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People are already attacking Siegel as a 'Fox News guy'.

See...this is why I don't believe the Left really believes in science either...just their narrative.

Siegel does work for Fox, but is a Professor at NYU, FACP, etc.

But liberals are going to dismiss him...why?


If your first response is to dismiss someone because of their political or media affiliation...maybe consider that it is YOU that is the biased one.

Just saying.

Siegel may do a good job, or bad job (like Sanjay Gupta, who has done a good job in the past, but been awful of late). But he is a good physician. Just dismissing him without evidence is exactly the kind of thing Trump would do.

If we were consistent, we'd demand Biden perform tests on air too.

Of course, Dems don't want to do that. So there is a ton of hypocrisy here.
We all have a merry chuckle as they're voted down and we watch preparations for Biden's inauguration continue

Trumpists don't have enough votes in either chamber


Sort of

You'd only get Acting President Nancy Pelosi if the vote counting wasn't done by January 20th when Trump's term ends

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Basically, if e.g. Arizona's Biden votes were thrown out, Dems would object to Arkansas or some other state soon after Arizona

When the chambers separate to consider the objection, the House would refer the question to committee first

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@philski68

And the committee would intentionally never meet, unless / until there was some deal worked out to let the vote-counting continue without issue

So definitely possible, a point of leverage for Dems, but still exceptionally unlikely

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@philski68

Congress can do whatever it wants – if both chambers agree to it
politicians always do the politically convenient thing pretty much...1


people in general act out of self interest and in line with their community expectations. Republicans are horrible because they're collectively horrible, and their political incentives are all to be horrible. 2

individuals are accountable for their evil, obviously. but Republican incentives and communities actively encourage people to embrace their absolute cruelest and worst impulses, sometimes even over actual self preservation. 3

all of which is to say—the goal of our politics right now is to change those incentives, as much as we can.

the best way to do that is by defeating republicans over and over again until they have to stop being so horrible to win votes.4

but—Cheney and other republicans seeing their incentives shifting is good, and we should encourage that if we can. 5
It makes sense to me.

Donald Trump is the most energizing and polarizing force in American politics in living memory.

He turned out insane numbers both of lovers and haters. It’s not hard to see the haters outnumber the lovers.


The ‘you’re telling me more people voted for Nobody Biden than Messiah Obama?!’ incredulity ignores the reality of Trump.

No. No one voted for Biden. They voted against ‘Literal Hitler’.

Of course they did. The media programmed them to. The academy. The swamp...

Trump’s strength and weakness are his inability to avoid the spotlight. He wouldn’t let the election be a referendum on Biden and the left. If he had, he might have blunted the turnout on the left.

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Instead, he made it about himself - and he is the most hated (and lived) guy in America.

The people turned out to ‘topple a dictator.’ They voted ‘like their lives depended on it.’ They stopped ‘fascism!’

Throw in the fact they didn’t actually have to ‘turnout’ at all, they just had to fill in ballots that were mailed directly to them, and it’s no surprise at all so many voted.

The left fundamentally altered the process of voting to create the surge. It worked. We’re surprised?
The only problem @icecube is that you didn't get Trump to put $500 billion of capital in Black communities. It's a lie. It's ONE LINE on the cover sheet of his so-called Platinum Plan. No specifics. NOTHING. Bruh, you got played. 1/2


Why do I know you got played @icecube? I've talked to numerous Black Republicans who currently work with the administration and THEY said the $500 billion "commitment" is a joke. You're just wrong, bruh. 2/2

I am 100% for Black folks making it clear that we are constituents who must be addressed by who is in power. But @icecube, you REALLY think you got Trump to agree to $500 billion when you said you never talked to him? Bruh, you talked to Jared Kushner. 1/10

Also @icecube, the other reason I know the $500 billion is fraudulent because after Trump announced the plan in front of his Black minions in ATL, he never brought it up again. It was a one-page press release. 2/10

Another reason I know the plan is a fraud @icecube, is because I reached out to the Trump White House AND campaign to have at least ONE person come on #RolandMartinUnfiltered to discuss the Platinum Plan, and no one would. That's a FACT. 3/10