.
Since he quarantined, I really haven’t spent enough time with him to evaluate his personhood.
Biden is failing mentally at a great rate. By November, unless they have him propped up on heavy meds, he’ll be unable to speak cogently for a half hour.
Maybe that’s why they are promoting him, right? He can always, if he wins God forbid, step aside at any time in his presidency under ‘doctor’s orders’, specifically after the 2 year mark, which would mean his veep could serve as pres for up to 10 years.
Woe.
What’s new on the BBC? 
Remember that saying about a frog sitting in a pan of water, while it slowly comes to boil?
From Tucker:
Totalitarianism doesn’t shock us anymore.
Maybe that’s because, all of a sudden, it’s all around us.
In a recent incident, two armed police officers arrived at a family’s home in Wisconsin. Someone had reported the mother to police for arranging a play date for her daughter. That’s now a crime.
The first police officers asked the woman: “Are you aware that we’re in a stay at home order right now, by the government of Wisconsin? I don’t need to explain that to you?”
The woman responded by asking: “Why are you here?”
The police officer responded: “Because your daughter is going to play at other people’s home and you’re allowing it to happen…… Stop having your kid go by other people’s home.”
“Are we done here?” the woman asked.
The other officer then asked the woman for her name.
“I’m not giving it to you,” the woman said. “I haven’t done anything wrong.”
The first officer then said he already had the woman’s name.
“We got it,” the second officer told the woman. “And that’ll be documented too, that you’re uncooperative.”
“You are uncooperative. That will be documented.” Notice the tone they strike with this mother. They’re standing on her property, uninvited, hectoring her about the so-called crime of allowing her daughter to play outside the house.
The police officers aren’t apologizing for this. They don’t seem embarrassed to be carrying out an order that has no basis in science. They are utterly self-confident. They treat the woman with pure contempt, like a peasant. … They believe they have the right to do that.
Where exactly do they get that right? That’s a good question – a question we are strongly discouraged from asking. The short answer is, governors told them they could.
Never in American history have politicians been more powerful than they are now. Effectively, they are God. In the state of Maine, Gov. Janet Mills now has the power to suspend any law she doesn’t like. She can seize any state resource she feels like seizing. She can force any citizen or all citizens from their homes.
The governor can do all of this for as long as she believes Maine is in a state of “emergency.” There is virtually nothing Janet Mills can’t do. Many governors now have these powers.
J.B. Pritzker is the governor of Illinois. On Monday, Pritzker did his best to explain why his word is now law in the state. It has to be law, he explained. Otherwise, thousands would die:
“The stay-at-home order has prevented tens of thousands of illnesses and thousands of deaths,” Pritzker said. “History will remember those who put politics aside to come together to keep people safe. It will also remember those who so blindly devoted to ideology and the pursuit of personal celebrity that they made an enemy of science and of reason.”
In three sentences, Gov. Pritzker framed himself as a leader of historic stature. Those who doubt his decrees are “enemies” of science and reason – enemies of civilization itself. Enemies of the state.
Two days later, on Wednesday, it emerged that Pritzker’s own wife, who has state employees of her own, was one of these people. She had apparently violated the lockdown herself. Pritzker was asked about this.
“What is your response to people who say the stay at home order and non-essential travel bans aren’t being abided by your family?” a reporter asked Pritzker. “I believe there’s a report from Illinois Rising Action that says that she recently traveled to Florida.”
The governor responded: “Well, first of all, I want to say that in politics it used to be that we kept our families out of it. My official duties have nothing to do with my family, so I’m just not going to answer that question. It’s inappropriate, and I find it reprehensible honestly that that reporter wrote a story about it.”
Asking about whether or not J.B. Pritzker’s own family is obeying the order your family is morally obligated to follow is “inappropriate.” Indeed, the governor says it is “reprehensible.” How dare you?
It would be very useful in moments like these to have an independent media. News organizations exist to hold the powerful to account. Here we have the powerful acting with no accountability at all.
And our news media? They’re cheering it on, besotted fan girls. No abuse is too grotesque for them. No talking point is too stupid to repeat. Reporters will do whatever they are told. They’re all in.
MSNBC recently sent a camera crew to document one of the latest and most Orwellian developments in America’s decent into Chinese-style social control: barking drones that harangue citizens from the air. MSNBC was were delighted by it:
A voice coming from a drone said to people below: “|Please move away from each other and separate.”
A reporter said: “Elizabeth, New Jersey is now using drones to spread the life-saving message.”
The voice from the drone said: “You are not immune to this virus.”
“Move away from each other!” commands the state of New Jersey. “Break it up! Your God-given right to free assembly has been suspended indefinitely! Back inside, or you will face the consequences!”
MSNBC applauds this, as if it’s completely normal. It is, they tell us, “a lifesaving message.” Handmaidens to the corona-security state.
But to their credit, at least MSNBC put it on television. Most outlets don’t even bother to cover stories like this.
The other day, prosecutors in New Jersey charged nine people for daring to participate in a Jewish wedding in their backyard. A few months ago, this would have been news.
For 250 years, Americans have enjoyed the unfettered right to practice their faith as they choose. Now they don’t. It happened overnight.
Last month, Christians across the country were legally prohibited from celebrating Easter in their own churches. The national media barely noted it.
How exactly is this happening? It turns out, that’s not clear. Strangely, not very many people have asked.
Politicians have no right to do any of this. They can’t make it illegal for people to go to religious services. The Constitution of the United States expressly prohibits that. The words couldn’t be clearer.
The First Amendment explicitly prevents government from making any law that inhibits the exercise of religious faith. It’s a cornerstone of our history and our law.
Millions of people have fled to America from around the world precisely because our Bill of Rights gives them this guarantee. It’s why this country was founded. Now it’s gone.
