US Senator calling colleges to follow Ivy League sports example
Link: https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5402884002
Sen. Blumenthal (D-Conn.) publicly calling on US universities to follow Ivy League example on fall sports. Obviously, he would have a vested interest in providing political cover to that league's recent decision, but I would expect many other national level politicians to come out with similar statements soon. He also recently co-sponsored a bill to outlaw liability waivers for university student-athletes.
Article also mentions the Chris Hinton parent movement.
Pro sports too?
Pro sports are a different beast. They aren't played with a backdrop of 49,000 students that pro athletes mingle with on a daily basis, unlike student-athletes.
Nascar and F1 have figured out a formula that seems to be working...not perfectly as fans are absent and there have been sporadic outbreaks, and they are racing without fans, but they are at least racing.
I knew it’d be a Dem.
Cancel school
Cancel sports
Cancel everything except groups of people burning shit down.. you know for justice and shit like that
Dick Blumenthal is a lying moron.
Unfortunately you can't win in politics without being a lying moron. Voters unwittingly demand it.
You are not wrong
Same reason congress has a staggeringly low approval rating yet incumbents are routinely re-elected.
"Oh sure all politician's are crooks and awful, but not MY politician!"
worse is the bipartisan consensus which leave no alternatives.
Which party for anti-corruption, fiscal responsibility, and honest discourse?
Neither side sees their own corruption. It's always, yeah but the other side did this. Sad to see.
At least we have one more political party in our country than Soviet Russia and the fascist Germany!
“At least we have one more political party in our country than Soviet Russia, fascist Germany, California or cities like the PRP....Peoples Republic of Portland”
.....fify.
You forgot the entire deep south.
Your prejudices aside, I believe 60 or 70% of congressional seats are considered "safe" any one year. Perhaps it's more. I know when I lived in Michigan, it was infrequent for there to be a Democrat running against our congressman.
The Senate isn't too much different.
Feel free to google, unless you would prefer to keep sounding ignorant.
What was ignorant about my post? If someone is going to throw around California and Portland (a city) as having one-party rule, why is it out of bounds to bring up the deep south? Does Alabama have some kind of vibrant presence from the Democrats that I don't know about? Mississippi? Am I missing something?
Hey now, you got to give Alabama credit for choosing a democratic senator by a percentage point over a pedophile a couple years ago.
Yes you are. Houston has Shelia Jackson Lee. We had a openly gay mayor. We currently have a black mayor. He is a democrat and I really like him. I would say Texas is extremely vibrant in political diversity. I am not as familiar with Mississippi but the major metropolitan areas of Alabama are more center, center left than you may be giving them credit. Atlanta, Memphis, Knoxville are other examples off the top of my head. It is not a solid south. Further, LA (not the city the state) frequently has competitive state wide elections.
Yes, I know there are blue pockets in deep-red states (almost every major city) and red areas in blue states (rural counties and some suburbs), but to be honest I wasn't thinking of Texas as being "deep south." They're sometimes included in that definition, but not consistently. California and Alabama are essentially political opposites. They have areas that align with the opposing political party, but someone from the party that isn't in charge stands virtually no chance in a statewide election. As the poster above mentioned, Doug Jones ran as a centrist and beat a literal pedophile by a single point.
"I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops".
and that is being charitable.
To be fair, what politician on either side of the aisle hasn't made a career out of false promises and lying through their teeth?
There is no one on this planet who is better at lying or telling people what they want to hear than a politician.
So is Donald Trump.
Absurd. He should take up the Biden strategy and just lock himself in the basement
Right. Much better for guys in their 70's to hold large indoor rallies in the middle of a fucking pandemic.
Idiot.
Meanwhile our LOCKDOWN Governors walk the streets with protestors hand in hand, many with no masks!
Oh, that's OK.
Yea I notice he didn’t bring up Galaxy brain ATL mayor who was out with the rioters and is now sick. But if the left didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all
Within two posts you just complained about someone avoiding covid and someone getting too close to others and catching covid while complaining about double standards.
Not quite. Biden is not hiding from covid, he’s hiding his dementia. And I don’t want blumenthal to go to the basement to hide from it either, just for him to shut up. So the double standard applies for mad hatter blathering about trump rallies while not saying how dem governors/mayors (who are pushing covid fear porn)need their photo ops at protests “ while in a pandemic”
Have you heard the president speak, ever? Joe isn't the one with dementia or cognitive decline.
Also, do you not understand the difference between indoors and outdoors? Because an airborne pathogen is much more likely to concentrate in an indoor environment. Nevermind the fact that several states had large protests and no subsequent spike in cases.
Dunno why I'm wasting my breath. I'm sure it's all fake news to you.
Dude, Joe Biden has clear markers of cognitive decline. As does Trump. You have to recognize by his speech that he is clearly not able to remember facts whilst in a paragraph form speech. I worry for our country.
Yeah, I'm sure you're so much of a speech expert that you can recognize the difference between 'cognitive decline' vs. a stutter he's been fighting since he was a child.
