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Now this thread is guitar porn!

Update -

At 8:34am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 6,748,150
Deaths worldwide - 395,604
Confirmed cases US - 1,908,052
Deaths US - 109,764


At 6:42pm - domestic data only
Confirmed cases US - 1,920,630
Deaths US - 110,247

Oh God, I needed this!

I actually do welcome it also.

I believe in deathbed conversions and all that other stuff. I believe that hearts and minds really can be changed and that people are redeemable. Evidently Somebody thought so.

It’s just that with the aforementioned “recovering GOPers, I’m not 100% willing to trust. At least not yet. Most of them seem converted and appear to have faced the error of their ways. But that’s right now. With trump to disown and denounce and disavow.

But what happens if Romney decides to take another stab at it? What happens if Mike Dewine steps forward? Heck, what do they do when Tom Cotton and Mike Pompeo decide to go for it? Do they remain reasonable like they are now? Or do they run back to the GOP so they can keep cutting taxes for the rich, keep using that as an excuse to cut services and programs for the poor and needy, curtail civil rights and voting rights, and try to own and dominate women’s bodies?

Is it just trump they can’t stomach? Or have they started realizing it’s their policies, and a lot of what they believe in, that they need to rethink - and leave behind?

I hope it’s the latter. I sincerely do hope there’s a genuine re-evaluation. I hope there’s a great awakening, a great realization, that policies only of what benefits the haves and have-mores are just plain wrong.

But I’ve been around long enough to know I shouldn’t get my hopes up too high.

Dayum...

The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 6/6/20

A rarity! They ran the "full monty" - ALL the revolving graphics we used to see, one after another, during the Andrew Cuomo presentation, as much of it as MSNBC ran before George Floyd's murder changed the lead.

All times Pacific, source: Johns Hopkins/NBC News

At 8:34am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 6,748,150
Deaths worldwide - 395,604
Confirmed cases US - 1,908,052
Deaths US - 109,764

And NOT ONE of them stopped to render aid.

One of them paused and was pushed away by another officer (or should I say "stormtrooper"?)

And this was an old WHITE guy!

And the aggressors just kept on walking. Some of them didn't even glance over at him as he laid there bleeding FROM THE HEAD. Old man. Probably on some sort of blood-thinner medication, which I'd guess because of how rapidly the blood had flowed from his fresh head wound. Just a couple of seconds after his head hit the pavement, there was already a puddle of blood.

My husband's on blood thinners, and it's rather startling how quickly bleeding can start.

And literally NOBODY stopped to try to give first aid. I would also guess that all those stormtroopers had received at least SOME first aid instruction as part of their training (assuming they'd had training of some sort). Same thing with the police. Don't they all take first aid courses as part of their jobs or part of their entry onto the force? Don't they take instruction in the impact of chokeholds and other restraints from moderate to extreme?

Maybe somebody here can help me out with this. It just seems to me that ANYBODY going into law enforcement where you're called upon to involve yourself with people in close contact would have to go through some training in basic first aid. Wouldn't they have to know at least the rudimentary life-sustaining techniques like CPR and knowing how to take a pulse and recognizing the physical symptoms of someone losing consciousness - AND WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU SEE THAT? Don't they have to have at least some minimal training on that - even if it's just to carry through while they wait for the ambulance or other first responder they just called to the scene?

It's about time. He and others in the GOP BUILT THIS.

He's doing his best to make amends by now. By NOW. But where was he a few years ago when he was lacerating Dems and using that sharp tongue and that shrewd language and those powerful phrasings - AGAINST our side? When he was so smug and uttered such juicy and cocky and pointed smackdowns?

ALL OF 'EM.

The Steve Schmidts and the Rick Wilsons and the David Jollys and the other "recovering republi-CONS" who can't stomach being part of that fucked up group of "true believers" anymore. They may not like it now, but they helped build it. They laid the groundwork.

You just wait - after trump is gone, I suspect many of them will go right straight back to the "old ways" and be proud full-on GOP again. In a way, they're a lot like donald, who cares only about how whatever-it-is makes him look. They realize that having anything to do with the "party of trump" makes them look bad, and maybe it's made them give some thought to all this.

MAYBE it's made them start to think, and change their minds, and adjust their views, and be a little more objective than agenda-driven.

Maybe.

And I went to Catholic school where they taught forgiveness for sin, from God to us sinners, from Jesus on the Cross to all of us, and from all of us to each other. And I'm trying. I'm trying to "think forgiveness." I'm trying to think that maybe there really might have been a sincere change-of-heart among these self-described "former Republicans."

That said, though, hopefully you'll excuse me for not wanting to hold my breath...

Meantime, I'd rather stand with those who can't breathe.