Where did politicians get the authority to do all this? Because some elderly, power-drunk doctor told them to? That’s not how our system works – or can work.
Occasionally, you’ll hear some lonely civil libertarian fret that we may be on a “slippery slope” toward losing our rights. If only. We’re already there.
We’ve slid to the bottom of that slope. Our rights are gone. No one has explained how politicians are allowed to do this, to override the Constitution. No one seems to care. They’re too afraid.
But if we think this is moment scary, consider what might come next. Now that we’ve ceded all authority in the country to our political leaders, what can’t they do? What are the limits to their power?
That’s not a theoretical question. It’s not an argument over philosophy or political theory. It’s the most practical possible question. The answer will define where this country goes next. What can’t politicians do in the name of public health?
As it stands, politicians won’t let people worship, or work, or go to school, or see their aging parents. They’ve placed the nation under house arrest. That’s happening today, right now. But let’s say we all get more afraid. What then? What couldn’t they start doing? Could they intern people? Seriously.
You can dismiss the possibility if you like. But remember just a few months ago, most of us would have dismissed the idea of propaganda-spewing drones from above. Now we have them. So what’s next? What can’t they do? Let’s draw a line at some point.
Now, this is potentially good news indeed. 
Candace Owens sent us this statement this morning:
Twitter has locked me out of my account but has decided to omit which of their policies I have violated. Apparently, encouraging citizens to go to work is a violation, but Alexandria Ocasión Cortez encouraging workers to boycott and protest is not.
I stand by my statement about Governor Whitmer acting as a dictator. Both the Sherriff Departments and the citizens, and the state legislature of Michigan are in agreement with me. I will not kowtow to a socialist world order that seeks to limit my constitutional freedom of speech.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/breaking-conservative-giant-candace-owens-suspended-twitter-posting-tweet-challenging-tyrannical-michigan-governor-whitmer/
Well, two footnotes:
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The policies of a social media platform (i.e Twitter, Facebook, etc), should be publicly posted - for all to see.
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The social media platform should respond, to an individual member - when they inquire about being locked out.
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President Trump’s job approval soared 6 points in the last two weeks, according to the latest Gallup poll.
The new survey found 49 percent approve of the president’s job in office and 47 percent disapprove, a personal best with Gallup for Trump. Two weeks ago, 43 percent approved of the president’s job, according to the pollster.
Trump also had a 49 percent approval rating in mid-March, according to Gallup, before his rating took a 6-point plunge in the first half of April.
These folks have been responsible for the hell in America the past few years. Thank God for Trump.
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Of course they did not act alone.
" Democrats Demanded Millions Of Kavanaugh Records, But Stay Mum On Biden’s Senate Records
What’s new and interesting, on the BBC today?
Let me quote a bit, from story two.
In an interview with the Sun on Sunday, the PM says he was given “liters and liters of oxygen” to keep him alive.
So the key is to protect the respiratory system, whether we use modern medicine wonder drugs, vaccines, or natural medicine.
Most partisans find can find stats they like. But even this report also says, " Approval of his handling of the COVID-19 crisis is down 10 percentage points from last month including a 10-point decline among independents."
And NOT only that but Super Putin is having problems also.
On the other hand, in Trump land.
Footnote: Notice the title of Dave’s post: Americans Divided on Trump’s Handling of COVID-19 Situation. I’m sure when they poll his support base, Super Trump gets great ratings.
Kind of reminds me, of a Three Stooges episode. The boys went out in the wild west, to beat the bad guys. Well, the US Calvary was also called in. And the boys managed to defeat the bad guys - in their own Super Stooge way. Now I watch these video seminars, on how the professional homeopaths are fighting COVID-19. And they have about 80 remedies they use, around the world.
Well, to make a long story short…The US Calvary arrives, with all their men. Only to find the situation, well under control. But they retorted that famous line.
Never in the history of motion pictures, has the US Calvary ever been late.
And perhaps I and the professional homeopaths might be saying this - in the words of TV detective Monk. Now I don’t claim to be an expert. But I know a “little bit” about it. Actually, I probably know a “little bit” about many things, like spiritual healing, Traditional Chinese Medicine, etc… Now back to Monk:
Here are some short, BBC videos. 
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How do you cope when everyone in your family is infected with Covid-19?
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Coronavirus: ‘We used to donate to this food bank, now we rely on it’
And someone I wished a happy birthday on Facebook, shared this message. I wish the same, for all those here and elsewhere.
I am thanking everyone who has sent me birthday wishes today and those coming up later. As the world is fighting a global monster called " COVID 19" (CORONA VIRUS), i pray that your foot shall not be moved and that the Lord will keep you, your household and church family from it. I am thanking everyone have sent me a birthday wishes today and those coming up later. As the world is fighting a global monster called " COVID 19" (CORONA VIRUS), i pray that your foot shall not be moved and that the Lord will keep you, your household and church family from all evil.
I think it depends on how the economy reopens which is a moving target and will tend to improve as we get through this. BTW do you count yourself as a partisan?
Yes, I think all of us U.S. political commenters display partisan inclinations. I agree the economy will affect the election, but suspect it will especially pivot on how COVID-19 plays out and how Trump’s effectiveness in handling this crisis is perceived.
Isn’t it interesting, that the economy upon which Trump could take great pride, and was the main stumbling-block for the democrats in defeating him in November, is what the virus is taking down?
As Hillary said, never let a good virus go to waste.
Well, we have some good news from Europe.
Interesting! It’s almost enough to make some folk believe there is a God, and Providence is real.
Well, I found a “cure” on the BBC. It’s probably just as good, like the ones Trump promotes. 
or Satan!