While you may be partially right, some of Biden's speech issues come from a speech-impediment disorder he's had since he was a child.
Also, I'll take a good guy with cognitive decline over a bag of shit with the same issues, every, single, time.
Fair enough. that might be right. In the interim, however, listen to his 1988 Presidential campaign speeches and compare those to his 2020 Presidential campaign speeches. We have a base case when he was at his prime. Further, look at the 2012 VP debate. yikes.
79% of white evangelicals voted for a man who paid off a porn star to conceal an affair and literally stole money from charities, so you can take your double standards and shove 'em up your ass.
I've often wondered how many abortions Trump has paid for through the years...
Zero. That's what the fake charity was for. (Well, that & things like paintings & autographed helmets.)
What baffles me about many evangelical voters, with how much they say their faith and religion influences and guides their everyday lives, is that they've chosen this president to be at the center of their moral compass.
I get that he advocates for the things they advocate for (or in my opinion, he doesn't truly care for it but claims he does to get your vote, but I digress), but there is nothing, absolutely nothing on this planet that anyone could say that would ever convince me that this president is a good human being. That he's a humble man, a man of faith, or cares for anyone other than himself and his image. If you vote for him because he's more aligned with you politically, fine. Whatever.
But if someone tells me they vote for him because they think he's a good man, that he's an honorable Christian man, then I have nothing to say to that person. He could not be more dis-aligned with the values upon which that religion is built.
The Christian Right says religion guides their politics. However, if you follow the history of their leadership and comments public comments it is blatantly clear their politics drive their religion. More accurately, they can justify anything religiously to align with their politics. It’s really disgusting to witness as a Christian. Like so many other groups, their lust for power and having the world their way is more important than living the Christian way.
Perkis.... no one votes for Trump cus he is a good guy. You vote because of policy. Why would what be hard to grasp?
Any politician who is not expressly against abortion is a non starter for me. Allowing a genocide to take place is among the most evil things of human history. In America abortion is one if the main mechanisms of systemic racism. Black and brown babies are aborted at incredible rates. That’s purposely set up so blacks don’t have power and representation. That’s not about democrat or republican. That’s good vs. evil.
Biden may be at home mostly, but he's also doing virtual meetings with his staff constantly, appearing in digital town halls, and doing dozens of media appearances each week . May want to let up on the right-wing talking points about "hiding in the basement" and "dementia"; they aren't working and have no basis.
He is not doing 'dozens of media appearances a week'. Their campaign is avoiding debates at all cost. Not too hard to figure out, man.
He is not doing 'dozens of media appearances a week'. Their campaign is avoiding debates at all cost. Not too hard to figure out, man.
I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to; Biden has stated he's planning do the usual 3 scheduled network debates in the Fall?
As for the media appearances, a lot of them don't get picked up as much as you'd think by national media outlets , but he does them...
"Boom" has talking points aplenty. Yesterday he accused a STEM degree holder with a military buzz cut (me) of being a man-bun-wearing, Grievance Studies major.
It's easier for him. This isn't someone who can appreciate subtleties.
You always pick fights and then cry when I hit back. Fact is you said my avatar matches my posts. So I called you out that you need a more “sjw” approach to your avatar if that’s how it should be and once again you want to cry about it. Cry more
I like how your facts are being negged as if they’re not facts.
The governor is a crooked politician just like every last one of them. Opens up partially where her up North home is then gets caught red-handed trying to get the family boat on the water and her husband says to the guy storing the boat “I don’t know if this matters but I’m my wife is the governor”.
Oh but she said he was only up North to “rake leaves” and go home. LMFAO
The left is unhinged. Facts hurt their feelings.
The "left" isn't doing anything for the working poor.
The "right" isn't doing anything to balance the budget.
We have long past that paradigm. We are in the declining emperial Presidency portion of the republic.
A constitutional republic cannot survive a constant state of war. We still haven't returned home from WWII.
Happy Thursday everybody!!!
There's also a rhetorical flaw that Mad Hatter and his ilk have gotten away with:
They call people covidiots in a snarky way get upvotes and people think they're 'right', but they don't have a single answer for what they'd do differently.
Flights from China? Can't block. Racist.
Lockdowns? People stopped listening. EVERYONE on here was in favor of opening up,
Masks? My state requires masks everywhere outside private places. Guess what. No one does it, and police don't enforce it.
Contact tracing? Too widespread, too many asymptomatic, and people don't pick up their phones
It's all just a circle jerk from the Coronabros
For one, not claim that it's a hoax and do your best to convince your party that it's actually something to take seriously...?
He's still claiming that more testing is a problem because it's causing the case counts to go up... He's calling it the china flu. He's trying to bully schools into reopening regardless of whether it's safe or not. He's holding close-quarters campaign rallies without requiring masks at the door.
How many other examples do you want that he's the least equipped person on the planet to lead a country through this mess?
If only there were a way to compare what Democrats would do vs Republicans.
Perhaps if there were certain areas governed by different parties that set their own policies. Hmm