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Linda Mitchell, KCMO's avatar

HCR, you said the magic words that made my day: "forensic accountants." Although one has to admire, in a certain way, the utter chutzpah of Murdering Mitch and his Malevolent Minions in refusing to vote for additional payments but making it possible for the two lame-arses running on the "No Party of Lincoln Here" ticket in Georgia to claim they "support" it, I am desperately hoping that it doesn't work. Flipping the Senate--and then actually retaining control over it through re-education of the populace and undercutting the propaganda sewer that is Fox News--is to me the most important political happening of the next two weeks. It is interesting that Murdoch is abandoning the Cheeto as well, at least according to his headlines in the NYPost.

Something else that is of interest to me: the fact that domestic white terrorism has been popping up this year in numerous places but has been and continues to be significantly under-reported: not just the Nashville Bomber, who, according NPR this morning, had been reported numerous times to the police but was not investigated, but also shopping malls, bowling alleys, etc. have experienced upticks in white male violence resulting in death. These have been buried in the news, but there is a truly scary Wikipedia page that lists all the mass shootings in the US in 2020, many of which are connected to violence against (female) spouses and children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2020

The fact is that if the shooter is a white male, and doesn't die in the process of his killing spree, he gets a level of consideration and "respect" that never occurs when a Black person is alleged to have been the perpetrator--or, indeed, the Black person is seen coming out of a garage, walking down a street, coming to the door of his own house, in her own back garden . . . I don't know the solution to this problem except perhaps hypnosis therapy, because anti-bias training seems to have no effect on most white men and women. But the dying screams of the patriarchy can be seen in these white male terrorists' activities and they are aided and abetted by a policing system that seems to sympathize with them.

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Dave G's avatar

Missing family and friends after nearly ten months of being very careful, we older folks need a stimulus of patience in addition to the promise of a vaccination somewhere down the line. I have days when being patient and careful come easily as I look ahead to normalcy with a new president and relief from this virus later in 2021, hoping I have several good years ahead. Then come days when I'm so very weary of this president and his failures on all levels, the relentlessness of Covid, the wide gap between American political camps, that I'm glad I'm nearer the end of my life than the beginning.

Today, I'm hopeful that a President Biden and a competent, caring Administration can help us dig out of this health care hole. Patience rules the day.

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