Mutiny Aboard the Princess Matoika: The 1920 Olympics

As the pandemic era 2021 Olympics makes history here is a little history about the first post WWI Olympics

He warned democracy was in peril. And that was before the Capitol riot

After decades as a leading expert on Congress and our fragile American experiment in democracy, Tom Mann shed his impartiality and scholarly distance and co-wrote a clanging alarm of a book that said government was headed seriously off the rails.

“It’s Even Worse Than It Looks” didn’t steer a middle course by blaming “both sides,” or countenance the “well, what about” school of reductive reasoning — as in, “Well, what about Hillary’s emails?” — which shrinks any difference between Democrat and Republican to the level of a schoolyard taunt.

The problem, Mann and coauthor Norman Ornstein stated, was a Republican Party captive to its most unhinged elements.

“The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics,” the two wrote. “It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-07-29/how-did-trump-hurt-democracy-boost-gop-extremism

CDC to urge vaccinated people in high-transmission areas to resume wearing masks indoors as delta va

Source: WaPo

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will recommend on Tuesday that vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors in certain circumstances, citing the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus.

The agency is recommending that vaccinated people who live in high-transmission areas wear masks in indoor public spaces to help prevent viral spread, according to three people familiar with the guidance. It is also advising that vaccinated people with vulnerable people in their households, including young children and those who are immunocompromised, wear masks indoors in public spaces.

In addition, the agency is urging universal masking for all teachers, staff members and students in schools, regardless of vaccination status.

The guidance, to be announced at a 3 p.m. news briefing, would reverse the CDC’s May 13 recommendation that vaccinated people did not have to wear masks indoors or outside because of the protection afforded by coronavirus vaccines, according to several people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it. At the time, cases were dropping sharply and the delta variant, which is thought to be more than twice as transmissible as earlier strains of the virus, had not gained significant traction in the United States. That guidance had angered some people, including parents with young children ineligible for the vaccines, who feared that relaxing mask rules would put them at greater risk.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/27/cdc-masks-guidance-indoors/

CDC to change mask wearing guidance for vaxxed people at 3PM

More detail: The game-changer was data officials reviewed yesterday showing that vaxxed ppl infected with delta have the same viral load as unvaxxed. Vaccinated are still far less likely to get seriously sick, but the data suggests they can transmit delta.
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It won't be long before the super spreader event happens at Sturgis again

which will probably cause cases around the country to increase about the time schools reopen. I wonder if the CDC or the Biden administration has or will chime in about this?

Sen. Joe Manchin, key Democratic holdout on federal voting protections, coming to Texas

for fundraiser hosted by several GOP donors
Say it ain't true Joe, say it ain't true

The fundraiser comes just a day after Manchin met with Texas House Democrats on Capitol Hill who are desperate for his support of the congressional efforts which could preempt the statewide GOP’s push to pass bills that would restrict voting access for Texans.

WASHINGTON - West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin — a key Democratic holdout over efforts to pass federal voting rights legislation — is expected to head to Texas on Friday for a fundraiser with a host committee that includes several wealthy Republican donors.

The fundraiser comes just a day after Manchin met with Texas House Democrats on Capitol Hill who are desperate for his support of the congressional efforts which could preempt the statewide GOP’s push to pass bills that would restrict voting access for Texans.

Manchin is also one of two Democratic senators, along with Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who have proven to be obstacles to moving voting rights legislation through the U.S. Senate. At the center of the impasse is their opposition to eliminating or changing the filibuster, which requires 60 senators to put a bill on the floor.


https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/15/joe-manchin-texas-fundraiser-republicans/

Cuba before Castro - Spoiler alert:A US backed dictator, isn't that a surprise, not!

Mel Gibson salutes his fascist dictator, one pretend soldier saluting a pretend General

Warning, sickening level is off scale

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