“They spent their money on unnecessary overhead, lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous activity by the campaign staff and vanity ads way too early,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican consultant who advised John McCain and Jeb Bush and is an outspoken Trump critic. “You could literally have 10 monkeys with flamethrowers go after the money, and they wouldn’t have burned through it as stupidly.”
(https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/trump-plowed-billion-losing-cash-advantage-73708210)
“Government support will account for about 40 percent of total U.S. farm income this year.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/trump-farmers-subsidies.html
“There’s no argument that’s going to be persuasive enough to shame Senate Republicans to look within themselves and do the right thing.”
“Republicans are also well aware that they’re being hypocrites by violating the precedent they set in 2016 when they refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, during an election year.”
“…she will likely be the deciding vote on the Supreme Court in the case to overturn the Affordable Care Act in the middle of a pandemic that has already killed more than 210,000 people in the United States.”
“Given Barrett’s record criticizing the 2012 court decision upholding the law, there can be little doubt about how she would vote. She wrote in 2017 that Roberts “pushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute.”
“Any senator who votes for her will be at least partly responsible for more than 20 million people’s losing their health insurance. And they’ll be responsible for insurance companies’ once again being allowed to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.”
“More than 350 scientists and conservationists from 40 countries have signed a letter calling for global action to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises from extinction.”
“By far the biggest threat is becoming accidently captured in fishing equipment and nets, which kills an estimated 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises a year.”
“The scientists say that more than half of the 90 living species of whales, dolphins and porpoises, are of conservation concern”
Vote for Joe Biden.
“There are only two age groups that continue to support Trump… a narrow slice of people older than baby boomers, typically in their late 70s, who have long been conservative…[and] a group of middle-aged people who include the youngest boomers and the oldest members of Generation X”
Everyone should vote for Joe Biden, but especially older Americans.
Joe Biden wants to stand up to the abuse of power by prescription drug corporations.
Joe Biden wants to protect and strengthen Medicare as we know it and ensure quality, affordable healthcare for all older Americans.
Joe Biden wants to preserve and strengthen social security.
Joe Biden wants to provide help for older workers who want to keep working.
“…the Massachusetts Department of Transportation will change the exit numbering system on all highways crisscrossing the commonwealth in October…”
“The $2.8 million project will change signs to milepost-based exit numbering, complying with a federal requirement. Only 10% of that cost will depend on state highway funds.”
“Exit numbering will correspond west to east on the Mass Pike, south to north on I-93, I-95, I-495, I-91, and U.S. 3.”
“…old exit numbers will temporarily be posted in yellow underneath the new signs…”
“The study found a consistent pattern across measures: Americans incorrectly believe that members of the other party dehumanize, dislike, and disagree with them about twice as much as they actually do.”
https://beyondconflictint.org/americas-divided-mind/
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