Stay_Disappointed wrote:

azrider wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:what was the vital purpose?

it wasn't hugs and kisses after the civil war. there was occupation and resentment. didn't want to strip the south of all their dignity. you did that, probably fighting a guerrilla style war for the next 25+ years.

The south should be grateful the North was so nice

JFLNYC wrote:Trump Administration Asks Judge to Stop Publication of Bolton’s Book

Uncle Milty wrote:I try to limit my optimism but the polls posted on 538 today offer a lot of hope.

threecount wrote:
Biden just needs to stay in basement and not screw up the debates...

While the bill already has enough Democratic cosponsors to pass the House, it is expected to go nowhere in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has expressed staunch opposition to D.C. statehood and even compared it to “full bore socialism” in an interview last year.

President Donald Trump has also dismissed the idea, saying Republicans would be “very, very stupid” to grant D.C. statehood because of the District’s overwhelmingly Democratic leanings.

“So we can have two more Democratic — Democrat senators and five more congressmen? No thank you. That’ll never happen,” Trump told the New York Post last month.

The House has considered D.C. statehood before, with a failed floor vote in 1993. Since then, there have been occasional rumblings about making the District the 51st state but no concrete action until Democrats took back the House and held the chamber’s first hearing on the issue in more than 25 years in September.

threecount wrote:Plenty of time left but this feels different than 2016...

At this point Trump was up in some polls against Hillary..

Now I see some of these swing states like Michigan and if Biden can just win that and PA or Florida, it's game over...

Story out tonight how even Trump's own campaign internal polls show him way down...

Biden just needs to stay in basement and not screw up the debates...

Just my opinion...

Wolfgang622 wrote:I don’t know where people have this idea that Biden has some great position. He MUST sweep WI, PA, MI to win if you change nothing else about 16. Obviously Florida changes the equation but my guess is if anything it has moved toward Trump. A lot of Alabama in Florida.

1 wrote:Serious question: does England have places named after American founding fathers?

PSUsarge wrote:Biggest question I'd have around removal of names / monuments is the cost to do so and what else could be accomplished with that money.

I get the whole symbolism thing but if there are actual programs, etc. that could be better funded to help people with that money, it's an easy choice IMO.

Example - per Kenney's admin (I know, I know) the cost for the Rizzo statue removal would have been $100,000 https://whyy.org/articles/timeline-for- ... ack-again/

PhillieMooDo wrote:Take it out of the bloated police budgets across the country.

The cost? Dafuq?

Uncle Milty wrote:True.

Guess I should share a link about North Korea blowing up joint liaison office. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53060620

Monkeyboy wrote:Any chance all these confederate statues going down demoralizes Trump's base? I mean, he was supposed to signal the rise of these groups and their heroes are being torn from them. In any case, they are going to be pissed. But how many will blame him or at least see that his actions have helped lead to this?

mcare89 wrote:

PSUsarge wrote:Biggest question I'd have around removal of names / monuments is the cost to do so and what else could be accomplished with that money.

I get the whole symbolism thing but if there are actual programs, etc. that could be better funded to help people with that money, it's an easy choice IMO.

Example - per Kenney's admin (I know, I know) the cost for the Rizzo statue removal would have been $100,000 https://whyy.org/articles/timeline-for- ... ack-again/

if there was a statue of Hitler in South Philadelphia right now, I don't think anyone rational would say "well what does it cost to take it down"

06hawkalum wrote:

Uncle Milty wrote:True.

Guess I should share a link about North Korea blowing up joint liaison office. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53060620

I don’t see this provoking a war. Seems more like NK throwing a temper tantrum.