Algernon Moncrieff
Algernon Moncrieff's JournalDow futures fall more than 400 points after Trump says he tested positive for coronavirus
Source: CNN Business
Hong Kong (CNN Business)US stock futures plunged Friday after President Donald Trump said that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus.
Dow (INDU)futures were last down 439 points, or 1.6%. S&P 500 (SPX) futures were down 2% and Nasdaq (COMP) futures were down 1.8%.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/investing/global-stocks/index.html
Later today, the 2020 election cycle will end for me
I will fill out the ballot; drive a short distance to the election office; and place the ballot in the drop box.
I did not watch the debate. Trump could have given the "I have a dream...." speech and topped it off with $2,000 checks for everyone and I would not have cared. The destruction of democratic norms in an attempt to institute one-party rule has to stop. White America is trying to resist becoming an electoral plurality. Fossil fuel America doesn't want to give up the easy money. I get it. But authoritarianism, science denial, and an apartheid state aren't a recipe for longevity or prosperity.
I encourage everyone with the ability to vote early to do so, and deliver your ballot directly if possible.
For the socially distanced vacation - we are renting an RV.
We are typically stay-in-the-Marriott types, but this year is different. So the 2020 vacation plan is to rent a large RV from Cruise America and head out - me, the missus, an adult kid, and a highschooler. We will stop at campsites at a state park and a national park. The idea is that we'll bring food, bedding, tons of hand sanitizer and wipes, and (with the exception of stopping for gas) we will be self-contained.
I expect hilarity to ensue. Or possibly divorce.
Denver protest class action lawsuit
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Lean on your Republican legislators to join the fight to save the USPS.
From Hillary Clinton, via Facebook
Lean on your Republican legislators to join the fight to save the USPS.
Then make a plan for how you'll cast your vote.
Who do you want Biden to pick for Veep?
The Pros and Cons of Biden’s Top Vice-Presidential Prospects
85 days out. Now is a great time to 2x check your voter status
https://www.vote.org/- If you have not registered, do so NOW!
- If you know an American citizen over 18 who is not registered to vote and isn't happy with what's going on in America, get them registered.
- Please, please, please look at Voter ID requirements in your state. If you need to update a drivers license, get a state ID card, apply for a passport, update your voter's reg - now is a great time to do that. On election day, make sure you have all that stuff handy.
- Check to see where your polling place is. Check again as we get closer to election day.
- Mark election day - November 3, 2020 - on Google calendar, Outlook, or whatever the heck you use
This is my personal conviction - not Vote.org: if you plan to vote absentee/by mail, consider that you may need a Plan B. Consider alternatives, such as early in-person voting or taking election day off.
Paramilitary-Style Tactics in Portland Mirror Decades of U.S. Violence on the Border & Abroad
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My advice: Act as if absentee/mail-in voting won't be an option
If early voting is an option in your district, do that instead.
Consider putting in for a day off on election day now. It's hard for the boss to object this far out.
If you take election day off, go to the polls as early as you can. Once you've voted, help others get to the polls.
Keep an eye on your polling place location. Switching polling places to cause confusion is a common tactic. The internet can be your friend.
Go to the internet now and read up on your state's voter ID law. Make sure your State ID, Drivers License, Passport, and Voter's Reg are up-to-date and ready to go.
Remember that the "ProFa" forces of Donald Trump may not gracefully concede defeat. To the degree possible in these difficult times, get your financial house in order. Remember that you do still have Second Amendment rights (as our crazy uncles have all reminded us). Don't dismiss that option out of hand - you may need to defend your life before this is all over.
After seeing Portland, don't believe for a moment we aren't at this point:
Draped in lush trees and surrounded by stately buildings, Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo might look like a place to check out monuments or stop for a relaxing rest. But each Thursday, one of Argentina’s most famous public squares fills with women wearing white scarves and holding signs covered with names.
They are the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and they are there to bring attention to something that threw their lives into tragedy and chaos during the 1970s: the kidnapping of their children and grandchildren by Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship.
For decades, the women have been advocating for answers about what happened to their loved ones. It’s a question shared by the families of up to 30,000 people “disappeared” by the state during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” a period during which the country’s military dictatorship turned against its own people.
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If you are into prayer, pray that our nation survives this moment intact. Pray that DUers don't end up arrested out of hand. Pray for our opponents - pray that they realize that even though we disagree, secret police are the way of the Nazis that our grandfathers fought, not the way of Americans.
Want to persuade an opponent? Try listening, Berkeley scholar says
LINKExpressing such frustration may provide emotional relief, but it’s not likely to persuade. In fact, it can make people harden their existing views.
For a 2016 study published in Science, Broockman and Kalla worked with the Los Angeles LGBT Center and SAVE, a South Florida LGBT organization, on a field assessment of voter attitudes toward a new Miami-area law protecting transgender people. One group of door-to-door canvassers, a control group, said nothing to residents about transphobia.
But another group engaged in “deep canvassing,” a process based on asking sensitive questions, listening to the answers with sincere interest and then asking more questions. If residents expressed bias toward transgender people, the canvasser might ask them to recall a time when they were treated unfairly for being different and what that felt like.
The outcome? “These conversations substantially reduced transphobia, with decreases greater than Americans’ average decrease in homophobia from 1998 to 2012,” the research found. In effect, about 10% of the deep canvassing respondents shifted toward a more sympathetic view of transgender rights, with effects lasting for at least three months.
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